Does a diagnosis of prediabetes do you more harm than good?

It’s one of Big Pharma’s favorite fake diseases – prediabetes.

And now, a group of mainstream researchers are trying to pressure doctors into turning as many of their patients as possible into prediabetics with two new studies.

But instead of preventing diabetes, that trick is much more likely to start you up on a lifetime of meds that you never needed in the first place.

The disease that isn’t

Prediabetes is when a test shows your blood sugar is elevated, but it’s not high enough to get you diagnosed as diabetic.

As I’ve told you before, even the name isn’t something official — but was a catchy phrase used by someone at a press conference held by the American Diabetes Association some years back. And it stuck like a fly in molasses.

Now, there are PSA campaigns with cutesy commercials about it… and even an online quiz. Why, in seven short questions you can practically diagnose yourself!

But I guess not enough people rushed off to their doctor’s office after taking this test. So now, the mainstream is attempting to give it a big push from the other direction.

If they can convince your doctor to start priming you for prediabetes, they’ve won half the battle already.

One of the new studies is criticizing doctors, saying that half of them don’t screen patients for prediabetes. The other is trying to sell docs on the importance of testing for it. But it also reveals that there is no “national or international consensus” that lays out exactly what this condition is.

Wait — so here we have the CDC and the ADA all going hog wild with their “Do I have prediabetes” tests and commercials, but there’s no “optimal definition” for doctors to use in diagnosing it?

Seriously?

One expert who isn’t buying it is Dr. Perry Wilson, who specializes in kidney disease at Yale. He said that he’s sick and tired of all these pre-diseases.

He also notes how four out of five people over 60 (that’s around 70 million Americans, over twice the number who have type 2!) would fail that online quiz the CDC and ADA are pitching.

And if you ask the ADA what its idea of prediabetes is, well, that appears to be a moving target. In 1997 it lowered the glucose numbers needed to fit that definition.

Now, it’s saying that any elevated blood sugar reading will do.

If you’re wondering why the mainstream is so anxious to slap a prediabetes label on you, it’s simple: The stakes are huge. Big Pharma would love it if they could get millions of non-diabetics using their drugs. With so many of them out there, you don’t need a calculator to know drugmakers will rake in the billions.

Right now, any diabetes drug could be prescribed by your doctor off-label to “treat” this so-called disease. And one of the most popular is Actos, a diabetes med that was linked to bladder cancer over five years ago, the FDA warned.

And new research on that drug found it can up your risk of that kind of cancer by a giant 63 percent.

There’s also Lantus, another type 2 med that’s given out like candy… and has been linked to cancer.

The bottom line is, if your blood sugar numbers are a little high, dropping some pounds, daily walking and healthy changes to your diet are proven ways to steer clear of diabetes.

“Docs may not heed prediabetes screening guidelines” Robert Preidt, November 8, 2016, Healthday, webmd.com