When it comes to metabolic health, high blood sugar isn’t the only cause for concern. If your blood sugar is in between normal and diabetic, you’re prediabetic and at risk for heart attacks and other challenges.

Prediabetes doesn’t have overt symptoms, so it’s really easy for it to be missed. That’s what makes it so dangerous. Unless you’re intentional and vigilant about checking for it, the condition can fly under the radar of your health.

Like diabetes, prediabetes is a reflection of the metabolic condition of your body. Genetics and even ethnicity are risk factors for prediabetes, but the good news is it can be prevented and even reversed once you have it.

What causes prediabetes? Can we stop prediabetes from becoming diabetes? In this episode, I talk about how to combat a condition a lot of people don’t know they have.

One of the problems with prediabetes is that it has no symptoms. Unless you or your healthcare provider go the extra mile to identify it, it can be easily missed. -Dr. Deepa Grandon

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

-The dangerous thing about prediabetes

Prediabetes doesn’t have symptoms making it really easy to get missed. Who is at the highest risk of having it? How do you know you need to get screened for it?

-The most powerful ways to correct prediabetes

How do we dial in our diet and exercise in order to combat insulin resistance, inflammation and other metabolic abnormalities?

-How to use fasting to mitigate prediabetes

Intermittent fasting has a plethora of benefits that aid in the prevention or even reversal of prediabetes. What makes it so effective at tackling prediabetes risk factors?

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women worldwide. Yet the general public and even medical practitioners still believe it’s not common in women.

The result: women remain underdiagnosed and undertreated. It’s hardly surprising that 50% of women who have heart attacks weren’t even aware they had risk factors the whole time.

From an anatomical perspective, women are more prone to fatal heart attacks, but that’s not all. Lifestyle choices, mental health, menopause and even pregnancy - all these factors can make you more prone to heart disease.

How do you know you need to be screened for heart disease? What steps can you take to protect your heart? In this episode, I talk about the heart disease crisis women are facing and how we can combat it.

Women are often misdiagnosed and undertreated due to the misconceptions that heart disease is uncommon in women. -Dr. Deepa Grandon

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

-The anatomy of heart disease

Women’s heart health is an under-researched and under-treated area. What are the differences between men and women when it comes to heart health?

-Hidden signs of heart disease

Most people are aware of the common signs of heart attacks. Why does heart disease manifest differently in women?

-How to protect your heart

How can we use intentional lifestyle choices to preserve our heart health and mitigate risk factors?

Being thankful at all times may not come easily or naturally, but it benefits us in every key area of our lives. A posture and practice of gratitude doesn’t just give us higher levels of emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being - it impacts our physical health too.

From heart health to sleep, practicing gratitude has been proven to reduce stress, lower chronic illness, and even prevent disease.

In an age of high anxiety, depression, and burnout, gratitude is a powerful antidote. Through the practice, we get to truly surrender to God’s will and that can give us an immense amount of peace.

Our brains aren’t naturally inclined to appreciate, so we must develop a gratitude muscle rather than treat it as a one-time behavior.

Considering that our brains aren’t naturally wired for gratitude, how do we intentionally make it our posture? Why is gratitude so closely connected to surrender?

In this episode, I’m joined by physician, scientist, and my brother, Dr. Joe Parambil. We talk about the positive impacts of gratitude and how to make it a part of our daily lives.

Gratitude goes hand-in-hand with the process of submission. You can’t be grateful if you have your expectations, ambitions, and agendas that have to be met. -Dr. Joe Parambil

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

-The connection between science and faith

How do we see God’s hand orchestrating the incredible miracles of science?

-Gratitude goes hand-in-hand with submission and surrender

How do we maintain a posture of thankfulness even when we’re not getting what we want?

-The health benefits of thankfulness

How does gratitude affect physical health and even neural pathways?

Guest Bio

Dr. Joe Parambil is a physician, scientist, and man of faith. Dr. Parambil is a Staff Member in the Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner College of Medicine. He is currently the Director of the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Excellence.