Is prediabetes reversible? Luckily, for many people, the answer is yes. It’s easier to reverse prediabetes than it is to reverse diabetes.
If you’ve been diagnosed with prediabetes, you can take action right away to prevent or delay a progression to a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. The earlier you start to make changes to your eating habits, stress levels, sleep, and physical activity, the better your chances will be of reversing prediabetes.
Cindy Guandalini, an APRN and a nurse practitioner at Yale Medicine’s Section of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, explains fasting blood sugar measurements: “When you wake up in the morning, your blood sugar should be 125 [mg/dl, or milligrams of glucose in 100 milliliters of blood] or less. If you wake up less than 125 but above 100, that’s considered prediabetes. Normal is less than 100.”
Post-prandial measurements should happen two hours after you eat. At this time, “all your blood sugars should be below 140, but if they’re between 140 and 200, that’s considered prediabetes.”
