Download our FREE guide — Top 10 Tips to Live Healthier: https://zoe.com/freeguide In today’s episode, we’re talking about a disease so widespread it touches nearly every family in some way — type 2 diabetes. This is not just a health issue, it's a rapidly expanding crisis. And many people don’t even know they have it. In the US alone, 100 million face prediabetes, while over 37 million grapple with type 2 diabetes, a serious and chronic condition with life-altering consequences. Professor Naveed Sattar joins us to shed light on preventing, treating, and potentially reversing type 2 diabetes. Naveed is a medical doctor and Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He’s one of the world’s top 1% most cited clinical scientists and has worked on many clinical trials of lifestyle changes and drugs to prevent and manage diabetes. Find out your diabetes risk score: If you are in the UK follow this link https://www.diabetes.org.uk/diabetes-the-basics/types-of-diabetes/type-2/diabetes-risk-factors If you are in the US follow this link https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/takethetest/ If you want to uncover the right foods for your body, head to joinzoe.com/podcast and get 10% off your personalised nutrition program. Follow ZOE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoe/ Timecodes: 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Topic introduction 02:28 Quick fire questions 05:59 What is blood sugar and why does it matter? 07:45 What is insulin and what is its relation to blood sugar and diabetes? 09:32 Why doesn't the body allow sugar to increase in the blood? 11:33 What happens when somebody gets pre-diabetes or type 2? 15:32 What is HBA1C? 18:12 Why has there been such an increase in diabetes? 24:28 How does muscle mass have any impact on diabetes? 26:38 Are risks different between men and women? 28:55 How does ethnicity come into this? 32:55 What other personal risk factors are there? 34:18 What are the symptoms of diabetes? 35:47 When do these symptoms begin? 37:00 What should you do if you have concerns? 38:22 How to find out your own likelihood of risk 40:37 How can we avoid getting diabetes? 44:15 How can we combat genetic risk factors? 46:44 Is it possible to lower blood sugar and reverse the effects of diabetes? 49:42 What is the science behind the new drugs coming on the market? 51:58 Summary 56:09 Goodbyes Mentioned in today’s episode: Primary care-led weight management for remission of type 2 diabetes (DiRECT): an open-label, cluster-randomised trial, published in The Lancet Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29221645/ Is there a nutrition topic you’d like us to explore? Email us at podcast@joinzoe.com and we’ll do our best to cover it. Episode transcripts are available here: https://joinzoe.com/learn/category/podcasts