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A gland the size of a bow tie sets the pace of nearly every system in your body. When it runs slow or fast, the symptoms are so ordinary — tiredness, weight change, anxiety, cold hands — that they get attributed to everything else first. Here is what to look for and what the tests mean.
Type 2 diabetes does not arrive suddenly. It is usually preceded by a decade or more of insulin resistance, during which a standard fasting glucose test can still look normal. Here is what insulin resistance is, the signs worth noticing, and what genuinely reverses it.