Before getting into the actual ways to reverse type 2 diabetes; you should first assess and understand your health, which leads to the unfavorable development of diabetes. To reverse diabetes, you need to bring back your lost health, diabetes health assessment calculator helps to assess and validate improvement in your health.
How to use the Diabetes Health Assessment Calculator?
To use this calculator, provide your Gender (Sex), Age, Body Weight, Height, Neck Size, Waist Size, Hip Size, and Calf Size. Additionally, you need to take (fasting) blood tests such as Fasting Plasma Insulin, Fasting Plasma Glucose, Triglyceride, HDL Cholesterol, and GGT (gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase).
How to measure neck circumference? Stand or sit straight and gently wrap the measuring tape around your neck. Make sure the tape is flat. Measure the middle of the neck (between your collarbone and chin). If you have a prominent Adam's Apple (larynx), measure below it.
How to measure waist circumference? Stand straight and gently wrap the measuring tape above the belly button (naval). The measuring tape is firm not pressing into your skin. Breathe out naturally and take the measurement.
How to measure hip circumference? The hip is located at the widest part of your buttocks. Wrap a measuring tape around the widest part of your buttocks. Place the tape firmly but do not tighten it too hard so that the skin surface is pressured.
How to measure calf circumference? Stand or sit comfortably and gently wrap the measuring tape around the widest part of the calf. Make sure the tape is placed firmly not tightly.
How to take blood tests? All other required inputs are blood tests that need to be taken after 12 hours of fasting i.e., eating nothing except water. The blood tests are fasting plasma insulin level, plasma glucose level, triglyceride level, HDL cholesterol level, and GGT (gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase).
Assess your health by calculating Body Mass Index (BMI), Insulin sensitivity, beta cell function, Fatty liver index, Visceral adipose index, and Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass. All these calculations help assess your health and function of the liver, pancreas, and body tissues which are responsible for proper glucose metabolism.
The above-calculated data helps to assess how much your health was affected by the unhealthy lifestyle. Also, these data
- give you every reason to put forth your maximum effort,
- it helps you to provide confidence and
- gives meaning to whatever you are going to do to reverse diabetes.
What are the Health Markers of Diabetes Patients?
The important health markers are the Body Mass Index (BMI), Ideal body weight, Body Fat Percentage, Fatty Liver Index, Visceral Adiposity Index, Homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) Insulin Resistance, HOMA Beta Cell Function, and Skeletal Muscle Mass Calculator.
- The Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator assesses whether your body weight is in the normal range or required to lose weight. It also provides Ideal body weight based on your age and height.
- The Body Fat Percentage calculator assesses whether the fat content in your body is normal or unnecessarily excessive.
- The fatty liver index calculator assesses whether the health of your liver is okay or too much fat.
- The Visceral adiposity index calculator assesses whether the fat storage in the adipose tissue is normal or excess.
- The HOMA insulin resistance and beta cell function calculator assesses your body's sensitivity to insulin and the pancreas's ability to secret insulin.
- The Skeletal muscle mass calculator assesses; how muscular your body is. If you are more muscular, then your chance to reverse diabetes is proportionally higher.
Check your BMI - Obese people are 80 times more chance to develop type 2 diabetes than those with a normal healthy BMI (i.e., less than 22). Weight loss may improve pancreas function, with better insulin secretion and remission of type 2 diabetes.
In people with overweight or obese, significant weight loss may reduce blood sugar from diabetes to the nondiabetic range.
Weight-loss medications approved for chronic obesity management should also be considered if needed to obtain the degree of weight loss required to achieve therapeutic goals in prediabetes and T2D.
Insulin sensitivity and beta cell function: The pancreas is the vital organ in charge of insulin secretion to signal the availability of glucose in the blood for utilization. The beta cells secrete insulin to facilitate glucose uptake by the muscle, brain, liver, and adipose tissue based on their insulin sensitivity.
Fatty liver index – The liver plays an important role in proper glucose metabolism. During fasting, it dumps glucose stores and uptakes excess glucose after food. Fatty liver disease, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is common and is associated with T2D. The prevalence of NAFLD was 49–62% in T2D patients.
Visceral adipose index: Its health and insulin sensitivity are important for proper glucose uptake. A major portion of the glucose is consumed by these muscles. This explains its importance for maintaining healthy blood glucose levels.
A lot of current research focuses on not only total fat in the body but also where the fat may be located, referred to as “ectopic fat” (e.g., fat in the liver and pancreas) that may affect normal physiologic function. This research has led to some interesting observations about potential mechanisms.
Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass: Your body will absorb glucose much more readily if you have muscle, which will help you keep your blood sugar levels stable. You can increase muscle mass by doing resistance training. The higher the number is better the muscle mass.
Note all the results in a health diary and follow the suggestions for a month. Come again, repeat the calculation, and compare the results; it will showcase your improvement. If there is a vast improvement then it confirms that you are doing it correctly and continue until you achieve your goal (diabetes remission).
The calculator will provide you with some useful data and information. Please keep this data in a health diary for future reference.
Type 2 Diabetes Health Calculator
Please provide your gender, age, weight, height, neck size, waist size, hip size, calf size, fasting plasma insulin/glucose, triglyceride, HDL, and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase; then, press Calculate to know your health assessment.
The data presented by this calculator will provide details about your health at that specific period. The next step should be lifestyle modification to reverse diabetes; after you follow these lifestyle changes for about 1 or 2 months, you can repeat the test and use the calculation to assess your health improvement. These results will give you confidence and confirmation that you are progressing in the right direction.