Can prediabetes be cured ?

Prediabetes concern: Often increasing exercise & eating more healthfully can have a significant impact on blood sugars

Controlled: Losing 5-15% of body weight and regular exercise for at least 150 minuted/week reduces the risk of progressing to diabetes by about 60%. Have a healthy diet, exercise 30 minutes/day, drink plenty of water daily so your urine is mostly colorless, have safe sex, no tobacco alcohol weed or street drugs. For nutrition: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/. Get HPV vaccine. Wish you good health!

Insulin resistance: Diet, exercise, and, most importantly, weight loss will decrease insulin resistance and likely normalize your blood sugars.

Prevention Program: The CDC describes a prevention program including a trained coach to make realistic, lasting lifestyle changes, Discovering how to eat healthy and add more physical activity into your day, managing stress, staying motivated, solving problems that can slow your progress, and getting support from people with similar goals and challenges. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/prediabetes.html

Diet/exercise/meds: "pre-diabetes" can refer to impaired fasting glucose (high blood glucose[bg] before meals; 100-125) or impaired glucose tolerance (bg 140-199 2 hours after glucose load on the oral glucose tolerance test). In some people, this occurs due to metabolic changes that happen when there is too much fat tissue. Diet, exercise, weight loss can help prevent progression to diabetes. Metformin can help.

Behavior Change Game: Leveraging your mobile phone can make behavior change easier. Three simple behaviors need to be added to your routine, water, eating vegetables and walking. Weekly weigh in's help reinforce your progress. Commit to using Personal Medicine+ behavior change platform for one month, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/personal-medicine+/id846379884?mt=

It's not.: Prediabetes implies the eventual development of diabetes, which is usually genetically predetermined. So at best, aggressive management of prediabetes can delay the onset of diabetes. It's all semantics, but technically diabetes and Prediabetes can be managed but not cured.