08/30/2026
There's a number that describes roughly four in ten American adults, and most of them just passed their annual physical.
Peer-reviewed national data shows insulin resistance among NON-diabetic adults in the US climbed from 24.8% to 38.4% over two decades. And here's the frustrating part: the two tests your physical relies on, fasting glucose and A1C, measure the end of the story, not the beginning. A landmark analysis found the standard A1C screening range caught only 23.6% of at-risk individuals, and in some groups just 9.9%. That's not your doctor's fault. The system hands them eight minutes and two tests, and those two tests stay quiet while the body compensates by producing more and more insulin, sometimes for a decade, while everything on paper looks "normal."
The good news is that visibility is cheap: a fasting insulin added to blood work you're already getting. Ask your physician about it at your next visit. That conversation costs one sentence.
Every person's biology is different, which is exactly why we run the data before we make a single recommendation. With that said, let me tell you about our client Doreen. By the time her physical caught the problem, her A1C was 9.1. She left that appointment with prescriptions for Metformin and Ozempic; she filled the first and, in a choice she made with her own doctor in the loop, declined the second, because she wanted to understand what was driving the number first. We ran her data and built her protocol around what her results actually showed. In her case, over the following months, her A1C came down from 9.1 to 5.9, her weight came down fifty pounds, and her own physician reduced her blood pressure medication. Her outcome is hers, not a promise of anyone else's. What changed, in her words and ours, is that she stopped guessing.
Your gut is one of the drivers research keeps pointing to, and it's the part your physical never looks at. The Root Reveal Gut Panel maps your gut's microbial community, digestion, immune response, and inflammation markers: https://labs.thehealthplex.co/. Or talk it through with us on a free Discovery Call: https://call.thehealthplex.co
You're not broken. You're undiagnosed. Let's find what they missed.
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