Soooooooooo my personal trainer sent me to an endocrinologist when I was forty, because he was convinced i was insulin resistant and had diabetes based on my VO2 testing. I went. The endo said i was in Perfect shape! Of course i was! I had been on a liquid diet for three months and was exercising like crazy. The only problem is that you can't do that forever. So after reverting back to human food and having back surgery a few years later i was on the future "highway to hell." I gained thirty pounds, got high blood pressure, started swelling up like crazy. Went to about five different doctors, and not one tested me for diabetes. Just kept giving me pills to address the symptoms. Only seven years later, when i convinced my doctor that i was ALLERGIC to carbohydrates, did he finally test me for diabetes. And guess what folks? High insulin levels in your blood make you retain salt-- hence the crazy fluid retention and need for daily diuretics. And, yep, the crazy fluid retention gives you, yes, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.  Now, i've got the BP meds being handed out. And i gained a ton of weight, because when you have high blood sugars, you don't properly burn sugars and fats. It all gets stored. So, now, seven years later, i am finally getting treated. Gee. I am no longer needing all of the diuretics. I avoid sugar. Don't eat too many carbs. Don't retain salt and fluid. And i am beginning to feel like a normal human being.


So, why did my trainer know in five minutes what it took my doctors seven years to figure out? Why are doctors so dumb?????