Campaigning Conditions

From the Mayo Clinic website: "The A1C test is a common blood test used to diagnose type 1 and type 2 diabetes..."
There is an important aspect to this for Type 2 diabetic and some healthy patients: it is used to diagnose. Over the past decade, the exact number used to diagnose Type 2 has changed up and down several times and is reported inconsistently by different sources. The pharmaceutical companies are involved in that, the same way those companies create "syndromes" such as "restless leg." The pharmaceutical companies are for-profit enterprises that are looking to sell you products, and the lower diagnosis numbers favor their sales. Realistically, how many of us would have heard of things like fibromyalgia if we had not been for all the ads hawking drug treatments? These drugs amount to patented combinations of pain relievers and antidepressants.
If you feel I am being cynical about a serious condition that cripples so many poor unfortunate women, I will steer you towards the latest pharmaceutical ad campaign. The male problems of all aging but not yet old male farts could be "Low T." Ad campaigns like this begin with apparent innocence. You can go to a web site to learn about the condition. The TV ads do not mention the new designer drugs that may solve the problem you did not previously know existed, never mind that the tired feelings and loss of drive may mean that you have this debilitating but potentially crippling condition. Future ads will sell you on the drugs; right now the pharmaceuticals are trying to sell you on a condition. You do have a condition with that tiredness and diminished drive and/or capacity. It’s called old age. Older guys are statistically more likely to carry chromosomal imperfections. Your "Low T" and diminished drive and/or function is nature’s way of making you less likely to share sperm that could produce weak or unhealthy offspring. You can try the drugs, or do what our fathers did: be more physically affectionate with your wife/partner and make sure there’s always a fresh supply of batteries in the house.
In the diabetes sense, the "created" condition is "pre-diabetes." They’re setting you up as early as possible to be receptive to taking drugs in the near future.
In fairness, early detection of Type 2 can prevent devastating ill effects of diabetes. Unfortunately, pharmaceutical profiteers help define the diseases you will soon have.
People need to use their own judgment, and take to heart the catchphrase "when diet and exercise are not enough." Your body very well has the level it wants to be at on its own. Taking drugs will almost certainly change that biochemically, but the pharmaceutical balance sheets may derive more from it than you will, and beginning the drugs too early may make your body lazy with its own functions. If that happens, you are guaranteeing lifelong dependence on the drugs.
I have overweight friends who have low A1C numbers, and fit friends who are told by their doctors that they are pre-diabetic or have "a touch of" diabetes.
Don’t tale my word for this casually, but don’t agree to doctors’ recommendations without asking questions and doing your own research.