Country crooner Bob Wills sang, "Texas two-step ... Spin me around/You got to hold me up/When you dip me down." You could also say a "diabetes two-step" can spin you around and dip your risks down.  

At least that's the finding of two recent studies.

The first, presented at ENDO 2025 (the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society), took a look at intermittent energy restriction (IER), time-restricted eating, and continuous energy restriction and found that fasting twice a week (that's IER) could spin your Type 2 diabetes around so that your fasting blood glucose and triglycerides are dipping down.

The second, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that whether you exercise three times a week for 150 minutes or more, or if you're a weekend warrior who gets 150-plus minutes crammed into two days, you'll improve your longevity.

Over two decades, regularly active people reduced their risk for all-cause mortality by 21% and the weekenders reduced it by 17%; and they had 33% and 19% lower risk of death from cardiovascular causes, respectively.

You may not have Type 2 diabetes yet, but if you're prediabetic another new study might help.

Prediabetics are often told to have 15-30 grams of carbohydrates as a nighttime snack to help regulate nighttime/morning glucose levels. But trading that for 2 ounces of pistachios nightly can alter your gut biome, so you reduce chronic inflammation.

And that may slow or halt the development of diabetes.