A $99 Quest lab test that could change the course of history

"A spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." -excerpt from Whitman's Song of Myself

I fell in love with this poem after watching Robin Williams read it in Dead Poet's Society. 

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. What is your message, he was asking? Mine simply is asking everyone to get this blood test, young or old. Especially kids! The earlier you can start, the better. Every year. It's at Quest Diagnostics and only $99 without insurance. At the time of this post it's actually on sale for $84. It's called "Insulin Resistance Test Panel." If you read my other posts, you will understand partially why, although I have so much more to add. Yet, if you read only one post on this site, which I've been writing on for five years now, this one would be the one to read. Just trust me! I've read countless published research articles, and your mental and physical health will greatly benefit from the results of this test. It's the root cause.

I wrote this in a post years ago and I will write it again: 

The 2013 AJMC paper Targeting Insulin Resistance: The Ongoing Paradigm Shift in Diabetes Prevention so perfectly states: "The battle against diabetes will only be won when we recognize that the disease we need to identify and aggressively treat is insulin resistance. Diabetes is the end state to be prevented, not the jumping-on point for our medical system."