In the last article I explained the three primary markers we use to track blood sugar: fasting blood glucose (FBG), oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and hemoglobin A1c (A1c). We also looked at what the medical establishment considers as "normal" for these markers. The table below summarizes those values.Marker
Normal
Pre-diabetes
DiabetesFasting blood glucose (mg/dL)
126OGGT / post-meal (mg/dL after 2 hours)
200Hemoglobin A1c (%)
6.4In this article, we're going to look at just how "normal" those normal levels are ...
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In the next two articles we're going to discuss the concept of "normal" blood sugar. I say concept and put normal in quotation marks because what passes for normal in mainstream medicine turns out to be anything but normal if optimal health and function are what you're interested in.Here's the thing. We've confused normal with common. Just because something is common, doesn't mean it's normal. It's now becoming common for kids to ...
Each year the toxic burden in our air, food and water - and thus our bodies - grows higher than ever before. Companies manufacture 6.5 trillion pounds of 9,000 different chemicals each year. That's about 3.25 billion tons - enough to fill an ocean supertanker. And the same companies release over 7 billion pounds of 650+ different pollutants into the atmosphere and water.A recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found the ...
In a previous article in this series on diabesity I briefly mentioned the role of gut health in obesity and diabetes. I'd like to go into more detail on that subject here, especially since it's not a very well known relationship.Our gut is home to approximately 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion) microorganisms. That's such a big number our human brains can't really comprehend it. One trillion dollar bills laid end-to-end would stretch from ...
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