Diabetes: Importance of Fasting Insulin levels

HbA1c levels don't tell the full story.

I see it every day. Someone gets diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes, and suddenly they're checking their blood sugar obsessively. Multiple times a day. Panicking over every spike.

But here's what nobody tells you - you're looking at the wrong thing.

There are three types of damage happening in your body right now, and if you don't understand them, you'll struggle to get better no matter how perfectly you eat.

First, Forget HbA1c for a moment. Get a fasting insulin test. You want it between 2.6 and 6. If yours is sitting at 12 or 18, your body is working two or three times harder just to process insulin.

That's the real problem - not the sugar itself, but how resistant your system has become.

Second, your body is literally stealing from itself to survive. When glucose rises, your blood becomes acidic. To fix this, your body pulls calcium from your bones and iron from your muscles.

Add low B12 and vitamin D to the mix, and suddenly you can't even convert glucose into energy properly. No wonder you're exhausted all the time.

Third, there's the emotional damage.

I've watched people go one of two ways - either complete silence (hiding test results, pretending nothing's wrong) or complete overwhelm (blaming everything, constant anxiety). Both paths make recovery harder.

If you're newly diagnosed, you have something people with 10-year-old diabetes don't have - time and potential.

Your body can still bounce back in ways that amaze doctors.

But only if you stop chasing the wrong numbers and start healing the right damage.

P.S. What's your fasting insulin level? Have you even had it tested?

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Courtesy: Dr. Pramod Tripathi