Nick Christopherson: You're right. Lost 50 pounds. I guess the number right.
So if you don't remember Nick Christopherson, said he went from what a
hemoglobin A1c of 10 to less than 5 hemoglobin A1c. And less than 5
is a world-class good number for us baby boomers. I tend to hang around the low
5s. It was when I started getting up into the high 5s that I really
started having problems with my OGTT. And by the way, while I'm there, quick
digression, quick bunny hole, you know there's an article in the New England
Journal about 3 or 4 years ago that looked at the death rates based on
hemoglobin A1c. And it was about until you hit 5.3. And once people
started getting a hemoglobin A1c at 5.3, started dying faster and faster. Is it
increased now? Here's the thing. You'd say, well, oh, that was diabetic, you know It
was not, and that was a major part of the title. It's looking at hemoglobin A1c, and
people that are "not diabetic." Meaning again, as I've said many
times before, it's that unrecognized prediabetes
pandemic that's killing and disabling us through heart attacks, strokes, and kidney
disease, most common cause of blindness, other things. So be very sensitive to
your hemoglobin A1c, and don't wait on that to start finding out whether or not
you have this problem. Go ahead, and do the definitive testing. Do an OGTT
(oral glucose tolerance test), that's the thing where you fast for 8 hours
then you get a fasting blood sugar and then take the glucose drink and test it
1 hour later the glucose and 2 hours later at least. Do that. Most people wait
on their doctors, wait on a hemoglobin A1c of 6 or more to say, well, you've
got a blood sugar problem or you've got prediabetes, and 7 or more to say
you've got diabetes. Go back and think about it. That flies in the face of what
we know with research that once you start
hitting on hemoglobin A1c of 5.2 if I want 3 or more you're starting to
die faster. So really, do we not want to take a look at that? Okay, so thanks for
sharing Nick, and again congratulations on getting a... you would love an A1c below.
I am jealous. So Kathytopia is clarifying, I'm 54, and a hbA1c that
is 5.5. Very good, you should get an OGTT, an insulin
survey on that. And when I say very good, 5.5 is not a great number.
You know what the numbers are. After having heard this conversation
Nick Chistopherson, this is the fella that lost 50 pounds and decreased his
hemoglobin A1c from 10+ to 5-, less than 5, also having 12 hours of no food
or water, then having 8 hour eating window. Excellent. That's caused closing
that eating window a lot of people what was that most often call it's most often
called intermittent fasting or you can also call it skipping breakfast for most
folks. It's better to skip dinner if you're going to do that, but that's
harder to do for social reasons. Ok, so Nick also 8 Hour
eating when that circadian rhythm was the easiest and the hardest thing to do.
being fast asleep by 10 is so hard. and I'm also 45 but feel and look 20 years
younger. Well, good for you, Nick. Fantastic.
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