Cheryl McDduff what's the best insulin resistance test
that's a great question glad you asked here's the standard hemoglobin A1c
lots of problems with hemoglobin A1c it'll go up or down
15 or more on a regular basis it's also impacted by
red blood cells the lifespan of them both of which have nothing to do with
your glucose metabolism before that doctors were looking at fasting glucose
both of these have significant problems and you know that
estimate where the CDC says they're 80 million Americans with
insulin resistance and 72 million don't know about it
that was done entirely with hemoglobin A1c and fasting glucose
a couple of years ago UCLA came out with a study saying you know what
in California at least it's not a third of adults age 60 and older like the CDC
says it's 50% over 50% of adults in California
and guess what it's not just starting at age 60 it's
starting at age 30 over 50%
of the adults in California have prediabetes
glad you don't live in California huh I don't think it's just California
UCLA study also was done using fasting glucose and
hemoglobin A1c you cannot understand your
carbohydrate metabolism unless you look at it and challenge it
there's another study that use a study test
that a lot of people say oh do the HOMA-IR bottom line
none of these work well unless you actually challenge the
glucose HOMA-IR is based on a static ratio between
insulin and blood sugar levels and that's not adequate I've seen those
things look like they were normal in people
that have full-blown diabetes you have to do what's called an oral
glucose tolerance test you fast you take a blue
a glucose level and an insulin level you take a 75 gram or 100 gram
challenged with glucose and then you check your glucose and
insulin over the next hour two hours and with some of them
up to four hours that shows you exactly how your
body handles glucose carbohydrates the more definitive one with the four
hours and looking at both insulin and glucose is called the Kraft
insulin survey that one also uses the higher amount of
100 grams of glucose so the bottom line is maybe I
went too far too fast too many details again we're
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so I'd like to talk with you a minute about the webinar people don't
understand what the webinar is it's actually a great way to get some
access to health care that you're just not going to get any other way
you actually get the lab tests yourself for at a local lab a Quest lab near you
for the inflammation panel and the OGTT and the insulin survey these are things
inflammation and prediabetes that your doctor just
does not know about and here's the thing Harvard Health and
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Hollywood picture that it's evolved out of the blue is
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comes from it's inflammation and it has to do
usually with prediabetes so again we actually get labs
we go over them in the webinar and then you can start finding out
how you can prevent that heart attack others said
that you couldn't even predict we can show you how
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