In this video, I'm going uncover how to do proper testing to discover whether or not
you have insulin resistance.
It's estimated that 90% of the people who are prediabetics don't even know that this
is occurring in their body.
Now it's going to be accurate and looking at what your blood sugar is over the past
two to three months simply because the hemoglobin has a lifespan of two to three months.
If you go and you know implement a really good healthy eating routine and you start
exercising, you start doing all this activity, you can make some pretty rapid change.
Now, of course, if you're way down here, that's very dangerous.
I mean, you're going to have Oregon complication at this point.
You're going to have some major issues if you are not making severe changes in your
diet, your exercise routine, everything.
It's estimated that over a hundred million people in United States alone are suffering
from insulin resistance or type two diabetes of all these people were suffering from insulin
resistance.
Many of them are prediabetics.
It's estimated that 90% of the people who are prediabetics don't even know that this
is occurring in their body.
They're not obese and they don't have any signs or symptoms.
Well, at least signs or symptoms that they're aware of.
And so one of the things that's even scarier is, is that it's estimated that within five
to 10 years that all these people who are prediabetics are going to be full blown type
two diabetic.
So that's why in this video we're going to answer one of the top questions I get.
And that is how to know if you have insulin resistance.
So that brings us to the hemoglobin a one C test, this hemoglobin a one C test.
We're going to talk about of course what it is, and then we're going to talk about what
the normal ranges are.
Let's say that you want to get this test done, we want to know what the normal ranges are,
what you should expect, and of course what you should expect over the coming months if
you're working to reverse a problem with insulin resistance.
So stick around to this end, to the end of this video so that you can get all your questions
answered.
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Let's go ahead and talk about the hemoglobin a one C test.
Now I want to mention that this test has many different names.
You're going to hear it referred to as the HBA1C you're going to refer to hear it referred
to as the A1C, the glycated hemoglobin test.
There's a lot of different names out there, but typically it's HBA1C.
Now this test became widely available in the 1980s and this was a good thing because prior
to that there was a lot of urine tests.
There was a lot of skin prick test where you just, you know, basically prick your skin
and get a little drop of blood and you get that little glucometer and it tells you what
your current blood sugar is.
But of course these tasks weren't great for actually determining if someone had insulin
resistance or if they had type two diabetes.
It just wasn't a great reliable test.
So the [inaudible] test came in and of course this was a great thing, but the problem was
there was still reliability issues.
And if you're someone who's been a type two diabetic for a long time, then you know that
there's been reliability issues with these tests.
The problem with it is basically is that depending on the manufacturer, they had different standards
as to what was considered diabetes or prediabetes.
They used different numbers.
And then the other problem is, is that many of the manufacturers making tests that weren't
accurate at all, so then the glyco hemoglobin program was standardized in.
Now as a result, many of these tests are not only proven to be accurate because these,
these different lab tests actually have to prove that they're making accurate tests,
but also they really standardized a numbers which made it really easy for the patient.
I mean, it took all the guesswork out for the patient who was having to take multiple
tests in order to get accurate readings in most cases.
So when we look at this test now today we're getting good accurate readings and in order
to determine if someone has prediabetes or type two diabetes.
Now this hemoglobin test is very interesting because the hemoglobin is the protein in the
red blood cell is basically what is responsible for your blood being red.
But the hemoglobin goes around and basically carries oxygen to the body.
Now what's super interesting about this test is that what happens is the sugar, the glucose
molecule in the blood will go and attach to the hemoglobin.
And what this test is looking at is how much glucose is attached to hemoglobin.
And the thing is is if your blood sugar has been high over the past couple months, you're
going to have a lot of sugar attached to the hemoglobin.
If you are blood sugar has been low over the past couple months, you'll have very little
glucose molecules attached to the hemoglobin.
So this test is going to look at over a broad period of time whether or not your blood sugar
has been high, whether it's been low, and it's really accurate when it comes to determining
if you have insulin resistance.
Let's go ahead and take a further look.
And what I want to do is compare the A1C to your typical skin prick test, which I've talked
about a lot in the past.
Okay, now you're a one C test is looking at averages, okay?
And so basically what it will show you is what your blood sugar has been on average
over the past couple of months.
Now your typical skin prick tests is really interesting because I did a video on it and
one of the things that people did is they had asked me a million questions, basically
help him asking me to determine if they have insulin resistance based off their test results.
Now the problem with the skin per test is it's a snapshot in time.
Okay?
So many tests are a snapshot in time.
And that's a problem with your overall reliability when it comes to different testing is that
there are snapshots and time.
So if you go and you do a skin protest right now, you can go and eat something and it's
going to be different in five 10 minutes.
Now the thing is a lot of people were going and taking this test after eight hours faster
than they were taking after eating a meal and they were all over the place.
And so it's a snapshot in time.
It has a lot of highs and lows.
So your blood sugar is low, it's high, it's low again.
And then as a result, people don't know what is happening with it.
Okay?
And so the great thing about the A1C is that it's going to look over the past two to three
months.
Now it's going to be accurate and looking at what your blood sugar is over the past
two to three months simply because the hemoglobin has a lifespan of two to three months and
based on how much glucose it has been attaching to the hemoglobin over the past couple months,
you'll be able to determine what your average blood sugar level has been.
Now this is cool as well because it's basically keeping a record.
So the A1C test is like a record over the past couple of months of what your average
blood sugar is.
Now the thing about the skin prick test is that there's rapid change involved with it,
right?
So if you like, let's say you do this skin protest after eight hours fasted and your
levels are pretty low.
Well the thing is is that they're going to be high if you go and eat something.
But the thing is too is that if you go and you implement a really good healthy eating
routine and you start act exercise and you start doing all this activity, you can make
some pretty rapid change.
One of the things we have to realize when we're doing the A1C is there's going to be
slower change.
Okay?
Because the hemoglobin last two to three months, if you take this A1C test and then let's say
you put in all these healthy lifestyle practices, anything from the ketogenic diet to a lots
of activity, then you're going to find that you may want to test in another month.
Well, after one month of, you know, rigorous implementation of a healthy lifestyle.
What you'll find is that it just moved a little bit.
And the thing is, and the reason for this is because you're still going to have those
hemoglobin with all the glucose molecules attached to it from the prior two months,
right?
So in order to actually get a really good hemoglobin, a one C test score and really
see a good reading, you basically need the test.
And then you'd have to really give about three months of clearing out of that hemoglobin
in order to test again to determine if you have really done well with your current lifestyle
habits and determine if you're heading in the right direction.
So even though you could test on a monthly basis, you'll only see slow change, whereas
you want to really just wait at least three months to test again.
And when we look at the numbers here that we're dealing with, when we look at the A1C,
we're dealing with very low numbers here.
When we're looking at blood sugar, we're dealing with higher numbers.
So let's say for instance, your average blood sugar is around 68 then your A1C score would
be about four.
If your average blood sugar is right around 183 then your A1C score is going to be eight.
Okay?
So you get the point, but this is what your blood sugar scores will look like.
This is what your A1C scores will look like.
Now, let's go ahead and talk about like, let's say you were to do this test and you got scores.
What would we expect to see here as healthy ranges and of course not so healthy ranges.
So when we look at this, normal is going to be 5.6 or below.
So when we look at the A1C scale, 5.6 or below in the green here is going to be good, healthy,
a good healthy individual who does not have insulin resistance.
Now the prediabetes stage is going to be 5.7 to 6.4 right in this yellow stage right here,
okay?
This means that you're going to be right around, like I said, 5.7 6.4 and your average blood
sugar is going to be about 126 now of course there's the diabetes range, which we don't
want to be in and that's going to be about 6.5 or above, okay?
Now if you're kind of just over this range right in here, you can work on reversing this
issue and get results fairly quick with proper lifestyle implementation.
Now, of course, if you're way down here, you're going to have a lot more work to do.
And the thing is is you have to be careful because if you're way down here on the scale
and your average blood sugars in the two nineties, three hundreds, that's very dangerous.
I mean, you're going to have Oregon complication at this point.
You're going to have some major issues if you are not making severe changes in your
diet, your exercise routine, everything.
And so of course, we want to make sure that we're working on this.
Now, when we look at traditional traditional physicians out there, many of the doctors
out there are going in there trying to just get people in this range, right?
So if you have type two diabetes, they consider seven to be managed.
All right?
So let's say you are here, they get you to a seven.
They figured, okay, we're managing it.
They got the prescriptions going on.
But you know, when we look at this, we actually want to go and reverse this issue.
We don't want to just manage it in a, at a high level.
We want to work to reverse it.
And this is a task that I do with so many different people in order to help them of
course determine if they have insulin resistance or actually go in and reverse it if it is
a problem.
And also at the time of this video, as I'm recording this, our coaching, our consulting
program is actually open.
What I do is I open up a consulting program about four times a year.
Currently at the time of this video being released, it is open.
If you're watching it after the release date, it probably is fold because we have very few
spots available.
But what you can do is still click on a link in the description below and put yourself
on a list to be notified when spots become available.
So when this video is newly released, you're going to be able to click on the link below
and join our consulting program.
But if, like I said, if it's full, if there's no spots left, then just put yourself on the
list.
If you're someone who actually has some of these issues that we're talking about here
and you're looking to reverse them.
And so these are the ranges we're working within.
Okay.
Like I said, we do this test on a lot of people.
We're able to determine fairly quick if they have a problem with insulin resistance and
start making changes and then of course over a couple months time go on and see some amazing
results.
So let's go ahead and talk about some of the different risk factors associated with insulin
resistance.
Now, like I said, 90% of the people out there who have insulin resistance aren't even aware
that this is occurring.
And so if you're overweight or obese, this is something that we want to look at as a
risk factor.
And I'm very specific to say overweight because it's estimated that if you have just belly
fat on your body, there's a good chance that you have insulin resistance.
There's a good chance you have a problem with fatty liver and so overweight or obese if
you have high blood pressure, is a major risk factor.
High cholesterol as well.
If you're someone who's eating a high sugar high carbohydrate diet, you have a very poor
quality diet.
This is a very large risk factor in activity.
If so, if you're not someone who's working out on a regular basis, the gym is something
that is just totally unknown new you going for a walk and getting in any form of exercise,
then that's a major risk factor.
And then of course if you have members in your family who have this issue as well, this
is a major risk factor and so you want to make sure you take all this into consideration
and also really highly consider being tested.
You can, like I said, you can either click on the link below if that's available or go
see your doctor and see if this A1C test is available to you.
So give this video a thumbs up and put in the comment section below what your experience
is with the A1C test and share this video with your friends because a lot of people
need to see this.
And then lastly, check out this video over here that's going to talk about intermittent
fasting and weight loss, which is incredibly powerful for bringing down that A1C score.
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