Healthy blood sugar maintenance is part of great health.
Blood sugar can get dysregulated with an ultra-processed diet and sugary foods.
But blood sugar can also go too high or low with consuming “reactive foods”.
But this is not easy to identify.
I had a patient that was an engineer, meticulously tracking his intake of glycemic foods.
But we could not get his fasting glucose below 280 or his HA1C below 6.
Hemoglobin A1C (HA1C) is an “average of glucose blood levels” over the past 3 months.
He did not want to take medication.
We had him wear a 24-hour glucose monitor.