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so today we want to talk about the most accurate way to assess your blood

Sugar’s okay so we’ll talk about a1c by checking your

blood glucose when you’re fasting and checking your blood glucose when you’re

post-meal I’m not going to actually mention the glucose tolerance test where

you’re going to consume actual glucose and then measure your blood sugars

simply because you’re never going to consume just pure glucose and your diet

okay so that’s not going to really give you an accurate assessment of what’s

going on so let’s start with a1c okay a 1c is not as accurate as blood glucose

simply because it’s not measuring to your blood glucose levels directly it’s

giving you a rough estimate of your blood sugars over three months what it’s

really measuring is the percent of hemoglobin that is bound to glucose now

hemoglobin is the protein that carries oxygen in your blood so a1c is the

percentage of how much hemoglobin that’s connected to that sugar okay in your

blood now there’s other similar measurements

you have A1B A1A1 A1A2 that’s not binding to glucose but the

a1c is so this is what they use to assess that now let’s talk about anemia

there’s a couple different types one is where you have low iron if you have the

type of anemia that is low iron you’re gonna have an abnormally high a1c giving

you a false reading with your blood sugars so it’s not going to really be as

accurate to actually indicate high blood sugar issues now there’s another type of

anemia called hemolytic where you’re actually having destruction of the red

blood cells in which case you’re going to have a very low A1C you can also have

an infection which control this off you can also have a liver disease or a

kidney disease or even being pregnant and it can throw off this number right

here so we want to just use this as a guideline it’s not a bad test but

realize it’s not 100% all right now let’s just bring up the point what is

normal blood sugar well it should be in the 80s roughly between 70 and 90

milligrams per deciliter but if you are a diabetic you’re most likely not going

to this right here at least initially until

you’re working on it for many many months even sometimes years because if

you’re a diabetic especially you’ve been a diabetic for a

long time you have insulin resistance and many times you’ve lost up to 50% of

your beta cells those are the cells that actually make insulin so we’re really

dealing with a dysfunctional pancreas and it’s gonna be really hard to bring

this down simply because you don’t have all the cells that make insulin and this

is gonna leave you with a slightly elevated blood glucose level okay now if

you really work on this and you do in a minute fasting over a period of time I

believe you can bring it down pretty close to a normal level okay here’s one

of the challenges that I see with diabetics they’re going to their doctor

and the doctor is assessing them and there they might be improving but they

can’t seem to get the blood sugar down without a lot of medication okay not to

mention the recommendations that they’re giving the person is usually higher

carbohydrate low fat you know type foods so they’re never going to be able to get

them even close to normal especially if their carbohydrates in their diet

are just too high so that’s one thing but usually diabetics have a lot of

complications they have high blood pressure they have eye problems they

have nerve problems they have heart problems they have cholesterol problems

and they have a fatty liver so they’re on a lot of different medications and

the real problem is the side effect from those medications are sometimes worse

than the side effects from the high sugar okay now if you are a diabetic and

you do the keto plan and you’re doing in a minute fasting and you’re doing great

but you can’t seem to get this down to where it needs to be and it’s it’s

higher just realize you can do certain things to neutralize and minimize the

complications of that high sugar okay and you can do it with high nutrient

dense foods okay that’s why it’s so important when you do a healthy keto

plan make sure those foods are high quality

having enough vitamin A vitamin C from food b1 vitamin e vital okay those are

all antioxidants that are really really important especially about mb1 if you

have enough b1 and get it from nutritional yeast or a natural source

even if you have high sugar the complications will be very minimal okay

so that’s what you want to do if your dad better kind of got diverted there a

little bit okay so let’s go to the next test fasting blood glucose level this is

not a bad test it’ll give you some data and of course normal would be like 80

okay really roughly between 70 and 90 but when it gets above 110 milligrams

per deciliter that’s when you start to have problems okay start do you have

damage to the cells of the pancreas or call beta cells it’s at 110 when you

start getting above 140 you start to have more problems with the other

tissues like the heart especially the inside of your arteries okay you start

getting inflammatory conditions the kidney the nerves the fingertips and the

bottom of the feet and the brain okay so so if you get your test back and it’s

above 140 then we know what’s happening with this okay but again if you’re a

diabetic okay and you’re on keto and you’re doing really good it might be

really hard to even get it down here at least initially but that’s okay if you

keep eating really healthy you’ll be protected now the absolute best and most

accurate way to assess your blood Sugar’s is post meal okay one to two

hours this gives you the dynamics of how your pancreas releases insulin to push

those blood sugars down normal after one to two hours should be 120 or less and

then eventually at two hours it should be below a hundred okay so anything

above that would be a problem so this right here is rarely talked about it’s

it’s really assessed now if you have a blood glucose meter I would highly

recommend focusing on this assessment right here

and your method of knowing your blood sugars are in check alright thanks for

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