chris_chi24 said:My labs after 9 months on glycaemic control: A1C 5.3%, fasting glucose 93 mg/dL, fasting insulin 4 uIU/mL.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
wendy_avl said:Fasting insulin is the lab my functional medicine doctor cares about most for glycaemic control: it's a much earlier marker of metabolic dysfunction…
This answered a question I did not know how to ask.
chris_chi24 said:My labs after 9 months on glycaemic control: A1C 5.3%, fasting glucose 93 mg/dL, fasting insulin 4 uIU/mL.
Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
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