carl_compliance said:Glycemic variability as the key metric for glycaemic control success: my coefficient of variation (CV) on CGM dropped from 37% to 18%.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
pete_RVA 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…
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
carl_compliance said:Glycemic variability as the key metric for glycaemic control success: my coefficient of variation (CV) on CGM dropped from 37% to 18%.
I read this differently from carl_compliance, on substance rather than tone. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
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Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. Tagging this one for the weekly digest.