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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2105097" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I get my C-Peptide tested at the same time as my regular blood test for HBA1c, blood lipids etc. They just draw extra blood. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">This is a good paper on the use of C-peptide tests - </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748788/" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748788/</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Your measurement is the US one - if I have understood correctly - which is ng/ml? And mine are measured in pmol/l - so the number looks very different indeed! I'll let you gaze at measurement tables and put your own pancreas under the microscope <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Aotearoa/NZ is a socialised medicine country, so I do have to make a case for having this test, as it is not a cheapie, but I make a good case. There is no denying I am a longtime insulin resistant person, as I was diagnosed with PCOS, like many of us type two gals, in my 20s, three decades ago. With metabolic dysfunction our ability to reproduce most efficiently is the first thing to go, it seems, as young insulin resistant women will attest to, and older insulin resistant men? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I usually just ask for it before and after an intensive treatment (like the 2nd VLCD I did last year), but my doc kept it in my regular script for blood tests, which I am happy for. It has been interesting, if depressing sometimes, for me to track it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Good gut bugs are great! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And I hear you on the difficulty of keeping carb-counts down in berry and cherry season. We are hardwired, it can be argued, to eat such in large amounts when in the very old days we chanced upon them on our wanderings in the great outdoors, and stocked up while the going was good, because it would be a long time before it could happen again. I understand how hard it is not to keep eating cherries for instance. (like popcorn! And crisps!) (in the bad old pre-diagnosis days, of course.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Just to remind this-thread-readers that one of the big benefits of fasting is to keep production of insulin low, or at least lower, in folks who create too much of it in response to food and their body's own overproduction of glucose, ie, are insulin resistant. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 2105097, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]I get my C-Peptide tested at the same time as my regular blood test for HBA1c, blood lipids etc. They just draw extra blood. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]This is a good paper on the use of C-peptide tests - [URL]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748788/[/URL][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] Your measurement is the US one - if I have understood correctly - which is ng/ml? And mine are measured in pmol/l - so the number looks very different indeed! I'll let you gaze at measurement tables and put your own pancreas under the microscope :). Aotearoa/NZ is a socialised medicine country, so I do have to make a case for having this test, as it is not a cheapie, but I make a good case. There is no denying I am a longtime insulin resistant person, as I was diagnosed with PCOS, like many of us type two gals, in my 20s, three decades ago. With metabolic dysfunction our ability to reproduce most efficiently is the first thing to go, it seems, as young insulin resistant women will attest to, and older insulin resistant men? [/SIZE] I usually just ask for it before and after an intensive treatment (like the 2nd VLCD I did last year), but my doc kept it in my regular script for blood tests, which I am happy for. It has been interesting, if depressing sometimes, for me to track it. Good gut bugs are great! And I hear you on the difficulty of keeping carb-counts down in berry and cherry season. We are hardwired, it can be argued, to eat such in large amounts when in the very old days we chanced upon them on our wanderings in the great outdoors, and stocked up while the going was good, because it would be a long time before it could happen again. I understand how hard it is not to keep eating cherries for instance. (like popcorn! And crisps!) (in the bad old pre-diagnosis days, of course.) Just to remind this-thread-readers that one of the big benefits of fasting is to keep production of insulin low, or at least lower, in folks who create too much of it in response to food and their body's own overproduction of glucose, ie, are insulin resistant. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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