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Hi thanks for your feedback. Well i did read most of those studies and reference to each of em is given within the article so you can find out the food intake, but as far as i remember, these were typical food containing 50 gms of carbs per meal plus protein plus fat etc. For the past three...

This is by far the best collection of most of the CGM studies done to understand normal blood glucose levels in healthy population. This combines most of the recent research papers, so you can spare hours of research. Very informative and well written. Could come as a surprise, shock or...

That sounds like a typical cycle of diabetics. Yes, you pointed it right, insulin resistance is the culprit, but may I ask does DM runs in your family as well ? I see you had a huge improvement and coming off meds from 135 to 47 and that definitely encourages me. I was diagnosed on Dec 23 with...

Sorry i meant to bringing it down to 6.3% after all these years of high a1c. I suppose uncontrolled older diabetes is harder to manage. Wish you all the best.

Hi , i'm responding here not as a direct answer to your question but as an observation. I recognise your research as being something akin to my response to being diagnosed. In my case I went as far as doing an open university course in diabetes to find out what the hell is happening .... I...

This is one of the most recent research studies that was done in 2020 on a fairly large number of patients related to time in range (70-180 mg/dl) and diabetic complications. Very useful information. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ije/2020/8879085/

Hi here is the source if am correct: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3005450/

Hi thanks for your input. Probably i put it wrongly that "hypos will only happen on high carb/high insulin diet", what i meant was that i came across several studies and it seems that on low carb diet people with T1 DM will experience less hypo events than on high carb, so that is my correction...

Thank you for the valuable feedback and completely agreed. I completely understand that a1c is just a broad measure of how you have been performing and i mainly see it as how much AGEs you have been producing regardless of the lows and highs. That is the reason i mentioned time in range TIR...

Thank you for sharing your personal experience and definitely two thumbs up for keeping it at 6.3% after all these years. I understand its easy to achieve close to 6% during the honeymoon period or at the start but as we all know its a marathon and you need to put up with it for long. Appreciate...

You are definitely a fighter and a survivor. Thanks for sharing, seems you went through a lot!

Thank you for sharing this. Did they have to treat you for background retinopathy or it went on its own after normalising the BG?

Hi thanks for the input. My personal opinion is that what's normal is normal whether its for a T1, T2 or a non-diabetic. Interestingly, i have been testing my friends and family and many of them have higher reading than i suggested above. Few months ago, i didnt know whats normal and whats not...

What is the optimal level of a1c (blood glucose) to avoid or reduce diabetic complications? As a newly diagnosed diabetic, the first question comes to the mind how fast I am going to get complications; or, whether keeping my BG in range, can I avoid or delay these complications; or what’s the...

Actually I found that chart which explains the %age contribution of blood sugar to A1C in diabetics and non-diabetics including non-glycaemic factors (age, sex, BMI etc). Please see below:

Hi thanks for your reply. I am new to forum so i am not trying to start any topic that has already been on the forum even if its old. However, the complications is the most important subject that i have been studying since months now and probably will gather all information i have to write a new...

Hi, i just posted somewhere in another thread too, but this picture says a lot about complications. So the cut point seems to be a1c of 5.2%, after that its not trusted.

This seems a very important topic though i don't see any activity over here. I have been reading a lot of scientific papers lately and i am going to give just one example. The quickest complication that happens if your blood sugar is out of control is the retinopathy. See the chart below from a...

Yeah, the take away from this is that we check our wives BG with Codefree so they can start low-carb with us too :) My bro is very happy with Contour Next, though strips are quite expensive but he says its spot on.

Per couple of research studies i came across, they say a1c below 7% has stronger correlation with the postmeal levels, and as the a1c goes high, fasting levels contribute more.