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<blockquote data-quote="Auto E" data-source="post: 2193178" data-attributes="member: 513396"><p>Shaj07, it's pretty common for reactive hypoglycemia individuals to have a normal A1C (especially when they are young). Indeed, in some journal articles they just refer to it as a form of prediabetes. There are probably some spikes, as well as all those hypos, for many years before the Beta cells of the pancreas are damaged enough that actual prediabetes and then diabetes A1Cs show up. And I'm sure in a subset of these individuals, they never develop type II diabetes because their Beta cells are powerful and able to keep dividing to accommodate the increasing insulin needs.</p><p></p><p>As a plug for a good book - Sugar Nation by Jeff O'Connell - he devotes more time (one or two chapters at least) to reactive hypoglycemia than any other mainstream source I've found. It was super helpful as I tried to wrap my head around how reactive hypoglycemia ties in with the pathophysiology of type II diabetes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Auto E, post: 2193178, member: 513396"] Shaj07, it's pretty common for reactive hypoglycemia individuals to have a normal A1C (especially when they are young). Indeed, in some journal articles they just refer to it as a form of prediabetes. There are probably some spikes, as well as all those hypos, for many years before the Beta cells of the pancreas are damaged enough that actual prediabetes and then diabetes A1Cs show up. And I'm sure in a subset of these individuals, they never develop type II diabetes because their Beta cells are powerful and able to keep dividing to accommodate the increasing insulin needs. As a plug for a good book - Sugar Nation by Jeff O'Connell - he devotes more time (one or two chapters at least) to reactive hypoglycemia than any other mainstream source I've found. It was super helpful as I tried to wrap my head around how reactive hypoglycemia ties in with the pathophysiology of type II diabetes. [/QUOTE]
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