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<blockquote data-quote="Mbaker" data-source="post: 1944326" data-attributes="member: 256617"><p>Hi @roadshack 16 hours will clearly be better than 14, but by how much in your case would require a personal trial and tests like what Dave Feldman does for understanding his cholesterol, i.e. extremely strict.</p><p></p><p>As you are muscular, you might want to get a fasting insulin test. I follow athletic low carb / keto methodologies and have noticed reports that A1C's can be elevated in otherwise healthy persons (some admittedly are high carb eaters). "We" take the A1C as the gold standard for diabetic pathology in most cases, but for example in the case of Dr Shawn Baker who technically has a pre-diabetic A1C his insulin is on the floor at 2.0, as are all his other metabolic syndrome markers for him and his CRP. The theory appears to be that some athletes have sugar in the blood almost as a priming mechanism for the bodies expected workload. I don't understand this but I can say my HbA1c has gone up despite my fbg going down by over a point and post prandial readings always below 5.6 and this has coincided with more workouts. I have tested to death even with the Libre to ensure no out of bound spikes. I may have some other confounders such as ethnicity and noise from low white cell counts.</p><p></p><p>Anyway it may be worth checking your fasting insulin, if Dr Baker is correct that would be interesting. Your low carb is relatively low compared to regular carb eaters, but I would suggest would be considered quite high by many on this site (including me).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mbaker, post: 1944326, member: 256617"] Hi @roadshack 16 hours will clearly be better than 14, but by how much in your case would require a personal trial and tests like what Dave Feldman does for understanding his cholesterol, i.e. extremely strict. As you are muscular, you might want to get a fasting insulin test. I follow athletic low carb / keto methodologies and have noticed reports that A1C's can be elevated in otherwise healthy persons (some admittedly are high carb eaters). "We" take the A1C as the gold standard for diabetic pathology in most cases, but for example in the case of Dr Shawn Baker who technically has a pre-diabetic A1C his insulin is on the floor at 2.0, as are all his other metabolic syndrome markers for him and his CRP. The theory appears to be that some athletes have sugar in the blood almost as a priming mechanism for the bodies expected workload. I don't understand this but I can say my HbA1c has gone up despite my fbg going down by over a point and post prandial readings always below 5.6 and this has coincided with more workouts. I have tested to death even with the Libre to ensure no out of bound spikes. I may have some other confounders such as ethnicity and noise from low white cell counts. Anyway it may be worth checking your fasting insulin, if Dr Baker is correct that would be interesting. Your low carb is relatively low compared to regular carb eaters, but I would suggest would be considered quite high by many on this site (including me). [/QUOTE]
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