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<blockquote data-quote="Lamont D" data-source="post: 1377980" data-attributes="member: 85785"><p>Are you a GP or a doctor?</p><p></p><p>Whilst I agree with most of your post, if you do practice medicine, then you should know that it's a c-peptide test that gives insulin levels readings, they are usually done in hospitals and sent to labs and is expensive.</p><p></p><p>Hyperinsulinaemia is a precursor to T2, but it's not the only one, there are so many that just to test insulin and not other factors, would be just another test like the hba1c test. It takes into account glucose levels over an average of three months, the medical profession are more comfortable using this method than just a finger prick test.</p><p></p><p>Having had hyperinsulinaemia and Hyperglycaemia and high insulin resistance, the doctors I had never had a clue what was wrong, and I was misdiagnosed as T2!</p><p></p><p>Glucose tolerance tests are used to give how your body reacts to pure fast acting glucose. It tracks the spike and see high it is after two hours.</p><p>I've had numerous extended OGTT, these give a clearer pattern of what is happening after the two hour stage. These are completed with other blood tests taken every hour and include c-peptide and GAD.</p><p></p><p>It is unfortunate and alarming that so many people are getting T2, because of the way our diet has changed in the last fifty years.</p><p>And if caught early, diet is the best treatment.</p><p>That, unfortunately, is not what is happening!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lamont D, post: 1377980, member: 85785"] Are you a GP or a doctor? Whilst I agree with most of your post, if you do practice medicine, then you should know that it's a c-peptide test that gives insulin levels readings, they are usually done in hospitals and sent to labs and is expensive. Hyperinsulinaemia is a precursor to T2, but it's not the only one, there are so many that just to test insulin and not other factors, would be just another test like the hba1c test. It takes into account glucose levels over an average of three months, the medical profession are more comfortable using this method than just a finger prick test. Having had hyperinsulinaemia and Hyperglycaemia and high insulin resistance, the doctors I had never had a clue what was wrong, and I was misdiagnosed as T2! Glucose tolerance tests are used to give how your body reacts to pure fast acting glucose. It tracks the spike and see high it is after two hours. I've had numerous extended OGTT, these give a clearer pattern of what is happening after the two hour stage. These are completed with other blood tests taken every hour and include c-peptide and GAD. It is unfortunate and alarming that so many people are getting T2, because of the way our diet has changed in the last fifty years. And if caught early, diet is the best treatment. That, unfortunately, is not what is happening! [/QUOTE]
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