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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2085460" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Thanks for the Kressler link. He and Bloodsugar101 seem broadly on the same page about raised bgs for 'normal' people being an indication of problems to come.</p><p></p><p>My issue with the bloodsugar101 webpage isn't the info on it, but rather the age of the studies. It is an excellent and accessible site to offer people as an alternate way of thinking from the standard info they are given by their health care professionals, but the studies on it are getting a bit old now. Admittedly a good and informative study is still a good and informative study whether it was published in 2008 or 2015, but there is new info coming out all the time, and the bs101 site doesn't publish the new stuff.</p><p></p><p>I totally agree with you about looking in the long term. People with metabolic syndrome, raised fasting blood glucose, and higher than usual post prandial readings may be fine now, but they probably have decades ahead, and those things are markers of problems in the future, if they don't take things in hand now. Kraft's insulin assays have shown that very clearly, where heart disease and insulinaemia go hand in hand for decades before either type 2 diabetes or heart attacks arrive.</p><p></p><p>The time people spend with raised blood glucose is at least as important as the numbers that they clock at the top of the curve.</p><p></p><p>As for Bernstein... I am in the position where I have a huge respect for him, but my body is one that insists on raised fasting readings and a steady rate of insulin resistance (which continues despite drasting dietary changes). So Bernstein's targets would only be achievable with the addition of exogenus insulin, or significant medication, and those are not steps I am willing to take at this point. I do think that moderm medicine has an inaccurate view of what 'normal' is in many ways - largely because the diet we currently eat is not the diet we evolved to eat. Whether true normal is where Bernstein thinks it is, is something I cannot really judge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2085460, member: 41816"] Thanks for the Kressler link. He and Bloodsugar101 seem broadly on the same page about raised bgs for 'normal' people being an indication of problems to come. My issue with the bloodsugar101 webpage isn't the info on it, but rather the age of the studies. It is an excellent and accessible site to offer people as an alternate way of thinking from the standard info they are given by their health care professionals, but the studies on it are getting a bit old now. Admittedly a good and informative study is still a good and informative study whether it was published in 2008 or 2015, but there is new info coming out all the time, and the bs101 site doesn't publish the new stuff. I totally agree with you about looking in the long term. People with metabolic syndrome, raised fasting blood glucose, and higher than usual post prandial readings may be fine now, but they probably have decades ahead, and those things are markers of problems in the future, if they don't take things in hand now. Kraft's insulin assays have shown that very clearly, where heart disease and insulinaemia go hand in hand for decades before either type 2 diabetes or heart attacks arrive. The time people spend with raised blood glucose is at least as important as the numbers that they clock at the top of the curve. As for Bernstein... I am in the position where I have a huge respect for him, but my body is one that insists on raised fasting readings and a steady rate of insulin resistance (which continues despite drasting dietary changes). So Bernstein's targets would only be achievable with the addition of exogenus insulin, or significant medication, and those are not steps I am willing to take at this point. I do think that moderm medicine has an inaccurate view of what 'normal' is in many ways - largely because the diet we currently eat is not the diet we evolved to eat. Whether true normal is where Bernstein thinks it is, is something I cannot really judge. [/QUOTE]
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