Peter Attia· MD
so when we when we see that 30 60 minutes after you've been challenged with glucose you have elevated insulin we know that you're on the path towards insulin resistance
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so when we when we see that 30 60 minutes after you've been challenged with glucose you have elevated insulin we know that you're on the path towards insulin resistance
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at 30 minutes this is after 75 gram of oral glucose the um the insulin Rises to uh 90 the I'm nervous yep the the the glucose Rises to 130 at 60 Minutes the glucose is uh down to 100 the insulin is down to 60 and we'll just do one more check at 2 hours uh the glucose at this point is uh 60 yeah and the insulin is 20 that is a pre-diabetic State this is a very insulin resistant person
this is a person by the way with a perfectly normal hemoglobin A1c yes and this is a person who gets past all the time as totally normal the severely insin resistance your glucose is 90 your hemoglobin A1c is normal and your insulin is six even if the doctor is checking insulin
at 30 minutes they go to uh 180 yeah insulin goes to 30 yeah at 60 Minutes they go to 200 insulin is 40 they diabetic