A fasting glucose of 99 and triglycerides of 149 indicate metabolic dysfunction and likely insulin resistance.

“a patient might go into the doctor and their fasting glucose is 99 one point under what we'd consider the normal range and their triglycerides are 149 one point under what we'd consider the normal range from these things that doctor might say to that patient you're totally fine both glucose and triglycerides are normal but that's just really problematic because they're on the upper end of normal for both of those and so really what that would say to me as someone thinking about the mitochondria is like this person is definitely metabolically dysfunctional they're on the highest end of normal for both triglycerides and glucose there's something there's definitely insulin resistance going on here”