Paul Saladino· MD
now the confusing thing for people is that the range the lab range on a fasting insulin goes up to 16 or 20 micro iu per ml saying that that's a healthy range that's an absurdly worthless range for that test
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
now the confusing thing for people is that the range the lab range on a fasting insulin goes up to 16 or 20 micro iu per ml saying that that's a healthy range that's an absurdly worthless range for that test
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the fasting insulin reference range is probably one of the most like incredibly uh wrong things in western medicine in terms of reference ranges
the normal range for fasting insulin goes up to 24 for many in for many labs or 16 which is massively disordered