Peter Attia· MD
the average hemoglobin a1c for the population is around 9% at the time that was just what where they were that's the lowest glucose you could have to not have hypoglycemic events right yeah and sort of that's where people were in order to not dump massive amounts of glucose in their urine and sort of look okay and in some cases people are taking insulin once a day quite often people were taking in some once a day and someone who's got a hemoglobin a1c of 9% is not going to live a normal life their life expectancy is truncated dramatically and their quality of life is going to be even by their 40s they're going to be quite compromised