Andrew Huberman· PhD
If you're over 65 or over, you're classified as diabetic. If you're 57 to 64, you're pre-diabetic. And if you're under that, you're you're so-called normal.
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If you're over 65 or over, you're classified as diabetic. If you're 57 to 64, you're pre-diabetic. And if you're under that, you're you're so-called normal.
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Doctors, when they do a test called HbA1c, that really means how much glucose is physically bound to your hemoglobin, which carries your oxygen. And it's a percentage, so if you have over 5.7% of your hemoglobin attached to glucose, you're pre-diabetic. And over 6.5, I believe the number is, is where you're actually diabetic at that point.
a second a1c of 6.1 which is the hemoglobin test which suggests that I'm pre-diabetic
in the that's being defined as 5.7 to 6.4 is that the range that's correct