Peter Attia· MD
our definition of diabetes is so arbitrary and stupid that it's just a continuum and we somehow decide, oh, your hemoglobin A1C crossed this threshold. Boom, and now you need or not.
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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.
our definition of diabetes is so arbitrary and stupid that it's just a continuum and we somehow decide, oh, your hemoglobin A1C crossed this threshold. Boom, and now you need or not.
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while on the one hand i understand the need to simplify things i think oversimplification is erroneous and i think we should view these as a continuum right so glucose at the average level is a continuum and as the person who asked the question noted i am a far greater proponent of cgm