Normoglycemia = normal blood sugar.
Pre-Diabetes & Type 2 Diabetes = Hyperglycemia
As the chart simply shows, the darker the green, the lower the A1c and the healthier you are. Anything yellow, orange or red is hyperglycemic. The chart erroneously states a “dangerous” zone. Anything in yellow and beyond, is hyperglycemia, and dangerous.
I’ll explain WHY in the simplest terms.
If you know anything about math, to come up with an average, one must add numbers together and divide by the amount of numbers they add. Example. 100 + 200 = 300. Divide by the (2) and we have an average of 150. So when we look at a standardized chart, like this one we see that anything above 125 is hyperglycemic.
That doesn’t tell us much about the point, numerically, where damage starts. Luckily for you, studies have indicated that damage happens during the time we spend at numbers above 139. And by damage, I am only talking about damage to the cells that create insulin. These cells are called beta cells and they are in your pancreas. The cell damage and death, due to perpetual hyperglycemia is called glycotoxicity.
Few doctors discuss this, ever, with patients. And it is unlikely that ANY that ever suggest to a patient that he remain at 7% or less, would even understand the concept. As you can easily look up- an average of 7% means that you average 172. That means, virtually 24 hours per day for the last 90-120 days your blood sugar is in the glycotoxic stage, damaging you beta cells, killing your beta cells, and destroying your ability to create insulin.
The less insulin you can make, the higher your blood sugar will rise after the same meal. This means- your disease is going to progress.
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