The best way to find out if you’re a potential victim of Type II diabetes
is to get your blood tested. Three simple blood tests can tell with
reasonable certainty whether or not you’re at risk.

First, test your fasting blood sugar. Wake up, go to a blood lab, and have
them draw blood, or buy a self-test at a grocery store. Normal is 85 to 95
mg/dL. If yours is higher than that, you may have some bad blood. But then
again, the reading is only a snapshot. Elevated blood sugar doesn’t
always mean you’re at risk, nor does a normal reading mean you’re in
the clear.

Your body has the ability to hide the threat of high blood sugar. And this
is what most people don’t know!

When blood sugar rises, your pancreas attempts to protect you from the
poison by increasing its production of insulin. This helps to force-feed
your muscle cells the excess blood sugar, keeping high blood sugar
invisible from tests.

To avoid a false fasting blood-glucose test, get your insulin levels
tested, too, so that you see if your insulin is compensating for high sugar
levels. Any doctor or blood lab can do this for you. If you have normal
blood sugar and high insulin levels, you might have bad blood.

Both blood glucose and insulin tests are mere snapshots and don’t give a
good idea of what’s happening over time. To achieve this, get an
“A1C” test. If you have raised blood sugar for long periods, it will
attach itself to hemoglobin.

The process basically works like this: sugar floats in the bloodstream for
too long, gets lonely, and then grabs onto a nearby hemoglobin molecule.
The attachment gives rise to “glycated hemoglobin.”

Since the same hemoglobin molecule lasts for about three months in your
blood, an A1C test measures your blood sugar over that time. For instance,
an A1C reading of 6 percent equals an average glucose of 135 mg/dL (7.5
mmol/L).

If your reading corresponds to anything higher than 95 mg/dL, you could be
in danger. Your health trajectory might be taking you toward depression,
premature heart attack, stroke, cancer, and even Alzheimer’s, usually in
that order.

Plenty of other blood tests exist. Since high insulin can plummet
testosterone levels, getting this hormone checked is also advisable.
Watching your testosterone levels rise—and your blood sugar, insulin, and
A1C drop over time—will help you know whether your healthy efforts are
paying off.

And don’t forget your body fat percentage!

If you’re carrying a body-fat percentage of 22 percent or higher, you can
bet that you’re not as healthy as you could be. High blood sugar is
bringing you down fast.

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Dare to Live Young,

The People’s Chemist

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