Before I serve up any more leptinade here at the Asylum, I wanted to share some broader thoughts on the analyses and implications of various measures of blood glucose levels as relates to normal and non-T1 diabetics.
The Common Measures:
1. Fasting Blood Glucose (FBG): Usually after at least a 10 hr or 12 hr fast. The implication of this is that it is a measure of basal glucose levels. Probably more than any other parameter, this one is subject to any manner of fluctuations and can vary 10-20 points mg/dL or more from just one aberration in eating the day before. Also the degree of activity and length of time since awakening can dramatically alter FBG as can one's stress levels, medications (even an aspirin) and sleep patterns. This is not going to make as much of a difference with an untreated frank diabetic as their overactive glucose production by the liver likely dominates. But for the non-diabetic, it is easy to have a "bad day" exceeding prediabetic thresholds.
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