How To Track Your Blood Sugar

One in three US adults has prediabetes based on either fasting glucose or hemoglobin A1C according to the CDC. Yet only 10-12% of these adults are aware that they have prediabetes.

Prediabetes has profound effects on cardiovascular, immune, neuroendocrine, and cognitive function. In a recent large meta-analysis, high fasting glucose
is a primary risk that accounts for disability.

Women have adverse effects at a lower glucose threshold than men.

Yet many physicians and other health care practitioners lack an understanding of diet and lifestyle changes that may optimize glycemic control and reverse prediabetes to a healthy or normal phenotype. Not enough is known about the critical transition from health and metabolic flexibility to prediabetes, a metabolically inflexible state.