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Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. Here is the thing almost nobody does, and it is the reason this work looks different from everything else you have seen. I take every client I have ever worked with, every lab, twelve years of it. Each person becomes a row. Each lab becomes a variable. Then I split the whole thing in half using HOMA-IR, which is a formula use to calculate Insulin-Resistance built from fasting insulin and fasting glucose. My cutoff is 1.4. Above are people who are IR, below that they are Non IR. Then I plot any two labs against each other. Say glutathione against vitamin D. Nobody pairs those. They are tightly linked in the liver. Plot them across everyone and you get one line. Now split that line by insulin resistance and you do not get one line sitting higher and one sitting lower. You get two different patterns. Different shapes. Different directions. That is what pattern recognition means, and it is the whole method. Any doctor could do this. The labs are ordinary meaning anyone can order these. Almost nobody does it, because the reimbursement code for "analyze this person's data against a cohort" does not exist. Your doctor is not lazy. Your doctor is boxed in. Her HOMA-IR ran 2.6, then 2.1, then 1.7, then 0.8. Look at that sequence. Year one it moved half a point. Year two, another four tenths. She did not cross 1.4 until year four. People want the instantaneous result. This is what it actually looks like: three years of work before the number crossed the line. It takes a routine. It takes convincing the body you are serious. Hers came along. The sort, the cutoff and the four-year sequence are in the video starting around six minutes. >> WATCH: To your health, Dr. Goldkamp Links to Our books Or consider becoming a client |
Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. A1c tracks glucose beautifully, in only one group of people. A1c tracks glucose tightly in insulin resistant people. In everyone else it barely tracks at all. Two groups. One line is steep. The other is almost flat.That is one sentence and it undoes most of what A1c gets used for. Glucose verses Hemoglobin A1c Red line is the insulin resistant group. Steep. As glucose rises, A1c rises with it, more or less the way the textbook promises. Green line is everyone else....
Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. A1c is not a glucose test. It is a protein test. It measures the percentage of your hemoglobin that has glucose stuck to it. Hemoglobin lives inside red blood cells. A1c has two inputs, not one: 1. how much glucose is in your blood, and 2. how long your red cells stay Nobody tells you about the second one. Here is a client. Four years of work. Fasting insulin down 65%, from 9.6 to 3.4. Glucose down 16 points, from 108 to 92. CRP down 87%, from 3.6 to 0.47. Eleven...
Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. Last time: her insulin, glucose, inflammation and weight all improved over four years, her CGM went flat, and her A1c went up to 5.7 and parked at the prediabetes line. Here is what A1c actually is, because almost nobody is told. A1c is not a glucose test. It is the percentage of your hemoglobin that has glucose stuck to it. Hemoglobin lives inside red blood cells. Glucose attaches slowly and it does not come off. So the number depends on two things, not one: how...