Nobody thinks iron has anything to do with insulin resistance
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Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. Nobody thinks iron has anything to do with insulin resistance. Nobody pairs iron with insulin resistance. There is no reason to, if you are reading labs one at a time. Here is what her iron and ferritin did across four years while she was busy fixing her insulin. Iron went from 105 down to 85. Twenty points, downward, which on its own looks like the wrong direction. Ferritin went from 160 up to 288. Ferritin is storage. It is what she calls on if iron ever runs low. Now plot iron against ferritin, split by insulin resistance, and put her dot on it. Four years ago she sat on the insulin resistant curve. Today she sits on the non insulin resistant curve. Not near it. On it. Her dot moved from one pattern to the other, and it did that without anyone treating her iron. Same thing with folate. Her RBC folate came up from 647. And here is a detail worth more than the headline: it did not climb in a straight line. It went up to 1427, which is higher than she needed, and then settled back to around 1018. That is what the body does when you feed it what it was missing. It fills the tank, then finds its level. It is also why I do not chase a low number with four times the dose. One more, and this one is the cleanest result in the whole four years. Her CRP was 3.6 in year one. By year two it was 0.44 and it never went back up. She did not take an anti-inflammatory. She dropped her insulin, dropped her glucose, and took off 14 pounds in that first year. The weight even came back a little afterward. The CRP did not follow it up. Inflammation collapsed and stayed collapsed. Nothing on her supplement list explains that. The pattern does. All three pairs are on screen from about ten minutes. >> WATCH: Your Doctor Is Using The Wrong Map. https://youtu.be/JDdowf1f2P8 To your health, Dr. Goldkamp Consider becoming a client |
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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...