Your health is in your own hands, about 95 percent of it
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Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. Your health is in your own hands, about 95 percent of it. Four years. One woman. Insulin 9.6 to 3.4, glucose 108 to 92, CRP 3.6 to 0.47, HOMA-IR 2.6 to 0.8, and a move from one population into the other. She did the work. I read the numbers. Those are two different jobs and only one of them is mine. Which brings me to the thing I actually believe, and it is the reason I make these at all. Your health is in your own hands. Not all of it. Genetics is real, luck is real, and some things are not on the table. But something like 95 percent of what happens to your metabolic health over the next twenty years is downstream of decisions you are making right now, mostly without data. Data is the part you can fix this month. Three ways in, in the order I would take them: The email series. Free. This is the whole method, one piece at a time, and you are already in it. The two books. Unlocking Optimal Metabolic Health is about this: the panel, the patterns, what the pairs tell you. Precision PSMF, written with Judi, is about protein requirements and how to lose fat without losing the muscle you will need at seventy. Both on Amazon. Read your own labs. If you want your own constellation read against the dataset instead of against a reference range, that is what I do. Details are at ketonaturopath.com. If you only do one thing after this video, do this one: find out your fasting insulin. Not your glucose, not your A1c. Your fasting insulin. If it is over 7, you have something to work on. If it is under 5, you are in good shape. Most people have never had it measured and could have it done next week. You can run it now, or you can run it in five years after somebody hands you a diagnosis. It is the same test. You will not be the same. Next video: what didn't go as planned. Because not every case runs like this one. >> WATCH: To your health, Dr. Goldkamp Links to Our books Or 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...