Comments on: HbA1c and The “Normal” HbA1c Range: Explained For Complete Newbies

By: Lakshmi

Lakshmi — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:51:22 +0000

My hba1c is 6.3 should I take medicine

By: Joe Leech, Dietitian

Joe Leech, Dietitian — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 02:26:42 +0000

In reply to Michael Morley. Hi Michael, please check with your doctor as I cannot give personalised medical advice online. Thanks!

By: Michael Morley

Michael Morley — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:05:00 +0000

I have a score of 56 on my blood sugar count,is this good or bad?

By: Teddy

Teddy — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 04:00:23 +0000

Diabetes is a myth lol doctors invented all types. Of loony disease this days. To prescripe more medicine or should. I say “medicine pump you full of chemicals to rot your brain and body so you vote liberal mindset every elction season. Trump. Will flush these people out for good. Dems are furious!

By: OlWill

OlWill — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:10:41 +0000

Don’t you know that Type 2 Diabetes (diabetes) is merely a side effect of insulin resistance? In fact, I’ve read that most diabetics -at least in the early stages – have above normal insulin levels that cause as much or more damage to the body than high blood glucose (bg) levels.

You recommend “reducing your carbohydrate intake (after speaking with your doctor)”. Well “your doctor” is going to be against carb restriction. He has succumbed to the American Diabetes Assn’s high-carb, low fat diet and he’s never seen anyone with diabetes get anything but worse over time. He thinks that’s all that can be done. Everything else is dangerous.

The reason the recommended target A1c level is well into the diabetic range is that trying to force bg down by giving insulin stimulating drugs or giving insulin to people with insulin resistance who already have insulin levels in the harmful range will only make them sicker sooner. It’s not the A1c <6.0 that is harmful, it’s the method used to get there. After all, there are many people walking around with A1c <5 who are perfectly healthy.

In my opinion, you only need the doctor to help you reduce your carb intake without suffering dangerous hypos. If you have to, test your blood sugar after every meal for a week and show him which specific foods spike your bg. Tell him you are going to eliminate those foods from your diet. If he won’t help you reduce your medications to keep from having hypos tell him you will go find a doctor who will.

Or perhaps the patient could acquaint the doctor with the scientific studies linked on the LCHF website, The Diet Doctor.

Well, dinner’s ready. Gotta go.
Regards,
Bill

By: OlWill

OlWill — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:35:50 +0000

To convert blood glucose in mmol/L to mg/dL multiply by 18.
Leave it up to the “scientists” to come up with a method of expressing a value so that it is meaningless to the average person.