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This blog explores how individuals can conduct their own experiments to maintain a steady blood glucose and avoid potentially unhealthy glucose spikes above 7.8 mmol/L (140 mg/dL).
Is is increasingly obvious that not everyone with raised coronary inflammation and elevated risk of heart attack simply has a raised LDL Cholesterol- in fact there appears to be a mixed bag of risk factors associated with high coronary artery inflammation, including raised LDL, raised LP (a), raised Homocysteine, hypertension and dysregulated glucose. Our metabolic health assessment is therefore designed to offer a comprehensive dive into known contributory causes, the latest and most controversial of which is 'glucose dysregulation', the principle topic of this article.
Written by Dr Edward Leatham, Consultant Cardiologist: Our metabolic health screen incorporates data processing to provide feedback to the patient on their GV status, using both graphical and numerical stats.
When blood sugar levels are consistently high, causing prediabetes and diabetes, the risk of conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes increase in the long-term. It is easy to understand why the phenomenon of glucose spiking, where blood sugar levels surge and then fall back into the normal range after a meal, is also widely considered to be harmful.