Can someone please advise what the standard (healthy) blood sugar level should be (Australia)?
As I have looked at different sites, and I’m getting different answers.
Diabetes WA: 4.7 - 7.8 (https://diabeteswa.com.au/manage-your-diabetes/monitoring-blood-glucose/maintaining-healthy-blood-glucose/)
Another health website (cant remember link) said anything above 6.1 is high and prediabetic.
I average about 6 - 7 fasted.
I’ve been keto just over a year now.
Does anyone know if this is ok, or more than likely prediabetic?
Basically dad has type 2, and I’m trying to avoid it with Keto and Fasting.
I don’t think I’m overweight anymore (72kg down from 92kg)
thanks
Blood Sugar Level (Australia)
Jarlaxle
(Paul Butler)
#1
anon54735292
#2
Fasting glucose should be between 3.6 & 6 & HbA1c should be between 4 & 6 I believe. If you’re concerned you should ask your doctor for those tests.
You may also want to research ‘physiological insulin resistance’ or ‘adaptive glucose sparing’. When going low carb/keto some non-diabetic people will see their fasting glucose level rise.
Alecmcq
(Alec)
#4
Paul
The numbers I have seen is 3.5 - 5.5 as the best range. It is not the “normal” range, as normal is people eating the equivalent of SAD and that means higher average BG.
Cheers
Alec
TWTourist
(David)
#5
I am/was a diabetic. The numbers I go by are 80-100 for morning fasting reading. A1C should be below 5.7. 5.7 - 6.5 is prediabetic and anything above is diabetic. Keto/IF was the ticket for me. Hope is helps answer your question.
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#6
The first thing to remember is that 1 mmol/L (the international standard) of glucose is equivalent to 18 mg/dL. (U.S., Germany, and certain other countries).
I would be careful with the measurements for the “good” glucose levels displayed on a diabetes organization’s Web site, because the recommended method of treatment is to eat lots of carbohydrate to raise your glucose, so that when you take your insulin, it will lower it to a high level—the point being to avoid a hypoglycemic episode. The level they consider “good” for this purpose is generally higher than the healthy range experienced by an insulin-sensitive non-diabetic.
Furthermore, someone on a ketogenic diet can tolerate much lower levels of glucose without ill effect. It is not all that common, but we regularly get posts from people concerned that their glucose has dropped too low, even though they feel fine.
All that said, Wikipedia gives a normal, non-diabetic fasting level as 3.9 and 7.1 mmol/L (70 to 130 mg/dL), so you can expect postprandial levels higher than that without having to worry about them.
ETA: adaptative glucose sparing/physiological insulin resistance occurs when, after one reaches fat adaptation, the fasting glucose rises, but HbA1C remains low.
kingfisher
(Shane)
#7
FWIW googles says this
_While it is important to keep your blood glucose levels as close to the target range of target range between _
4 to 6 mmol/L (fasting) as possible to prevent complications, it is equally important to check with your doctor or Credentialled Diabetes Educator for the range of blood glucose levels that are right and safe …### Blood glucose monitoring - Diabetes Australia
https://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/blood-glucose-monitoring
Like @PaulL says, don’t believe what they tell you. Like reduce fat and eat fruit every day and maybe you’ll be in the 1/2 of people with pre-diabetes that don’t get T2D.
My Dr sent me for a fasting GTT a couple of months ago because a routine test showed my fasting BG to be 6.1 on the day it was done. The GTT showed Fasting BG to be 4.7 and back down to 5.9 after 2 hours ( <7.8 is good). I asked him if the test showed T2D whether it can be reversed. He didn’t answer.
Dr’s keep wanting to put me on blood pressure meds every time I go for a checkup. Look at my charts.
Got me to do an angiogram a few years 'cause he and cardiologist were worried about my arteries. Clean as a whistle.
I can’t remember the last time a Dr gave me good advise.
For something to do, I did their online risk test.
I’m going to turn 61 in a few weeks and here is a graph of the last few days showing a short 64 hr fast with a feed and BG spikes either side. And they say I’m a high risk.
Here’s a 4 day EF from a couple of weeks ago.
