Hi All, I’m sharing my journey with many of my clients and they are reporting back to me on hba1c and insulin(if their doctors order it🙄) and other blood work. One gal had her doctor tell her she is slightly insulin resistant but had no advice for her on that and she told me today her “number” is 1.6. I don’t know what that means. I’m a 13.1 and the only charts I’ve seen show 3-5 being ok and under 3 being ideal, with 13 being the tipping point where you can start to use body fat for fuel. Pretty sure she’s not a 1.6 on that scale! Anyone familiar with this type of reading? It had no units attached.
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What should your numbers be?
Insulin is measured in “microunits per milliliter” (mcU/ml or mIU/ml). Unfortunately, there isn’t much agreement on what level is ideal. The website Health Central says 10–20. Dr. Mercola says less than 5.
A study in Arizona found that women with a fasting insulin level around 8.0 had twice the risk of prediabetes as did women with a level around 5.0. Women with a fasting insulin of 25 or so had five times the risk of prediabetes.
University of Washington researcher Stephen Guyenet writes that “The average insulin level in the US is 8.8 mIU/ml for men and 8.4 for women. Given the degree of metabolic dysfunction in this country, I think it’s safe to say that the ideal level of fasting insulin is probably below 8.4 uIU/mL…[Best] would be 2–6.”