How To Diagnose Diabetes? – Dr. Berg

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hello Dr Burg here I’m going to talk about diagnosing diabetes of course I’m not telling you that you should go out and diagnose diabetes but if you wanted information on some of the values blood test uh to determine diabetes that’s what I’m going to talk about number one um and this is I’m going to show you the values of the American Diabetes Association okay the same organization that recommends 40 to 60% of your calories should be carbohydrates all right which I’m just I disagree with okay so um do a fasting glucose test uh 126 is the cut off point that you have diabetes okay if your blood sugars are 126 or greater you have diabetes okay if it’s 100 to 125 you have insulin resistance which is the precursor the thing just before diabetes if it’s 100 to 110 you’re in the gray area okay if it’s 100 you’re normal now if you didn’t watch my other videos on what that means that’s one teaspoon of sugar per all of your blood that’s one 1 and 1/2 gallons or usually like between 1 and 1/2 or 1 and 1/3 gallons of blood so that one teaspoon for that much blood is very diluted that’s not a lot of sugar an average American consumes 31 tpoon of sugar the American Diabetes Association recommends I think it’s like more than that it’s like 52 if I’m not mistaken teaspoons of sugar within all the food not added sugar but if you add in all the carbohydrates and things now I um when I get the feedback from a lot of people who are doing uh ketogenic diets intermittent fasting and they’re doing very well with their blood sugars it comes lower than 100 it’s like between 70 and 86 I consider this normal I would use these numbers 70 to 86 that’s a half a teaspoon of sugar in all of your blood and I’m not talking about from the diet you’re consuming a half a teaspoon of sugar I’m talking about your body’s ability to make its own sugar it’s called gluconeogenesis your your liver can make it out of your own fat or dietary fat or dietary protein you don’t need sugar okay so that’s that piece of data now you could still have normal fasting glucose and still have a problem with pre-diabetes if you have higher levels of in fasting insulin so like a high a fasting insulin would be 10 but there’s a lot of people that have even 203 even 40 which is very very high and have normal glucose because it takes time for it to show up uh in the glucose in the blood but it’s happening throughout the body it’s happening with insulin so you have insulin resistance at the cellular level and then it gets worse and then it starts to affect the blood sugars and then it creates more of a problem so if you if you have normal um fasting glucose that doesn’t mean you don’t have insulin resistance you would want to check your fasting insulin test to see what that is the point I’m trying to make is that you want to not rely on one test you want to take several tests to really determine if you have this of course you want to look at the symptoms too do you crave sweets oh that’s a problem uh if you can’t go from one meal to the next that’s a problem if you get sleepy after you eat that’s another problem that’s all insulin resistance so a tingling in the fingers numbness in the hands that’s all uh pre-diabetes or diabetes so just don’t go by one test then you have A1C which again is okay test but there’s variables that sometimes are not as accurate because it could be other factors relating to that especially if they do the test and you’re stressed or you drank coffee or you’re dehydrated or you you exercise the night before or you didn’t sleep all these factors can affect the time that you took the test so again you know take multiple tests but the American Diabetes Association says you should be below six well I think they recommend that because the amount of carbohydrates they’re recommending they’re never going to get get it down below six I recommend 4. 6 to 5. 3 that would be a normal okay you want to keep it even below five a really good test would be the postmeal glucose test all right so you just check your blood glucose 2 hours after a meal and use a glucometer which is basically a glucose meter and it should be between it should be like less than 120 of course the American Diabetes Association said us it could be it’s normal if it’s below 140 okay but again because they’re recommending so many carbs um they’re just they’re they’re raising the values there um so the point is that you would want to get it down below 140 that’s a good test so if you were to test all these you have a real good indication to see if you had diabetes or not so anyway thanks for watching put your comments below hi guys Hey listen I created a pretty amazing evaluation quiz down below that actually analyzes your symptoms to find the cause the root cause of all of your symptoms the most likely cause so take the quiz now and we’ll send you report