Do you have prediabetes? This may surprise you.
What is prediabetes?
While insulin resistance is usually the first sign that someone could develop diabetes, prediabetes represents a significant step towards more serious disease. Prediabetes means someone has a higher than normal fasting glucose level, though not quite high enough to be considered diabetes.
Diabetes is usually diagnosed when someone has a fasting glucose higher than 126 mg/dL, while prediabetes is diagnosed between the 100 to 126 mg/dL range. Just below 100 mg/dL, therefore, is considered normal. However, some research suggests that levels near 85 mg/dL and up can still cause tissue damage. It may be better, in fact, that we keep our levels closer to 85 mg/dL.
My fasting glucose as of today is 103 down from the 110 range.
The reason why this matters for anti-aging is due to glycation.
Glycation is the process by which reducing sugars spontaneously (nonenzymatically) bind to proteins and result in production of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs). It is one of the major mechanisms responsible for aging and diabetic complications including senile and diabetic cataract.
Do you know your fasting glucose?
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