Why it is extremely important to lower serum insulin below 4 μU/mL
Millions of adults in Romania are pre-diabetic without even knowing it. Why is that? Because their blood sugar test results are “perfect”.
You’ll maybe say: “Valentin, what have you been smoking?”
✅ MILLIONS OF PRE-DIABETICS
You’ll say I am exaggerating again so I can peddle my weightloss programs.
The latest nationwide study about the prevalence of diabetes in Romania – suggestively named PREDATORR (2014) – has revealed a few very interesting stats.
SRI (The Romanian Intelligence Service) has called it “Diabetes mellitus – a national security problem”.
SRI goes on to explain in detail the conclusions of the afore-mentioned study: CLICK.
Feel free to use Google Translate.
In short, in 2014 almost 12% of adults were diagnosed with diabetes and 18% were pre-diabetic.
That means that a minimum of 30% of Romania’s adult population has diabetes or will contract diabetes in the next 5 to 10 years.
According to the National Statistics Institute (INS), Romania’s adult population numbered 14 million people. So a minimum of 30% out of 14 million means roughly 4 million.
That means that in 2014 Romania had a minimum of 4 million diabetics and pre-diabetics.
But judging on how fast the prevalence of diabetes in growing in Europe and at a global level, it is likely that Romania already has 5 million diabetics and pre-diabetics.
Practically, we presently have a minimum of 3 million pre-diabetics, with the majority of them not even knowing that in the next 5-15 years they will be diagnosed with type-2 diabetes.
✅ PERFECT BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS
There are millions of pre-diabetics who don’t have even the slightest clue about being prediabetics – that’s because their blood sugar levels come out as “great” in medical tests.
✍️ A good blood sugar level is considered a value of 80 - 100 mg /dL.
✅ PERFECT INSULIN LEVELS
There are very few people who have heard about serum/seric insulin and only a small proportion of them have actually had this medical test done. Even fewer of them truly understand what the result shows.
In 99% of cases, the insulin test result comes out “perfect”. Everything within the perfect value interval.
If you want to get your insulin tested ask for “serum/seric insulin”.
✍️ Reference interval: 2.6 - 24.9 uUI/mL
✅ THE HOMA OF TRUTH
It’s perfect, right? That’s only until you calculate your HOMA index and get a heart attack.
✍️ The formula for calculating the HOMA index is: (blood sugar level x insulin) / 405
Example: (blood sugar level 85 x insulin 17) / 405 = 3.5
There is no global consensus on this, but according to this study, if your HOMA index is between 2 and 3.6 you can consider yourself a pre-diabetic.
The target I set for the members in my community (aka you the readers) is a HOMA index level below 0.75. For example, my last HOMA index test came out with a 0.56 result.
🏆 PRO Tip: the higher your HOMA-IR index is, the higher your risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer + other connected ailments (there are hundreds of studies on this).
✅ QUESTION 1
I hope you’re asking yourself:
“Wait a minute, if I have perfect blood sugar levels and my insulin levels are within the interval, how the hell can I be pre-diabetic?”
Maybe the insulin reference range hasn't been updated or remains out of date because everyone benefits from someone being sick.
Who knows? It doesn’t even matter.
I hope your next question is: “How can I lower my insulin level?”
In order for you to lower your insulin level it is important to understand why your pancreas produces so much of it in the morning, 12 hours after your last meal.
After you’ll understand why your insulin level is high, you will discover that the steps you need to take in order to lower it are trivial and free.
✅ WHAT MATTERS
What matters is that you can detect diabetes 10-15 years beforehand.
What matters is that you can already take the necessary steps to naturally lower your HOMA index and make sure you won’t get a diabetes diagnose until your 90th birthday.
This way you can gain CERTAINTY and confidence. The good thing is that it doesn't cost you anything. It's free.
Stay tuned for an article on insulin resistance.
Thank you for your attention.