Question: I am pre-diabetic and am asking for a list of BG ranges for the following:
General Target Range:
Fasting:
Pre-meal:
Post meal:
Bedtime:
Hyper Warning:
Hypo Warning:
Hour long AFTER A MEAL should I wait to take a measurement?
Thanks,JD

Dr. XXXXXXX
Thank you for your response. Regarding the FASTING range, you indicated 70-100; as a pre-diabetic, that level is seldom realized; mostly it is slightly over 100 but sometimes (seldom) it is 120+. i've been told 80-120 and 80-140.

What can I do to get it down to 70-100 as you recommend?

Regarding the BEDTIME range: you mentioned <200. Sometimes at bedtime mine is around 100 and even less on occasion.

Is there any potential risks with going to bed with BG being around 100?

I have been told in one case that it should be 90-135 and another that it should be 160-180. Mine is never that high at bedtime.

How would you define "<200"?

If mine is around 100 at bedtime, should I ingest some carbs?

I recently started doing KETO nutrition and it appears to influencing my BG and weight loss so I'm keeping my carbs low and I prefer not to ingest any at bedtime.

Thanks for you input,
JD

Thank you for your response. It appears that your outlook on nutrition is quite contrary to current research. I address each of your comments below:
1.Brown rice, wheat, pasta etc: I have eaten them over and over for years but it always results in my gaining weight, increasing my cholesterol and raising my blood glucose level.
2. Fruits: i love them but most of them raise my BG level and cause me to 'crash' later.
3. Lean: i have eaten lean protein for years but it didn't seem to help any more than non.
4. Sugar: I don't ingest additional sugar and avoid foods with much sugar content as it too increases my BG level.
5. Exercise: Over the years I have exercised several days per week but had great difficulty losing weight-it became very frustrating, so I would become discouraged and quit.
6. Oatmeal & Multigrains: I've eaten them daily for many years but I always felt bloated, sluggish, tired and foggy-minded.
7. KETO: Because it is the ONLY nutritional approach that creates a positive in my life as it relates to health and fitness. I've been doing KETO for 6 weeks and the following are the results: (a) Increased energy, (b) improved sleep (c) no foggy-mindedness (Clarity),
(d) Lost 10 pounds, (e) decreased body fat from 31% down to 26%, (f) decreased BG from 119 to 97 average and (g) reduced my A1C from 6.68 to 5.7. These results are FAR superior to any other nutritional approach that I have tried. It works and prevents one from being frustrated when at the gym working out because the continual results are obvious.
8. 50/30/20: I've tried that as well as several other ratios with inconsistent results. The ratios I'm currently using are around 10% Carbs, 25% Protein and 65% Fat. I feel better than I have felt in years.
9. A1C: I check mine every 6 months and could never get it to drop until my recent change in nutrition.
There is a lot of contradictory information out there including that which comes from many MD's.
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM (i.e. the government and those groups who align themselves with the lobbyists, politicians, pharmaceutical companies and many in the medical and health professions) has conned the public for decades into believing that fat was bad, meat was bad and man made genetically engineered carbohydrate foods were good and yet we have an epidemic of Obesity and Diabetes like never before. Then there are the Statins that the medical profession in conjunction with Big Pharma have created a billion dollar market for the manufactures by reducing the 'acceptable level of cholesterol' so that doctors everywhere were prescribing tons of statins that were not necessary in a large number of cases.
Some suggested Reading: Paleo Blueprint and Keto Reset Diet by Mark Sissons
Wheat Belly by Dr. XXXXXXX XXXXXXX MD
My Questions for you: 1.Why are you so supportive of Conventional Wisdom which has provided misguided information for so long dispite contrary research that is all around us?
2. Why are you opposed to the KETO nutrition approach?
I look forward to your response.
JD

Yes carbs can be broken down easily but the Free Radicals they produce as a by-product do serious damage to the body while ketones are burnt up with no residue. I hope you understand that for the public in general, nutrition has become VERY confusing with every other 'expert' expressing an opinion-some with poor or no basis in scientific fact. It's the old 'publish or perish' approach. in addition, many , if not most of the studies you alluded to are conducted by manufactures of products purported to provide relief or cures for many health challenges or by hospitals/medical clinics who garner funding from these drug manufactures so the latter are assured of a favorable outcome of the 'research' done by the clinic which they fund. I don't find much good research by independent individuals because they don't have the funding available.
In summary, I think doctors do a great disservice to their patients by not keeping up on CURRENT research that is quickly available online as opposed to books that, although they may contain heavily researched information they are often outdated by the time they are published; that coupled with the fact that much of the findings are funded by companies who have a conflict of interested; sort of like "letting the fox loose in the chicken coop".
Finally, I have tried every combination centered around the very belief that you embrace but none of them worked for me. BUT, as I mentioned in my last post the KETO nutritional approach has created several positive improvements in my health and fitness.

Don't you agree that burning glucose for energy causes free radicals to be produced and subsequently cause damage to the body?
And don't you agree that drugs are manufactured to combat these free radicals?
Looking forward to your reply
JD