11-21-2025, 11:53 PM
A1C by itself is not a good test to determine diabetes. The test has flaws. If a person has blood cells that last a real long time and they are not created nearly as fast as usual, then the blood cells have more little marks on them which means the A1C will be higher. Some people have genetic conditions that effect the creation of blood cells properly, one of the porphyrias can cause that.
The A1C test was not designed to be used on it's own to identify diabetes. Elevated blood sugar and other symptoms need to be present before ever considering treatment. This I read when researching the actual manufacturers information on the test...evidently the doctors never read that though, I know lots of people who were put on metformin with no other symptoms except high A1C
Some people have blood cells that live for a year, most people have blood cells that only live for about four to five months. I actually have genetics where my blood cells live a long time and also I have a genetic condition in the third step of the creation of hemoglobin which reduces the amount of hemoglobin created. It is AIP porphyria....basically, I can't donate blood because I don't make new cells very well. So far I have not been anemic but I have to watch I don't lose too much blood, I go sleep for days if I do. I was told never to donate blood again and not to let doctors take too much blood out of me for testing. I do eventually get back to normal, the anemia seems only to last maybe three or four days.
So, there are limitations on how to utilize A1C tests...other symptoms need to be there before they are supposed to prescribe meds from what I read at the manufacturers site a few years back.
If I eat tyramine foods, my blood pressure goes up pretty much, I have tachychardia, so my blood pressure has never been less than one forty over seventy five...resting heart rate when awake is usually around one ten. My heart can go up to two twenty with little problem as long as my blood pressure does not go along with it. At two thirty, my heart starts to flop around a little, but rarely do I get to that number, and I have had this all my life, kind of used to it, my father and uncle also had it, it is a hereditary form of the condition. Been checked out by doctors over the last forty years quite a few times, taken those treadmill tests, taken the stress test with the medication, all show Tachychardia of unknown origin. Won't take beta blockers anymore, four doctors tried them, and discontinued them after three or four months because of side effects...two told me that a different brand would make it better, and when they saw what was happening they told me to discontinue them because of bad side effects.
Diet works to control diabetes or high blood pressure, here is a pretty decent article about blood pressure control and side effects of common meds used to treat the condition. I have only checked out about half of the foods and supplements so far to verify if the article is correct, so far the ones I did check with medical research did show a correlation and would most likely help most people. Now it will not work for everyone, but most people can get relief from hypertension by using what is in this article. It is not what most people think, it is not promoting "health foods" More like food choices
Now, I know a lot about food chemistry, and also what cooking does to food chemicals, so it is way easier for me to understand things like this now than when I first started. How food is prepared effects nutrients, cooking actually helps sometimes but destroys things other times. look this over guys, I can give some information of how things work on much of this. The lists are not complete though, they say garlic for some things, but onions will most often work too. Maybe saying the allum family would have been more appropriate. I know that many people do not consider the national library of medicine as legit but this seems pretty good, and it does have references of other research to show proper evaluation. I even checked out the writers and they seem pretty decent and they seem to match reality pretty well. Like I said, I just found this article not even a week ago, from researching an article from Physics.org I read dealing with some medicines...got off on a tangent and stumbled across this...which I know some of before, but not which way they accomplished the actions. This tells me which metabolic process the foods and supplements help with. Remember, if there is no deficiency, they will not help...but then again, you probably would not be having symptoms of hypertension if you ate right.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3989080/
The A1C test was not designed to be used on it's own to identify diabetes. Elevated blood sugar and other symptoms need to be present before ever considering treatment. This I read when researching the actual manufacturers information on the test...evidently the doctors never read that though, I know lots of people who were put on metformin with no other symptoms except high A1C
Some people have blood cells that live for a year, most people have blood cells that only live for about four to five months. I actually have genetics where my blood cells live a long time and also I have a genetic condition in the third step of the creation of hemoglobin which reduces the amount of hemoglobin created. It is AIP porphyria....basically, I can't donate blood because I don't make new cells very well. So far I have not been anemic but I have to watch I don't lose too much blood, I go sleep for days if I do. I was told never to donate blood again and not to let doctors take too much blood out of me for testing. I do eventually get back to normal, the anemia seems only to last maybe three or four days.
So, there are limitations on how to utilize A1C tests...other symptoms need to be there before they are supposed to prescribe meds from what I read at the manufacturers site a few years back.
If I eat tyramine foods, my blood pressure goes up pretty much, I have tachychardia, so my blood pressure has never been less than one forty over seventy five...resting heart rate when awake is usually around one ten. My heart can go up to two twenty with little problem as long as my blood pressure does not go along with it. At two thirty, my heart starts to flop around a little, but rarely do I get to that number, and I have had this all my life, kind of used to it, my father and uncle also had it, it is a hereditary form of the condition. Been checked out by doctors over the last forty years quite a few times, taken those treadmill tests, taken the stress test with the medication, all show Tachychardia of unknown origin. Won't take beta blockers anymore, four doctors tried them, and discontinued them after three or four months because of side effects...two told me that a different brand would make it better, and when they saw what was happening they told me to discontinue them because of bad side effects.
Diet works to control diabetes or high blood pressure, here is a pretty decent article about blood pressure control and side effects of common meds used to treat the condition. I have only checked out about half of the foods and supplements so far to verify if the article is correct, so far the ones I did check with medical research did show a correlation and would most likely help most people. Now it will not work for everyone, but most people can get relief from hypertension by using what is in this article. It is not what most people think, it is not promoting "health foods" More like food choices
Now, I know a lot about food chemistry, and also what cooking does to food chemicals, so it is way easier for me to understand things like this now than when I first started. How food is prepared effects nutrients, cooking actually helps sometimes but destroys things other times. look this over guys, I can give some information of how things work on much of this. The lists are not complete though, they say garlic for some things, but onions will most often work too. Maybe saying the allum family would have been more appropriate. I know that many people do not consider the national library of medicine as legit but this seems pretty good, and it does have references of other research to show proper evaluation. I even checked out the writers and they seem pretty decent and they seem to match reality pretty well. Like I said, I just found this article not even a week ago, from researching an article from Physics.org I read dealing with some medicines...got off on a tangent and stumbled across this...which I know some of before, but not which way they accomplished the actions. This tells me which metabolic process the foods and supplements help with. Remember, if there is no deficiency, they will not help...but then again, you probably would not be having symptoms of hypertension if you ate right.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3989080/
