Maybe it's true that you "are or you aren't" but that's not the same thing as saying we actually know how to determine which it is.
Is 6.0 just your body's "set point" where it DECIDES to keep your glucose or is it the beginning of your system being overwhelmed and will continue to get worse. Hard to say. Non-diabetics are not in some very narrowly defined range. Like all biological phenomena, any population will display a mean value and values distributed according to a standard deviation over a bell curve.
Please look at this graphic of a constant glucose monitoring trial of a healthy, non-diabetic population (their average A1C was 5.4):
CGM Trial
As you can see, normal people are not simply "in the low 70's fasting". Actually, the AVERAGE is 80 and within 2 standard deviations they range from 61 - 99. None of these people are diabetics.
Also note that A1C is notoriously inaccurate for a variety of reasons having nothing to do with actual blood sugar levels or the presence of absence of diabetes. One example is the average lifespan of your red blood cells. If they 'cycle' (die and are replaced) faster than average, your A1C will read lower, if they cycle slower it will read higher.
In reality there is no conversion from A1C to average BG the one you find is only based on an average for a sample population. That doesn't tell you where you are on that particular bell curve. If you really want average BG, test every 30 minutes for an entire typical day and take the average!
Having said all that, I'll say YES, you should test and monitor your BG carefully and another PROBABLY, eating low-carb for the rest of your life is no doubt an excellent idea and may just be necessary for good health.
Is 6.0 just your body's "set point" where it DECIDES to keep your glucose or is it the beginning of your system being overwhelmed and will continue to get worse. Hard to say. Non-diabetics are not in some very narrowly defined range. Like all biological phenomena, any population will display a mean value and values distributed according to a standard deviation over a bell curve.
Please look at this graphic of a constant glucose monitoring trial of a healthy, non-diabetic population (their average A1C was 5.4):
CGM Trial
As you can see, normal people are not simply "in the low 70's fasting". Actually, the AVERAGE is 80 and within 2 standard deviations they range from 61 - 99. None of these people are diabetics.
Also note that A1C is notoriously inaccurate for a variety of reasons having nothing to do with actual blood sugar levels or the presence of absence of diabetes. One example is the average lifespan of your red blood cells. If they 'cycle' (die and are replaced) faster than average, your A1C will read lower, if they cycle slower it will read higher.
In reality there is no conversion from A1C to average BG the one you find is only based on an average for a sample population. That doesn't tell you where you are on that particular bell curve. If you really want average BG, test every 30 minutes for an entire typical day and take the average!
Having said all that, I'll say YES, you should test and monitor your BG carefully and another PROBABLY, eating low-carb for the rest of your life is no doubt an excellent idea and may just be necessary for good health.
