SNP51: Understanding Blood Glucose Reponses

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Blood glucose is easy to measure, but not always easy to interpret. This Premium-only episode brings together insights from several previous guests to examine blood glucose responses in more detail.

We discuss the misuse of clinical thresholds, the difference between OGTT results and free-living CGM data, and whether "flatter" glucose curves are actually better in normoglycemic people.

The episode also covers when repeated high glucose excursions may be worth investigating, how sugar intake should be interpreted in context, and why skeletal muscle and exercise play such an important role in glucose regulation.

Overall, the aim is to clarify what glucose responses can tell us, what they cannot tell us, and how to avoid pathologizing normal physiology.

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