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I want to give you some data on A1C. It's a really good predictor of all sorts of diseases.

So what is A1C? It's simply a test that gives you feedback on your average blood sugars

for two to three months. And this measurement is something called glycated hemoglobin. Now

what does glycated mean and what does hemoglobin mean? Hemoglobin is the protein in red

blood cells. Glycated or glycation is basically glucose sticking to the protein. So when you

expose this hemoglobin protein to too much glucose, it becomes glycated. And so the quantity

of sugar and protein combining together will raise your A1C. So for example, if you have

an A1C of four, your blood sugars are roughly about 68. If you have an A1C of five, it's

about 97. Particularly with lower fives, it could be like in the 80s. So higher fives,

like 5.8, 5.9 would be like 98. Then you get 6, which is the blood sugar of 126. And if

you get 7, you have a blood sugar of roughly about 152. And if it's an 8, it's 183. It keeps

going higher and higher and higher. So A1C is a really good test to tell you what your

average blood sugars are. It's much better than a one-time glucose test because it tells

you what's happening over a period of time. And so if you're doing really good to the

week, yet on the weekends, you go off your plan, you eat a lot of sugar, you're not going

to probably have good A1C. And so high A1C really is high carbohydrate diet. Now there are

many disease processes that occur when you have high A1C. Because the high sugar starts

to create a lot of oxidation in problems with all sorts of tissues, but there are four

main tissues that high glucose affects. One is the combination of your brain and nervous

system. And so we have brain dysfunction. That could be anything from Alzheimer's to Parkinson's,

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