The Best Way to Test Blood Sugar and Metabolic Health
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
Dr. Jockers
4.8 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. David Jockers explains how to test blood sugar and measure metabolic health using simple tools. Learn how food, stress, and sleep impact your body’s function and energy levels.
Understand why fasting insulin is a key marker for metabolic health and chronic inflammation. Discover what numbers to watch for and how to improve them.
Find out how continuous glucose monitors give real-time insights into your blood sugar response. Learn which foods cause spikes and how to maintain stable energy throughout the day.
In This Episode:
00:00 Understanding Fasting Insulin Levels
03:23 Continuous Glucose Monitors Explained
03:43 Benefits of Continuous Glucose Monitoring
05:18 How to Use a Continuous Glucose Monitor
07:57 Additional Biomarkers for Metabolic Health
11:10 Hemoglobin A1C and LDH Levels
13:47 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | What is your fasting insulin? It should be roughly under six. Okay. So I like it somewhere |
| 0:04.7 | between two and six. And so if it's up over that, and I've seen a lot of people with 10, 12, 14, |
| 0:11.1 | 25, right? That's a sign of insulin resistance. It's a sign of poor metabolic health and |
| 0:17.6 | chronic inflammation in the body. So we want to look at that fasting insulin levels. Make sure |
| 0:21.8 | it's under six. Well, welcome back to the podcast. Today we're talking about the best way to |
| 0:25.9 | test blood sugar and metabolic health. If you know anybody that's looking to burn fat for fuel, |
| 0:31.3 | build muscle, stabilize their blood sugar, lose weight, build muscle, just feel better, |
| 0:37.3 | have better cognition, |
| 0:38.5 | better energy. This is a great, a great episode to send them because I'm going to go through |
| 0:43.6 | how to test and measure your metabolic health. You guys are in for a treat. If you're getting |
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