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		SpikeDad on Jan 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tracking Blood Sugar I'm curious about this. Theoretically healthy people shouldn't care about their blood sugar since your body normally regulates your blood glucose using insulin and other hormones. If you're wondering if you may be pre-diabetic then wouldn't an A1C test (home tests available and are very accurate) be a better diagnostic test?

DavideNL on Jan 12, 2019 [–]

That way you can detect a problem, yes.

But HBA1C can sometimes still be good, even for people who have high & low glucose peaks.

Maybe because the average value will still be good if you have equal peaks "up" as "down"? i don't know..

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