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The Dr. Hyman Show · 2026-10-24 · 47 min · 9,831 words

Normal Blood Sugar But Still Insulin Resistant? Here's Why

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Can I reverse insulin resistance? Thousand percent. I've taken people who were type two diabetics. We're on insulin. for ten years. Who are so sick. and massively overweight. And within three days they're off the insulin. In three months they're completely normal blood sugar. The A1C went from eleven, which was insane.

to five and a half, which is normal, in three months. No drugs. So it's possible. Welcome back to Office Hours. Today I'm here with my producer Emma and we're gonna talk about something that everybody gets tested. But very few people actually understand.

Blood sugar. Today we're talking about something that most of us see every year on our blood work, but I honestly probably don't think much about it. And I don't think many of the audience members do either. And that's our blood sugar. So we get our fasting glucose back, maybe our A one C, they're all marked normal. And I assume that everything's gonna be fine. But what I really want to understand today is whether those numbers actually tell us the whole story, because apparently you can have normal blood sugar and still already be insulin resistant. So I want you to unpack that for me today. So the main goal with this conversation is how do I actually know if my blood sugar is

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