Why Fasting Glucose Runs High When the Rest of the Day Looks Fine
A high fasting glucose usually reflects overnight hepatic glucose output and the pre-waking hormone surge. How to check it in your own CGM export.
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A high fasting glucose usually reflects overnight hepatic glucose output and the pre-waking hormone surge. How to check it in your own CGM export.
A fasting glucose of 99 mg/dL is one number from one morning. Here is how to compute your own morning baseline from CGM data, what the dispersion means, and where the measurement itself is the limiting factor.
Morning, fasted, rested, and identical from draw to draw. Here is which analytes move across the day, what the 48 hours beforehand do to your numbers, and how to write a draw protocol you can repeat for years.