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Ten articles about what people actually search for at eleven at night, just after seeing their blood test. With data, with cited sources and no salesman's promises.
If you have just picked up a blood test with high glucose and come home with more questions than answers, start here. What your number means, whether that is already diabetes, why you feel absolutely nothing, and what is worth doing first — today, not when you find the time.
Read the article →It is the test that best sums up your last three months, and nobody explains what the number means. Here it is plainly: what it measures, what is normal, why your report shows both 6.5% and 48 mmol/mol for the same value, and what genuinely lowers it.
Read the article →Prediabetes is the best warning you will ever get: you are still in time. Here is what to eat, what to avoid, and three practical changes that work without giving up bread or weighing your food.
Read the article →The short answer is yes, and this is not a salesman's promise: there is an international consensus definition and clinical trials proving it. But it has conditions, and they are worth knowing before you get your hopes up or write it off.
Read the article →Nobody gives you concrete numbers, and they are exactly what you need to know whether you are on track or being sold false hope. Here they are, with the studies they come from and a realistic calendar of when you will see each thing.
Read the article →You bought a meter, you test after a meal and you see 168. Is that a lot? Here are the reference figures, the real target if you have diabetes, when the two hours actually start — almost everybody gets this wrong — and why one high reading diagnoses nothing.
Read the article →You do not need a gym or an hour a day. You need to know which kind of exercise moves glucose, how much the evidence asks for, and — what almost nobody mentions — why standing up every half hour counts too, even if you already train.
Read the article →You leave the surgery with a sheet full of abbreviations and an “everything is fine apart from the sugar”. Here is what each value measures, why it was requested, and the four nobody looks at that say the most about your future.
Read the article →It has become the answer to everything, and it deserves an honest look. The evidence says something less exciting but more useful: it works, and it works about as well as simply eating less. The difference is which of the two you can sustain — and one specific risk if you take certain drugs.
Read the article →There are thin people with type 2 diabetes and heavy people without it, and that baffles everyone. The explanation has a name — the personal fat threshold — and it completely changes what you should be measuring.
Read the article →If you have just received your blood test and want to know what average glucose your HbA1c corresponds to, you can work it out right here with the internationally validated formula.
In the press
Aragón Digital · World Diabetes Day
An interview with me for World Diabetes Day, in Spanish.
Men's Health · October 2024
In a feature on glucose spikes, Men's Health quoted me as a nurse, dietitian and trainer. I explained that some spikes are normal, such as the one after eating carbohydrates, and that what matters most is strength training and staying active most days.
The feature is in the October 2024 print issue. The full issue can be read on Magzter, behind a paywall.
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