Diabetic Lowers A1c to 4.5 - Anything More To Do?

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:03]Welcome to Beat Diabetes. I'm Dennis Pollock and today we're going to share a comment left under one of my videos.

[00:00:10]Uh this person has seen tremendous success. He says, "I've taken my A1C from 8.1, which is pretty bad.

[00:00:18]Of course, we've heard of worse, but 8.1 is is pretty bad. He says, "That was in May of 2025 and now he says, "I am at 4.5 in April of 2026."

[00:00:32]So, a little less than a year, he went from an eight to a 4.5.

[00:00:39]4.5, well, you know, there are occasions where I have to say uh the the pupils, the ones that uh learned a few things from me, uh they've they've outdone me. I've never been at 4.5, uh never to my knowledge, maybe when I was 12.

[00:00:56]>> [laughter] >> I don't know, but uh not anytime that I've been testing my blood sugar and getting A1Cs.

[00:01:03]So, he says, "I've taken my A1C from 8.1 to 4.5 using low-carb and a few supplements."

[00:01:12]Well, if that was all he said, it would be worth sharing just that kind of success.

[00:01:17]There are so many diseases where you just don't see this major major breakthrough like he's describing, but he's got a question he wants to ask.

[00:01:27]He's not done yet. Most people, if they were at 4.5, they'd want to sit on their laurels and just be happy that they got there and have no questions >> [laughter] >> or no desire for anything further.

[00:01:40]But, he says, "What I'd really love to know, is there a way to cure the underlying insulin resistance with fasting or whatever the next step is?

[00:01:52]I've gotten this far really without much medical oversight.

[00:01:57]So, he's not only wanting to be at 4.5, he says, "I don't want a trace of insulin resistance. I want it cured."

[00:02:04]It's a good question. It's one that I've heard a number of times and one that I have uh tried to answer and I will again give my two cents worth about that.

[00:02:16]Uh insulin resistance can be improved and insulin sensitivity can be increased.

[00:02:25]So, if you're saying, "Is there a way I can improve my insulin resistance?" The answer is absolutely yes, you can improve it.

[00:02:33]And I've seen it in my own life. I have eaten I've gone back to when I was first eating various meals and getting some terrible results on my glucose meter and I've gone back and eaten the same foods and I do better now than I did then and that was like 20 close to 25 years ago or 23 years ago.

[00:02:54]So, I'm better now as an old guy than I was as a middle-aged guy. This whole diabetes thing came rushing at me at about the age well, I was it was 2002.

[00:03:06]And so, that would put me at what? About the age of 48, 49.

[00:03:11]And uh I'm in many respects, I'm better now than I was then.

[00:03:15]Uh I don't get as bad of a uh glucose spike now than I did then, but I do get glucose spikes and you'll know that if you watch this channel much. I do tests and and I can I know how I can get my blood sugar high. I don't want to do that. I won't do that except as an occasional experiment uh to demonstrate something to you all, but uh I I can do it. So, if you're saying, "Dennis, have you totally done away with insulin resistance?" The answer is no.

[00:03:46]You say, "Well, does that make you sad?"

[00:03:47]The answer is well, not much. Uh I I see it this way, tell you the truth.

[00:03:55]As you get older, you tend to get weaker.

[00:03:59]And things don't work as well. So, I don't run as fast as I did when I was 22.

[00:04:06]I don't see as well.

[00:04:08]I get infections more easily.

[00:04:11]There are all kinds of things that are potentially going to get you as you get older and that's just the way it is.

[00:04:18]Young people typically don't get infections so much. They don't have diabetes normally, although we're seeing it more and more among young people these days.

[00:04:30]Which is because of the junk diet, but uh when you're younger, you can get away with more.

[00:04:37]And when you get older, you can't. So, you've got to modify and adapt your lifestyle and your diet to your latter years.

[00:04:48]He says, um The doctors I've seen think the Metformin dealt with diabetes and that was that. So, apparently he was taking Metformin at least for a while. I don't know if he still is or not.

[00:05:02]Uh but that wouldn't explain how you get down to 4.5. There's no way you can just take some Metformin and go from an 8 to a 4.5, but he mentions he used low carb and a few supplements.

[00:05:15]He says, uh that's not where I'm going. Okay, so he's saying I'm not going the way of Metformin.

[00:05:22]So, it sounds like he isn't hasn't taken it or at least is not now.

[00:05:27]And he says, it may be yes, it may be straight down a YouTube rabbit hole, but I'm still going to try try to fix my insulin resistance. Well, part of it depends on his age.

[00:05:37]I've seen some amazing results from people doing low carb when they're in their 30s and early 40s.

[00:05:43]Uh by the time you get into your 60s and 70s, it won't be quite as amazing. You can still do it.

[00:05:52]And like I said, I'm better off now in my 70s than I was in my late 40s.

[00:05:57]So, but I've adapted a lot. I don't eat like I did then.

[00:06:01]So, yeah, you can clearly improve it.

[00:06:03]But, when it comes right down to it, if you have a disease that has no symptoms, that's not much of a disease. If a doctor came to me and said, "Dennis, you've got" and rattled off some long name, and I asked him, "Well, what are the symptoms? Uh will it make me weaker?"

[00:06:22]No. "Will it shorten my life?" No.

[00:06:25]"Well, what kind of complications and symptoms will I get from having this disease?" And he says, "Well, actually there are none at all."

[00:06:32]I'd be like, "Well, doc, what kind of a disease is that? That's not much of a disease if there's no symptoms."

[00:06:39]Now, we know diabetes has symptoms for sure. It has what they call diabetic complications, and you can lose toes, you can lose feet, you can lose your legs, your your kidneys can fail you.

[00:06:50]You can end up needing to go on dialysis.

[00:06:54]All kinds of problems. So, yeah, diabetes has symptoms, but there's really two factors that are causing those symptoms to happen in your body and the miseries of diabetes. One is the high glucose, and the other is the high insulin that you're going to get. Now, if you're a type one, you're not going to have high insulin unless you're just eating so much junk you just have to give yourself high insulin.

[00:07:17]But for a type two, you can have high insulin simply because you're eating so many carbohydrates that your poor, poor, pitiful, sad, pathetic little pancreas is huffing and puffing and pumping its little guts out, and your body's filled with insulin, and that by itself is a negative. That by itself can cause complications and problems and issues.

[00:07:45]So, there's two factors that cause all the problems of diabetes.

[00:07:51]If it wasn't for these, diabetes would pose no problem to the human race. And the two factors are high glucose and high insulin. If you take care of that, and believe me, if this guy's running a 4.5 A1C, chances are he's gotten either one of those Well, I know he's got low glucose. You couldn't have high glucose and run a 4.5 A1C. Chances are he's eating so low carb that his insulin levels are very low as well.

[00:08:19]And when you've got low blood sugar and low insulin, you're just not likely to have hardly any of the symptoms of diabetes. If someone wants to tell you, "Well, I'm sorry, but you're still diabetic." Well, let them say that if they want.

[00:08:35]But the symptoms most likely are not going to be there. And we've had one testimony after another after another where people have said that. I I had all these symptoms and now I have none.

[00:08:45]So, I don't worry too much about insulin resistance. Do I still have some? Yeah, probably, almost certainly.

[00:08:54]But not like I did.

[00:08:56]And so far things are going along pretty well for me.

[00:08:59]And my A1C is more like around five, 5.1. His is 4.5. Chances are the symptoms are not going to be there in his life, either. But I give him credit.

[00:09:09]He says, "I want to lick this monster of insulin resistance altogether." Good for you, my friend. I wouldn't tell you you can't do it, but I will say the older you get, the more difficult it becomes. And sometimes you just have to learn to accept the fact that you can adapt and still win the victory.

[00:09:29]Dr. Bernstein was a type one. You might say he never got cured. He never fixed things for himself in the sense that he was always a type 1 from his childhood up through his 90th birthday and beyond. He died just before he turned 91.

[00:09:45]So, you could say, "Well, you see, he's a big diabetes doctor and wrote all these books, but uh he was still diabetic." Yeah, he was, but he adapted so beautifully.

[00:09:57]He lived to be an old man in good health for year after year. He was still practicing medicine in his 80s and even up to his last few months of his life.

[00:10:11]And I admire a man like that, and that's basically what I want for my life. I'm not a type 1, but that's what I want. I want to go through my life healthy.

[00:10:20]I want to purchase some extra years of good health and longevity by eating a healthy diet, and to me, above everything else, a healthy diet means you don't have glucose spikes when you eat, which means you go very low on the sugar uh sugar. Well, you basically eliminate the sugars, but you also go low on the starches, and you minimize your starches, reduce and and eliminate your sugars, and buy for yourself some extra years of good health. How much would you pay for an additional 10 extra years of good health for your life?

[00:11:01]Well, I'll tell you what, if you had the money, you'd pay basically all that you have.

[00:11:07]And uh there's no money can buy it.

[00:11:10]But there is a lifestyle and a diet that can give you those extra years.

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