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A postprandial spike is the surge in glucose 1-2 hours after eating; it can be large even when fasting glucose and HbA1c look normal.
A good HbA1c for most non-diabetic adults is below 5.7%, ideally in the low-to-mid 5% range; 5.7-6.4% is prediabetes and 6.5%+ is the diabetes threshold.
Panchakarma ('five actions') is Ayurveda's most intensive protocol — a sequenced mobilize, eliminate, and rebuild process, not a one-off cleanse.
A mild post-meal dip is normal physiology, but a crushing, daily crash is a signal — usually a blood-sugar-regulation and nervous-system story, not a 'blood leaves the brain' digestion story.
DIM changes how your body metabolizes estrogen, not how much estrogen you make — it shifts estrogen toward the gentler 2-hydroxy pathway and away from the potent 16-hydroxy one.
Myo-inositol (MI) and D-chiro-inositol (DCI) aren't rivals — they're two isomers your body uses in different tissues: MI is the ovary's messenger, DCI is the body's glucose-storage messenger.
Low ferritin with normal hemoglobin means your iron storage tank is running empty even though you're not yet anemic—you're burning through reserves faster than you're replacing them, and the symptoms start long before your blood count falls.
The single biggest glucose lever is not how hard you train but when you move relative to a meal—a 10-15 minute walk started within 30 minutes of eating blunts the post-meal spike more reliably than a hard workout done on an empty stomach hours later.
SIBO is a motility problem first: when the gut's cleaning wave (migrating motor complex) weakens, bacteria overgrow the small intestine and ferment food where it should be absorbed.
High homocysteine is a signal, not a disease — it means your methylation cycle (the pathways that recycle homocysteine using folate, B12, and B6) is running inefficiently.
You make meaningful progesterone only from the corpus luteum that forms after ovulation - so 'low progesterone' is almost always a sign of weak, delayed, or absent ovulation, not a progesterone-factory problem.
Reactive hypoglycemia is a post-meal blood sugar crash (usually 2-4 hours after eating) caused by an insulin overshoot after a rapid glucose spike - not a disease, but a correctable pattern.