” For example, many years ago if they took a readings below 140 after fasting overnight; you were OK.
Then it dropped to 130; then to 120 ; now they are using 100. IMHO Using the 100 or lower measurement is going to make plenty of healthy people type 2 diabetics. -Tom “
Thanks Tom, I’m VERY SUSPICIOUS about medical thresholds, and this is a big one, since it means getting ‘patients for life’ if it’s low enough. Likewise, do they have ANY EVIDENCE on which to base blood pressure numbers? I doubt it.
I feel the same way; and often kid the Doctors about a way to get more patients, like they did when they lowered the diabetes readings to 100 or less to be non diabetic.
For example most humans have a heart beat in the 72 beats per minute or higher range
Some athletic people have lower heart beats in the 60sBPM range. So establish the desired rate to be no higher than 68 BPM.
That will qualify millions of people as having too fast a heart beat and will need some type of treatment to slow down excessive heart beats, that you can recommend. More patients; more money.-Tom
In my humble opinion, these two videos are the best introduction to
1) Why we need more discrimination in what we eat and how often, https://youtu.be/RuOvn4UqznU and.
2) How we’ve become so mislead about diabetes, and how to better recognize and treat it. https://youtu.be/6zZBiTfIp4Q
They’re both current, witty, but the second gets technical in a few places