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#187 Behind the Scenes with a Champion Coach: Dan Garner Shares the Science of Strength and Nutrition for Elite Athletes

The Gabby Reece Show

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C-Peptide Is a Better Blood Sugar Marker Than Insulin

C-peptide is a blood sugar marker because it's co-secrated with insulin. Albiumin regularly on lab reference ranges goes down to 3.5, but we know from the Journal of Insurance Medicine that your mortality risk goes up 187% if you get below 4.5. We know rates of depression and even severe depression go up very quickly and steeply if you have a thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) above 2.5. And unsurprisingly, we also see thyroid antibodies and autoimmune activity beginning to increase after 2.5 as well.

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