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Dhru Purohit

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Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

I have a friend who has that.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

So you get a high number?

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Not like crazy high, but like slightly below, like in the high normal range, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

But then you do my fasting insulin, it's great.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Yeah, yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

There's some people that their red blood cells, apparently it's your, I had learned about it first from Chris Craster.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

He has a whole article.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

We can link to it in the show notes.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

There's some people that their red blood cells stick around longer.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

So it sort of artificially pushes the test in this one direction.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

And a lot of people started noticing it because they would do, I'm an investor in a company called Levels.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

They would do these CGMs, whether through Levels or just going directly to, you know,

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

um, any one of these companies, Abbott and, you know, Freestyle Libre and whatever, they would do their glucose.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

And then a lot of these companies started offering labs and they would get back their A1C or they would go do their A1C.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

And they're like, what is going on?

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Like, I don't, I'm like, I'm healthy and like, everything is good, but

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

like my glucose is in a really good place, but my A1C is really high.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Again, this is not the vast majority of people that are out there.