Dr. Michael Snyder

Great to be here.

Well, I would say that high, long, prolonged spikes is obviously pretty bad.

But certain things, like if you eat a grape, grape's pretty loaded with sugar, but it's a pretty transient spike.

It'll go up.

And so that would be a transient one.

Actually, when you do strength training, for example, for exercise, you break down glucagon, which is a polymer of sugar that you break down, gives you energy.

That's important for when you're doing exercise and training, and that will give a glucose spike.

I get a glucose spike every morning when I weight train.

So that would be a normal healthy one, but it's transient.

It goes away pretty quickly.

What's quickly?

Within 30 minutes, maybe most 60 minutes.

Now, I'm a special case.

I'm a type 2 diabetic.

So my spikes go higher and longer than most people.

So, yeah, mine are not good spikes, but we can get into that.

So what is a good spike?

Well, the calibration people mostly use is time and range.

It's a simple metric.

Meaning if you're a healthy person, your glucose is normally, for most people, around 90.