starting strength gym
Results 1 to 5 of 5

Thread: Reference Ranges

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Jun 2020
    Posts
    223

    Default Reference Ranges

    • starting strength seminar april 2024
    • starting strength seminar jume 2024
    • starting strength seminar august 2024
    Hi Rip
    We have Cholesterol reference ranges which seem to be designed to keep you ON treatment and thus keep you as a customer. We have Testosterone ref ranges which seem to be designed to keep you OFF treatment, I assume to keep you on "their" more profitable other drugs. However Diabetes (type2) reference ranges seem to be "honest" ? Would you agree ? We can either choose to stop eating donuts, train and get healthy and not need the drugs or eat shit and take the drugs.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Location
    North Texas
    Posts
    53,562

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Panda View Post
    However Diabetes (type2) reference ranges seem to be "honest" ?
    Why would you assume that? Do you not know anything about these people? If they are honest, it's because they haven't found a way to profit from gaming them yet.

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Jun 2020
    Posts
    223

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Why would you assume that? Do you not know anything about these people? If they are honest, it's because they haven't found a way to profit from gaming them yet.
    I’m only assuming based on my own symptoms. I’ve been diabetic for 20 + yrs and have experienced all the increased thirst, excess night urination, tingling extremities, failing vision etc when my sugar levels have been high, ie outside the ref ranges. All those things subside when i track within normal recommendations. I just think with diabetes they have less gaming to do because there is a willing supply of people who are lazy and like eating & drinking shit and sitting on the couch.
    PS, I’ve seen a noticeable improvement in my sugar levels since both SS and TRT

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Feb 2019
    Posts
    198

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Why would you assume that? Do you not know anything about these people? If they are honest, it's because they haven't found a way to profit from gaming them yet.
    T2DM is a weird diagnosis, like hyperlipidaemia. You acknowledge that blood sugars exist on a continuum, that at a certain point higher values incur a proportionate risk, and pick a number to then call a “disease”.

    However if someone asked me if the relationship between medicine and pharma was not simply -“Hey pharma, create a drug to safely bring down blood sugars and we’ll buy it,” and more “Hey medicine, we’ve got a drug we want to sell, do you mind changing some diagnostic criteria a bit to accommodate us,” then I would be strongly suspicious the latter is not infrequent.

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Jul 2019
    Posts
    604

    Default

    I can say from experience that you can rock a 5.6 A1C for two years and not a single medical professional will say a thing. Hit 5.7 and you’ll get a prescription for Metformin and be told to do cardio and eat Keto.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •