Quote from dad22:

Thanks Mark for the info! Is hypoglycemia a precurser to diabetes? My father was a diabetic and I'm worried I'm heading for the same fate.

dad22:

What you want to watch out for is any slight increases in your fasting glucose levels. The data indicate that those increases in fasting are detectable after your post-prandial responses (and possibly hypoglycemic responses) are already taking place. Have you asked your physician or other specialist for an oral glucose tolerance test (I agree with Mark suggested, he couldn't have given you any better advice). That will probably clear up that question as to whether or not you should be concerned with making changes if you are developing impaired glucose tolerance/type 2 diabetes. I haven't seen a fasting reference range extended as high as 130 mg/dL, even allowing for experimental variance in the measurement. There is one colleague that I know who does not exhibit any signs of insulin resistance, yet his fasting is around 105 mg/dL. When my fasting was at that level, I was on medication (Amaryl in that case) and I certainly had insulin resistance. The norm fasting range for people with "normal" insulin sensitivity is going to be < 95 mg/dL, in almost all cases.