Good article, but just to nitpick a 0.3% hemoglobin A1c change over only 2 tests doesn't necessarily mean anything. Normal people can vary by that much from week to week due to a variety of factors. We would have to see multiple tests over a longer period of time to tell whether there was a real reduction.
Yea, I was going to point out the testosterone test as well. Taking 2 data points is hardly enough. To really understand your testosterone levels you need to take multiple data points, over a period of weeks / months.
A1c in a month? It's usually not particularly helpful to remeasure A1c in less than 30 days because blood cells don't turn over that quickly. Whatever changes happened to his blood glucose could only have affected about 1/3rd of the blood cells. If there was real change to his glucose tolerance or uptake, it would take another two months to really know what the effect was.
Agree. The hormonal differences could have be attributed to the stress of preparing for this big event versus not working and being out in nature for a month. Or even things like the time of day, or sleep the night or two before. Would've been helpful to have more numbers over a longer period of time.
