5 surprising things effecting glucose levels

Some days getting on top of your glucose levels can be difficult. However, it's not always down to your management or anything you've particularly done. There are lots of factors influencing your blood glucose levels beyond your control and in this video we explore some of them.
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[@belindax4897]

Is it possible that not eating for long periods can cause a high reading. I am just curious. I am not diabetic but keeping an eye on my levels. I excerise regularly , am vegan on a fairly low carb diet as in no bread pies pastries sweets choc etc and do intermittent fasting but bit annoyed when my morning finger prick is around the 6 mark every day after 14 or 15 hour fast.

[@diabetesdietguy]

Hi Belinda
I wouldn’t place too much emphasis on one finger result - not would I test particularly - unless the results coming in like well into the teens or 20s.
Glucose levels ebb and flow through the day so a baseline reading will be anywhere between kind of 3.5-11 throughout the day depending on what you’re doing and if you’ve eaten. But 6 is perfectly normal even without eating
If you’re concerned, get a HbA1c test. That’ll soon tell you all you need to know 👌🏻