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    “WE BEAT DIABETES!”

    Jul 22, 2021 5 minutes

    “I REVERSED MY DIAGNOSIS IN JUST 12 WEEKS!”

    Tricia Hamilton, 56, is a nurse living in Salford, Manchester.

    I went for a free NHS health check in December 2017. I had my blood taken and was weighed and measured and they found I had high levels of HbA1c. I needed to be tested every month for the following three months. HbA1c refers to ‘glycated haemoglobin’, which develops when haemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells, joins with glucose in the blood, becoming ‘glycated’. By measuring this, doctors can get a picture of what your average blood sugar levels are over a period of weeks or months.

    The results shocked me. A normal reading is below 44 millimoles, but mine was 48, 49 and then 52. This meant I had Type 2

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