Brigid TitgemeierBeingBrigid Functional Nutrition · Transforming Women's Health Using Food as Medicine

Is Your Blood Sugar Actually “Normal”?

23 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Brigid Titgemeier warns that many people experience frequent, unnoticed blood‑sugar spikes throughout the day. She cites a study of non‑diabetic participants in which about 80 % showed pre‑diabetes‑range glucose increases (over 140 mg/dL) after eating cereal. Titgemeier emphasizes that abnormal blood‑sugar levels affect roughly half of the U.S. population—including pre‑diabetes, type 2, gestational, and type 1 diabetes—so “normal” blood sugar is far from universal. She argues that doctors often fail to order the full panel of labs needed to assess glucose control, and that individuals overlook post‑meal symptoms that could signal early imbalance.

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Most people are experiencing the blood sugar roller coaster multiple times per day without even realizing it. There was one study that was conducted in people that did not have diabetes, and they showed that eating cereal led to blood sugar spikes in the prediabetes range greater than a 140 milligram per deciliter increase for about 80% of the people that didn't have diabetes. And I think that sometimes people mistake this idea that I only should care about my blood sugar if I have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, and it's serious, simply not the case. Now, we do know that 50% of Americans have abnormal blood sugar levels. They either have Pre diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, or type 1 diabetes. So 50% of the population has, quote, unquote, normal blood sugar. And most people do not realize that underneath the surface, there are already warning signs that blood sugar may be getting imbalanced because doctors typically are not testing for a whole spectrum of labs that tell you more about your blood sugar control. And we're not paying attention to the symptoms that are happening, especially after our meal else.