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Metabolic Health and Diabetes: Foundations
Why a fasting glucose can read normal for a decade while the system holding it there works harder every year. Six readings, a check on each, free.
Reviewed by Team SOMA
Last updated August 2026 · English
What you'll be able to do
- âś“Why fasting glucose is the last number to move
- âś“Muscle is your largest glucose organ
- âś“Why one glucose reading describes a moment, not a person
- âś“Where HbA1c misleads, and what to read beside it
- âś“Why type 2 diabetes often begins in the liver
- âś“Fasting insulin: the effort behind a normal glucose
What's inside
Fasting glucose and hidden insulin resistance
Why fasting glucose is the last number to move
Knowledge check: Fasting glucose and hidden insulin resistance
Muscle, your largest glucose organ
Muscle is your largest glucose organ
Knowledge check: Muscle, your largest glucose organ
Two people, one meal: reading variability
Why one glucose reading describes a moment, not a person
Knowledge check: Two people, one meal: reading variability
HbA1c and what an average hides
Where HbA1c misleads, and what to read beside it
Knowledge check: HbA1c and what an average hides
The liver’s overnight brake
Why type 2 diabetes often begins in the liver
Knowledge check: The liver’s overnight brake
Fasting insulin: the effort behind a normal glucose
What a normal fasting insulin actually is
Knowledge check: Fasting insulin and HOMA-IR
Finish with the check
Knowledge check: Metabolic Health and Diabetes
Is this for you?
Who it's for
- Anyone starting out in this field, with no science background assumed
- People who want to understand their own health rather than be told what to do
What you need
- Nothing to pay. A free SOMA account, so your progress and knowledge checks are saved.
- The journal articles behind each reading can be read without an account.
About this course
A fasting glucose can read normal for a decade while the system holding it there works harder every year. This field is about learning to see that work.
You will meet the compensation that keeps glucose in range and what it costs, why two people can eat the same meal and see completely different curves, what a three month average quietly smooths over, and why the liver and skeletal muscle decide more of this story than most panels ever show.
Six readings, each with a short check. Free, and yours to take in any order.
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