In the past, doctors identified diabetes in a rather unusual way, they noticed ants were attracted to certain patients’ urine, and some even tasted it out of curiosity (🤢).

Thankfully, modern physicians no longer do anything like that.
Today, diabetes is diagnosed through accurate blood glucose testing.

🩸 The main diagnostic tests include:

Fasting Blood Glucose (FPG):
After at least 8 hours of fasting.
A reading of ≥ 7.0 mmol/L confirms diabetes.

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c):
Shows the average blood sugar level over the past 2–3 months.
A result of ≥ 6.5% also indicates diabetes.

Doctors may also use OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test) or Random Plasma Glucose Tests for confirmation.

⚠️ Today, diabetes isn’t defined by “sugar in the urine.”
It is defined by “too much sugar in the blood.”
Only when blood glucose is excessively high then the body begin removing sugar through urine.

By the time sugar appears in urine,the body is already signaling that something is wrong.
This is when lifestyle adjustments become important.

🍃 At Guawa, our team has long focused on practical daily habits that support healthier post-meal blood sugar,
a journey that eventually inspired the creation of Gualeaf, our naturally formulated guava leaf tea.