A surprising result

Your labs say pre-diabetic. Nothing about your life says why.

Understand your own metabolism and find your personal levers, taught by a metabolism scientist who has been exactly where you are.

Find your most likely driver

By Dr. Ruchi Masand. Mitochondrial biology and energetics, Baylor College of Medicine and UCSF. Education, not medical advice.

Is this you?

You were told you are pre-diabetic and it made no sense.
You are vegetarian or plant-forward and assumed you were safe.
The advice you got was generic. Eat less, move more, come back in a year.
You want to understand what is happening, not just go on a diet.

What this is

Rigor without fear. Data without obsession. A method, not a miracle.

Population advice fails individuals — the same meal does different things to different bodies. So instead of another generic checklist, Finding Baseline teaches you to find your own levers. Education, not medical advice. Every claim sourced. No supplements sold here.

01

Observe

Get the full picture. Your A1c, fasting glucose, and the patterns behind them, read in context rather than isolation.
02

Experiment

Change one variable at a time. Food order, timing, sleep, movement. Watch what your body actually does, not what a chart predicts.
03

Find your levers

Keep what moves your number, drop what does not. Two or three changes that are genuinely yours, not a generic checklist.

Who is teaching this

Dr. Ruchi Masand

I spent my research career studying how cells turn food into energy — mitochondrial biology and energetics at Baylor College of Medicine and UCSF. Then my own bloodwork came back pre-diabetic, and it made no sense: I hike, I do yoga, I cook real food. So I did the one thing my training was actually for — I ran a careful experiment on myself, one variable at a time, and brought my A1c back into the normal range. Finding Baseline is the explanation I needed that year and couldn't find anywhere.

Read the full story

Body composition Why lean people get pre-diabetic results A flat stomach hides nothing about your liver, your genes, or how your muscles handle glucose. What the mirror cannot tell you. Read the piece Diet Vegetarian and still spiking: the carbohydrate you forgot was carbohydrate Rice, oats, fruit, and lentils are real carbohydrate. Why a plant-forward plate is not automatically a flat-glucose plate. Read the piece Reading your labs What an A1c actually measures (and what it does not) It is a four-month average, not a verdict. Knowing what moved it is where the leverage lives. Read the piece Genetics The family history you cannot out-exercise Some of your risk was set before you were born. Here is what that does and does not mean for your number. Read the piece

The decoder

Start by understanding your result, not fearing it

A few questions about your numbers, your diet, and your body return a plain-language read of your most likely driver on screen — with the full result and your first experiment delivered by email. About three minutes.