Business is booming with herbal supplements and special vitamin formulas. This simple 'detour' for the digestion of food creates a slowdown in dumping sugar into the bloodstream. The body needs a certain amount of carbohydrate for quick energy while waiting for the protein to digest. Your A1C will indicate how managed your glucofort is over a longer period of time - about 3 months versus just the particular day your blood was drawn, as glucose would show.