Aka, higher risk of not just diabetes but nearly ALL illnesses.

A recent study showed people with poor blood glucose had much more severe symptoms of COVID.

So, what does this mean to you if you carry weight?

1. Eat regular protein – This will help to stabilise blood glucose and avoid crashes (and binges)

2. Eat at regular times – This will ensure your body is prepared for when food arrives. The body is very clever and ‘prepares’ for food.

But when you have irregular timings it acts as a stress on the body.

3. Avoid sugary foods and drinks – These imbalance blood glucose levels and lead you on a hunt for energy later in the day.

4. Start your day with some protein – Those that have some protein (whether eggs, smoked salmon etc) binge less at NIGHT.

This is because they are not constantly chasing energy to function.

5. Eat vegetables – The nutrients are important but the fibre helps to offset blood glucose disturbance.

Do the above and not only will you lose weight easier, you’ll be a at less risk of disease.

Simples.

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Oh, and stop cravings and binge eating.

No, it’s not a tactic or strategy in your business, heck it’s not even blue light blocking glasses.

It’s balancing your blood 🩸 glucose levels.

Do you know.

Blood glucose regulates your mood, energy, hunger, sleep and much more?

It sounds too simple to be true but I see it with so many women we work with.

They have poor glucose management and think it’s symptoms of thinks like ADD for instance.

I’ll save you the biochemistry lesson, yet I’d love to share this with you.

1. High blood glucose levels will fuel low level inflammtion over time that will imbalance things like gut function, the immune system and mood.

Leading to what feels like uncontrollable binges.

2. Low blood glucose will trigger anxiety and panic.

Making those feelings of being overwhelmed more intense.

3. Swinging from high to low blood glucose (reactive hypoglycaemia) will have you chasing stimulants to pick you up & quick fixes to address the anxiety.

Think of the morning coffee, the biscuits throughout the day or late night fridge affair.

I specialise in human biochemistry and how it regulates human performance, yet sadly the bio hacking industry just sells quick fixes and over priced, poor quality supplements for the most part.

Save yourself a fortune by just getting the above right.

The steps.

Do a blood glucose tolerance test.

Test fasted blood glucose upon waking.

(Then drink solution of glucose)

Test after 20 mins, 40 mins, 60mins, 90 mins and 120 minutes.

This will show you a pattern.

You will be one of three outcomes.

– You ingest glucose, your levels shoot up and don’t come back down to fasted range. Not good.

– You go up and then come jack down progressively to fasted level after 2 hours (this is good)

– You go up, sink low in the middle and then it raises a little again. Not good.

These results tell you how you would set up your food, exercise & sleep to start without the expensive testing and supplements.

Honestly if most people controlled the above their mood & energy would be a tonne more consistent.

And binge eating a thing of the past

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So far, here’s the biggest trends for me…

DIET

The diet I am on due to previous health issues is ketogenic (which is tough to get right, I’ll speak about that another time).

Thus, my blood glucose as you can imagine doesn’t get crazy spikes or is elevated much at all.

Cognitively, I function best around 4.2 – 4.4 as my readings and 4.2 is my weekly average.

On Sunday I had my first ‘carb’ up day in 4 weeks to see how my body would respond.

I was very active that day (18k steps & rollerblading) so I didn’t just sit on my arse.

That said, I saw big elevations in my blood glucose and they stayed above 5 the whole day and night.

What’s interesting is the next day I still was hitting above 5… even going back to keto.

So, it’s not the day you go off plan that affects us, it takes time to bring the body back in line after.

Next,

SLEEP

When I get great sleep my blood glucose is stable.

One night I had a rubbish sleep for some reason and blood glucose again has hovered around 5.

Next,

ALCOHOL

I have been drinking low residual sugar wine when I have drunk (as its my favourite) and notice next to no difference with 1-2 small glasses of wine.

Its been an awesome learning experience in just 8 or so days and can see exactly what helps and hinders my body.

It also shows me why sleep is so important.

Imagine getting sub optimal sleep every night and what it does to blood glucose management, brain health and weight gain etc.

So, I’ll keep reporting back to you all