07 Jun 2023
On today’s podcast we’ll be talking more specifically about practices, tactics/‘hacks’ to reduce blood glucose spikes and crashes, strategies to keep us insulin sensitive and ultimately improve our metabolic health, so we can prevent things like T2DM, certain cancers, dementia, obesity, CVD. Potentially even improving the management of conditions like PCOS, headaches and vague symptoms like brain fog, fatigue and more.
Specifically I’m talking through popular hacks to maintain a normal glucose
I’m diving into the studies that many people use to recommed these practices, the doses and I’ll ultimately let you know whether I think they’re worth trying!
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References:
Vinegar
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168822716308518
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-230x-7-46
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mnfr.201600121
Sequential nutrient ingestion
https://www.nature.com/articles/nutd201633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4876745/
https://drc.bmj.com/content/5/1/e000440
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2019.00144/full#B58
PGE and appetite https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-021-00383-x
Fibre
https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-13-76
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30617143/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12209371/
Psyllium
https://www.nature.com/articles/1601398
B glucan https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146517/
http://www.aulamedica.es/nh/pdf/7597.pdf
Almonds https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-023-01263-1
Exercise
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/253
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-016-4085-2
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1348-9585.12199
Berberine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23808999/
Salacia https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17616771/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15635348/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15975493/
Green tea - https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/23/5063
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