#130 - Kara Collier: Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) Q&A, Average Blood Sugar Levels, Interpreting Glucose Spikes, Food Combination Experimentation, Cold Therapy, Sauna & Exercise, HBA1C & Diabetes, Glycemic Variability, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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GET TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOWNOTES: melanieavalon.com/cgmquestions Go To Melanieavalon.com/nutrisenseCGM And Use Coupon Code MelanieAvalon For $40 Off! 1:45 - Lumen Lovers: Biohack Your Carb And Fat Burning (With Melanie Avalon): Join Melanie's Facebook Group Lumen, Biosense & CGMs: Carbs, Fat, Ketones & Blood Sugar (Melanie Avalon) If You're Interested In The Lumen Breath Analyzer, Which Tells Your Body If You're Burning Carbs Or Fat! 1:55 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome! 2:10 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon 9:35 - What Is The Most Common Question About CGMs? 10:30 - What Is A Continuous Glucose Monitor? 13:35 - Why Wear A CGM? 19:40 - HBA1C 20:45 - How Long Should You Wear A CGM To Find Useful Data? 22:25 - How Much Do We Really Know About Glucose And Longevity? 28:35 - Diagnostic Criteria Diabetes 32:25 - Is It Ok To Spike Over 200 Occasionally? 35:40 - Changes In Glucose 40:00 - Standard Deviation 40:55 - Blood Glucose And Cryotherapy 44:00 - Sauna & Exercise 53:40 - Being In A Para-Sympathetic State While Eating 54:30 - Experimentation 57:55 - Food Combinations 59:40 - Why Does Alcohol Lower Blood Sugar? 1:02:05 - Stevia 1:03:15 - Low Carb Eating And Endogenous Glucose Production - Adaptive Glucose Sparing 1:06:50 - Is It Harmful? 1:09:50 - Restoring Insulin Sensitivity After Being Ketogenic 1:10:30 - CGM For Gestational Diabetes Or Annual Tests 1:11:20 - Where Can You Place Them? 1:13:35 - Is There A Threshold Of Fat For CGM Placement? 1:15:00 - Accuracy 1:20:05 - Consistency In Readings 1:22:25 - Does It Hurt? Is There Another Option? Go To Melanieavalon.com/nutrisenseCGM And Use Coupon Code MelanieAvalon For $40 Off!

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0:00.0	You also learn a better mind-body connection when you're wearing the CGM and you're compiling that against your subjective experience.
0:08.0	So if we think about diabetes, our glucose is high and our insulin is high, which means we have a lot of energy that's not being utilized while it's.
0:16.0	It's so much easier to capture those things early to see what I call yellow flags rather than red flags.
0:22.2	I feel fairly confident that we pretty much never want to see our glucose above 160,
0:26.1	and then we should try to aim to stay below 140 most of the time.
0:31.6	Welcome to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast, where we meet the world's top experts to explore the secrets of health,
0:40.2	mindset, longevity, and so much more. Are you ready to take charge of your existence and biohack
0:47.1	your life? This show is for you. Please keep in mind. We're not dispensing medical advice
0:52.9	and are not responsible for any outcomes you may
0:55.7	experience from implementing the tactics lying herein. Are you ready? Let's do this.
1:04.0	Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast. Super excited for today's episode. It is about a topic that you guys are obsessed with,
1:13.9	continuous glucose monitors. When I said I was doing a Q&A episode on continuous glucose
1:19.0	monitors, oh my goodness, I got so many questions. And Kara Collier is so informative. She
1:24.9	really, really knows the answers to all of these things. So I really think
1:27.9	you guys will enjoy this. If after listening, you would like to get your own CGM, you can go to
1:33.2	Melanieavalon.com slash Nutrisense CGM and the coupon code Melanie Avalon will get you a discount on that.
1:41.2	You can also join my Facebook group for CGMs. The name of that group is
1:45.5	Lumen, Biosense, and CGMs, carbs, fat, ketones, and blood sugar. Or you can just type in
1:51.7	Melanie Avalon. That will probably find it. And then also definitely join me in my main Facebook
1:56.3	group. I have biohackers, intermittent fasting plus real foods plus life. That group will have a giveaway for
2:02.2	this episode. Just comment something you learned or something that resonated with you on the
2:06.6	pinned post to enter to win something that I love. And then there will be another giveaway on my
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