Hello everyone welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we're talking about blood sugar and insulin resistance.

I've talked about this on the show before but what I haven't leaned into so much is the food component of

managing your blood sugar and improving your insulin resistance or

improving your insulin sensitivity. There's a huge food component to this and I like to stay in my lane. My formal education is in fitness, not in nutrition, and I like to leave the nutrition up to the experts because in my opinion, it's a science science it's not an opinion nutrition is a science and I think

that you should have formal education and lots of experience in order to be an

authority on this topic so I be an authority on this topic.

So I brought an authority on Catherine Andrew

who is a registered dietician.

She has over 15 years of experience

working with women on this specific topic.

And so she explains things in such an excellent way.

She has been on the podcast multiple times before.

She has courses on the Evelo membership, and she explains blood sugar and insulin resistance better than I've ever heard it before.

We talk about why insulin resistance happens and it can be a spectrum,

why insulin resistance isn't necessarily only in overweight people.

How insulin resistance and blood sugar can affect your fitness results.

We talk about how it can affect your mood and your energy and then we end by talking about

what you can do to improve your blood sugar levels, your insulin sensitivity. So without further ado, here is Catherine.

Okay, Catherine, let's get started with just,

I want you to explain what is blood sugar in insulin. If they've listened to the

podcast I have talked about you know insulin and so sensitivity a little bit but I

still think it's kind of this confusing nebulous term. So can you tell us what

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