202: Non-Food Influences on Blood Sugar
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Elizabeth Benton
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🗓️ 9 July 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In response to the recent episode on the 3 stages of carbohydrate intolerance, I got an email that merits further discussion.
I want everyone to understand that while yes, our food choices drive blood sugar and are primarily responsible for our fat loss and lack thereof, there are non-food influences on blood sugar.
That's right - there are physiological and lifestyle factors that drive blood sugar & insulin significantly enough to influence fat loss and today we're investigating those things.
http://primalpotential.com/202-non-food-influences-on-blood-sugar/
Non-Food Influences on Blood Sugar
In order to reach our highest fat loss potential and optimize our health, we have to understand both the food and non-food influences on blood sugar.
We need to evaluate the ways by which we can increase blood sugar as well as the factors that influence how we decrease or stabilize blood sugar.
Three ways by which blood sugar is increased include:
- Eating - this includes but is not limited to consuming carbohydrates. The extent of the blood sugar increase depends on what and how much you eat
- Glycogenolysis - breaking down stored muscle or liver glycogen to glucose
- Gluconeogenesis - generating new glucose from a non-carbohydrate substance like protein. This can be triggered in response to low blood sugar and/or stress
The factors that determine how quickly blood sugar drops after an elevation include:
- Your activity level
- When, what and how much you last ate
- Your carbohydrate tolerance
- Your insulin sensitivity
- Your baseline (include glycogen storage capacity)
Factors which determine what happens to the glucose in your blood include:
- Your activity level
- Your fuel needs
- Your muscle glycogen status
The potential uses for glucose in the blood include:
- Immediate energy
- Glycogen storage
- Fat storage
For specific strategies on improve your blood sugar response and reducing fat storage, listen to the full episode!
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Resources
Carbohydrate Intolerance Whitepaper
Episode 009: Carbohydrate Spillover
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:06.7 | Through education, motivation and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.8 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.6 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | I am Elizabeth Benton and today we are going to get clear on some very important basics. |
| 0:37.0 | I want to kind of look at this as a foundations class but this is a foundations class we haven't |
| 0:43.1 | had before. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm going to be talking about some things that we haven't really gone into on the podcast |
| 0:48.6 | before and that's the cool thing about something like this. |
| 0:51.4 | So even though we're nearing 250 episodes, there's a lot that we haven't talked about |
| 0:57.2 | yet and that's what's so exciting. |
| 0:59.9 | We can never run out of things to say because there will always be a great thought provoking |
| 1:04.4 | email that comes in that makes me realize, huh, we haven't covered that. |
| 1:08.6 | Maybe I have in some of my courses or with some of my clients but not here on the podcast. |
| 1:13.3 | So we are going to do that. |
| 1:14.9 | This is going to be deeper into the science of things and if you are rolling your eyes |
| 1:19.9 | hoping for a raw raw motivational episode, I hear you. |
| 1:24.0 | I love those two but I want you to understand that there is an incredible amount of power |
| 1:29.0 | in understanding what happens within our bodies when we eat and when we move because if |
| 1:35.8 | we don't just smile and nod and listen along, if we really internalize it, if we really |
| 1:40.4 | grasp it and understand it, I promise it can make a big difference that doesn't require |
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