288: How Glucose and Insulin Impact Our Reproductive Health

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Dr. Mariza Snyder

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Pregnancy is hard on your body, and it creates an environment of insulin resistance just because of all the changes that need to happen to create a new life. But being insulin resistant before pregnancy, constantly riding a rollercoaster of blood sugar spikes and dips, and not being in tune with your body can all lead to complications and greater risk for your own and your baby’s health Tune in today to hear: Why glucose and insulin are so important to watch before, during, and after pregnancy How PCOS is directly caused by insulin resistance (and how you can reverse it with some simple changes to your daily routine) What I did to stabilize my insulin because my genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes and my age put me at a higher risk of developing gestational diabetes How insulin resistance can actually be a healthy part of pregnancy—and when it goes too far Simple, daily tips to help you improve insulin sensitivity and stabilize blood sugar (whether you’re thinking of becoming pregnant or not) And more! Mentioned in this episode: Shake and Smoothie Guide Essentially You episode #284: What a Continuous Glucose Monitor Taught Me About My Metabolic Health Essentially You episode #286: What You Need to Know About the Relationship Between Blood Sugar Levels and Your Menstrual Cycle Metabolic Restore Adrenal Love Related Resources: 5 Easy Steps to Help Reverse Insulin Resistance Key Supplements for Insulin Resistance and Healthy Metabolism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pets bring so much joy from those happy greetings at the door to the warm
0:05.2	cuddles on the sofa so give a little love back with dental life from Purina a
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0:18.5	Essential for their overall well-being and a happy healthy life they give you plenty of smiles so look after
0:25.8	theirs with dental life pick up dental life in the pet food aisle
0:30.8	welcome back to the Essentially You Podcast. I am your host Dr. Marissa Snyder and I am
0:38.4	to help you rock your hormones and feel great in your body so that you can reclaim more energy, vitality, and joy and
0:46.1	and become the CEO of your health. Let's jump on in.
0:51.8	Honestly I had no idea the impact that food played on my body until I was in my mid to late 20s.
0:59.0	Yet for years, and I'm talking a lot of years, I had terrible PMS issues. My grains and my weight would fluctuate like a roller coaster ride at Magic Mountain.
1:09.0	Now this was a time when I was eating lien cuisines for dinner, sugary protein bars for lunch, and adding a decent amount of sugar to my coffee every single morning on the daily.
1:19.0	And I thought I was making healthy decisions for my body.
1:23.0	Straight up, sugar was my fuel source, especially around 2 to 4 p.m.
1:27.5	when I felt the big crash coming on.
1:30.5	Little did I know that those sugar crashes in the afternoon were created by eating sugar earlier in the day and I was basically feeding
1:38.0	swinging blood sugar spikes and crashes throughout my day.
1:42.0	No wonder I had crazy mood swings. And still I didn't connect the dots to my
1:46.8	crappy symptoms and my relatively high processed food and sugar habits. Now once I was confronted with having to make some pretty serious
1:54.9	health changes, I did what came very naturally to me. I dug into the research around
2:00.0	the power of nutrition as a way to fuel the body, improve energy levels, heal the gut, and
2:04.8	communicate with ourselves. Because food is information. And what I know to be true when I've talked
2:11.0	about this on this podcast all the time is that food is either
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