#294: Nicola Guess, PhD, RD - Prediabetes & Type 2 Diabetes Nutrition

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🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Nicola Guess is a Registered Dietitian with a PhD in the dietary management of prediabetes from Imperial College London. She is currently Head of the Nutrition Unit at Dasman Diabetes Institute (DDI) in Kuwait. Nicola is a research fellow at King’s College London where her research focuses on the role of diet in the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes.

She has a particular interest in the use of low-carbohydrate diets in the management of type 2 diabetes, and leads a research programme investigating dietary modification – including increasing protein or the use of very-low-calorie-diets – on the factors underlying type 2 diabetes.

Nicola received her Registered Dietitian qualification in the United States which included clinical rotations at the Baylor College of Medicine, and world-famous Weight Management Clinic at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.

Nicola’s expertise in the area of diet and type 2 diabetes is well recognised. She is currently a National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidelines Expert Adviser and was a Diabetes UK Research Fellow. She sits on the Diabetes UK Clinical Guidelines Committee which sets priorities for diabetes research in the UK; is a panel member of the Royal College of General Practitioners Lifestyle Group and was previously a topic expert on the NICE Guidelines Committee for the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes.

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0:00.0	So if that's not happening, if insulin isn't working properly, glucose doesn't go to the muscle, it doesn't go into the ad of his tissue, it stays in the blood, and that's hypoglycemia.
0:21.3	So when you don't have an appropriate rise of glucose after you eat, that cause is really
0:26.6	marked.
0:27.6	We call them glucose excursions, and this is how bad it can get.
0:31.3	So in a healthy person, I would be very surprised if your blood glucose at any time went
0:36.2	above 9.5 minerals per meter after you eat.
0:39.3	We see people with 30, your type of diabetes, yeah, because of the combined effects of insulin resistance,
0:45.3	but primarily that beta cell defect. Welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you conversations about nutritional and health science.
1:13.9	I am your host, as always, Danny Lennon,
1:17.8	and we're at episode 294 of the podcast.
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1:39.0	So for today, if you go to sigma nutrition.com slash episode 294, You'll be able to get transcripts to the episodes.
1:46.8	You'll be able to get more information about our guest. Links to any research papers or other
1:51.4	resources linked to in the podcast and all that type of stuff. So moving to today's podcast,
1:58.3	I'm delighted to bring you a conversation I had a while back with
2:02.4	Dr. Nicola Gess, who is a registered dietitian, who also holds a PhD in the dietary management
2:09.2	of pre-diabetes from Imperial College London. Right now, she is currently the head of the
2:15.6	nutrition unit over at the Dasman Diabetes Institute in
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