316: How Continuous Glucose Monitoring can Help with Your Weight, Mood, and Health with Kara Collier

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this episode, you will learn:

How big of an issue are blood sugar issues
90% of Americans are not metabolically healthy
Glucose, weight, triglycerides and hdl
The issue with just checking A1C- It is showing your AVERAGE Glucose over the last few months
Are CGMs taking anything away from true diabetics?
How accurate are CGMS to actual readings?
What are ACTUAL healthy blood sugar readings
- FASTED should be 70-90
- After meal should PEAK 140
How common or uncommon is hypoglycemia
What is “reactive” hypoglycemia
Why does your body sometimes over correct with insulin

Kara is a Co-Founder of Nutrisense and a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC) who specializes in glucose control and metabolism. She graduated from Purdue University and previously worked at Memphis VA Medical Center, as a clinical dietitian at Providence Hospital, and in a management role at Nutritionix.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Natalie Jill and I help women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond redefine, rebrand, and laugh
0:07.8	with aging. Welcome to midlife conversations. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated
0:14.7	information that is relevant in this point of our lives now and break it down simply with
0:20.2	actionable steps you can implement
0:21.9	to level up your life. I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people living
0:27.4	their best midlife years now. On this show, I cover topics about our shifting hormones,
0:32.7	weight struggles, our mood and focus changes, raising teenagers, our relationships, career changes, beauty, and more.
0:40.0	If you are new here, I encourage you go back and listen from episode one when this podcast was
0:44.5	previously called Listen Up for the full transformative experience.
0:51.4	Today on Midlife Conversations, I've got Tara Collier and we are talking about
0:56.6	continual glucose monitors and how it can actually help with our journey for our health,
1:01.9	for our weight loss, for our blood sugars, for all the things.
1:04.7	She's a registered dietitian, but she's also the co-founder of Nutrisense.
1:08.9	And I could not wait to interview her because I have been a fan,
1:13.8	sometimes not so much a fan of glucose, continual glucose monitors. I've learned a lot about
1:18.7	them in the last few months. And I really think there is a huge place for them that we are missing
1:23.9	right now when it comes to our health. And I'm so glad to have you here because I really want to have a deep dive conversation about this today. Yeah, absolutely excited to chat. So let's back up a minute. How did you even get into this? Like how did you become a co-founder of this company and how did you become such a fan of continual glucose monitoring? Yeah. So as you mentioned, I'm a dietitian. I've always been interested in nutrition and kind of how lifestyle factors can influence
1:47.7	our well-being.
1:48.6	But I started my career in the field of nutrition in very traditional way.
1:52.8	So I was working primarily in hospitals, working with really sick patients, mostly in the ICU
1:58.1	critical care nutrition.
2:00.2	And when you think ICU, you typically think like gunshot wounds, trauma, you know, critical care.
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