I'm a yes and I mean, if your levels are in the pre-diabetic range and you need a kickstart to get yourself back into range. And it's not just a crutch or a band-aid. Let's say you're clocking in at a fasting blood glucose around 110. I mean, I don't think of prediabetes as prediabetes. I think of prediabetes as diabetes. Hi, I want to welcome you to Midlife Conversations. I'm Natalie Jill, your host, and I help

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I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people living in their best midlife years.

On this show, I cover topics about our health, hormones, navigating weight, blood sugars,

our mood, focus changes, even our relationships, career

changes, beauty, and more.

Today we're going to be discussing blood sugar and what changes with that as we age, because

it does change as we age.

There's a lot of things that we're navigating in menopause, perimenopause,

and midlife, but blood sugar is one of those key things that we've got to grasp, get under control. It causes a whole host of problems when we don't. So today on Midlife Conversations, I've got my good friend, Dr. Marisa Snyder, and she's an expert with a lot of things that we're going to get into today. But one of the things that really got my attention, the reason I wanted to bring her on

an interviewer, I've had her on before is this whole conversation around blood sugar, why it changes in midlife, like what's going on there, how this correlates to hormones and what we can actually do to control this, because the answer is not always just you need metformin or you need to

you're going to be a type 2 diabetic deal with it. So thank you so much for being here, Dr. Marisa. Hey, honey. How are you? It's so good to see you and thank you for having me. Yeah, I can't wait to dive in. And by the way, those of you listening in right now, if you're listening on the podcast, make sure that you're subscribed to the podcast so you don't miss a future episode.

And if you're listening on the podcast, make sure that you're subscribed to the podcast so you don't miss a future episode. And if you're watching this on YouTube, that's great. We've recently started adding all of these to YouTube and really up-leveling those. So you can see a lot of the things that we're talking about. If you're there, make sure you hit subscribe if you're on YouTube so you don't miss an episode. Okay, Dr. Marisa, let's sort of dive in.

How did blood sugar become this interesting topic to you? It became a very interesting topic to me

because I, I like yourself, get to serve women in their 40s and 50s and beyond. And a lot of

women were coming to me with weight resistance and this the struggle around really symptoms

of insulin resistance and crazy blood glucose variability. Things like poor sleep,

getting sick often, again, that tummy belly fat, hot flashes and night sweats. A lot of women

don't realize that there is a deep connection between vasomotor symptoms and blood sugar issues and night sweats. A lot of women don't realize that there is a deep connection between

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