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Hey this is Dr. Marisa, women's hormone expert, author, and the host of the Essentially You

podcast.

And today, I'm going to help you navigate Starbucks without ending up on a crazy blood sugar roller coaster.

So last spring when I first put on a continuous good coast monitor to track my blood sugar in real time,

my little family of three were driving to my mom's house about an hour and a half away and it was crazy hot for an April day

So Alex and I thought it would be a great idea to stop at Starbucks close to her house and see if we could order a Frappuccino without sugar.

Since neither of us had had one in over 10 years but because it was so hot we wanted something like that

without the sugar implication. So we basically wanted two small unsweetened

almond milk lattes made into Frappuccinos. So the barista puts in the order and when we get it we noticed that it tastes pretty

sweet. So we asked did you put anything in it and the girl said that she added one

pump of the espresso blend per the recipe but she claimed that it had no sugar in it. So we left and when I got to my

mom's house we actually gave my mom the other Frappuccino because it was just too sweet and we obviously knew there was sugar in it.

And about 30 minutes later I ended up scanning my continuous glucose monitor

because I was super curious to see what was going to happen as a result of drinking half of that Frappuccino.

And I saw the biggest blood sugar spike I had ever experienced.

It was 158 milligrams per desoliter and it was in the diabetic range until this day I have

not had another spike that large just from drinking a half of a small

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