523. Ask Dr. G: Spotting Red Flags and Reversing Pre-diabetes

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Ask Dr. G, where Dr. Sara Gottfried answers questions from you, our Commune Community. Today, Jeff and Dr. G tackle questions about insulin and managing glucose levels. Dr. G presents the pros and cons of the ketogenic diet specifically in connection to reversing insulin resistance, and the two share protocols they’ve adopted to reverse pre-diabetes.

Be part of the conversation and submit your questions at onecommune.com/askdrg

To learn even more from Dr. G., you can watch her free Commune master class, Women, Food, and Hormones at onecommune.com/menopause

In this episode we cover:
0:04:25 – What are the optimal fasting insulin levels?
0:12:19 – What is the definition of insulin resistance?
0:22:40 – Where does glucose travel once it's in the bloodstream?
0:23:54 – Consequences of pre-diabetes in women vs. men
0:25:52 – How effective is the ketogenic diet for insulin resistance?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Today I am excited to feature yet another episode in our series on the Commune podcast called Ask Dr. G. And we consistently get fascinating questions from our commune community regarding health.
0:26.6	And I simply cannot imagine anyone better to answer these inquiries than my friend, Dr. Sarah Godfried.
0:33.6	So Sarah has been kind enough to lend her considerable experience and knowledge here on the show on a regular basis to answering these questions.
0:43.3	Dr. G is a Harvard-educated physician, researcher, and educator.
0:47.3	She received the moniker of Dr. G from the Philadelphia 76ers, for whom she serves as health coach. She has led
0:57.5	commune courses on the topics of perimenopause and menopause and happily we seem successful
1:03.4	in luring her up to commune to panga on a regular basis where she is leading retreats with my long-suffering betrothed, Skyler.
1:14.3	So you can be part of the conversation and submit your questions at onecom
1:19.1	backslash ask Dr. G, that's A-S-K-D-R-G.
1:24.2	To learn even more from Dr. G, you can watch her free commune masterclass, women, food, and hormones
1:32.0	at Onecommun.com slash menopause. So we're so grateful for those of you who write reviews on Apple
1:39.5	podcasts that we created a special offer just for you. 30 days of free Commune membership.
1:45.6	That's All Access for a whole month.
1:48.2	Just scroll down to the review section and tap Write a Review.
1:51.9	Then email support at OneCommune.com with a screenshot of your review,
1:58.0	preferably a positive one, to receive your free all access for 30 days.
2:03.7	Note that if you're on a laptop, you'll need to click, listen on Apple Podcasts, to open the
2:09.2	app. And while you're there, make sure you're subscribed. Okay, in today's episode, Dr. G and I
2:15.5	tackle questions about insulin and managing glucose levels.
2:20.8	Dr. G explores the pros and the cons of the ketogenic diet, specifically in connection with reversing insulin resistance.
2:31.9	And Dr. G and I draw from our personal experiences monitoring our glucose
2:37.6	and the protocols we've adopted to reverse our prediabetes. As always, this was a fascinating
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