Hi everyone, Drew Prod here. Today I'm going to walk you through a super simple hack that can help you dramatically improve your blood sugar and overall metabolic health.

All right, what's this game changing hack? I recently had on Jesse in Chauspe, aka the Glucos Goddess on my podcast to talk about her new book, How to Be a Glucos Goddess.

In her book, which is amazing by the way, absolutely one of my top favorite books released this year, Jesse walks the reader through countless pieces of advice and practical tips that anyone can do to improve their blood sugar without having to follow an extremely restrictive diet.

And her whole approach inside the book is how can you enjoy the foods you love, make changes along the way, and by simply including these hacks and changing the order of how you eat, you can dramatically improve your health.

If you haven't listened to that full episode, you can find it in the show notes. It was one of our top episodes of this year.

Now today on today's podcast, we're focusing on one of the hacks that Jesse talked about in our interview, the impact that vinegar, yes vinegar can have on curbing glucose spikes.

So ready for the hack? Here's the hack.

Having vinegar before with or after your meal can significantly blunt your glucose, your blood glucose, and therefore its insulin response, which is critical by the way.

We've done so many episodes on insulin insulin resistance with all the different experts that are out there and blood sugar.

So this is critical for preventing insulin resistance and chronic disease, not that vinegar is the only way to get there. It's just that it's one little simple tip.

And I'm going to show you on today's podcast exactly how it works.

So in her book, Jesse puts the spotlight on apple cider vinegar, ACV, because it tastes the best when mixed with a tall glass of water.

Make sure you drink it with a straw by the way, right? So we're taking apple cider vinegar, we're taking about, you know, you can build your tolerance up.

At this day and age, I will do a tablespoon or two tablespoons, put it into a tall glass of water, and put a little straw inside of it.

And honestly, any vinegar will do, including rice vinegar, white vinegar, red wine vinegar, and cherry vinegar will leave balsamic vinegar out because balsamic vinegar is actually filled with a lot of sugar.

Nothing wrong with drizzling a little bit here and there on a special occasion, but it's not something that we want to use for this hack today because it's going to end up spiking your blood sugar on a accident.

So before I get into the protocol and how to integrate this blood glucose hack into your life for maximum benefits, let's first briefly discuss the research and the mechanisms behind why it works.

So what does the research say about vinegar and blood glucose and insulin?

There's a great deal of research that supports better blood glucose and insulin responses after meals that contain a couple of tablespoons of vinegar.

And for the most part, these results are consistent in non-diabetic, diabetic, and people with pre-diabetes.

A couple of the papers that I have listed here inside of the show notes and my original newsletter, both from the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the first paper that we have linked to,

titled, Delayed Gastric Empty Rate, may be explained by improved glycamiya in healthy subjects to a starchy meal with added vinegar.

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