Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and in this episode, we are going to be discussing glucose spikes.

This is a topic that has gained a lot of popularity recently.

You see it all over social media, people putting on their glucose monitors and showing

how different foods impact their blood sugar.

And I get so many questions about this topic.

So I want to cover what it is about glucose spikes that are important.

Is this something that we need to be paying attention to? Is this something that is impacting

our health? And we'll talk about some of the science there. And then I'll give you some practical

recommendations for what you actually need to be paying attention to when it comes to this

topic and how,

in terms of lifestyle, nutrition, you can manage your glucose a little bit better.

I'm not going to go into too much detail about that because I want to specifically focus

on the spikes and why these are or aren't something that you need to be focusing on

and paying attention to.

I'll do a much more thorough episode in the future on glucose management, diabetes,

insulin resistance, and all of those fun topics, because that will be more in depth,

and I can talk about that for quite a bit of time.

Before we get started, I want to thank you all for those who have left a review.

I really appreciate it. I've had many people reaching out to me directly saying that they can't

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