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Fasting For Life

Ep. 223 - 42 Surprising Factors That Affect Blood Glucose: Stress, Sleep, Alcohol & More | Optimizing Insulin Sensitivity & Preventing Diabetes | Personalized Nutrition & Microbiome Impact | Nutrisense CGM

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we discuss 42 factors (well, not all of them!) that affect blood glucose, emphasizing the importance of understanding how individual behaviors, environments, medications, and biological factors can impact blood sugar levels. We explore how fasting can be a powerful tool in managing and improving blood sugar regulation, and highlight key areas such as food choices, hydration, stress, and the timing of meals and exercise. We encourage listeners to take actionable steps, like consulting the Blueprint Tto and joining the Fasting for Life community for support, to incorporate fasting into their lifestyles for better health outcomes. We assert that the best fasting protocol is sustainable and fits seamlessly into one's daily routine for ultimate success! FREE RESOURCE - DOWNLOAD THE NEW BLUEPRINT TO FASTING FOR FAT LOSS! Learn how to RAMP UP into longer fasting windows! Gain insights into the non-weight loss benefits of fasting! Personalize your own fasting schedule and consistent FAT LOSS results! Get answers to what breaks a fast, how to break a fast, and tips and tricks to accelerate your fasting wins! THE BLUEPRINT TO FASTING FOR FAT LOSS DOWNLOAD Nutrisense CGM LINK to Discount - Get $30 off and one-month free dietician support with the PROMO CODE “FASTINGFORLIFE” www.nutrisense.io/fastingforlife Get your FREE BOX OF LMNT hydration support for the perfect electrolyte balance for your fasting lifestyle with your first purchase here! Get 30% off a Keto-Mojo blood glucose and ketone monitor (discount shown at checkout)! Click here! Let’s continue the conversation. Click the link below to JOIN the Fasting For Life Community, a group of like-minded, new, and experienced fasters! The first two rules of fasting need not apply! Fasting For Life Community - Join HERE New to the podcast and wondering where to start? Head to the website and download our Fast Start Guide, 6 simple steps to put One Meal a Day Fasting (OMAD) into practice! Get our NEW sleep guide here! SLEEP GUIDE DIRECT DOWNLOAD If you enjoy the podcast, would you please tap on the stars below and consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it helps bring you the best original content each week. We also enjoy reading them! Research Links: https://diatribe.org/42-factors-affect-blood-glucose-surprising-update

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Watier.

0:03.4

And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the fasting for life podcast.

0:07.0

This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health,

0:12.0

achieve ultimate wellness, and live the life you truly deserve.

0:15.0

Each episode is a short conversation on a single topic with immediate actionable steps.

0:20.0

We cover everything from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design.

0:25.0

We started fasting for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and we hope to share the tools that we have learned along the way. Hey everyone, welcome to the fasting for life podcast. My name is Dr. Scott Waddier and I'm here as always I'm a good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good afternoon to you sir. Hey Scott how are you doing fantastic my friend good to see you this afternoon excited for today's conversation

0:54.8

let's just blow everybody's hair back right and just get it let's not dangle the

1:00.4

carrot today we're going to be going over 42, yes 42 factors that affect blood glucose. Now, before everybody

1:10.1

skips through or says no, back back back it up not going to listen too much

1:14.6

information don't worry we're not going to be going over all 42 factors but this

1:19.8

article came from a really interesting individual and website of the Diatribe

1:27.7

Learn or Diatribe.org and it's all about making sense of diabetes to so a shout out to Adam Brown and his

1:35.9

original article that came out in 2014 that over 400,000 people have viewed his initial list of what was 22 factors, right? And now he's come out with an updated list of 42 and we were like, wow, really cool it is coming from a diabetic it is coming

1:56.0

from his experience of working with health care providers and so many diabetics and scientists and all of these hundreds of

2:05.0

thousands of people that have responded to his research and his articles.

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We thought it would be really cool to go through and put our spin on and our interpretation

2:16.8

and our fasting for life stamp on some of these as it's been a big update and really just some of the things that we see personally

2:25.2

and also inside of our programs, inside of our challenges, and inside of our reach, you know, as we now

2:31.2

225 plus episodes in and 3.5 million downloads later.

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So it really just thought would be a cool conversation to dive in and give some perspective and some nuance

2:42.2

because it isn't just black and white when it comes to blood sugar

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