Episode 209: A Week of My Blood Sugar CGM Experiment

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Have you been curious about your blood sugar trends or thinking about investing in a CGM? Want to know what Ali discovered in her CGM experiment? Tune in to learn about the experience of wearing a CGM, from putting it on to gathering data to how it impacts day to day life. Hear about the trends Ali observed in her own body, how stress played a dynamic role and what impact margaritas and milkshakes had on her blood sugar! In this episode, we cover Ali’s CGM experiment where she wore a meter that tracked blood sugar for 12 days straight. We cover in a real life detailed approach how stress, diet, supplements, and other lifestyle factors impact Ali’s blood sugar and where this may be hindering your wellness and weight loss goals. Also in this episode: What is a CGM? Nutrisense.io use code AliRD for savings Interpreting Blood Sugar Trends Episode 196: Becki’s Second Trimester How Stress Influences Blood Sugar Supplement Tools for Mitigating Blood Sugar SpikesCalm and Clear GabaCalm Santa Cruz Medicinals CBD use code ALIMILLERRD for savings Relax and Regulate Adaptogen Boost Targeted Strength Probiotic GI Lining Metabolic Flexibility and How Diet Affected Ali’s MeterBerberine Boost (Ali uses with higher carb meals) Detox Packs (Ali uses when drinking alcohol) Food as Medicine Ketosis Program Sponsors for this episode: This episode is sponsored by Nutrisense, providing Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) that provide you with real-time glucose data and an easy to use phone app that helps you combine and visualize your glucose data with all of your daily activities as well as personalized recommendations on how to improve your health. Use the code AliRD for $30 off your monthly subscription plan at nutrisense.io. This episode is also sponsored by Wild Foods, a company that puts quality, sustainability, and health first in all of their products. They have everything from coffee to turmeric to medicinal mushrooms, and every single product is painstakingly sourced from small farms around the globe. They take their mission seriously to fix the broken food system, and believe real food is medicine. They've partnered with us to give you guys an exclusive discount, so use the code ALIMILLERRD for 12% off your order at WildFoods.co!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.
0:12.8	Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes
0:18.3	for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.
0:22.6	From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself
0:28.3	back in control of your health. Please know, the topics discussed are for educational purposes
0:35.1	only. Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Allie Miller, and her co-host Becky You.
0:42.2	Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast.
0:45.1	This week in episode 209, we will be covering Allie's CGM experiment.
0:50.6	For those of you who don't know what that is, that's continuous glucose monitor, where she wore a meter to track her blood sugar for 12 days straight.
1:01.0	So we'll cover kind of a real life, detailed approach to how stress, diet, supplements, and other lifestyle factors impact Alley's blood sugar and where this could be hindering
1:13.3	your wellness and weight loss goals. Yes, I cannot wait to share everything I've learned with you guys.
1:19.4	I really thought it was an empowering tool. A lot of the things that I speak to and I've seen
1:25.1	with a glucometer and a ketone meter, I, of course, saw repeated
1:30.5	in trends, but usually I'm kind of cherry picking that data. You know, I'm either doing it
1:34.4	at a fasting read or making a tweak with exercise and not always sticking myself more than
1:39.4	four times a day. Totally. Yes. So this was really cool. And I definitely saw trends and aha moments that many clients could benefit from.
1:49.3	So for those of you that don't know, a CGM, as Becky said, is a continuous glucose meter or monitor.
1:55.4	And it is a device that you put in a part of your back of your arm where it's a little bit higher fat and it
2:03.3	stays in for upwards of two weeks and it is tracking your blood sugar continuously so there's no
2:09.9	cherry picking you can see your trends while you're sleeping you can see the variances of a deep
2:14.0	restful sleep versus a pornitis sleep you can can see the influence of, like Becky said,
2:18.6	stress, supplement adjustments, fluctuations in intake. So whether I'm fasting for a longer period
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