Episode 266: Why is my A1C Elevated?

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Are you experiencing an elevated A1C despite your keto diet? Want to know the reasons beyond excessive carbohydrate consumption that your A1C could be elevated? Looking to lower your blood sugar using food as medicine? Tune in to learn what hemoglobin A1C measures, how to interpret fasting and postprandial blood glucose, and how A1C can be elevated based on a multitude of reasons from gum disease to stress and beyond. In this episode, we break down different ways of assessing blood sugar and how to troubleshoot an elevated A1C value. Even on a squeaky clean keto diet, factors such as gut health, sleep, and inflammation can drive your blood sugar out of whack. Learn how to recognize the cause of your elevated A1C and how to get it under control from the root cause using diet, lifestyle, and supplement strategy. Also in this episode: Episode 99: Ketosis as Medicine Episode 206: Diabetes Where We Went Wrong Episode 207: Diabetes a Functional Approach Episode 209: A Week of My Blood Sugar CGM Experiment Women’s Wellness Workshop What is A1C? Assessment of Blood Sugar Beyond A1CCardioMetabolic Panel - measures glycomark, fasting insulin, leptin Advanced Metabolic Panel - measures A1C KetoMojo - ketone and glucose meter Oral Glucose Tolerance TestEpisode 196: Becki’s Second Trimester Measuring Fasting & Post Prandial Blood Sugar What’s Elevating My A1C?Gum Disease and Oral HealthX Clear Spray Beat the Bloat Cleanse Periowash Biocidin Pristine Protocol Joan Sefcik, DDS Gut Health and H. PyloriBroccoDetox Cellular Antiox Bio-C Plus GI Reset Dysbiosis Quiz SleepSanta Cruz Medicinals Deep Sleep Capsules & CBD Epsom Salts use code ALIMILLERRD Sleep Support Calm and Clear Episode 249: Sleep and the Benefits of Melatonin InflammationAnti-Inflammatory Bundle Inflammazyme MRT Test Anemia How Alcohol Affects A1c Dry Farm Wines StressNeuroHormone Panel Stress Manager Bundle Episode 149: Are You Running on Adrenaline Overweight and Obesity12 Week Ketosis Program Berberine Boost 10 Day Detox Free Detox Webinar Sponsors for this episode: This episode is sponsored by Santa Cruz Medicinals, makers of potent and affordable CBD with effective dosing. For more information check out www.scmedicinals.com and use code ALIMILLERRD for 15% off your order.

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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.
0:44.4	Welcome to episode 266 of the Naturally Nourished Podcast.
0:48.6	Today we are talking about why your A1C may be elevated.
0:53.2	We will, of course, be covering blood sugar regulation with diet and carb control,
0:58.1	but we're also going to dig into some of the more complex underlying mechanisms that
1:03.6	can be driving elevations in blood glucose, including variability or getting really high highs
1:09.0	and really low lows, stress, toxicity, and more,
1:13.1	as well as providing some supplement strategy and food as medicine solutions.
1:17.5	Yes, this is a topic that's actually come up often for me in clinic.
1:22.1	You know, some of my individuals that have been doing tight, perfect ketogenic diet and, you know, following beyond,
1:29.0	of course, the terrible recommendations of the American Diabetes Association, but doing more
1:33.8	of a naturally nourished carb control approach, yet still seeing fluctuations in their A1C.
1:40.1	And I've talked on past episodes about my experience and connections of stress when wearing a CGM.
1:46.4	But today we're going to really nerd out in some of the mechanisms.
1:49.6	And then also, like Becky said, provide some good strategy with supplementation.
1:54.1	So what tools we could use if we know we're going into a time of infection and how that impacts blood sugar and so much more. So I think it's going to be
2:02.4	jam-packed. And for those of you that are new to the naturally nourished podcast or are not
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