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Naturally Nourished

Episode 269: Blood Sugar Variability and Understanding Your CGM

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8655 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready to take the plunge into wearing a CGM? Or maybe you’ve already been playing with one but want to hone in and understand your data? Want to know how variables like fasting, caffeine, stress, and alcohol impact your blood sugar? Tune in as we interview Kara Collier, fellow RD and Co-Founder of Nutrisense, a company that provides real time glucose data and an easy to use app. Learn how a CGM can help you identify a food sensitivity, how OMAD and other forms of fasts could impact your blood sugar, and why a CGM can be useful even in non-diabetics.    In this episode, we interview Kara on the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology, particularly in non-diabetics for the purposes of health optimization, disease prevention, and reversing metabolic dysfunction. We discuss what to look for in your blood sugar trends, how and when to implement tools like berberine or adaptogens, and how to set up experiments while you’re wearing a CGM to best understand your own body!    Also in this episode: Episode 209: A Week of my CGM Experiment Why Use a CGM? Identifying Food Sensitivities Blood Glucose Variability Berberine Boost How Stress Impacts Blood SugarGabaCalm Calm and Clear Relax and Regulate Fasting and Meal Timing CaffeineSanta Cruz Medicinals CBD use code ALIMILLERRD Setting Up Blood Sugar Experiments How Alcohol Impacts Your Blood SugarEpisode 266: Why is my A1c Elevated? Troubleshooting Your CGM   More about Kara: Kara Collier is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Nutrition Support Clinician with a background in clinical nutrition, nutrition technology, and entrepreneurship. After becoming frustrated with the traditional healthcare system, she helped start the company NutriSense where she is now a Co-Founder and the Director of Nutrition. Kara is the leading authority on the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology, particularly in non-diabetics for the purposes of health optimization, disease prevention, and reversing metabolic dysfunction.   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 ALIMILLERRD at nutrisense.io/alimillerrd   This episode is also sponsored by FOND Bone Broth Tonics, Your Sous Chef in a Jar. FOND is slow simmered and lovingly tended from simmer to seal. They partner with organic farms and hand-pick and pair ingredients to optimize absorption and taste. Use code ALIMILLERRD to save at fondbonebroth.com.

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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, Ali Miller, and her co-host Becky You.

0:43.1

Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast.

0:45.2

You are joining us for episode 269, where we are taking a deeper dive into CGMs or continuous

0:52.8

glucose monitors with a guest, Kara Collier from Nutrisense.

0:57.7

In today's episode, we will be taking a detailed approach on the four pillars of blood sugar

1:03.3

balance, how stress, diet, movement, and sleep impact your blood sugar and where this might

1:10.1

be hindering your wellness and weight

1:12.0

loss goals.

1:12.9

Yes.

1:13.7

In today's episode, we also talk about the importance of blood sugar variability or how

1:19.6

your blood sugar levels shift and fluctuate throughout the day.

1:23.2

And this really gives us that empowering information of understanding how our body responds to those four pillars mentioned.

1:31.6

And really the idea that you can have a healthy, low risk, non-diabetic, optimal A1C, but still be driving oxidative stress and inflammatory processes from irregularity and dynamic spiking

1:46.7

throughout the day.

1:47.9

Yes, really good point.

1:49.6

And we will dive into that for sure.

1:52.1

Episode 209 was the last time that we really talked about CGMs.

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