Hacks to Balance Your Blood Sugar and Stop Cravings with Jessie Inchauspé

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Gut Food. Most people don’t realize what kind of negative impact their favorite foods have on their blood sugar—and subsequently their entire body. The symptoms of blood sugar imbalances are everyday occurrences for most people—things like cravings, fatigue, acne, and moodiness—but they don’t have to be! On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Jessie Inchauspé, also known as the “Glucose Goddess,” to talk all about simple, realistic actions we can take to balance our blood sugar throughout the day. Jessie Inchauspé is on a mission to translate cutting-edge science into easy tips to help people improve their physical and mental health. She’s the founder of the wildly popular Instagram account @GlucoseGoddess, where she teaches life-changing food habits to hundreds of thousands of people. Jessie holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from King’s College London and a master’s degree in biochemistry from Georgetown University. Her work at a genetic analysis start-up in Silicon Valley made her realize that, as the key to good health, food habits beat genetics. In her first book, Glucose Revolution, Jessie shares her startling discovery about the essential role of blood sugar in every aspect of our lives, from cravings to fertility, and the surprising hacks to optimize it while still eating the foods we love. In this episode we dive into: -Hacks to keep glucose levels steady throughout the day -What happens in your body when you have a large glucose spike -The long-term consequences of glucose spikes -Food sequencing to reduce a glucose spike Listen to the full episode here. For more on Jessie Inchauspé, follow her on Instagram @glucosegoddess, Twitter @glucosegoddess, and through her website jessieinchauspe.com. Get her book, Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar, here. This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Gut Food. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself. Gut Food uses the power of three critical gut-supporting components—prebiotics, probiotics, and polyphenols—and five ingredients at clinically validated dosages to help reduce inflammation, support the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, improve digestion and reduce bloating, and support mood and energy. Check it out at gutfood.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Drew Prod here. Today on our mini Monday episode, we have a fantastic excerpt
0:08.7	from Jesse the glucose goddess, one of our most popular episodes of the year, where she breaks
0:14.8	down this important concept and theme of the power of keeping our blood sugar balance.
0:20.8	Specifically, in today's mini episode, we're going to go into hacks to keep your glucose
0:25.6	levels steady throughout the day. Jesse's going to talk about what happens in your body in the first
0:30.8	place when you have a large glucose spike. This is something that we want to minimize in our life.
0:36.5	If it happens regularly and all the time bad things happen, she breaks that down. She also chats
0:43.3	about the long-term consequences of our glucose spikes, especially when it comes to chronic disease.
0:48.0	And lastly, Jesse touches on food sequencing to reduce a glucose spike in your life. If you care
0:54.8	about your metabolic health and want practical, actionable steps on how to improve it,
0:59.6	today's mini episode is for you. So I asked you in a little bit of chit chat before this interview,
1:06.0	if there was two hacks that you could share with our audience, that you found through your research
1:12.3	in the space of how to help us avoid continuously spiking through the day when it comes to our blood
1:19.3	sugar, what were two of those hacks end up being? I'd love to pass it over to you. The first one
1:25.9	would be Drew. Next time you're about to sit down for a meal, grab a tall glass of water. We're talking
1:32.0	like a tall glass of water. And into the water, drip a little bit of vinegar. It can be any type of
1:38.4	vinegar. It can be apple cider vinegar, white wine vinegar, rice vinegar, whatever. Just not
1:43.8	about stomach vinegar. And drink it before the meal. We're talking one teaspoon to one tablespoon.
1:49.5	This will decrease the glucose spike of the meal. You're about to eat by up to 30%. What does that
1:57.0	mean? It means less inflammation from the meal, less weight gain from the meal, and most importantly,
2:03.5	less cycle of cravings in the afternoon. You'll feel less tired after eating. You won't have that
2:09.1	3 pm. Who I want to eat a cookie kind of feeling. So it's incredibly powerful, incredibly
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