How Does Blood Sugar Affect Your Hormones? – With Kara Collier
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
// R E A D Y • S E T • R E S E T
This episode is all about how to optimize your health using data from a continuous glucose monitor.
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 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. Kara oversees the health team and product development and has personally interpreted thousands of complex glucose datasets.
In this podcast, we cover:
- Why the scale isn't an excellent measurement for overall metabolic health
- What to know about measuring your glucose levels
- How to experiment with food while using a continuous glucose monitor
- The importance of strength training for your glucose variability
- Why hormonal changes are affecting your glucose values
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- Book: Omnivore's Dilemma
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Please note the following medical disclaimer: By listening to this podcast you understand that this video is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to substitute for professional medical advice and should not be relied on as health or personal advice. Always seek the guidance of your doctor with any questions you may have regarding your health or medical condition.
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| 0:00.0 | You have control like good metabolic health can be a choice and this isn't something that you you know both my parents had diabetes I'm going to get diabetes you can totally be in control if you have again the right tools and the right help I think anything is |
| 0:15.0 | possible and this is not a death sentence. |
| 0:20.0 | I am a woman on a mission that is dedicated to teaching you just how powerful your body was built to be. |
| 0:30.0 | I like to do that by bringing you the latest science, the greatest thought leaders, and applicable |
| 0:35.2 | steps that help you tap into your own internal healing power. The purpose of this podcast |
| 0:40.7 | is to give you the power back and help you believe in yourself again. |
| 0:45.2 | My name is Dr. Mindy Pells and I want to thank you for spending part of your day |
| 0:49.5 | with me. On this episode of the Reseter podcast, let's talk about glucose. |
| 0:58.0 | So I brought you guys, Kara Collier, and she is the Director of Nutrition at Nutrisense. |
| 1:07.0 | Now if you're not familiar with Nutrisense, it is a continuous glucose monitor and as much as I love science I love |
| 1:14.8 | talking about science I equally love all of these biometric tools that we |
| 1:21.0 | have that are emerging right now that help us understand how our lifestyle is |
| 1:26.5 | matching to our bodily needs and hopefully you guys know that glucose out of control is not just a recipe for weight |
| 1:37.5 | gain, but it is a recipe for chronic disease. |
| 1:41.6 | So I wanted to bring Kara on so that we could start to |
| 1:45.1 | understand some of the patterns that were seen in the hundreds of thousands of |
| 1:50.0 | resetters that we've been fasting with. I wanted to understand why certain behaviors |
| 1:56.5 | were causing spikes and dips in glucose. Many of these behaviors as |
| 2:02.1 | you'll hear on this on this episode have nothing to do with |
| 2:06.2 | the foods we eat which is fascinating. I also wanted to have a really in-depth |
| 2:12.1 | discussion about what our glucose levels and |
| 2:16.0 | our insulin levels are doing to our hormones, our overall hormonal picture. |
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