You could have 50 people tell you not to eat honeynut chiroes for breakfast and that eggs and avocado and spinach would be a better option.

But until you see your glucose going up 120 points in 15 minutes and then crashing down 45 minutes later, leaving you feeling lethargic and tired and anxious and have more cravings for sugar.

Like, there's nothing that compares to that, to seeing your body generate sort of that

motivating information.

Welcome back to the Muscle Intelligence podcast.

This is Ben Bikolsky.

I'm the host with Most trying to get you healthy, get you fit, get you happy, all the above.

There's so many things that tie into optimization of self, whether it be physical optimization

through training, through aerobic fitness, through

mobility work, metabolic optimization, through nutrition, through lifestyle interventions,

through stress management. Sometimes it can be really confusing, overwhelming, and certainly

daunting to determine what action to take, which one's a big lever, which one's a small

lever. Today I'm going to share with you one of the biggest levers that I've personally worked

with a lot over the last probably five years or so. And that's called a continuous glucose monitor.

You may see people wearing them on the back of their arm. Many people assume that I'm diabetic or something when they see me wearing it, but no,

I'm just a huge nerd trying to figure out how to understand my metabolism,

understand ultimately behavior change when it comes to nutritional interventions.

So I have this belief that nutrition is more of a behavior problem than is a food problem

if left to make the decision between

high-calorie foods and low-calorie foods, I think every human in this world, at least most,

are going to unconsciously choose the high-calorie food simply because high-calorie foods have

kept us alive for hundreds and thousands of years, if not millions of years, and that's what we're

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