This is the Gatsy Health podcast with Jeanique and Tristan Roney.

Hey, you guys, welcome back to the Gutsi Health podcast. I have my co-host Gina Warfell with us. Welcome, Gina.

Hey, everybody. Okay, so we did a podcast with Dr. Ben Bickman, and he is this like mega mind on insulin and blood glucose.

And he spoke about the biochemistry on what happens in the body when we eat too much sugar.

And he explains how we get sick

from like hormone dysfunction to gaining weight, to inflammation, to all kinds of things. It was

brilliant. But a lot of our listeners had a little bit of like a deer in the headlights feel about

the podcast because it was very technical. And so what Gina and I want to do, we're doing

this kind of like bonus episode because we want to talk about the mechanism of what glucose does

and what insulin does and how it works in the body because we understand there's all of these

buzzwords, right? And so we're going to like explain to you what these buzzwords

are and what they do in your body. And so maybe what you can do once you listen to this like

quick bonus episode is you can go back and listen to Dr. Rickman and and then really retain the

information that he's talking about. And because you'll understand what mechanisms he is describing. Don't you think,

Gina? Yeah, I think that we should start with step one all the way of where do we get what,

like what is glucose? Right.

And people are like, what is a source of glucose and you're saying? And how does it go through

the body? So I think it'll be really helpful to break down. If you're feeling a little bit lost on like, what is glucose? I hear all of, I get you. It's scary. It's going to do all these

things to my health. But what is it? Because I still get questions a lot on like, what is a

carbohydrate? What is glucose? What is a protein? So sometimes we need to go back. Yep. So this is like Nutrition 101.

So let's go to like fats and carbs and proteins.

So when talking about blood glucose, we're mainly talking about carbohydrates, right?

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