Metabolism Series Part 3: Glucose Monitoring, Red Flags & Metabolic Health | Ep 189

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This minisode is Part 3 of a 3 part series Erin is doing on Metabolic Health, where she answers some of the most common questions she has received on all things metabolism! Tune in as Erin rounds out this series with topics like the red flags to look for with high and low blood sugar, glucose monitoring, lethargy after eating, how much hunger is “normal”, what stress/sleep have to do with blood sugar, and the best types of movement practices for your hormones. In this episode: -Without testing, what are red flags to look for? [3:12] - Low Blood Sugar Red Flags [4:12] - High Blood Sugar Red Flags [4:54] -Should everyone do glucose monitoring for a baseline? [6:30] -Do you recommend testing blood sugar every morning even if someone is NOT diabetic? [9:52] -Is lethargy normal after eating? [11:05] -How much hunger is normal? [11:55] -Do I have to be using a CGM to do the Carb Compatibility Project? (Hint: No! Here's why) [15:48] -Best things to prioritize to rein in glucose metabolism after a few days of heavy carb intake [21:30] -When trying to keep blood sugar balanced is it necessary to eat carb/fat/protein at every meal and snack? [25:38] -How to figure out your unique threshold for carbohydrates [27:49] -What are the basic principles that everyone should apply in regards to metabolic health [29:17] -What does stress and sleep have to do with blood sugar [29:33] -The best type of movement practices for your hormones [31:11] - Is healthy sleeping all due to diet/wellness work, or dedicated sleep hygiene? [33:41] FOR OUR FULL LIST OF LINKS + RESOURCES, HEAD TO: https://www.thefunktionalnutritionist.com/podcast/189-metabolism-3-glucose-monitoring-red-flags-metabolic-health

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast. I'm your host, Erin Holt. I'm a functional medicine
0:07.8	nutritionist with a feisty attitude in over a decade of clinical experience. I work with women
0:13.6	all over the world through my online programs, and I'm also the founder of the Functional Nutrition
0:19.3	Academy, a 12-month practitioner mentorship
0:22.2	where I help other nutrition pros level up with functional medicine methodologies.
0:27.9	I've got a bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional healthcare model that are both
0:32.6	systematically failing so many of us. Creating a new model is my life's work, and this is what the show's all
0:39.5	about. Please keep in mind this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never
0:45.5	be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. If you like what you hear today,
0:50.9	I'd love for you to subscribe, leave a review in iTunes, share with
0:54.7	a friend, and keep coming back for more. Thanks for joining me. Now let's dive deep.
1:02.1	Hello, my friends. Happy New Year. This is part three of a three-part series on metabolic health.
1:08.6	So part one, we talked about insulin, high blood sugars, weight loss.
1:14.2	Part two, we talked about low blood sugars in hypoglycemia in mood and irritability and stress.
1:20.0	And today we're going to talk more about overall questions that came in.
1:26.0	We're going to talk about how do you know, what are the red flags
1:28.7	to look for if you do have metabolic issues? I had mentioned that back in 2018, there was a
1:33.7	study saying that about 88% of the U.S. has some type of blood sugar issue, some metabolic dysfunction.
1:42.3	How do you know if you're one of those 88% since it's so common?
1:45.7	We're going to talk about blood sugar testing and glucose monitoring. Is it necessary for
1:51.7	everybody? Should everybody be doing that? We're going to talk about my thoughts on if you
1:57.7	kind of like go balls to the wall and kind of while out with carbohydrate intake,
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