Part 160 - Kara Collier on Optimal Health Through Blood Sugar Regulation
Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living
Brian Sanders
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
SHOW NOTES
- [0:30] - Kara details her past and what motivated her to get involved with healthcare, metabolic health and Nutrisense and
- [5:00] - How using a continuous glucose monitor can increase your awareness of how foods affect your glucose levels, energy, mood etc.
- [14:30] - How your body adapts to lower levels of carbohydrates in diet and its effects
- [16:30] - Detailing glucose and its role in metabolism
- [20:30] - What is a Continuous Glucose Monitor, what it tells you and who might benefit from using it
- [25:05] - Why Hemoglobin A1c is not the only indicator of your metabolic health and what can make those results less reliable
- [34:15] - Why its very hard and uncommon for the traditional healthcare system to prescribe beneficial testing as preventative care
- [41:10] - Lipids, LDL, HDL, Trigs and how their levels affect overall health
- [48:15] - Lifestyle factors and basic nutrition guidelines to maximize glucose response and metabolic health
- [58:00] - How Sleep and Alcohol affect glucose response and health
- [1:11:00] - How larger meals, like an OMAD format, affects your glucose response and metabolism
- [1:16:00] - Do we know if eating a bunch of fruit and sugar is good/bad?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm human. |
| 0:03.0 | Luzuma al-Mayer. |
| 0:05.0 | She's her mano. |
| 0:07.0 | That's your po'er. |
| 0:08.0 | And kuninghe. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm a woman. I'm a woman. |
| 0:12.0 | He kuenhe. He kuenhe. Be called the Danielle Rie Hie Hold. Hello everyone. |
| 0:25.0 | welcome back to Peak Human. I'm Brian Sanders. Thanks everyone for listening. |
| 0:32.8 | Thanks for sharing with your family. |
| 0:36.0 | Going back to episode one, starting from the beginning, |
| 0:39.0 | hearing all the great info, so many great guests. |
| 0:42.0 | This is another awesome one with Kara Collier. She's amazing. She is the |
| 0:47.1 | co-founder of Neutrasense that does CGM, so it's a continuous glucose monitor. So she's an expert in controlling your glucose, |
| 0:54.8 | knowing what it means, knowing what foods react |
| 0:57.4 | to make your blood sugar go up or down, |
| 0:59.9 | why it's healthy to not raise your blood sugar all the time. How to eat carbs in a |
| 1:03.7 | healthy way and still not raise your glucose, which is super interesting, something |
| 1:07.6 | that I've been into for a while, i.e. Whole Foods doing other measures like |
| 1:11.4 | taking a walk, the order of eating, whether or not you exercise |
| 1:14.8 | before and after, all kinds of things. |
| 1:17.3 | You're going to learn a lot in this episode. |
| 1:19.0 | A bit more about Kara, Kara is a registered dietician nutritionist and a co-founder of NutriSence, currently leading their team of dieticians to using their continuous glucose monitoring systems to help individuals properly manage their glucose and metabolism. |
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