Everyone is very quick to lean on how food is impacting their glucose and they often miss the fact that stress can also lead to a glucose elevation all on its own.

Welcome to the Drupal podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest minds and wellness medicine and mindset.

This week's guest is Bridget Tigamire. Bridget is a functional medicine registered dietitian and health advocate on a mission to help you transform your health through

personalized nutrition. Throughout her career, Bridget has worked with more than 4,000 clients. She founded the functional nutrition and health consulting business being Bridget nutrition in 2019 to offer individuals, groups and fortune 500 companies, virtual programs and coaching that provide a data driven personalized food is medicine approach to health.

Bridget teaches integrative and functional nutrition at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine with a master's in public health nutrition and a board certification and integrative and functional nutrition. Bridget was a founding dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic Center for functional medicine working under Dr. Mark Heiming on today's podcast.

We've invited Bridget to talk about the do's and the don'ts and most importantly the top mistakes that people make when wearing a continuous glucose monitor. If you've ever been curious about all the hype around continuous glucose monitors and how to make the most of them and the traps that people fall into when they start monitoring and looking at their blood sugar today's episode is for you now onto my interview with Bridget.

So while back I was talking to my dear friend Dr. Rungan Chatterjee about this persistent knee pain that I was experiencing which was super weird because I stretch regularly and I work out at least a few times a week with a big focus on mobility.

Now Dr. Chatterjee asked me a super simple question he said could your shoes be causing the problem that simple but profound question opened an entire rabbit hole for me around the idea that our footwear should conform to our feet not the other way around and that's when I discovered Vivo barefoot the minimalist footwear company.

Vivo barefoot is unique because it was created from the concept that the human foot is a biomechanical masterpiece and when left to its own devices it can thrive but by cramming our feet into modern shoes we are really messing with our feet strength and function which can have a whole stream of cascading effects in my case it was the chronic knee pain that I was experiencing even though I had top of the line sneakers.

So I switched to Vivo barefoot and I never look back and get this within two weeks my chronic knee pain completely went away how crazy is that what I love about Vivo barefoot is that it was designed to be wide thin and flexible so you feel as close to barefoot as possible but with a ton of comfort.

They promote your foot's natural strength and movement and studies have shown that foot strength increases by 60% in a matter of just months just by walking around in them.

I honestly can't recommend these shoes enough and I'm so thankful I found them right now Vivo barefoot is offering my community 20% off their first order at Vivo barefoot.com backslashdrew.

That's Vivo VIVO barefoot B-A-R-E-F-O-O-T.com slash Drew D-H-R-U. If you missed that just click down to the show notes and you'll find it there.

I also wanted to let you know that Vivo barefoot is a certified B corporation and it's extremely passionate about using sustainable and recycled materials.

They make their footwear in small batches and certain styles are limited so if you see something you love don't wait to grab it and if regular styles are out of stock you can sign up to get email alerts when it's available again.

Plus Vivo barefoot offers a hundred day free trial. I know you're going to love these shoes as much as I do. I've been recommending them to everyone I know. Check them out.

I want to talk to you about a groundbreaking flagship bacterial strain that's been linked in thousands of scientific publications from everything from weight loss and better blood sugar control to lowering overall levels of inflammation.

So what's this strain called it's called acrimansion. It's made by the company pendulum. So why the heck do you want acrimansion. What does it do for overall gut health and microbiome?

So acrimansia feeds on our intestinal mucosal layer and modulates its thickness. That's a good thing. In exchange for providing acrimansia with the house and food it pays us back by producing short chain fatty acids like propary night and enabling other strains to produce pure rate which is super important for healing a leaky gut supporting the immune system and maintaining overall health.

I first heard about acrimansia for my business partner Dr. Mark Hyman when he got really sick a few years ago and his gut health took a turn for the worst. He said that building up his acrimansia was critical for helping him heal and support his overall gut restoration and getting his health back on track.

Because acrimansia can only survive in an oxygen free environment like your gut. It has been difficult for scientists to formulate it into a probiotic until now. pendulum is the first company to figure out how to harness the amazing benefits of acrimansia in a probiotic capsule which is why I've been taking the probiotic daily ever since I got introduced to the company.

Right now if you're interested in acrimansia this flagship bacterial strain pendulum is offering my community 20% off your first purchase of their pendulum acrimansia probiotic supplement.

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