TMHS 775 - The Shocking Link Between Infertility, Blood Sugar, & Metabolic Health - With Kelly LeVeque
The Model Health Show
Shawn Stevenson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
One of the foundations of nutrition is balanced blood sugar. Understanding how to eat in a way that has minimal impacts on your blood glucose levels can have substantial effects on your hunger hormones, body composition, risk for chronic illnesses, and so much more.
Today’s guest is holistic nutritionist and bestselling author, Kelly Leveque. Kelly’s approach to nutrition is centered around blood sugar balance and creating a sustainable lifestyle without food drama. On this episode of The Model Health Show, she’s sharing her checklist for building a balanced plate, why nutrition is a critical yet often overlooked component of fertility, and how to help your children build healthy habits.
In this interview, you’re going to learn about the multitude of benefits that breastfeeding offers, key nutrients for fertility, and why blood sugar balance is vital in so many aspects of our health. This episode covers a ton of ground, and I know you’re going to find Kelly’s balanced, practical approach to nutrition empowering and enlightening. Enjoy!
In this episode you’ll discover:
- Why we need more education around nutrition.
- What body love means.
- How to use the Fab 4 to balance your blood sugar.
- The connection between blood sugar spikes and chronic illnesses.
- How your hunger hormones work.
- The shocking reality about fertility rates in the US.
- Which two reproductive disorders are linked to insulin resistance.
- The biggest lever you can pull to influence your fertility.
- Important lifestyle shifts men can make during preconception.
- How to reduce oxidative stress, one small step at a time.
- The bidirectional health benefits of breastfeeding.
- Key nutrients to avoid postpartum depletion.
- How blood sugar dysregulation impacts children.
- The connection between sugar and immunity.
- Why focusing on metabolic health can improve outcomes in the classroom.
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- How to Turn Your Pain Into Power - Hear my interview with Dr. Neeta Bhushan
- Body Love by Kelly Leveque - Learn how to free yourself from food drama
- Body Love Everyday by Kelly Leveque - Ditch cravings and find food freedom
- Reproductive Problems Are Rising Read the Scientific American article
- Wenatal - Nourish yourself with science backed supplements for men and women
- Think Dirty - Download the Think Dirty app to find safer personal care products
- EWG - Find EWG Verified products to upgrade your family’s products
- Connect with Kelly Leveque Website / Courses / Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to the model health show with Sean Stevenson. |
| 0:04.0 | For more visit the model health show. |
| 0:07.0 | com. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the model health show. |
| 0:12.0 | This is fitness and nutrition expert Sean |
| 0:14.7 | Stevenson and I'm so grateful for you tuning in with me today. Did you know that |
| 0:19.1 | there is a vast array of satiety hormones that the human body produces. Right now there is one in |
| 0:25.7 | particular GLP1 that is getting a lot of attention thanks to newly invented |
| 0:30.4 | anti-obesity and anti-diabetic drugs that target that particular |
| 0:34.7 | satiety hormone, but there are many others. Now in this episode you're going to |
| 0:39.8 | learn what some of these other satiety-related hormones are and how they work together in a synergy to create a truly |
| 0:46.4 | sustainable level of health and also satiety feeling really good about the food that were eating and not being controlled by food and what our special guests are going to be talking about being wrapped up in food drama. |
| 0:59.0 | Now she knows a thing or 20 about food and drama because a lot of her clients are people that you see on |
| 1:05.9 | the big screen. They're some of the most highly decorated actresses and actors and |
| 1:11.0 | television hosts and also her being a very prolific author and just being able to tie together |
| 1:17.2 | her experience and also being a very grounded, wholesome, loving human being herself |
| 1:22.1 | has been able to find some pathways to help people wholesome loving human being herself. |
| 1:22.6 | It's been able to find some pathways |
| 1:24.3 | to help people from a very diverse set of backgrounds |
| 1:28.0 | to find really good sustainable health, |
| 1:31.1 | feeling good in their bodies, |
| 1:32.3 | and also having a healthy relationship with food. |
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