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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I spoke with

Dr. Ron Sinha about glucose monitoring, how to balance blood sugar levels, and the interplay

between sleep and blood glucose.

This was actually quite an insightful interview.

There may be some misreadings on my part regarding the validity and accuracy of glucose monitors

because of my habit of heating too late at night and how that has caused

me to be kind of a C-minus grade sleeper, so to speak. And you'll hear some elaboration

on those insights there and hopefully provide you with some cues and targets for when you're exercising during the day, i.e.

not doing it too late. And when you're eating, i.e. not making your last meal too late at night

because of the implications for your sleep and how those impact your blood sugar. So a few

great insights there. We also discuss how important blood sugar. So a few great insights there. We also discuss how important blood glucose

stabilization is and how both overindulgence on carbs and on healthy fats can be problematic.

We had some reinforcement of the concept that exercise shouldn't always be high

intensity. And this lower intensity, albeit in my opinion kind of boring exercise, can be helpful

for this cardiovascular base. And Dr. Ron ties in the mitochondrial implications of that same target.

And let's see here, what else from my notes. And we also kind of just recover what happens

in insulin resistance and what is happening when people are insulin sensitive.

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