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head to optimize me, nutrition.com, or check out the links in the show notes. Now let's get into the show. Hello and welcome with the Consistency Project podcast. Hi, I'm Patrick Cummings. I'm here, as always, with E.C. Sinkowski. Every week, we aim to simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health and fitness. Thank you so much for tuning into the show this week. Hello and how you

doing, EC. and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness. Thank you so much for tuning in to the show this week.

Hello and how you doing, EC. I've got a level blood sugar right now. Congratulations. I was what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about five surprising facts. Oh, we are. Okay. What a coincidence. It's almost like you didn't know. surprising facts around blood sugar from crashes to what qualifies as low blood sugar to whether spikes can cause weight gain or not. Yes, sounds good. I guess so. Let's just jump right in. Let's maybe do this is one of those subjects that like everybody says like, oh, blood sugar, spikes, crashes, but nobody really knows what it means. So maybe let's do some background. What is blood sugar? What are we talking about? Why does it matter? Yeah, I mean, I think this is one of these things that just keeps like coming around on the internet and everyone's like just keeps talking about blood sugar. And yeah, we talked about this a lot in our continuous glucose monitoring podcast that will link in the show notes.

But when I was looking at that, I was like, oh, that's four years ago.

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