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I want to help people reconnect the dots, the symptoms with how you need to live your life to make the symptoms go away.
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Symptoms are messages from your body.
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Your body is screaming at you.
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Your body is trying so hard to communicate, but we just don t know how to listen.
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Welcome to the School of Greatness.
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My name is Lewis Howes, a former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.
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And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
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Thanks for spending some time with me today.
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Now let the class begin.
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Welcome back, everyone, to the School of Greatness.
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Very excited about our guest.
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We have the inspiring Jessie Nchospe in the house, the glucose goddess.
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Good to see you.
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Hi, Louis.
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Thank you for having me.
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So excited that you re here.
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We just spent, I don t know, the last 45 minutes talking about everything that I wish we were talking about on here.
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So we re going to repeat ourselves and get into this.
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And there s something that I ve been fascinated about with your work and your message.
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around something that s related to me, which is sugar.
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I ve never been drunk.
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I ve never been high.
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I ve never tried mushrooms.
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I ve never done any type of psychedelic.
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It s just been something I ve never done.
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I ve tried sips of alcohol, but I ve never been drunk.
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Why?
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A number of reasons.
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That is probably for a whole other episode.
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But my brother went to prison when I was eight for selling drugs to an undercover cop.
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That was the first thing that I was like, oh, just trying something, where could it lead to?
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What could this lead to?
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I m sure it s harmless if you just do a little bit here and there, but I just don t want to end up here.
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When you go visit a visiting room of a prison every weekend for four and a half years,
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It s heartbreaking.
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It s sad.
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And so that was an early impression that was like, OK, I don t want to get into that type of trouble.
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And also in sports, a lot of my teammates were drinking all the time.
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We re doing drugs, marijuana.
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And I saw that it made them slow-minded.
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And it gave me an advantage on the athletic field.
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So I was just like, oh, this is hurting them the next day when they drink.
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They re not as fast.
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They re not as sharp.
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They show up sloppy.
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They re not on time.
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Therefore, the coach is not going to put them in the game.
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How can I have the edge or the advantage?
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And it just stuck with me.
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I was like, why start in my 20s after sports was done when there was so much benefit to not ingesting those things that are poisonous in your body?
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It s very evolved of you.
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I don t know, it was maybe, but the thing that has not evolved of me is all the sugar that I have consumed most of my life.
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I feel the same, you know, I don t drink alcohol and people, when they say, why don t you drink?
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I m like, I have another poison I prefer.
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It s chocolate ice cream.
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I know, right?
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I could eat a gallon of ice cream.
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Same.
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Gallon.
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When I m here in LA, I order, you know, the Van Lewins chocolate fudge brownie.
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So good.
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And I eat it by myself on my couch at 11 p.m.
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I m like, what am I doing?
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It s so good.
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It s so good.
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And that is the,
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I think one of the greatest addictions is sugar right now.
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And it is linked to so many different mental health challenges, diseases, weight gain, all these things that cause harm on our bodies, our relationships, and our lives.
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Totally.
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And the solution, ideally, we would stop eating sugar altogether.
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But to me, that is impossible and quite painful.
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I don t want Brussels sprouts for my birthday.
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I want a triple fudge chocolate cake.
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So my work has been about how do you help people eat the sugar that they love in a way that is less damaging to their health?
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So you get the dopamine, you get the pleasure molecule in your brain, but you don t get, we ll talk about it, but the glucose spike, the addiction roller coaster, the inflammation, et cetera.
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And I think that s why this work has resonated so much with people.
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Nothing is off limits.
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You can still eat the carbs and the sugar, but
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in a specific way so that you also help your health at the same time.
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Yes.
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Because I think, you know, when I think about, I m a very disciplined human being with everything else.
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And to think about cutting out sugar completely, even though I know that it has some damaging effects on me, just makes me feel like, well, what s the point of life if I m going to cut everything out?
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You know, it s like, I want to enjoy something.
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What s your favorite sugar?
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So before we started rolling, you opened my book to the salted chocolate nut brittle recipe.
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It s just amazing.
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I mean, it s probably like cake and ice cream and brownies.
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Are you into chocolate?
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Yeah, of course.
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Yeah, I mean, I could eat every type of ice cream, sugar, cookies, candies.
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All the processed sugar you can think of, I enjoy it, which is not a good thing.
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Because when I eat non-processed sugar and I kind of stop eating the candy bar process,
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I guess essence of sugar and I have more dark chocolate with some honey or something or some sea salt, like I enjoy that too.
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It s just learning how to enjoy it differently.
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But what I ve heard you talk about is the thing that is cool about your method, because I was kind of worried as I started researching about you originally, number one is because there are so many different
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methods, strategies, diets, hacks in the food, nutrition, health and wellness space that I think cause a lot more harm than they do helping people because it is so restrictive.
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But one of the first pages of your book talks about this is not a restrictive diet.
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First of all, this is not a diet.
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This is
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These are basic common sense strategies that probably your grandparents already had implemented into their lives, but now backed up by this modern science that allows us to see why they re so powerful.
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And to me, the hacks that I share, they re not on the same level as like the paleo diet, the keto diet.
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For me, they re on the same level as drink water, brush your teeth, wear sunscreen.
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We re talking about- Get eight hours of sleep.
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Yeah, exactly.
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We re talking about just basic physiology, basic health,
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stuff that should be taught in schools.
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It s not a diet.
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It s not a fad.
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It s just how your body functions.
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And it s understanding physiologically how and when to eat your carbs with less impact on your health.
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But it s not restricting you from eating anything.
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You can eat whatever you want.
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So let me give you an example.
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Now, you probably don t want to over consume on sugar all day long.
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Of course.
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But, so of course sugar is not good for us, right?
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Sugar causes glucose spikes that leads to inflammation, aging, insulin release.
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But the solution to this crazy food landscape that we live in, food environment, is not to cut out stuff.
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I don t believe in that.
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I think you try that for a week, or you know, you re like, this year I m never gonna eat sugar at all.
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That doesn t work.
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It never does.
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So what I recommend people try is try some of these techniques.
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For example, if you really wanna eat
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some sugar, let s say a cookie, a donut or whatever.
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The best time to eat that sugar so that you have maximum dopamine from it, maximum pleasure and less impact on your body is going to be after a meal as dessert.
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You want to always avoid eating sugar on an empty stomach and always avoid eating sugar in the morning.
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Really?
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Yes, so breakfast should be savory.
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In the morning, nothing sweet.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Oh man, those pastries though, with the chocolate inside and just, oh man, the donut in the morning.
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Keep them for dessert after lunch because if you have them in the morning, then what s happening in your body?
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As you digest that sugar and those carbs, they turn into glucose molecules and these arrive into your bloodstream really quickly and cause what s called a glucose spike, so a blood sugar spike.
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And then about 90 minutes later, Louis, your glucose levels are gonna drop.
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You re gonna feel a crash.
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And now it s 10 a.m., 11 a.m., and all of a sudden, you feel more cravings for sweet foods.
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You re like, I need a cookie, I need some chocolate, I need a snack.
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I need that spike again.
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And then you spike again.
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And then all day you re on a roller coaster where you feel addicted to sugar.
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Because your brain, when you re experiencing a glucose crash after a spike, the cravings center in your brain actually activates and says, Lewis, find a cookie, find a cookie.
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And you want to avoid that because then you cannot, you cannot fight against
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the craving center in your brain.
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So hard.
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Yeah, that center is very powerful.
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And it s linked to evolutionary responses that we have to low blood sugar.
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So you want to avoid that from happening.
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The way you do it is have sugar after a meal as dessert, never on an empty stomach, never as a snack, never for breakfast.
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Never as a snack.
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So you eat something first before you have the sugar.
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Exactly.
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Or if you really need the snack, the sugar snack, what you do is another hack that I call put clothing on your carbs.
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So what does that mean?
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So first of all, carbs.
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Carbs are two types of foods.
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Starches, so that s bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, oats, or sugars.
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anything that tastes sweet, from a banana to chocolate cake.
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Those are carbs, okay?
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When you eat them on their own, for example, a slice of cake on its own, or a bowl of pasta on its own, well, carbs break down to glucose molecules.
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So those naked carbs, very quickly they end up as lots of glucose in your bloodstream, therefore a glucose spike.
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What you want to do instead is put some clothing on your carbs.
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And the clothing are proteins, fats, or fiber.
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Before.
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or with them.
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You can have them before or with them.
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So for example... So you can have a bite of cake but then have something else of that within that.
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Yeah, you could have like some Greek yogurt with the chocolate cake or with the
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of pasta, add some chicken or some cheese or some spinach, right?
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Put clothing on your carbs.
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Don t eat it naked.
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Exactly.
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Never eat your carbs naked so that they don t cause as big of a glucose spike.
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Because when you put clothing on those carbs, digestion happens more slowly.
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So you re still eating the carb that you love with less impact on your glucose levels.
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And this is just one of many different hacks that I have that help us eat the stuff we love with fewer consequences on our physical and mental health.
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That s powerful.
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So the more glucose spikes we have on a daily basis, and the more we have over time, it causes us to live less.
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It won t allow us to live longer, is what I m hearing you say.
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It causes us to age faster through a process called glycation.
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What does glycation mean?
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So glycation and glucose kind of sound like the same word.
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They re similar.
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Glucose, glycation.
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And this is why.
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First of all, before we talk about glycation, I have to explain something to you.
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So, you know when you put a chicken in the oven and it goes from pink to cooked to brown?
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What actually happened is that in the oven it glycated.
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Glycation is the cooking process of the chicken.
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Now, did you know that as a human being, from the moment you re born, you slowly glycate, you slowly cook?
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You start to cook.
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Yes, like a chicken in the oven.
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And then when you re fully cooked, you die.
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I know it sounds crazy, but it is true.
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And on the inside, you re actually browning.
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So if you look at the cartilage of a baby, it s white.
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If you look at the cartilage of somebody who s 100 years old, it s brown.
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It s been glycated.
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Glycation is cooking and it s aging.
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Now, why am I telling you this?
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Because every time you have a glucose spike, it accelerates glycation.
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Glucose causes this cooking, causes this glycation, causes this aging.
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So the more glucose spikes you have, the faster you age.
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And this shows on your skin as wrinkles, right?
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I m actually 85 years old, but you can t tell because I don t have glucose spikes.
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And it also ages your organs within.
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And that s just one of the few things that happen when you have too many glucose spikes over time.
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Wow.
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How many glucose spikes is ideal to have on a daily basis?
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What s the optimal amount of spikes that we should have?
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As little as possible, I would say.
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I mean, besides not eating, I guess, how do you not have a glucose spike when you re eating foods?
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You avoid eating too many carbs on their own, too many carbs for breakfast, too many processed foods.
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But I don t want people to become too obsessed with keeping their glucose levels perfectly steady because you can actually do that in some unhealthy ways.
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What I want people to think about is
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Do they have symptoms of glucose spikes?
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Do they feel cravings for sugar?
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Do they feel tired throughout the day?
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Do they ever experience brain fog, mental slowness?
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Do they not sleep very well?
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Do they have inflammation on their skin like acne, psoriasis, eczema, et cetera?
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Those are all signs of glucose spikes.
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If you can never leave the house without a snack because you know you re gonna be hungry every couple of hours, that s glucose spikes causing that.
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And so, as we implement these hacks, you can actually check in with yourself and see that these symptoms are improving.
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You don t have to wear a glucose monitor, you don t have to track your glucose levels to see the spikes or the no spikes.
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You will feel better, and pretty quickly too, because your glucose levels respond in a matter of minutes to what you eat and what you do.
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So I recommend people learn to check in with themselves and see how they feel.
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What is the optimal amount of eating in a day to manage glucose in a good way?
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Are you into intermittent fasting?
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Yeah.
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Kind of?
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Yeah.
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It s been very trendy recently.
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But you don t actually need to fast for many hours a day to have healthy glucose levels.
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No, it s more about what you eat, right?
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So.
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So you don t need to skip breakfast, you don t need to skip dinner.
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No, you don t.
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You don t need to have 500 calories a day and restrict calories.
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No.
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Now, are you still gonna look healthy and lose weight in this process?
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Or are you gonna gain weight if you re just eating whatever?
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No.
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In the right order?
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Well, so there s the order thing, but the hacks that I share, they allow you to stop focusing on the calories, stop focusing on the restriction, and just kind of understand what molecules are in your food.
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And then naturally, as you focus on these glucose hacks, a lot of other things fall into place because you re less hungry.
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You have fewer cravings for all the processed junk.
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Your hormones are healthier.
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Exactly.
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Your hunger hormones are more balanced instead of you feeling famished every two hours.
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So naturally, when you focus on the hacks, a lot of things fall into place into your body.
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And then on the fasting topic, I just want to remind people that intermittent fasting is not necessary to have a healthy body.
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You don t need to fast in order to be healthy.
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It s much more important to eat well in a way that keeps your glucose level steady than to restrict your eating window, for example.
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Especially for females, we have to remember that fasting is actually a stressor on the body.
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So if you already have a life where stressful job, kids to take care of, you don t sleep a lot, you drink coffee, you do intense cardio exercise, maybe you do cold showers, you add fasting on top of that, that is a lot of stress for your body to handle.
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And that s why you see some women who are piling on all these things, their hormones are breaking down.
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They feel exhausted all the time.
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Their body is just being like, no, that s too much stress.
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So I love fasting when I m on vacation, for example, and it feels like an easy,
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stress to add on, but when I m working and I m doing lots of stuff, I prefer to have breakfast, to have a savory breakfast, as I explained, to keep my glucose level steady, and to just eat three times a day.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Something you mentioned here,
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that I love is around freedom.
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And I think a lot of people don t feel free today with food, diets, restrictions, needing to biohack their life all the time.
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It feels like they always have to do something else or restrict something they love in order to be healthy, in order to optimize their life.
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And the more I m hearing you speak about
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Just understanding, it s almost like intuitive eating as opposed to restricting, counting calories, fasting, all these other things that are trendy right now.
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So, because my fear is that a lot of women specifically, and now men more so with social media, feel like they need to look perfect all the time.
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They feel like they need to eat a certain way and be on the recent trends in order for their bodies to morph in a way that makes them feel like they re enough.
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It s so tough, huh?
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So how do we apply these hacks without feeling like it s some new trend, but more understanding it s more intuitive for me to just live a holistic, healthy life?
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Well, first of all, if it s not calling you and like, don t do it, right?
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It s totally fine.
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Whatever works for you.
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But I found a lot of benefit from people switching from the fads and the restricting and the intense stuff and that relationship with your body that becomes
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a forceful relationship.
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It s like you re battling with your body every day, right?
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You re like, holding on really strongly and trying to prevent this hunger and these cravings and just trying to be really tight.
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Willpower.
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Yeah.
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So hard to have willpower.
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So hard.
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Forever.
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So hard.
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And a lot of these fads, unfortunately, they re just not based on science, right?
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They are marketing machines.
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And that s also being used by the food industry to sell you more processed foods, et cetera.
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So I think what people will find in my work is I m a biochemist.
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And so I m coming back to the principles of physiology.
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How does your body actually work?
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And how does food impact your hormones, your cells, your energy levels, your mitochondria?
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I m not trying to push some crazy new extreme diet.
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I m just showing you
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some simple stuff that actually has been used for centuries.
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It s not very groundbreaking when you think about it.
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Let me tell you and give you an example.
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So the four hacks in my second book are savory breakfast instead of a sweet one, vinegar before you eat carbs, a vegetable starter, so starting your meals with veggies, and moving after eating.
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What s the science behind all those hacks?
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Okay, so savory breakfast instead of a sweet one.
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First of all, that s been done since forever.
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Sweet breakfasts, that s an invention of the food industry, okay?
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We didn t used to have dessert for breakfast.
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It doesn t make any sense.
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We used to have meat and potatoes.
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So savory breakfast instead of a sweet one because if you have a savory breakfast that s built around protein and not, let s say,
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orange juice and granola, which is pure glucose, then your glucose levels are gonna stay nice and steady with the savory breakfast instead of having a big spike and then that addiction rollercoaster we talked about.
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So the spike and the cravings and the spike and the cravings and the spike and the cravings.
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You don t wanna be on that rollercoaster because then that prevents you from living the day you want to live.
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It prevents you from being able to use your energy and your passion and your talents to express in the world.
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You are being controlled by that cravings roller coaster if you start the day with a sweet breakfast So that s the first one savory breakfast built around protein Nothing sweet except whole fruit if you want something that tastes a little bit sweet.
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Yeah, but after you eat the protein exactly so for example
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For example, this morning I had some leftover salmon cakes.
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I had some green beans.
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Sounds good.
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Yeah, green beans and some rice and some parmesan cheese.
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And to me, treating my breakfast like I would any other meal has completely changed my life.
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And it almost feels like, I often get people who tell me, I was having a sweet breakfast my whole life, and now I m having a savory breakfast, and it feels like I walked through a mirror.
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You know in the movies, like the Alice in Wonderland, like walking through to this alternate universe, parallel universe?
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That s how it feels, because all of a sudden you re in control, you re energized, you feel good.
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Anyway, so that s breakfast.
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Second hack that I love talking about is vinegar.
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Now, everybody has vinegar in their kitchen.
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But no one uses it.
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No one likes the taste of it.
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True.
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But it s an ingredient that s been around for centuries in our culture.
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And actually, in some countries, it s very well known that it s something that is good for you.
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It s healthy.
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In Iran, for example, they have apple cider vinegar every day.
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It s a health drink.
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But only recently have we understood why it s good for us.
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So the reason vinegar is so cool... What s the science behind it?
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Vinegar contains a molecule called acetic acid.
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And acetic acid, what it does, when you have it before a meal, is that it slows down the breakdown of carbs into glucose molecules.
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So it acts on enzymes in your stomach and it slows down how quickly the food you just ate is gonna be turned into individual glucose molecules and then into your bloodstream, okay?
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So the second hack is one tablespoon of vinegar in a big glass of water before a meal that contains carbs.
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I ve done this a bunch in the past, not a bunch, but a handful of times, and I just feel like I have to close my nose while I m drinking this tall glass of water because it just burns, it tastes bad, it smells bad.
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It s just like, man, this is not enjoyable.
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So how do you make it enjoyable with vinegar?
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Is there like unflavored vinegar or like lemon vinegar?
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You can try white wine vinegar.
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You can try making a dressing and putting it on your meal instead of drinking it.
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And I know it s not great, and so I have some ideas about how you could use other things to have the same effect.
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But nonetheless, the scientific studies are there showing us it does have an impact, and it s very simple, and it s cheap.
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But if you don t like it, don t force yourself.
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The other half s- But you should eat it before every meal?
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No, I would say once a day, before a meal that s high in carbs.
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That s it?
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Yeah.
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And what is the, when you track this with a glucose monitor or how you re tracking it, what do you see the spike doing instead?
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You see 30% reduction in the glucose spike.
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If you just have a tablespoon.
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Tablespoon and a big glass of water diluted before eating carbs.
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Like 10 minutes before, it doesn t matter.
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Five to 10 minutes.
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Wow.
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30% less of a splint.
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Yep.
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So you still eat the carbs you love with less impact in your glucose levels.
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Interesting.
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Yeah.
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But if you hate this hack, it s fine.
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The other hacks are just as powerful, right?
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So the savory breakfast one will transform your entire day.
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The experience of your whole life, essentially.
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And then the third hack is called the veggie starter hack.
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So that means, that hack means having a plate of vegetables at the beginning of a meal.
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And you might think, okay, actually, this has been done for a long time.
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In France, we have this concept called crudités, which is raw veggies at the beginning of a meal.
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In Italy, antipasti, all the roasted nice vegetables.
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In the Middle East, they eat herbs by the bunch at the beginning of a meal.
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You know that salad with vinaigrette?
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It s quite a common way to start a meal, and now we understand why.
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It s because veggies contain an amazing substance called fiber.
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Fiber, she s amazing.
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I love her.
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She s on fire.
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She s amazing.
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And fiber, when you have fiber in vegetables at the beginning of a meal, the fiber has time to go and coat your upper intestine and to create a sort of protective shield, like a superhero deploying herself on the walls of your upper intestine.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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And it s this sort of gooey, viscous mesh that is improving your gut lining.
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And then any glucose coming down afterwards will not be able to get through to your bloodstream as quickly.
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Wow.
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So the veggie starter is an incredibly powerful hack.
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And you can even combine it to the vinegar hack by making a little vinegar dressing and putting it on your veggies.
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Does that, what does that do?
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Does it decrease even more?
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It decreases even more the glucose spike of the meal.
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Yeah.
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So you still have the pasta and the whatever you like, but if you add this hack, yeah.
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So you see what happens when you do these hacks is that you can still eat the carbs you love, but then you re creating less of a spike.
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Therefore, the carbs are first of all, not having as big of a negative impact on your health.
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Less inflammation, less glycation, less insulin release, and
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you re avoiding the creation of that cravings rollercoaster, which is the main issue because most of us, when we have something sweet, then two hours later we want more sweets.
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And then it s 11 p.m.
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and you ve eaten 56 cookies, right?
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That s what we want to avoid.
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We want to have the stuff we love without creating this cycle of becoming a victim to more sugar cravings.
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The last hack I ll mention, and you ll love this one, it has to do with muscles.
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You got some good muscles, no?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So you know how to use these.
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I want them bigger though, you know?
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You want bigger muscles?
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Stronger.
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Really?
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Let s go.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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Not too big, but you know, just... Yeah, you want more.
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You know why?
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It s for your glucose levels.
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It is.
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It helps you process sugar better when you have more muscle.
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Exactly.
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And the reason is, so glucose is your body s favorite source of energy.
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Every single cell in your body burns glucose for energy.
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So right now, your brain cells are burning glucose to understand what I m saying.
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You re holding a pen.
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That means your hand cells are burning glucose to contract and hold that pen up.
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If you re listening to us, you know, every single part of your body is currently burning glucose to perform its function.
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And your muscles, as I mentioned, also burn glucose to contract, okay?
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And we can use this to our advantage.
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The fourth hack in my method is once a day,
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After one meal, use your muscles for 10 minutes.
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Move, walk, stretch, jump.
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Exactly.
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You can even clean your apartment, do the dishes, fold your laundry, go grocery shopping.
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If you re at work and you can t do any movement, you can do some calf raises underneath your desk for 10 minutes.
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Lots of easy little ways to get that movement in so that your muscles will absorb some of the glucose from the meal.
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What happens if it s 10 o clock at night, you know, Ben and Jerry s is calling my name in the freezer, or whatever ice cream you like is calling my name.
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I m just sitting there watching a movie, eating a whole thing of ice cream, and then I sit there, and then I go to bed a couple hours later.
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What happens to the brain, body, gut
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if you do that by itself without applying these hacks?
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Well, you re going to experience a very big glucose spike as you re watching the movie and eating the Ben & Jerry s.
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That s going to have impact on your brain.
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It s going to increase inflammation.
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It s going to mess up your sleep hormones.
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You re not going to sleep as well.
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Your sleep is not going to be as deep or as restful.
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You might even wake up the next day feeling hungover.
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You know, you never get hungover because you don t drink, but sometimes you can feel hungover from sugar.
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Wow.
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If you ve had it late at night, you re going to feel a bit groggy.
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You might feel like your hands have swollen a little bit during the night.
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Your face swollen.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And then with that glucose spike, you re also increasing glycation, aging.
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You re also increasing insulin release, which over time builds up to a diagnosis of prediabetes, for example.
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And whatever sort of health background your body has, if you ve ever experienced symptoms from brain fog to psoriasis to fertility problems, that spike is going to make those worse.
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So let s say you re watching that movie Eating the Ben and Jerry s.
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You have a few options.
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You can have a handful of almonds as you re having the ice cream to put some clothing on the ice cream.
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Interesting.
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Yeah.
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You could do a vinegar drink.
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You could also grab a book or a bottle of water.
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And after you eat the ice cream, maybe do some bicep curls as you re watching the movie to help your muscles soak up some of that glucose.
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There s always solutions.
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So if I ve eaten the cake, the ice cream, the cookies, and I ve forgotten to do all these things beforehand,
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but I can still do it afterwards a little bit?
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Even if the sugar is just in my gut already and just soaking down there, I can still have a couple almonds or have vinegar and it ll still help?
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The best thing to do afterwards is movement.
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So do them calf raises.
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You re sitting on the couch, calf raises for 10 minutes during the movie.
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That s going to help, actually.
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And you can do that up to 90 minutes after eating.
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The movement, the muscles.
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OK, cool.
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Do some push-ups, whatever it might be.
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Totally.
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Okay.
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So these are the four hacks in this book.
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Do you have other hacks that you recommend as well?
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Yes.
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So these are the four most powerful, important ones to start with.
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But in my first book, I have some other ones that are really lovely as well.
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So we talked about clothes on carbs.
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That s one I really enjoy.
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And another one is about snacks.
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So when you want to snack.
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Should we eat snacks?
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If you want.
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It s better not to, it s better to wait between your meals, but sometimes you re hungry.
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Sometimes it s 4 p.m.
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and you re hungry, so what you gonna do?
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Ideally, you would have a savory snack, as I explained, right?
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Not sweet.
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Not sweet.
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Keep the sweets for dessert, okay?
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Sweet equals dessert.
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Have some eggs.
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Have a piece of toast with some avocado on it.
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Try to think savory always as much as you can.
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That s going to be incredibly helpful to keep your glucose levels nice and balanced.
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Because when you re hungry, when you want a snack, whenever you feel that hunger, that means your digestive system is quite empty.
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So if you feed it something sweet, the glucose is going to arrive really quickly into your bloodstream and create a big spike.
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Or if you could have a snack, should you have vinegar right before?
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If you want, if you can, yeah.
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You should use these hacks and compose with them as you wish.
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And then you know what?
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If you can t do any of these hacks one day, it s totally fine.
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I don t want people to stress out.
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It s not like something super strict you have to do all the time.
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There are weeks where I don t do a single hack because of XYZ reason.
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You can t fall off the wagon.
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This is not a restrictive diet.
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For me, these principles
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are things you keep with you for your whole life.
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Like, for example, if one day you don t drink enough water, you re not going to go crazy about it and be like, oh my God, I f***ed up.
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It s like, fine, just drink more water tomorrow.
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Or if one day you forget to brush your teeth, it doesn t matter.
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Right?
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We re here for the long haul.
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We re here to build these habits into our lives and to be able to call upon them like little fairy godmothers whenever we want.
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Yeah, that s cool.
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But the more consistent you can be with it, the better off you ll be.
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Absolutely.
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So is it possible then to eat more of the foods you love
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to lose weight and to live longer.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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And weight loss is an interesting topic, right?
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I think often when people
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see something that has to do with food, their immediate, the first place they go is, oh, is this gonna help me lose weight?
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And I ve specifically never talked about weight loss because I think that if you angle something as this is a way to lose weight, then it becomes a diet.
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It becomes restrictive, it becomes a fad, it becomes something that you attach a lot of anxiety towards.
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To me, these hacks, as I mentioned, they re,
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principles of how your physiology works.
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And when you avoid the spikes, a few things happen.
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Cravings reduce, hunger reduces, and you burn more fat.
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And so as a result, about half of the people who do this naturally lose weight without trying to lose weight.
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And even by eating more than they usually would.
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So to me, weight loss is a consequence of your body coming into balance.
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Getting an alignment.
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Exactly, exactly.
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And I read in here that you did a 2,700 person experiment with this.
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And a lot of the people did lose weight, but they just felt happier as well.
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I think that s the key.
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It s like, how can you be happy doing something that you can do for forever?
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And you said a lot of people are actually eating more than they were before.
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and some of them were able to lose weight by doing just the right things in the right order.
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And I think a lot of it, I mean, how much of stressing about what we eat, how we eat, how much we eat, causes us to be out of alignment with our health and our hormones?
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I think a lot, because when you overstress about food or anything else, that causes cortisol, that causes stress in the body that can have a negative impact.
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But listen.
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Does cortisol also create a spike in glucose?
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Ah, interesting.
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Yes, it can.
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Absolutely.
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One of the biggest spikes I ever got was when I was giving one of my first big presentations, and I was wearing a glucose monitor, and it was in front of like 300 people, and I was so freaked out.
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I was shaking, you know, but I did it.
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And then I looked at my glucose monitor, and I saw one of the biggest glucose spikes I had
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ever seen yeah and you weren t eating though i wasn t eating come on yeah and the reason is that so back in the day when we saw a lion or whatever we had to run away from a predator or or danger
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our body would release all this glucose from our liver into our bloodstream to give energy to our muscles, to give immediate, quick glucose so that our muscles could contract and we could sprint.
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Now, in today s day and age, a lot of the stress we experience is actually not something we have to run away from, but rather something that is just a stressful social situation.
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But your body still releases this glucose to help you run away if you have to.
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And that s why you see this spike.
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So it s like chronic anxiety will also cause glucose spikes as well.
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I mean, I think like very acute events of stress will cause a spike, right?
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Chronic anxiety, probably, maybe, I don t know.
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But we have to remember, food is still 90% of what causes glucose spikes or doesn t.
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But you will see in very stressful social situations, sometimes you can get one of these spikes.
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Wow, so how long were you wearing a monitor for when you were studying a lot of this for yourself?
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nonstop for two to three years.
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Non-stop, I mean, you take it off for a couple of hours or whenever.
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Yeah.
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I got really into it.
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I was going through my own health journey and figuring out my mental health and how I was connected to food.
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And so, yeah, it was my absolute passion.
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And I did this non-stop for almost three years.
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And now, because I understood so many of the principles, I don t need to wear one anymore.
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It s intuitive now.
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Yeah.
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So I do it maybe twice a year.
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But I don t think people need to wear a glucose monitor to get the benefits.
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That s really key.
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What was your life like before you got into these experiments for yourself?
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There was such a big disconnection between my lifestyle and my everyday choices and my health.
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For many, many years, I had a lot of mental health problems, depersonalization, anxiety, and I just never connected those to what I was doing.
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What did you connect those to?
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I had no idea.
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I was like, oh, maybe it s because I had this accident when I was 19.
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I broke my back, and my brain has been broken ever since.
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And I thought I was just going to have to live with this my whole life.
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What was the experience like?
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What did it feel like for you living like that?
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Well, it s scary.
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I could never be alone.
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I felt really sad about the outlook of my life.
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I felt like, man, this is going to be tough.
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I felt like this is going to be a tough life, you know?
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I was like, oof, it s going to be heavy.
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Is it because you were just thinking and feeling negative thoughts, or you were just feeling insecure, or you were feeling anxious?
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What was the feelings you were having?
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I was having actual episodes of this thing called depersonalization, which means that... What is that?
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It s a...
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it s a situation in which all of a sudden you feel like you re not like your body is not yours like i would look at my hands and be like whose hands are these really yeah i feel a split between i would call it splitting that s what the term i used and it s quite common actually and it s a split i felt like
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One part of my brain would split off from the rest and just kind of look at myself from above.
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When I looked in the mirror, I was terrified.
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I would have panic attacks.
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I d be like, who is this person?
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No, it was terrible.
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Really, it s the worst thing ever.
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Is this like split personalities?
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No, it s basically, it s a stress response.
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So when I was 19, I broke my back jumping off a waterfall.
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And then I had super intense surgery where I thought I was gonna die.
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Like it was terrible.
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You have like metal and plates in your back?
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Yeah, loads.
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Yeah, loads in my spine.
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And the stress from that event, I had never processed it.
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I didn t know how to process it.
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I was living in London.
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No doctor had ever told me, like, hey, Jessie, you went through something really stressful.
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Let s shake it out.
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Let s help your body move the stress out of your cells.
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Nothing, right?
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So all this stress created this sort of PTSD-like symptom of depersonalization.
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But then it stayed with me because I had no idea how to fix it.
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I had no idea what was causing it.
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Why did I have an uphill Monday and then nothing for three weeks and then three this week?
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I had no clue.
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I was lost.
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I felt completely like the victim of this, these episodes.
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I could not like stay in a hotel room by myself for one night.
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I was too stressed to be with myself and existing had become the most scary thing ever.
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And I think it s because I thought I was going to die before that operation.
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that part of my brain just didn t process that we stayed alive.
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You know what I mean?
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So you thought the operation, you weren t going to survive.
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Oh, yeah.
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Really?
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Yeah, because I was 19, and I had waited three weeks between the accident and the surgery.
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And they had told me what they were going to do.
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What did they do?
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Well, they open you from the side.
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So I had this big scar on my waist.
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They take out the broken stuff.
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They close the side.
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They flip you over.
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They open from the back.
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They put a metal cage.
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They drill stuff into your spine and blah, blah, blah.
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And I lost lots of blood.
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I mean, just like, I was so scared.
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I was so scared.
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And I thought to myself, if I wake up, it s going to be a miracle, you know?
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Oh my gosh.
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Yeah.
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But for these doctors, it was a routine operation, right?
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But I was like... Hopefully I live.
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Yeah.
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And so I think that event, having been completely unprocessed, then led to this terrain of mental health problems.
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And the issue was, I didn t understand how I could make sure these episodes didn t happen, and I didn t understand what was triggering the episodes for eight years.
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They were just, yeah, they would just happen randomly.
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Once a week, once a month, once a year.
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Yeah, depended.
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So you look yourself in the mirror and what would you see?
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I would not recognize myself.
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Holy cow.
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Yeah, it s a very strange experience and I think unless you ve experienced it, it s very hard to relate.
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Yeah.
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But it s just, it goes, it affects that very core deep part of yourself that is just telling you, I am Louis, I am alive.
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That thing
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becomes broken.
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And so it precedes every other experience.
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You see what I mean?
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Like the core of just being a human being in a body is broken.
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So it sucks.
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So how did you, okay, so.
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So what happened?
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Yeah, so what happened then?
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How did you learn to find this, how did you find the solution after eight years of suffering?
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Well, I had a crazy experience.
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I wore a glucose monitor for the first time as part of a pilot study.
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And I saw one morning,
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as I was experiencing one of these depersonalization episodes, I saw on my glucose monitor that I was also experiencing a massive glucose spike from the breakfast I had just had, which was a sweet breakfast.
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Interesting.
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And in that moment, I was like, oh my God, is there a connection between what I m eating and my mental health?
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Wow.
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And I was like, what the heck?
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And that s when I became fascinated.
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I thought, wait a minute, like maybe the spike, I think I had just eaten a donut for breakfast.
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Maybe that spike is causing something in my brain that is causing the symptom to come out again.
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And then I dove into the research and I found, wow, I m not alone actually.
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Even if you don t have diabetes, you can have these spikes and they can impact your neurons, brain fog, mental health, anxiety, your hormones, your energy, your mitochondria, your cravings.
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And
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I found these hacks in the scientific studies, I applied them to myself, and then I finally felt like I had a first tool to improve my mental health.
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And then I created this baseline of feeling safer in my body, feeling better.
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And then on top of that, I built, you know, EMDR, therapy, emotional processing.
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Like, it was not all fixed with the glucose hacks, but it gave me a foundation upon which I felt like I could build myself back.
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Wow, yeah, you still had to process and integrate the lessons you were learning from the traumas and the years of traumatic experiences you were continuing to have from this situation.
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But I understood that the way you eat and the way you re living your life is so connected to your brain and how you feel.
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How much of our food determines the way we think?
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Ooh, what do you mean by the way we think?
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Like, can food that we eat cause us to have thoughts that are not our own?
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Thoughts that are directed towards mental health and negative side effects of mental health?
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Well, the way you eat
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can impact your neurons.
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It can create inflammation.
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It can slow down the speed of signals between neurons.
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It can impact your gut, which then in turn impacts a lot of different hormones and molecules in your brain.
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So yes, absolutely, the studies are fascinating, showing that if you put two groups of people who have mental health issues
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on different diets, one of ultra-processed foods, for example, lots of carbs, lots of spice, and another group on a whole foods diet without so much sugar, that group on the whole foods diet, their mental health improves.
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The processed food diets group, the mental health gets worse.
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So I don t know exactly about specific thoughts, but the chemicals in your brain are 100% impacted by what you re eating.
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So if you already have a terrain of poor mental health,
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Like, you re going to be impacted by that stuff for sure.
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And that was my experience.
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And I never found a single study on depersonalization in food, but I found loads on anxiety, depression in food.
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So maybe in the future we ll have a depersonalization one, but I think now it makes so much sense.
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I m like, well, of course, of course my food was an important thing to fix in order for my mental health to get better.
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When did you start to feel like you were back in your own body and you were
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seeing yourself, recognizing yourself, accepting of yourself, and loving yourself again.
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I think as I was writing the first book, it all kind of came together, you know, because in order to write a book, you have to really process and integrate information.
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And as I was writing it, and in my first book, the introduction, I wrote my story of the accidents and everything.
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And that was a real, a very emotional moment.
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I was like, wow, I m actually writing this down.
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I m processing, I m, you know, putting it in this chapter and talking about the after.
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And I m no longer the girl who broke her back.
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You know, because I was defining my life.
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That was your identity.
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Totally.
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Totally, because I was still broken from it.
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Oh my gosh, you got it healed emotionally.
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No, no, no, no.
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And what s wild, you know, is I saw all these physios after my accident and they were like, make sure you can walk and blah, blah, blah.
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But not a single person addressed the emotional, spiritual, you know, trauma part of things.
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And I really hope that one day when people have a very intense, for example, spinal operation, that there s somebody who s in charge of saying, hey,
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Your body went through some crazy stuff.
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Let s help you move some of that stress out.
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Let s have a little ceremony.
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Let s shake to move and help your nervous system integrate, you know?
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Like, let s do some tapping.
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We need more of that.
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We need so much more of that.
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Yeah, I mean, the book, The Body Keeps the Score, continues to just take off because it s about, you know, the traumas that your body has felt.
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If you just go on like it didn t happen, your body s going to remember and it s going to cause a disconnect.
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I mean, you know that too, right? 100%.
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And I feel like when you start to process those things emotionally through any type of therapeutic experience, it allows you to integrate lessons, reflection, and kind of speak it aloud.
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You writing it down was you acknowledging it.
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Like, this did happen.
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Let me process and move through this and try to not eliminate it or disassociate, but integrate the lessons.
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And it was a part of me, but it doesn t define me.
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And I think that s a beautiful thing.
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But some people go their whole lives not being able to process stuff.
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We don t have enough education on that in the world yet.
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And I think it s so powerful.
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I m curious about your thoughts, maybe you haven t done any research on this yet, but I m curious about your thoughts of being in the wrong intimate relationship or in a toxic relationship and how it affects your glucose spikes and your health.
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Oh, cool question.
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There s one study that comes to mind that kind of shows the reverse.
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So they did this incredible study in the US.
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They recruited, I think it was 100 couples, married couples, OK?
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And they gave each person in the couple a voodoo doll representing their spouse.
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Oh my gosh.
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And the researchers, bless them, they asked the participants to put a pin in the voodoo doll every time their spouse annoyed them.
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Come on!
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I m serious.
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And then they also measured these people s glucose levels.
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What did they find?
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They found that the people who had the most irregular glucose levels, the more rollercoaster, well, they had put more pins in the voodoo doll representing their spouse.
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So they had anger and resentment towards their spouse more.
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And they had more glucose spikes.
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And so one of the hypotheses of the scientist was that glucose spikes impact this hormone, this molecule in your brain called tyrosine, which is in charge of regulating your mood and keeping you calm and cool.
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And when you have lots of glucose spikes, that thing does not do well, and it s not at its normal levels.
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And that can lead you to being more vindictive, more irritable.
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So that s the only thing I know.
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But then in terms of what happens if you re in a toxic relationship, well, if you re in a situation where you don t feel well and you re trapped or you re in a very difficult situation, your nervous system is gonna respond.
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Your nervous system is gonna be in fight or flight, cortisol levels are gonna increase.
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You re gonna be seeking out dopamine to counteract the very difficult emotions you re feeling.
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So as a result, I can totally imagine how that would lead somebody to
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eat lots of sugar, have more regular glucose spikes, et cetera, for sure.
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Wow.
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This is fascinating.
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And you mentioned diabetes a little while ago.
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If someone s not going to use a glucose monitor, they re not going to monitor themselves, what would you say are the top three signs of understanding if your blood sugar is out of balance or unhealthy?
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Well, first of all, your doctor should probably once a year test your fasting glucose levels.
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So that s a pretty standard test.
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And that will tell you, do you have prediabetes or diabetes?
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But once that happens, it s kind of like, well, OK, now you do something about it.
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But before that, I would say the most common symptoms are cravings for sweet foods.
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I mean, that is just such a sign, especially if you have them multiple times during the day.
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That means you re on the roller coaster.
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And then second one, which we haven t really touched on yet, has to do with energy levels.
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So let me explain to you something physiologically.
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You know how I explained that your body burns glucose for energy?
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Now, there s one little organelle that does this conversion of glucose into energy.
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It s your mitochondria, the powerhouse of your cell, et cetera.
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Your mitochondria, their job is to grab glucose molecules that you just ate and transform them into energy for your body to use.
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And your mitochondria are super happy when they receive a steady supply of glucose.
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They re like steady, transform into energy, steady, all good.
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Now the problem is, if you give your mitochondria way too much glucose at once, a little bit like if you gave a plant at home
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way too much water at once, your mitochondria are gonna stress out.
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They re gonna sort of go on strike.
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They re gonna go, too much information, cannot handle, like, I m just gonna go have a nap.
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And they re gonna stop converting glucose into energy as effectively.
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You as a human feel this as chronic fatigue.
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Staying with your kids is exhausting.
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Waking up is exhausting.
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Going grocery shopping is exhausting.
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It s 3 p.m., you need five Red Bulls and two coffees to stay awake, and then at night you can t fall asleep and you don t feel well.
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Oh, man.
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Right?
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So there s a problem in your energy capacity in your body.
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Your mitochondria are damaged.
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With every glucose spike, you increase that damage of your mitochondria.
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And so chronic fatigue is a telltale sign that your glucose levels are out of whack.
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So I would say cravings and chronic fatigue.
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Oh my gosh.
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You re like, whoa.
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Oh my gosh, this is amazing.
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There s something that you triggered in my mind to ask you about.
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Smoothies, juices, and coffee.
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Can we have them, or do they cause too much of a glucose spike that cause more damage than, I guess, healthy benefits?
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First of all, you can have everything.
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I m always gonna tell you if it s 2 p.m.
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I like it, don t restrict me, come on.
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Yeah, I m like, if it s 10 a.m.
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on a Sunday and I want chocolate ice cream, I m gonna have it.
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Eat it.
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Okay, yeah, eat it, 100%.
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Okay, so.
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But what happens to our glucose levels when we have smoothies, juices, or coffee?
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Okay, so first of all, coffee, fine, just don t put any sugar in it.
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No sugar.
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Yeah.
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Or some stevia or something.
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What if you like sugar?
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Well, then have the sugar.
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But you have to have something else before.
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Yeah.
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Try to have, if you have sugar in your coffee, have it after breakfast instead of before breakfast.
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Don t just drink coffee with sugar by itself.
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Big glucose spike.
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Big one.
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Yeah.
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What about coffee with like a milk or a creamer or something like that?
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Fine.
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Oat milk is going to be the worst for your glucose levels.
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Oat milk is like making pasta juice.
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Oh, man.
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So you cook some pasta, you put it in the blender with some water, you blend it until it s liquid.
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That s pasta milk.
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When you make oat milk, it s the same.
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What about oats by itself with a little bit of protein?
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That s better.
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Yeah, that s good for breakfast.
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You can have that.
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But listen, if you love oat milk, have it.
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You know, I m just telling you the different stuff.
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So oat milk, not my favorite.
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Favorites would be like whole fat dairy or nut milks, unsweetened.
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Unsweetened, no milk.
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A little bit of that s fine.
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A little bit of stevia, that s fine.
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Okay, let s talk about fruits.
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You ready?
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Yes.
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What s the worst fruit to have?
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Ah, there s no such thing as worse fruit to have.
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What causes the greatest spike?
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Fruit juice.
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Juices.
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Okay, yeah.
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Let me explain.
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So, you know how humans bred gray wolves into lots of different breeds of dogs, like chihuahuas?
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Chihuahuas are not a natural breed, right?
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We ve, for thousands of years, we ve been breeding different wolves and blah, blah, blah to make all these different breeds of dogs.
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Well, we haven t been doing that just with dogs.
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We ve been doing that with plants and with fruit.
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All of the fruit you find today at the supermarket is not natural, not a single one.
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Really?
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They are all, yes, they are all the result of thousands of years of selective breeding to make fruit that are juicy, full of sweetness, not too much fiber, not too many seeds, okay?
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All the fruit that we have today
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is a human invention.
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They re all human inventions.
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If you compare, let s say, today s banana to an ancestral banana, ancestral bananas are full of seeds, they re tiny, they re tart, and they re really hard to eat.
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So, remember this.
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Fruits are a human invention.
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Today s fruits are a human invention.
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Now, the thing is, if you want to eat something sweet, having a piece of fruit is still the best thing to do because fruit contains fiber.
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And fiber, as I explained, helps to slow the glucose spike.
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Which fruits have the best fiber?
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Because fruit juice, you re saying, has no fiber, very little.
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Yeah, listen, I don t want to call out specific fruits.
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I think have the fruit you like best.
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I mean, OK, fine.
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If you want me to call out specific fruits, I will.
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Berries are probably the best option.
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Tropical fruit, like
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mangoes, even apples these days are super sweet.
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I mean, have whole fruits.
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I don t want to demonize whole fruits.
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But what happens is that if you juice fruit, you re throwing away the fiber.
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That s the stuff that goes into the garbage bin.
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That is the fiber.
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That s the good stuff.
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Yeah.
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For your gut.
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Yeah.
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It helps the spice to go down.
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Yeah.
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And then if you make a fruit juice, it s just water and sugar.
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Without the fiber.
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Without the fiber.
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So what if you had the fiber in some other food first, and then you had orange juice?
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Sure, if you want.
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Is the spike going to be lesser?
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Yeah, I mean you can always be very ingenious about stuff, but I would recommend people see orange juice as dessert.
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If you want a juice, it s for pleasure, it s for dessert.
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It s not a good way to get your fruit in.
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You re still not telling us don t have it, you re just saying it s not going to be the optimal way to do it.
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I m never going to tell you don t have something, but I m going to say... But that s a dessert.
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Yeah.
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It s not a breakfast food.
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It s not a good breakfast way to start your breakfast or your day.
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So if I wake up, you know, first thing I do is have a little bit of water and then a tall glass of orange juice or a tall glass of apple juice or whatever juice.
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What happens to that glucose spike?
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What happens to my body?
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All of the sugar and the juice is going to arrive really quickly into your bloodstream, make a big, big spike.
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Inflammation, aging, mitochondria being tired, cravings rollercoaster kicks off, neurons get inflamed, signal of neurons slows down, hunger hormones go haywire.
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You re creating a day for yourself that is going to be full of cravings and fatigue.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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So what is the first thing I should be eating in the morning to set me up for success that day for my mental health, my hunger cravings, everything, my hormones?
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A savory breakfast to build around protein.
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Eggs.
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Eggs, some yogurt, some leftover fish from last night, tofu, meat, a smoothie with protein powders, some nuts, something that, and I have loads of recipes in the book, but something that s built around protein.
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That way you re going to keep your glucose nice and steady because protein does not turn to glucose when you digest it.
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So we talked about juice, but what about smoothie?
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You just mentioned smoothie.
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So smoothies would be a better solution with protein.
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Yeah, so if you, for example, if you smoothie a banana, okay, you re not going to get rid of the fiber, but the blades of the blender are going to pulverize it.
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So it s going to become less effective and you re going to drink that banana smoothie so quickly versus eating the banana.
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So smoothies and juices are just less good if they re made of fruit.
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But if you have a smoothie in the morning with like protein powder, you know, some nuts, some milk, a little bit of fruit for taste, it s fine.
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As long as you re balancing it and putting some clothing on those fruits.
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And protein in there.
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Yeah.
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So if you have peanut butter in there, is that a good thing?
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It s going to be better for your glucose spike.
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Yeah.
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It s a better thing.
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Okay.
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You re trying to make me say things.
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Well, I m just trying to understand better.
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Yeah.
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You know, for the
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For the women that I feel like struggle and the men that struggle with their body image, their needing to look perfect, either needing to look super skinny in a certain way for women or for men needing to look shredded and ripped or whatever, how can individuals with maybe an addictive personality or a personality that
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They just really haven t figured out how to accept where they re at with their body, or they just feel like they re bought into their friend group that s telling them to do certain things.
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What can they really do to start to heal and integrate better around their lifestyle, the way they view themselves when they look in the mirror?
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how they look at their body and how they eat, so it s not so toxic for themselves.
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I m not an expert in the psychology of things, but I can tell you a few things that I ve observed and learned.
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I find that sometimes when my readers or my community members come to me and they re like, oh, Jessie, I really want to lose 10 pounds.
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Like, if I lose 10 pounds, I m going to feel so much better.
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Actually, what they re saying is I want to feel better in my body.
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You know, it s not really about the number on the scale.
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It s about do you feel good in your clothes?
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Do you feel happy when you wake up?
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Do you feel beautiful?
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You know, do you feel energized?
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Do you feel good about yourself?
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And often what might happen is that somebody will try the hacks and they might not lose weight.
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But on the inside, their biology is going to be working well again.
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And all of a sudden, they feel happy.
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The hormones in their brain are rebalanced.
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They have energy.
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Their mitochondria work.
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They feel good about themselves.
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They sleep well.
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They have motivation to go and work out.
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And they realize, oh, it was not about the 10 pounds.
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It was about feeling good, and feeling healthy, and feeling like myself, and feeling empowered, and feeling like I have agency and energy to go after my dreams.
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So often when we re after, you know, a specific weight loss, it might actually hide another desire.
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Because sometimes you get the weight loss and you still feel sad.
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It s not enough.
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Yeah, it s not enough.
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Interesting.
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So, and listen, I think this is, you know, the realm of psychology and therapy, et cetera.
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But I know for me, my relationship with my body completely changed.
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I grew up in France, being bombarded with diet messages, lose five pounds this, of course.
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all over the place you know and body dysmorphia and you re like oh my god my thighs are so big and it s like your thighs are not big you know but we re bombarded with these messages and it s a way to control women it s so effective.
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What is the difference between the the
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the messaging in the health and wellness world in France or in Europe versus in America that you see?
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Because you ve grown up in both cultures.
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The messaging and the marketing is quite similar.
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Really?
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The same stuff is trying to be pushed.
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But in France, there s a bit more of a culture of eating.
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Like, we take an hour for lunch.
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We eat with our family.
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People cook.
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Every day, when you come back from work, you stop at the butcher, at the cheese monger, at the produce guy, and you buy fresh food, right?
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And then you cook at home and you actually take time.
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And I think that s the main difference that I see.
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And so we re less victims to the big food industry.
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Because it s such a deeper culture of cooking and eating together.
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But listen, you know, nobody is immune to this crazy marketing, to diet culture.
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It is everywhere.
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Everywhere.
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French women are also obsessed with being thin.
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Really?
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Yes, of course.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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And so that s one of the reasons I never talk about weight, because I think it s really deflecting the real objective here, which is to help people be healthy.
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You can be skinny and be really unhealthy on the inside.
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Right.
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Right?
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And it s also just a way to control women.
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It is such a powerful controlling mechanism.
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When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with how I looked, how much I weighed, I would weigh myself every day, et cetera.
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And that prevented me from actually thinking about other stuff, like what I wanted to do, what were my passions, what did I want to learn, how I felt.
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So it s kind of a prison.
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And I m trying to help women understand it s not about the weight.
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Like diet culture, diets, losing five pounds before summer, that is toxic.
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And the diet industry is making so much money off your back by making you believe that s going to make you happy and worthy.
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You see what I mean?
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The hacks that you ve been talking about, researching, studying, and applying, like you mentioned, are a lot of things that have just been around for a long time.
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And it s bringing them back with new science and showing here how this supports the glucose spikes going down, helps you feel more healthy, all these different things.
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When people skip out on the
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the healthier hacks, and they go for a quick hack or a drug, something like Ozempic that s been kind of taken over, and they live by that versus kind of grounded principles on health and nutrition, what tends to happen?
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Even if they lose all the weight they wanted to lose, even if they look better in the mirror, what happens when drugs take over common sense?
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Listen, I understand, you know.
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The food environment we live in is so confusing.
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So much of the food we eat is so bad for us, so toxic.
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We re all lost.
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So I understand why these drugs have taken over.
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Because we are profoundly lost.
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And interestingly in France, that was in Pig is Not a Thing.
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Really?
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Nope.
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Well, it s just cigarettes instead, right?
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No, I don t know, but people are like, what do you mean it s a drug so you re not hungry anymore?
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It s just like, what, why?
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Because I think in America, because there s so much more processed foods, all of our hunger hormones are deregulated.
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So we do feel hungry all the time and we don t know how to eat better.
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So there s no Azepic or these drugs in France that you re aware, or it s not popular?
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It hasn t taken off at all.
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It s not in the media?
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It is in the media, but I don t know a single person in France who takes it.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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So they re pushing it in marketing there.
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Of course, yeah.
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But people aren t buying.
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No, they re like, what?
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What?
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What?
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Yeah, isn t that fascinating?
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Yeah.
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So what happens?
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Well, listen, first of all, I think it gives people a sense of control.
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And that can make you feel good.
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But the problem is with Ozempic, for example, now we re starting to see studies about what happens when you stop.
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And so with Ozempic, you lose a lot of weight, but you also lose a lot of muscle.
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And then when you stop taking Ozempic, you re going to start eating like you normally would
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again and then you get all the way back, but you just gain fat back, you don t gain the muscle back.
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So you end up in a worse situation, right?
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And the way Ozempic and the other GLP-1 agonists work is that there s a hormone in your body called GLP-1.
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And it s one of the hormones that tells you, Louis, you ve eaten enough.
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You know when you have a big family dinner and your aunt is like, Louis, one more slice of pie.
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And you re like, Aunt Mary, I really can t.
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I m just like, you know when your stomach is really full?
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One of the reasons you feel that way is because of GLP-1.
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And Ozempic,
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tricks your brain into thinking there is more GLP-1 than there actually is in your body.
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So your brain is like, oh, I feel super full.
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I cannot eat.
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Exactly.
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Some people even forget to drink, right?
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It s crazy.
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And this is not great because there are natural ways of increasing GLP-1, but these drugs trick your body into thinking there s more than there actually is.
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So we don t know yet what all the after effects are going to be, but I think it says something really disheartening about the state of our dietary habits is that we re so lost about what to eat and the food around us is so bad for us that we need a drug
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to help us not eat the food.
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And for Big Food and Big Pharma, I mean, match made in heaven, right?
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It s making a lot of money to a lot of people.
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But whether or not you take one of these drugs, it s important to understand physiologically how your body works, because otherwise you re just gonna be just as lost in six months when you stop.
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So what is it, GLP, is that what you said?
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GLP-1.
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GLP-1.
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So what are the natural ways to, I guess, create more GLP-1 without a drug?
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eating fiber or, and this is one of the reasons I created anti-spike, my new capsules is that there are plants that help your microbiome produce more GLP-1 naturally.
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So for example, after six to 12 weeks of taking anti-spike, you see a natural increase of 15% in GLP-1.
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It is an actual increase.
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It is not tricking your brain into thinking there s more GLP-1.
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It s actually helping your body create more of this satiety hormone.
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And using a lot of my hacks is also gonna naturally increase GLP-1.
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Vinegar too or no?
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I don t think so.
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I don t think so, no.
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It s more about specific nutrients that you eat, so protein and fiber and fats, et cetera.
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But it s just a normal hormone, you know, that you have on your body all the time.
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It s not this crazy new thing.
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It s just acting on something that s already there.
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Yeah.
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So like what you were saying before, vinegar is one of the best things you can do to have in water before a meal that will help you decrease the spike of glucose of the meal, no matter what you re eating.
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Well, you have to be eating carbs, because if you re eating just broccoli, that s not going to help because broccoli doesn t really make a spike.
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Got it.
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But if you re having sugar or carbs, that ll help you decrease when you have vinegar.
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Exactly.
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A lot of people don t want to drink vinegar every day.
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Yeah.
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And they don t want to travel with a bottle of, you know, vinegar with them wherever they go.
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I know.
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And so this is something you ve been developing, anti-spike.
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So what is this?
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What are the ingredients that support you?
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Yeah.
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Similar to what vinegar does, I guess.
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Well, the reason I developed this product is because I was seeing pop up on the market a lot of these vinegar gummies.
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I won t name names, but a lot of companies have made vinegar gummies that taste good, that have lots of sugar in them, that are really bad for you, and they have no science supporting them.
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So my readers were like, hey, can I take a supplement instead of the vinegar?
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Yes.
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Can I take a vinegar capsule, vinegar gummy?
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And I did a lot of research and I realized there s a lot of stuff on the market which at worst actually contains sugar and makes a glucose spike and at best doesn t have any scientific studies backing it and doesn t really do much.
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So I thought for the people who want a pill,
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When they can t do the hacks, okay, when they re traveling or whatever, they want a little extra help.
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Is there stuff that could actually function?
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So after several years of digging into all the scientific research, I found these four very interesting plants.
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Now, these are plants that have been around since forever, okay?
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But recently,
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scientists across the world have found that they have an amazing impact on our glucose levels.
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And I put them all into anti-spike.
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So the plants are mulberry leaf, lemon extract, cinnamon, and antioxidants from green vegetables.
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So you take the capsule before eating and it reduces the glucose spike of the meal by 40%.
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40?
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Yes.
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Come on.
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Yes.
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And it s not bogus.
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We have tons of clinical trials on this.
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It s amazing.
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And it s because
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Anti-spike contains this molecule called DNJ.
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DNJ is awesome, and what she does is she lets 40% of the sugar from your meal pass through to your microbiome without being absorbed into your bloodstream.
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That means your bloodstream doesn t register it.
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There is less of a spike, so less impact on your health, and your microbiome is so happy to feed on these sugars, and it creates all sorts of positive hormones, including increasing GLP-1.
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So it s honestly, I know it sounds a little bit like a magic pill and I don t want people to think, oh, I m just going to do this and not do the hacks.
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It is an extra tool.
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Do the hacks.
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Do not replace all the hacks that are free and easy and food based with anti-spike.
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But if you want something to have in your purse for when it s a birthday party, you re traveling, you want a little bit of help, you re going to eat carbs and you want less of a spike.
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This is 100% the best thing on the market.
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There s nothing like it.
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It s incredibly powerful.
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100% plants, vegan, a lot of clinical studies.
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studies on it, and it s the only thing I recommend today.
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Antispike.
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Antispike, baby.
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Where d they get it, at your website?
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Yeah, antispike.com.
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I can t wait to have some.
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That ll help me with my sugar cravings.
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So it s kind of like a guide.
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It s like this usher, taking the sugar through your body without it going in the bloodstream, less of the sugar, and just kind of peeing or pooping out.
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Going to your microbiome and feeding your nice bugs, the good bacteria.
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But is that, I mean, does microbiome want bad carbs and sugar?
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It wants the undigested carbs.
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It creates short-chain fatty acids.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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So it wants that in the gut, but the challenge is when you have sugar without these other things, it goes in the bloodstream first.
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Exactly.
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Is that what happens?
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Exactly.
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Which causes the spikes.
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Exactly.
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Which makes you gain weight, inflammation, age faster, cravings.
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Mitochondria damage.
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Oh, your face, you re like, oh God.
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What else do we need to know about this that we haven t covered yet?
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What are you worried about that s coming over the next couple of years with society, with wars, with pandemics, all these different things that have happened, what else do we need to speak about that hasn t been said?
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Well, I work in a very narrow field, which is science of your body and of food.
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And I think in this space, the stuff I m concerned about is kind of what I experience, which is more and more of a disconnection between symptoms you feel and finding the root cause.
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So more and more plastering of a medication over a symptom.
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instead of asking yourself, what is this symptom actually trying to tell me?
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Symptoms are actually messages coming from your body, right?
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The cravings, the brain fog, the acne, the infagility, diabetes, they re your body s way of speaking to you and saying, Lewis, there s a problem here, help us fix it.
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Your body is not asking for a drug to suppress the symptom.
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It s asking for you to pay attention.
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So I m concerned that we re gonna keep going further and further down this path of treating a symptom completely disconnected from understanding what it s telling us about how we live.
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And we see this in all areas of health, right?
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Not just in glucose spike symptoms, but mental health symptoms, right?
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Anxiety, depression, panic attacks, all this stuff, all these autoimmune diseases popping up.
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I mean, it s everywhere.
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I wanna help people reconnect
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The dots, the symptoms with how you need to live your life to make the symptoms go away.
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Symptoms are messages from your body.
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Your body is screaming at you.
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Your body is trying so hard to communicate, but we just don t know how to listen.
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We don t have the language, right?
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So if you re listening and watching today and you have the symptoms and you ve had them for a long time, flip the script.
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Ask yourself, hey, maybe this is my body.
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speaking to me or trying to speak to me.
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What if I listened and tried to fix the underlying issue instead of suppressing, medicating, feeling bad about it, not talking about it, you know?
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Yeah.
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I mean, I m all for tracking data because I love to track the data and know what s underneath everything.
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But in a world of extreme biohacking culture is what it seems like, wearables, glucose monitors, heart rate monitors, blood drawing every month, whatever monitor you have, you know, aura rings, sleeping and like tracking everything.
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Is that also, like, I think it s good to have the knowledge about your specific body and how your body works.
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But is that sustainable long-term to keep every biohacking thing possible to tracking data?
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Could it be more stress?
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First of all, it costs money.
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Not everybody can afford these trackers.
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And the people who need this information the most are the people who cannot even afford my book.
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So to me, it s like a moot point.
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It s like, sure, track it if it motivates you, if it s cool, if it helps you understand.
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But really, the public health crisis we face is not going to be solved by these trackers.
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It s going to be solved by giving people free information online, accessible, easy to digest, understandable.
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That doesn t even require high literacy rates to understand.
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That s what I m passionate about.
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I don t care about the biohacking stuff.
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I m like, if it makes you happy, if it helps you feel more connected, if it helps you motivate, like, go for it.
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Don t become overly stressed out about it, but go for it.
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But I have friends, for example, they wear sleep trackers, and they ve told me that in the morning, it s almost like they don t know how they feel yet until they ve looked at the sleep data.
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Then, oh, you didn t sleep well.
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Oh, man, now I m tired.
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And you know what this reminds me of?
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Interesting.
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It reminds me of back in the day, or it still happens, where women would weigh themselves in the morning.
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And depending on the number on the scale, they would then say, I m going to have a good day, or I m going to have a bad day and feel bad about myself.
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It would determine their attitude.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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Because that stuff has such a big impact.
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Yeah.
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So, I mean, there s great sides to it.
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You know, I discovered all these things through a glucose monitor.
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So far from me to say glucose monitors are not useful.
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It changed my life profoundly.
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But now I understand that there s so much work to be done in just giving this information for free without an expensive device.
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Yeah, and you show, like, OK, when you eat this specific meal, you show the science on the other pages that say, OK, when you eat this, when you have something before, here s what happens with the glucose spike.
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So you re showing already what s going to happen to most people.
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Exactly, yeah.
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So as long as you see it visually on my data, I think it makes sense.
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And these hacks are based on scientific studies and clinical trials.
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They re not just me testing stuff and making up.
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I m just using my data to illustrate the scientific studies.
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I love the emotional support water bottle.
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That s in the Vinegar Week.
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That s one of the ways of having your vinegar hack.
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And so in the method, in the Glucose Goddess Method, I have had a great time just creating all these easy recipes and making it fun and easy to start with.
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It s a very colorful, joyful book.
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And I m obsessed with design and copy.
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It s beautiful.
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And how do you help people change their behavior as simply as possible?
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And as you see in the pages, for example, all the ingredients have a little photo of them.
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Yeah, it s beautiful.
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It feels very friendly.
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It s really beautiful.
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Yeah, it s always been hard for me to look at a lot of recipe books that just have like, you know, the words.
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Yeah, the list.
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It s just like, it s not inspiring, but when you see it visually, like this beautiful image and you see the images of the foods.
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And you feel like, oh, I can buy that.
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It s easy.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I m obsessed with simplification and helping people.
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Yeah, it s beautiful.
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actually take the first step.
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That s what I love.
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You ve got great design.
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Thank you.
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Which I appreciate.
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I love great design.
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It s like half cookbook, half coffee table book, you know?
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Exactly.
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I m so excited for you, Jessie.
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Thanks, Lewis.
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I m so happy to hear that you ve been
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transforming your own personal life, and you ve been healing from the reflection, from all the different therapies you ve done, but also by taking back control of your life, by monitoring these things, and by applying it.
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So I m really glad that you ve done the work, because you ve given so many people hope for their life, for their health, for their future, in a world of diet culture,
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or just confusion of what to do.
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So I really acknowledge you, Jessie, for being on this journey of being a servant of wisdom, from bringing back the ancient things that our great-great-grandparents knew and applying it to a world of confusion and chaos and uncertainty.
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So, I m really inspired by everything you re building.
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The Glucose Goddess Method.
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The 4-Week Guide to Cutting Cravings, Getting Your Energy Back, and Feeling Amazing.
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Make sure you guys grab a copy or two.
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Give one to a friend.
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Again, if you know someone in your life that s been struggling with nutrition or food or body image, like, give them this book.
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Give them this gift.
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And send them this episode.
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I think it ll really inspire people.
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I m inspired, so I m grateful for you.
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And check out Antispike.com.
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If you don t like vinegar like me, I m a very picky eater, check out Antispike.
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Something you can take before you eat foods, whether you re traveling or at home if you don t want the vinegar, to help decrease the spikes in glucose.
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I think it s really cool.
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All plant-based.
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Antispike.com, I can t wait till I can get my own stock.
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Where else can we send people to, to support you and be of service to you?
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You ve got a great social, I mean your content on social media is amazing, it s always inspiring, but what else can we do?
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I think the Instagram is where is my hub where I talk about everything.
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So glucosegoddess.com.
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And I think something really simple, too, is that I make lots of free content.
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And so if you have, for example, a parent that has diabetes, you know, get onto my Instagram and send them some of the posts and the simple graphs.
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And that has a huge impact to helping them understand what s going on in their body.
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So use all of my content as much as you want.
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It s free.
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It s there to be shared.
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If you re a health practitioner, use it with your patients like we re all on the same team.
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Let s help people understand their bodies better.
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Yeah, it s beautiful.
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OK, final two questions.
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This is one I ask everyone towards the end.
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And it s called the three truths.
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So imagine a hypothetical scenario.
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You get to live as long as you want because you ve decreased your glucose spikes.
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So you re living way into the hundreds.
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But it s your last day.
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Your last day, you re fully brown on the inside.
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You re fully, what, glyc?
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Glycated.
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You re fully glycated.
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But you ve lived an amazing life.
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You ve accomplished every dream, experienced every experience, felt all the love you wanted to feel.
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You did it.
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It s a celebration, but it s the last day.
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And for whatever reason in this hypothetical world, you have to take everything with you that you ve created.
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This book, this interview, anything you ve ever shared online.
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It s gone.
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It s gone.
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Okay.
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From our world.
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And you get to leave behind only three things, three lessons.
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I call it the three truths.
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Okay.
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What would those three truths be for you?
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Symptoms or messages.
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Have a savory breakfast, actually, and focus on personal growth.
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Grow as much as you can.
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Take challenges as lessons.
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Find the teaching in every difficult thing that happens to you and grow, grow, grow your soul, your spirit as much as you can.
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Those are beautiful.
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Symptoms are messages.
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Have savory breakfast and focus on personal growth.
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Final question, what s your definition of greatness?
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being fully in your power, finding what your specific unique power, passion is, and inhabiting it as much as you can.
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Because that s what your soul is here to do, you know?
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Your passion is what your soul wants you to go towards.
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And I think being able to live in that place as much as you can, whether you have a passion for
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Drawing or horses or biochemistry, trying to live in that space, to me, is really great.
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I hope today s episode inspired you on your journey towards greatness.
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Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a rundown of today s show with all the important links.
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And if no one has told you today, I want to remind you that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter.
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And now it s time to go out there and do something great.