Hello
We’re pleased to announce an AMA with the ‘Glucose Goddess’ Jessie Inchauspé about her new book Glucose Revolution: The life-changing power of balancing your blood sugar. The thread will open on Tuesday 3rd May and will close on Thursday 5th May, and Jessie will be replying intermittently throughout.
Here’s an extract from the intro to her book:
“As it turns out, our bodies speak to us all the time. We just don’t know how to listen.
Everything we put in our mouths creates a reaction. What we eat affects the 30 trillion cells and 30 trillion bacteria within us. Take your pick: cravings, pimples, migraines, brain fog, mood swings, weight gain, sleepiness, infertility, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, heart disease… are all messages from our bodies that there are problems within.
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Scientists have been studying how food affects us for a long time, and we now know more than we ever have on this topic. Exciting discoveries have happened in the past five years in labs around the world: they’ve revealed our body’s reaction to food in real time – and have proven that although what we eat matters, how we eat it – in which order, combination, and grouping – matters too.
What the science shows is that in the black box that is our body, there is one metric that affects all systems. If we understand this one metric and make choices to optimise it, we can greatly improve our physical and mental well-being. This metric is the amount of blood sugar, or glucose, in our blood.
Glucose is our body’s main source of energy. We get most of it from the food we eat, and it’s then carried in our blood stream to our cells. Its concentration can fluctuate greatly throughout the day, and sharp increases in concentration – I call them glucose spikes – affect everything from our mood, our sleep, our weight, and our skin to the health of our immune system, our risk for heart disease, and our chance of conception.
You will rarely hear glucose discussed unless you have diabetes, but glucose actually affects each and every one of us. In the last few years, the tools to monitor this molecule have become more readily available. That, in combination with the advancements in science I mentioned above, means that we have access to more data than ever before – and we can use this data to gain insight into our bodies.”
Please ask your questions now - the thread will be open until sometime on Thursday 5th May. We may close early if there are too many questions so get yours in now!
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Many thanks,
MNHQ