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Surprise hacks to balance your blood sugar with Jessie Inchauspé
Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognised leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Functional Medicine. He is the founder and director of The UltraWellness Center, the Head of Strategy and Innovation of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, a thirteen-time New York Times bestselling author, and Board President for Clinical Affairs for The Institute for Functional Medicine.
2022
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Blood glucose and insulin dysregulation can have a wide ranging impact on metabolic health, our hormones and ageing to name a few. Jessie provides a fascinating insight into how a personal trauma lead her to continuously monitor her blood glucose levels and how that revolutionised her life. She provides some interesting and evidence based hacks to help regulate blood glucose spikes so that people can still enjoy the food they love to eat in moderation. These include the order in which we eat our macronutrients, to drinking vinegar in water before a meal, to using our muscles after eating. It was highlighted everyone has a unique blood glucose response to food, so the pros and cons of continuous blood glucose monitoring are also discussed as well as some of the surprising impacts of alcohol, exercise, sleep and stress on our blood glucose regulation.
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The bitter truth about sugar and how it’s destroying your health with Dr Robert Lustig
Dhru Purohit is a serial entrepreneur in the health and wellness industry. His podcast is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30+ million unique downloads. His interview’s focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.
2022
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Dr Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity and nutrition. Here he discusses ultra-processed food (predominantly fructose) and its impact on mitochondrial dysfunction and how this can manifest itself in a whole host of chronic metabolic diseases that are overwhelming our healthcare system today. His solution is to ‘protect the liver and feed the gut’ as he pursues his mission to change the food industry and manipulate the environment we live in to support our metabolic health.
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Eating for Migraines with Dr Jessica Briscoe and Dr Katy Munro
Dr Rupy Aujla is an NHS medical doctor who reversed his heart condition using a food and lifestyle approach after diving deep into the literature and learning more about nutritional medicine. He started the Doctor’s Kitchen in 2015, as a way to teach others how they can cook their way to health and showcase that food is medicine.
2022
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Rupy chats with Dr Jessica Briscoe and Dr Katy Munro from The National Migraine Centre, a national charity with a clinic providing evidence based support for migraine sufferers. A diverse conversation covering migraine diet myths, as well as diet and lifestyle factors that can both trigger and prevent migraines. From a dietary perspective, eating regularly and stabilising glucose levels appears to be a primary factor in preventing migraines, but the potential use of ketogenic diets for pain and migraine management is also explored. The evidence around caffeine, exercise, pre and probiotics, sleep, stress management and supplements like Magnesium, CoQ10, and Vitamin B2 are reviewed.