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is only five sleeps to crisp stay. If you're listening, assuming you're listening on the day that this podcast is released, you're probably out Christmas shopping, doing some last bits. If you're anything like me, there's always a few things that no matter how organised you are, you think, actually, I forgot to get that, or at least that's me anyway. But whatever you're doing, I hope you're really enjoying yourself over this holiday season. If you're thinking about indulging a little bit, and you want to kind of optimise your blood sugar, and different hacks and things, definitely go back and listen to my episode that I published on Friday as a solo episode with lots of tips in there. But also in this bite size episode, you can hear a clip of a conversation I had with Wade light heart, the founder of bio optimizers, about how to optimise glucose control and insulin sensitivity and what impacts it. And also what I thought would be helpful is what you can do if you're going to indulge a little bit over this festive season. Because let's face it, we all want to have fun as well, while still remaining fit and healthy. So you're going to hear more about that in this clip with weight lighter.
Yeah, and just to echo what you suggested, there's a good amount of evidence that says that blood sugar dysregulation is so rampant in the population, about a third of the population is pre diabetic. And people go, Oh, well, they have insulin for diabetes. Well, what they're not talking about is the collateral damage the leading to cholesterol, which is heart disease, the number one killer, it's also the nutrient sugar is what feeds cancer cells, cancer being the second thing that kills people. And third is of course, diabetes and diabetes related complications. So I would argue, and I think there's enough evidence, and most of the top minds in the industry are suggesting blood sugar dysregulation is actually contributing to the top three diseases. And of course, fourth is medical error from the pharmaceutical contra indications that you took for the other three cases. So this is the challenge of a modern person. We as a species evolved to eat natural whole foods throughout years. And then with the rapid industrialization and technical innovations of society, mass farming, you know, fertilisation, chemical, ionisation, hybridization, genetic modification, all these occasions have led to very quick, fast digesting foods that have a high sugar content, but dysregulates blood sugar, and the consequences for people are huge. And so when we looked at blood sugar, there's a lot of really the success that you're going to have on any diet. So we're writing a book right now it's going to come out next year, we're in a bidding war between some publishing houses, the success of any diet, I don't care if it's keto, I don't care if it's a vegan diet, I don't care if it's carnivore, elegance, paleo, that whatever it happens to be, primarily rests upon the person being able to consistently clean keep their blood sugar range in a healthy model. Now, that would vary based on genetics, and epigenetics, methylate, methylation, and all these things that people talk about when you get a functional medicine practitioner who can help you guide through it. But the easiest way to determine that is do exactly what you're doing Angela, and that is put a continuous glucose monitor on your body and get real time data points. The standard for testing if people want to go one step forward is the HOMO IR test, which regulates our excuse me, monitors both glucose and insulin response, and is probably one of the standard state of the art to see if you're, you know, if you want to go that that route, I would say do both. So here's the deal. There's three areas that you've got to concentrate on, but most people just think of blood sugar and continuous glucose. So there's insulin sensitivity, glucose transport, and glucose disposal agents which relate to glycolytic pathways, which is the pathways Insulin is the most anabolic hormone in the body. Most people think it's testosterone. Not true. In fact, bodybuilders which is my old background, we're very hyper vigilant about the manipulation of blood sugar to create to grow muscle mass and to lose body fat. In other words, if you're trying to get bigger and stronger, or generate more growth in The body, you would combine proteins with relatively fast digesting carbohydrates, or you'd get an insulin boost to drive the aminos into the muscle.
And it works super well. I did this many years, like, I'd say, over 10 years ago, before I really got into health optimization. And I was trying to get back my finger back after my first two children, I used to do this with my trainer. And we would use fast burning carbs, as you say, with protein deliberately to spike my blood sugar. And I put on a lot of muscle and got super lean and trim very, very quickly.
Correct. Now, then, if you're but if you're, you know, an ordinary person looking at your health, you're probably want to limit the amount of insulin being released, and keep within a very narrow range so that you become a fat metabolizer. Okay, now, what's going to happen? Going back to my earlier statements, when you're regulating your own dietary processes, is there's no set amount of responses to individuals. So in other words, you can give one person a straight black coffee, you think that's not going to cause and as long as their insulin goes through the roof, another person has a straight black coffee. And all it does is help them metabolise fats. And you'll see that variance which is huge amongst individuals. Now why? Again, going back to those things, one insulin sensitivity, glucose transport, glucose disposal agents, one of those pathway, all three of those pathways need to work properly. And if you have one that's off, depending on the food that you consume, depending on when you consume it, the level of stress in your body type, all those things are going to contribute to the response that you have what you stack food with. And, you know, there was all these, you know, blood sugar indexes of food, you know, that would come out and it was based on 50 grammes of carbohydrates taking all that data is frankly garbage. So for example, if you look at like glycemic index, ice cream is low glycemic and carrots are high glycemic index. So people say well, you'll get fat eating carrots, no, you won't, there has never been a person in the history of the world that got fat eating carrots and vegetables and things like that, it's not not going to happen is that people that got fat from eating ice cream, so it's it's, it's so those old measures that people kind of built standards from or went from diabetes, or diabetic, pre diabetic kind of following, were very misleading and I think created more problems than not. So we looked at it and recognise through all of our research, that we would find that there was a variety of things that would be damaged in some people are not active, and people are not optimised for people. And many of those things can come back if you follow a solid diet for a period of time. And, and I want to be clear here, you cannot supplement your way out of the bad lifestyle. Nor can the best lifestyle in the world not be enhanced by the right supplements for you. So if there's there's we're dealing with the spectrum here, what we did is we started looking at all of the agents with heads, which had scientific research to prove that would work on these three pathways. And we said, well, almost all the blood sugar regulations that are hitting either one of these pathways, there was a couple that we're doing to none, we're doing all three, and very few we're using kind of what I would say would be the kind of quality of ingredients. Now that drives up price point. But we want effectiveness. So we have a testing team. And we all wear continuous glucose monitors. And we all have different diets. And we all are different ages and sexes and races. And we've got a really good mix with our testing team. And we started testing all of these ingredients independently. And then what we did is we broke it down into families, which we tested for several months, we were all wearing content, we started actually pricking your fingers, and everybody wanted to quit after a month so we had to start using continuous glucose monitoring for ice. pricking your finger like half a dozen times a day or whatever we got very, very tiring and no one can touch the keyboard anymore. So CGM lets the canoes filled with monitors those those are great. So what we did is we said okay, we need to we need to activate these nine different components, activating a MP a que adiponectin insulin mimetics things that mimic mimic insulin, mitochondrial factor or functions and thermogenesis is stuff that reduces the inflammation In an oxidative stress because sugar or poor blood sugar response creates an oxidative stress that has to do with the way the electrons or positrons get distributed, increase, things that increase glucose uptake. So that's collect for expression, which is a big deal. Because, you know, I know those people that seem to be able to just eat sugar and stay lean, well, they usually have a good gut flora expression and those who don't, you know, they look at a doughnut and get fat, inhibiting carbohydrate digestion absorption in the gut. So that's another piece. You know, some people absorb better or not absorbed better, and that's going to determine your blood sugar response, and then increasing glucagon like peptide one. Okay, so glucagon is what helps fat metallic, that's what's released if you're in a fat burning state, and glucagon becomes the primary catalyst of, of energy production, and then increasing and activating what's called the PPA, ra, alpha and PPA, our gamma. So what are the ingredients that do all that sort of stuff? Right? How do we improve our insulin sensitivity? And how do we get our glucose disposal agents? And then how could that potentially deal with weight loss? So first item, you want me to go through the list of things that we put into this as you can kind of understand how we so I just wanted to give you the back?
I want to guess Yeah, I want to understand how it can help people because even people that are, you know, very careful with their blood sugar, right, like myself. So I know, for example, that I do have a lot of these genes that raise my blood sugar more easily. I've seen that when I've tested it. So for example, like if you talking about carrot there, as soon as you remove the fibre, if you give me and me a celery and carrot juice, and you give it to my husband, my blood sugar is going to spike way quicker, right. And I used to have insulin resistance, PCOS, even though I've always been lean. And I think that's the thing that can be misleading as well is people can have these, as you were saying, right, these genetic predispositions, and things can be going on in their body that aren't obvious, because I have never really been storing fat. But also like, you know, when I was looking this morning with caffeine, so I can see that as soon as I have my black coffee, my blood sugar goes, now it's still within a good range, but it's spiking. And that's maybe more than somewhere else or someone else. So I think the listeners of this podcast are always looking to get the edge. So they're going to be super interested in alongside all of the things they're doing, how might this help them for the odd indulgence, but also just in normal life when they're doing something that you know could actually be considered healthy like that juice, but for certain individuals can spike their blood glucose a bit too much.
Absolutely. And that's that's where the CGM is really, really critical to really monitor how your diet is actually working for you, right, and what things are going to spike it. And then where we, one of the things that we like to do is, you know, we use this as an intervention airy tool. So maybe you're in a situation where you know, you're gonna go into the danger zone, it's a social occasion. It's a restaurant, it's a family event, it's a something a birthday, here's where you can mitigate some of the consequences. In those really tough conditions, as you know, those are those conditions that you maybe don't you want a little variance, you want a little leniency, you want to be able to say, hey, you know what, it's my birthday. I don't want my cake and eat it too. Fair enough. Okay, how do we mitigate some of the damage now? So what we did is we started looking at this. So if you look at glucose disposal agents, that's a big one. Okay? Because how you if you can't dispose your glucose into a muscle cell or into an organ, it's going to get thrown into fat. So things like Berberine Bennachie simulus, cinnamon, right. And seelen PF is a derivative of that, which I think is even better. It's kind of the act of ageing inside of that bitter melons. What's that Foucault's and things are another one that's related to mitochondrial Of course, exercise that improves your mitochondrial function or anything, any devices that do that some of the atmospheric trainers, trainers, and things like that can really assist on that rebounders. gymnastic acid. I always think of that when some people call it a gimmick. Some delicate Jim Nagata know which one is supposed to be can get that right my Canadian language, these things are really important.
Thank you so much for listening. If you want to go back and listen to the full episode with Wade light heart, it is episode 120. And if you're thinking that you'd like to take something to help you a glucose disposal agent to help you manage your blood glucose over the next few weeks, then I definitely recommend blood sugar breakthrough myself. I have tested it with food. I've monitored my blood glucose with a CGM and seen what happens when I Eat higher carbohydrate foods without using a glucose disposal agent specifically blood sugar breakthrough and what happens when I do use it and it has an impact on keeping my blood sugar much more stable so it's something I personally use and can recommend. So if you want to give it a go, then head over to bio optimizers.com forward slash Angela. Or if you're in the UK by optimizers.uk forward slash Angela and simply enter code Angela 10 at checkout to get yourself a cool 10% off and while you're there, you might want to pick up some magnesium as well because there's so much going on over Christmas I find magnesium is just a kind of Godsend for calming and better sleep and whenever we're a bit stressed or we're doing lots and lots of different things we burned through magnesium a bit a bit quicker, should I say and magnesium breakthrough another product by a by optimizers has seven different forms of magnesium. I love it pretty much everyone I've ever recommended it to loves it too. So head over to buy optimizers.com forward slash Angela. And if you're in the UK by optimizers.uk forward slash Angela and enter code Angela 10 at checkout. Thank you again for listening as always, and I want to wish you a very happy and healthy holiday season.
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