An Effective Way To Burn Fat, Boost Energy, Stop Decline & Slow Aging | Jessie Inchauspé

so blood sugar spikes are related to all kinds of different problems and in both of your butts actually I think the abusively outlined why this approach is relevant for everyone and I mean everyone now I know your approach is not focused on weight loss yet I think what's going to happen with most people is if they stabilize their blood sugar excess weight is going to start coming off as a side effect rather than as the primary focus and the reason I bring weight loss up is because I know that's not what you're I know your approach is not about weight loss but of course many people do want to lose weight of course and so I think it's important to address that I guess what I'm trying to get you Jesse because I really want people to hear this conversation and start making changes in their life right and we can talk about risk of type 2 diabetes in the future risk of cancer risk of dementia but you know for many of us that's a doesn't land we want something that's going to make us feel good we want to have more energy if you're Cravings feel good sleep better have better skin and what's cool about the glucose hacks is that they affect you both right now and they help you feel good today and they prevent long-term disease they're the same thing but listen I completely agree if you tell somebody do this to prevent type 2 diabetes nobody's going to do it I wouldn't do it that's just your human brain is not wired to comprehend that and so it's easier to think about I'm going to feel way better this afternoon if I eat my breakfast this way and on the topic of weight loss so yes you know I just want to differentiate my work from like the big diet industry telling you you know just eat cabbage for a week and lose 20 pounds what I'm talking about here is Health but as you mentioned weight loss is often a consequence because when we study our glucose levels three things happen number one our Cravings go away number two hunger reduces number three are insulin levels reduces well which allows us to be in fat burning mode more often and to give you a statistic in my pilot experiment for my second book 40 of people who wanted to lose weight did in fact lose weight in these four weeks without restricting anything just because of the natural consequence of studying your glucose levels yeah you mentioned insulin there and I know when you explain why this matters to people you often talk about mitochondria glycation and Insulin yeah and I think just getting that scientific understanding for people I think would really help ground them and really help them understand why this is important so could you explain how these three things get affected I particularly like glycation because I think when people hear that they get in fact maybe let's start with glycation what is this because this is going to move the needle for people straight away for sure so I explained what glucose is and what a glucose spike is which is a rapid increase in blood sugar after eating and the Spikes have three main consequences that then lead to symptoms so consequence one glycation glycation is a process that happens in your body from the moment you are born and it's kind of like cooking so when you put a chicken in the oven and it goes from being pink to being cooked it has glycated a human being Cooks from the moment they're born until they die and in fact when they're fully cooked that's when they die so you're cooking okay and this cooking is also leading to aging cooking is like aging glycation is like aging you can't stop aging but you can slow it down or speed it up now the more glucose spikes you have in your body especially if they come from sweet Foods the faster glycation happens the faster you age and this shows externally like the more wrinkles you get but also internally your organs are slowly going to start to deteriorate and become less healthy so glycation is so connected to glucose that is actually a very well known test among people with type today disease called the hba1c test which actually measures the glycation of your red blood cells so glucose causes glycation glycation is aging glucose spikes increase well speed up this process that's one of the one of the yeah this is a really important one because we get it when you talk about chicken Browning or I don't know making a creme brulee right you know we we know what that looks like but that's kind of what's happening it actually happens us inside so when scientists look at the cartilage of babies like on the inside of their body it's white and by the time you're 90 years old the cartilage is brown like you're actually cooking I know that sounds a bit crazy but scientifically it's completely true you're glycating yeah and this whole glycation piece is that we could be going on our life with a bit of low grade fatigue having a bit of sugar at 11 and at 3 P.M to get us through a bit more caffeine not realizing but actually those are likely to be symptoms of blood sugar dysregulation and by doing that by having that blood sugar dysregulation we're probably aging inside or we feel like it's normal I used to think it's it was totally normal to be famished at 11 30 a.m and exhausted at 3 P.M I just thought you know because everybody around us feels that way so you just have in your psyche that it's normal to not feel great but in most of us those symptoms can be linked back to these glucose spikes and when you flatten your curves like it really feels like you're having a completely new experience of your life and of your days it's it's transformative and those symptoms you don't have to live with them yeah that's you know I know a lot about a good healthy diet but wearing one for me and and tweaking a few things and using a lot of the hacks that you're talking about and you write about on those days where your blood sugar is stable you have a different experience of Life yes you can have a Clarity like a almost like a steady supply of energy Eagle Energy yeah yeah it's quite incredible really you go wow I was eating so-called healthy foods two weeks ago my sugar was going up and down and I thought I was doing okay and for me I think this is a key point you explain your story and how when you started wearing a CGM you started to connect the dots between how you were feeling and what your blood sugar is doing I think that's really really powerful yes and to be clear like I did that and it was incredibly informative and allowed me to become fascinated with the science I think you can very easily see all the impact of the hacks on your life without needing to where I see Jam you know you know yourself you know if you used to be tired all the time and now you're not tired anymore you know if resisting a cookie was like you know the bane of your existence and now you don't even want the cookie anymore you know if you sleep better you know if your period is back you know if like your mental health is better like you don't need to wear this UGM that's also the beauty of it all you can reconnect with yourself without a device you've done a lot of the testing and yeah and so what I do with my CGM data is that I illustrate the scientific studies so for example if I find a study that says oh we found at scale that one tablespoon of vinegar before a meal reduces the glucose Spike of the meal my work as a science educator because I know I'm not a doctor you know I'm really just here to teach and communicate and vulgarize the science I think okay I want people to know about this scientific paper but I need to illustrate it in a way that is approachable and understandable so I create my glucose graphs just to show and then if you swipe on my Instagram post for example you see this study that I reference I think the way you illustrate that data is so clever and you know when someone like yourself starts an Instagram account and blows up that quickly you know you're really hitting on something you're you're able to articulate an idea in a very simple way that connects immediately with a lot of people and I and I think that skill is very much undervalued I you know I want to sort of say it's very much appreciated how well you do that there's a layer missing between the scientific studies and the public and I mean you're part of that layer of course but we need more people who are here to communicate the science make it understandable to teach and I'm so happy to be able to bring these Amazing Discoveries done by amazing research teams across the world to my readers and my audience back to the three things right so we had glycation and we also have no one wants to be glycating and cooking their internal organs yeah we don't want the wrinkles and again that's like a very short-term benefits but it's hey it's a benefit that a lot of us want right whether whether we whether we are willing to accept our vanity publicly or not yeah most of us will probably say yeah I want less wrinkles I would like to age more slowly than I currently am but the good news is the hacks will help with that and also long term so there are three things that happen in our body when we have a glucose bike the first one is glycation the cooking like the chicken in the oven the second one is your mitochondria gets stressed out and the third one is insulin so I'll explain the two the two the two last ones the second and third one so your mitochondria they are these little machines inside of your cells that are in charge of turning glucose into energy so they're amazing and we need them and the better they function the more energy we have your mitochondria when you're giving them a steady supply of glucose they're quite happy they're like okay I can deal with this I'm making energy no problem when you deliver a glucose Spike to them they stress out they freak out like in the tetris example like the blocks are coming down too quickly they just quit um and they don't function well anymore and as a result that can lead to chronic fatigue because your mitochondria are just not working as well as they could be your mitochondria are becoming stressed out also leads to what's called oxidative stress and inflammation and inflammation in our body is one of the biggest Killers we know that three out of five people in the world will die of an inflammation-based disease and even if you have things like psoriasis eczema which are inflammation-based diseases the more glucose spikes you have the worse those symptoms are going to get so that's mitochondria you get tired you get cooked and you get tired can I just pause you there because it was so fascinating that and I just want to draw a connection there just to make sure people have got that you were talking about fatigue so most people are under the impression that if I want to increase my energy having more sugar is going to help me do that yet you're saying glucose spikes oh harming your body's long-term ability to make energy yeah so just let's can we just make that super clear so when you eat something sweet what's happening is you're getting a dopamine release in your brain there's a pleasure hormone molecule that gets released in your brain and that pleasure can feel like energy you feel perked up you feel like whoa I feel awake that's not energy that's dopamine on the inside in your mitochondria the ability for your body to make energy is getting reduced you're getting less and less good at making energy yet you might think oh my God I need more and more sugar to wake myself up more and more caffeine and so you have this impression of like the dopamine rush and then on the inside things are breaking down if you actually want to allow your body to make energy like it was always supposed to make it which is efficiently beautifully easily you have to reduce the glucose bikes and you have to work with your mitochondria your mitochondria I just want you to have a great time they just want to give you all the energy in the world so we need to work with them because they're so powerful and when you study your glucose levels you give them back that power to give you the energy that you really want and what's cool about the hacks as well is that I'm not asking you to never eat sugar ever again I'm teaching you how to eat it in a way that gives you all the pleasure all the dopamine but with less impact on your glycation on your mitochondria and on your health that's why it's so powerful we're gonna get to some of those really really shortly okay so super clear on mitochondria uh insulin yeah so your body knows that glucose spikes are not good for it and it's trying to reduce the glycation and the mitochondrial overload and it has one little tool that it uses your pancreas releases insulin into your body when a glucose spike is happening and insulin is amazing her job is to take excess glucose out of the circulation and to store it away in places where it can no longer do harm and Insulin stores glucose away in your muscles in your liver and also in your fat cells and that's one of the ways that we gain weight or fat on our body is by our body putting glucose away into our fat cells now the problem is too much insulin over time also has consequences the most common one being insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes but also something that's becoming more and more common in females which is polycystic ovarian syndrome or fertility problems the more insulin you have in a female body the more your body is going to produce testosterone that means in a female body you're going to have this excess of male hormone this leads to consequences missed periods cystic ovaries infertility acne balding hair growth on the on the face Etc yeah and often and I'll just do a little PCOS sidebar here often the way that PCOS is treated is by giving females the birth control pill because the pill contains female hormones and so when you ingest female hormones with the pill you're kind of bringing back the balance between female and male hormones but then when you stop the pill if you haven't addressed the underlying issue the problem is still there and so you see many people who go off the pill because they want to have a baby and then they stop the pill and they're like oh my God I don't have my period yeah what's happening I'm not ovulating and that's often a sign of this excess insulin and so that's why one of the most common things that I see in my readers is getting their period back and in my pilot experiment for the glucose goddess method three women who had been told there would never gonna be able to have babies naturally got pregnant in those four weeks wow it's a really really powerful that's because again it speaks to this idea are we treating symptoms [Music] or dealing with the root cause and I've seen the picture you just uh Illustrated that play out with so many women with PCOS in practice in the past I really have I've seen it so many times and you know those symptoms I can think back to certain patients they are so distressing for women you know yes not being able to get pregnant sure that that is clearly a massive thing but you know if you're a woman and you've got facial hair or you become bored or really thinning hair yeah and one of my big frustrations in medicine is that we are not really taught to go for that root cause and I think again broadening out the lens on blood sugar if I think about and you you do this in both books actually really well at the start about really clearly demonstrating why this book in this approach is relevant to all of us you mentioned infertility you mentioned PCOS you mentioned menopause or symptoms right the menopause is something that is talked about a lot these days it's one of the Hot Topics in health and I understand why because for many years um nobody was talking about a lot of women don't feel it was taken seriously a lot of women feel as though they were ignored by their doctors perhaps but you're also showing how stabilizing your blood sugar can lead to an improvement in menopause or symptoms listen the scientific studies are very clear the more glucose spikes you have the more insulin you have the worse your menopause symptoms whether it's hot flashes insomnia Etc like your hormonal system cannot function properly if your glucose and your insulin are out of whack is just the hormonal axis is not going to work if you're on a glucose roller coaster and this is true for menopause symptoms for PCOS for PMS so you know the premenstrual syndrome endometriosis fibroids everything that's hormonally linked will get better when you study your glucose and insulin levels it is truly the foundation of hormonal health is to have steady balanced blood sugar yeah it's um it's pretty incredible and I think I don't know how you view this Jesse when I would talk to patients about blood sugar roller cases and I'd often draw them a graph yeah you know in a 10-minute consultation I'd sit there and say look like I just grab a piece of paper you know and I'd literally draw it out and I explained it this time you're having this food right this is what happens to your blood sugar and then maybe two hours later after it's high it's coming now it's crashing and sometimes if you've been doing this while it will overshoots and one thing I would often say is that this is not just a blood sugar problem at that point it's also a hunger problem it's also a stress on the body yep well if you speak to that because I think that for me at least that really landed with patience your blood sugar falling rapidly is a stressor absolutely so I actually just did it live with an amazing um woman Aviva Ram who's really specialized in this in glucose and stress adrenal steroids and she taught me a lot she explained that when your body is going through this glucose roller coaster there is a certain amount of biological stress yeah that happens as a consequence and that then impacts your your hormonal axis your thyroid axis your adrenal axis and that stress in and of itself can then lead to other problems in your body whether it's mental health disturbances whether it's inflammation whether it's hormonal problems because your body like if you're stressed out adrenals are stressed out you're on our glucose roller coaster your body doesn't think it's safe to conceive so you have all these side effects of that stress that biological stress that lead to Downstream symptoms and we need to look back at the fact that yeah that glucose roller coaster is causing stress on top of the inflammation and the glycation and the insulin release truly I don't think there's a better place to start for your health like it is truly the foundation you cannot have a healthy body if you're on a glucose roller coaster it's just not possible you can manage maybe you can be a high functioning glucose roller coaster but it's just it's just not gonna work you you need that Baseline I love that there is there's a lot of people at the moment who are high functioning glucose roller coasters right I love it I love it yeah but you walk around you will see that and it it kind of will correlate with the 11 o'clock snack yes the extra coffee that's needed the bit of chocolate to keep you going but after dinner sugar you know the just scrolling on Instagram to reduce your stress like there's so many of our habits that could be linked to trying to function on a glucose roller coaster and also most people don't know they're on a glucose roller coaster so it's not their fault they're trying their best yeah they're trying to survive with all these symptoms thinking the symptoms are normal that if they can't handle them they're weak or they don't have enough willpower or feeling ashamed or guilty I want people to know that you can actually reduce those symptoms and they will go away the first place to start is to study your glucose levels yeah and you'll have such a different experience of your life instead of feeling controlled by these impulses and these symptoms that you can't do anything about you can become reconnected with your body with yourself and you know you can partner with your mitochondria I mean it's just a much more it's a much nicer place to be if you enjoyed that short clip I think you are really going to enjoy the full conversation which you can check out here [Music]

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