Watch out for blood sugar?
There are a billion people in the world who have prediabetes.
And the numbers get worse.
Yes, year after year. But even for people without diabetes, spikes in blood glucose cause physical and mental problems.
How to know?
Do you suffer from cravings, chronic fatigue or do you suspect that you may be addicted to sugar? Do you wake up tired in the morning, feeling unable to face the day?
Common symptoms.
Most of the population is trapped in a roller coaster of glucose ups and downs.
Why did a mathematician decide to investigate glucose?
I had a serious accident at the age of 19. I broke one of my vertebrae jumping off a waterfall. After being operated on, I had many mental problems: depression, anxiety, dissociation… It was very bad.
And he wanted to understand it.
I studied biochemistry, genetics, and when I started studying glucose and dealing with its effects, my body began to improve.
What did you observe?
The more glucose spikes I had per day, the worse mental episodes: I suffered from anxiety and couldn’t think straight. But when my glucose was stable, I felt fine. Controlling glucose was the first step to start healing myself.
How did you know you had glucose spikes?
He had a glucose monitor on his arm. She didn’t have diabetes, so I thought I wouldn’t jump to conclusions, but I saw that there was an important connection between glucose and mental health.
What else?
Today I can assure you that glucose spikes cause chronic fatigue, cravings, hunger between meals, poor sleep quality, and brain fog.
Symptoms that tell us that our glucose is not working well?
Yes, and also skin problems, psoriasis, eczema, rosacea, acne, polycystic ovaries.
He has conducted an experiment with 2,700 people.
I devised a method for glucose control and these people volunteered to try it under my supervision for four weeks with amazing results: with very little effort, no dietary restrictions, no calorie counting, most of them felt much better very quickly.
Tell me how glucose affects our mood.
Glucose spikes have an impact on a neurotransmitter, tyrosine, which regulates mood. The more dysregulated glucose is, the more irritated we will feel.
Being hungry also puts many people in a bad mood.
I thought it was normal to get irritable because it happened to me, but if your body can burn fat for energy, you don’t get irritable when you’re hungry. If you have glucose spikes, your body depends on it every two hours, after which there is a crash and this stress occurs in the body.
His proposal to control them?
I propose simple principles based on scientific studies and without dieting. To begin with, eat a salty breakfast, it is very important because breakfast controls the rest of our day.
And if you have a sweet breakfast?
You create a big spike, and for the whole day you will be on this roller coaster. In the second week, introduce vinegar.
Vinegar?
It is very useful to reduce glucose spikes that occur when eating. Before one of the meals of the day take a glass of water, add a tablespoon of vinegar and drink it before eating.
Grandma’s remedies?
Vinegar has acetic acid, a molecule that slows the breakdown of carbohydrates into glucose when we eat and tells our muscles to absorb more glucose than usual from the bloodstream.
What do we add in the third week?
The starter of one of our meals will be vegetables. Its fiber creates a protective layer in the upper part of the intestine that slows down the entry of glucose molecules into the blood. During this week people perceive a great impact on their health.
Fourth week.
When muscles contract, they need glucose for energy. And if we do it after a meal, the muscles will use the glucose from the food and the peaks will flatten.
Exercise after eating?
For the next 90 minutes, do some walking, or sit with your feet on the floor and wiggle your toes up and down. After four weeks you will have incorporated these tricks into your life and feel much better.
