Watch your blood sugar?
There are one billion people in the world who have prediabetes.
And the numbers are getting worse.
Yes, year after year. But even in people without diabetes, spikes in blood glucose cause physical and mental problems.
How can we know?
Do you suffer from shortness of breath, chronic fatigue or suspect you may have a sugar addiction? Do you wake up tired in the morning, feeling unable to face the day?
Common symptoms
Most of the population is stuck on a rollercoaster of glucose ups and downs.
Why did he hire a mathematician to research glucose?
I had a serious accident when I was 19. I broke one of my vertebrae jumping off a waterfall. After the operation I had many mental problems: depression, anxiety, dissociation… I was very bad.
And he wanted to understand.
I studied biochemistry, genetics, and when I started studying glucose and dealing with its effects, my body started to improve.
What did you notice?
The more glucose spikes I had in the day, the worse the mental episodes were: I suffered from anxiety and couldn’t think clearly. But when my glucose was stable, I felt good. Getting my glucose under control was the first step in starting to heal.
How did I know I had glucose spikes?
He had a glucose monitor on his arm. I 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 confirm that glucose spikes cause chronic fatigue, hangovers, hunger between meals, poor sleep quality and mental fog.
Symptoms that indicate that our glucose is not well?
Yes, and also skin problems, psoriasis, eczema, rosacea, acne, polycystic ovaries.
He has carried out an experiment with 2,700 people.
I came up with a method of glucose control and these people volunteered to try it under my supervision for four weeks with amazing results: with very little effort, no diet restrictions, no calorie counting, most of them went feel much better very quickly.
Explain to me how glucose affects our mood.
Glucose spikes have an impact on a neurotransmitter, tyrosine, which regulates mood. The more dysregulated the glucose, the more irritated we will feel.
Being hungry also puts many people in a bad mood.
I thought it was normal to have irritable bowel syndrome 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 peaks, your body depends on it every two hours, after which there is a drop and this stress occurs on the body.
Your proposal to control them?
I propose simple principles based on scientific studies and without dieting. To begin with, have a savory breakfast, it is very important because breakfast controls the rest of the day.
What if you have a sweet breakfast?
You create a great peak, and all day long you will be on this roller coaster. The second week, introduce the vinegar.
Vinegar?
It is very useful for reducing the spikes in glucose that occur when you eat. Before one of the meals of the day, take a glass of water, add a tablespoon of vinegar and take 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 at the top of the intestine that slows 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 to generate energy. And if we do it after a meal, the muscles will use the glucose from the food and the peaks will flatten out.
Exercise after lunch?
For the next 90 minutes, walk a bit, or sit with your feet on the floor and put your toes down. After four weeks you will have incorporated these tricks into your life and you will feel much better.
