About this episode

In this episode, Brittany Ford discusses the importance of blood sugar management and its impact on health, particularly for women, covering various aspects of diabetes and practical solutions.

Blood sugar is the master dial. If your energy crashes at 3pm, if the cravings run you, if the belly weight will not move no matter how clean you eat, this is not a willpower problem. It is a blood sugar problem, and it is fixable. In this episode I break down blood sugar for women from the ground up: what glucose and insulin actually do, the six levers that throw them off, the full diabetes spectrum from prediabetes through Types 1 to 4 (including the lean, skinny fat Type 4 that surprised me), and the exact labs and CGMs to run. Then I give you my full stack across four pillars: nutrition, lifestyle, supplements, and peptides. I also get into how the GLP-1s and the growth hormone peptides move your blood sugar in opposite directions, PMOS (the newly renamed condition you have known as PCOS) where insulin is the real root, and how to actually get a CGM here in Canada now that the US apps like Levels do not ship north of the border. If you want me to build this protocol with you, you can book a free call here . Timestamps: 04:15 - What blood sugar is: glucose and insulin 07:38 - Lever 1: spikes, crashes, and cravings 11:31 - Lever 2: insulin, belly fat, and fat storage 15:45…

People in this episode

Host: Brittany Ford

Topics covered

• blood sugar
• insulin resistance
• diabetes spectrum
• nutrition
• lifestyle
• supplements
• peptides

Keywords

• blood sugar
• insulin
• prediabetes
• belly fat
• CGMs
• GLP-1s
• peptides
• nutrition
• lifestyle

Mentioned in this episode

Products: CGMs, GLP-1s

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