Calley Means
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first heard Oct 2024
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There's lots of other stuff going on. So I just have figured out how to balance it to not spike me.
Wow.
We also see big spikes to some foods that are totally marketed as low carb. Like I hate to throw some certain brands under the bus, but Smart Sweets, they market themselves as having significantly less sugar than other candy, but they have a higher glucose spike on average than a cinnamon roll. So that's where marketing, people are like, oh, they eat the low carb candy. Crazy.
You got to test it on yourself. And then this one was interesting. So the fasting mimicking diet has become really popular.
Yeah. And actually. Yes. Oh.
This one in our top 10 worst scoring foods. So right next to Skittles is.
The tomato soup has an average glucose spike of 53 milligrams per deciliter. I don't quite know.
One of the soups.
I will. I'm going to. I'll send in the episode. We have not met personally. But the thing is, their results of the data of that program are profound. And it is clearly evidence-based that it is extremely effective for improving cardiometabolic biomarkers. What I would say, though, is that there's probably a way to even more tweak that program if the ingredients were slightly modified.
I don't think that glucose spike in the context of basically eating like 500 calories a day for five days is really going to hurt people. But we want to reduce glycemic variability. And it's probably pretty simple to swap out some ingredients there. So that's good information to have. And I think the last thing I'd mentioned that has really blown me away is the energy bars.
We probably have over 50 different types of energy bars logged in the data set, ranging from Quest bars, Bulletproof bars, Cliff bars, Luna bars, all of these. And the spectrum is profound. Yeah. We see that.
Totally. And they also, you know, they're walking to Whole Foods. And you know, you go to that aisle with all the bars. And it's like, it's just colors galore, beautiful packaging, all these claims on every box. Each one has a different thing. It's like, oh, this has no sugar alcohols. This has high protein. This one's organic. How the heck do you know what to choose?
Well, in the future, we can look it up like this and figure it out. So for instance, like Clif Bars have a spike around 42 milligrams per deciliter. That's almost 10 points higher than a Snickers bar. Like I'm, I used to eat those.
Um, go macro bars have a spike of around 44 milligrams, stress leader. And then you look at some of these others like, um, uh, bulletproof bars are like very low. Um, perfect keto bars. And so this is all just sort of anecdotal data. This is obviously not controlled trials.
But what I get excited about is that that person in that aisle who has made the commitment to try to lose weight, to try to be healthier, is not at the mercy of the food marketing, of what the box says. They actually have some agency now in the face of unfortunately, industries that are not necessarily aligned with our long-term health. So those are some of the surprising ones that we've seen.
Well, this is such an important question because I want to be very clear. Glucose is not the only biomarker that you need to orient your diet around. Right now, it's the only continuous biomarker that we have that can give us closed-loop biofeedback on nutrition. we don't have anything else that we can put on our bodies and see exactly how food's affecting us.
You know, I think, of course, both you and I would probably love to see an inflammatory monitor, an oxidative stress monitor, you know, these things that also affect our health.
Insulin. Insulin, of course.
Of course. And so that's what kind of gets into the things that won't spike glucose, but you still should avoid for optimal metabolic health. The first and the biggest one is fructose. So fructose alone... will not spike blood sugar or insulin. But we know from the mechanisms of how insulin resistance develops that it directly contributes to insulin resistance through a really interesting pathway.
Fructose is broken down into a byproduct called uric acid, which goes into the mitochondria, the seed of our metabolism in the cell, and generates oxidative stress, this damaging free radical activity that actually causes the mitochondria to become dysfunctional and process glucose less effectively and shunt glucose to fat storage.
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