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Dhru Purohit

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Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

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Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

There's some people that their red blood cells stick around longer.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

So it sort of artificially pushes the test in this one direction.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

And a lot of people started noticing it because they would do, I'm an investor in a company called Levels.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

They would do these CGMs, whether through Levels or just going directly to, you know,

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

um, any one of these companies, Abbott and, you know, Freestyle Libre and whatever, they would do their glucose.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

And then a lot of these companies started offering labs and they would get back their A1C or they would go do their A1C.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

And they're like, what is going on?

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Like, I don't, I'm like, I'm healthy and like, everything is good, but

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

like my glucose is in a really good place, but my A1C is really high.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Again, this is not the vast majority of people that are out there.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

No, right, right.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

This is like a small subset of individuals.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

And they would say, okay, yeah, there's this thing, there's this phenomenon that happens sometimes that people's red blood cells stick around a little bit and you can fact check it with a fasting insulin.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Yeah, yeah, that's a good way to do it.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

That's there.

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

So...

Dhru Purohit Show
Menopause Isn’t a Breakdown. It’s a Brain Upgrade: The Science of Midlife Power with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Going back to what you were saying is that when you get your glucose under control, which a part of that, which is also great too, is that any type of resistance training or anything that puts some weight and resistance on your muscles, even rocking can be a good example of that.