Dr. Casey Means

And then where's the biochemical individuality?

And there was a phenomenal paper out of Israel from Cell about seven years ago called Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses.

It made big waves.

But it basically showed that you and I

could eat the same handful of blueberries and have totally different glycemic responses.

So the idea of glycemic index as like a certain amount of food with a certain amount of glucose causes a certain glucose rise, it kind of debunked that.

And that matters because repeated sustained glycemic variability over time is not good for our health.

We want to choose the foods or balance the foods that are going to keep us relatively more stable.

So that's very helpful, just understanding your personal response to food.

And then what are the lifestyle strategies you can use, sleeping better, walking after meals, more resistance training, cold plunging, breath work that can actually serve

to modulate the food environment to actually reduce the glucose spikes.

And people find that all of those things can positively impact glucose spikes, especially the walks after the meals.

But it's been fascinating to see a lot of women, especially like menopausal women in our community, who find that their glucose patterns are getting worse because estrogen is dropping, and that's going to really –

take a hit on insulin sensitivity, they start resistance training, glucose comes kind of right back down.

So because of the monitor, they can feel more confident in the intervention they've chose to do to help with metabolism, and that kind of creates a virtuous cycle.

So those are some of the big things.

Can I mention one more?

Please.

I could obviously talk about this all day.

I think it's fascinating.