Dr. Dawn Mussalem

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1,606 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 25 Dec

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · Mayo Clinic Cancer Doctor: 5 Foods That Heal the Body, Starve Cancer, & Prevent Disease · 23 Oct 2025 podcast

You know what I think, Mel, the biggest reason why individuals who don't get enough sleep aren't as healthy as they should be, that goes right in line with that cancer discussion is because it really disarms metabolic health.

You know, so moving beyond that brain health into what else is happening in the body, we know in people that aren't getting adequate amount of sleep or good quality sleep, that it really is interfering with optimal metabolic health or control of blood sugar during the day.

It's tricky, right?

And again, we chatted about how 93% of Americans fall in this bucket of not being metabolically healthy.

I really would love if doctors checked something called a hemoglobin A1c in their patients.

This is an average blood sugar level over a three-month period of time.

Hemoglobin A1c.

A1c.

It's a simple blood test.

You know, it's tricky, though, because oftentimes Medicare doesn't like covering it.

You know, doctors just need to code properly and really try to get that test checked.

And at the end of the day, if your doctor doesn't check it, just do the things that we're talking about because we know those are the things that'll move you forward with being more metabolically healthy.

Get the seven to nine hours of sleep.

We know if you get less than that, generally we see a little bit of an insult to that metabolic optimization during the day.

The blood sugar control just isn't as optimized.

I love that.

And it's such a perfect segue because we're talking about metabolic health.

Okay.

You know, the muscle is what takes up the blood sugar.

So when you exercise, if you eat a meal and you go for a five or 10 minute walk, those muscles are going to take up some of that blood sugar.

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