Dr. Florence Comite

And for some people, having a banana causes your sugar to go as high as a diabetic.

And for other people, it doesn't even budge, but having a cookie does the same thing.

so for me a banana causes my sugar to go up so i have bananas in a limited way and when i do i make sure that i have a handful of nuts or nut butter with it because it's a little more finely tuned the nuances are there it's not just eat well what do you mean by eating well eating well means

trying to stay away from processed and ultra-processed food, starting with protein before you have a carbohydrate that causes your sugar to go up like a pasta or any kind of bread or potato or rice.

But it doesn't mean giving up on foods that we think are unhealthy.

It means looking at the way you can live with balance in your diet so it has more specifics.

You can dig even deeper.

That's a great question and it's complex.

So it can go one of two ways.

You can have mutated a gene and or lived life in a certain way.

Let's say you're under tremendous stress

And you're constantly, you know, your cortisol, which is the stress hormone, is high.

That can lead to issues that affect your body in such a way that diabetes can be turned on.

For example, there's a famous scientist who's actually my patient and I am allowed to talk about him.

He runs a personalized and precision medicine clinic.

program at Stanford, Mike Snyder, he's very well published.

And he diagnosed his own diabetes from being undistressed and having the flu.

So twice in one year, that happened to him.

And he showed that his genes changed expression, and he got significant diabetes.

If you look at him, because most people equate diabetes with being overweight, that's not true either.