Professor Sarah Berry
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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So that's one thing you could do.
The other is pairing foods.
If you compare your sugar source with something that has healthy fats, healthy proteins, it will diminish, that will reduce your blood sugar peak.
And most importantly for me is that it will prevent that dip in circulated glucose.
And we've done experiments at Zoe showing this.
Yeah, have a full fat yogurt.
Yeah, it depends at what time distance there is between having your main meal and having your dessert.
If it's within the same 30 minutes, roughly, then yes, it will absolutely reduce that circulating blood glucose.
We know there's some studies where they give like preloads.
So they'll give people a preload of fat or particularly protein.
And then 30 minutes later or 15 minutes later, give a high carb load and it significantly reduces that peak and also prevents the dip.
But Jonathan, what's important to remember, it's not just about that change in circulating blood glucose when you're thinking of pairing.
It's also about what else is in that carbohydrate source that can diminish some of the downstream effects.
So pairing it with, for example, nuts, seeds, raspberries that have polyphenols that are going to dampen down some of the downstream effects that that carbohydrate is having on changes in inflammation.
10 minute walk as long as it's within about 20 to 30 minutes of eating your meal would count as exercise and the reason that exercise is important is because then your muscles are used like literally taking in simple terms from your blood the glucose and using it so it's bringing down your glucose response but you're not even moving at your desk so many of us might eat and be straight back at our desk if they're really hard workers like i am obviously
But there's evidence that even just moving your legs, and I know we had an expert on one of our previous podcast that talked about a study he had done that showed just twitching, clenching your leg muscles after you've eaten, that can significantly lower your glucose.
Absolutely.
And I think in those experiments that they did with the Inuits many years ago, there's a really nice way to visualize it is if you were to cut your finger, so when the Inuits cut their finger, they bled for a lot longer than the Danes because their blood, they simply put like Bill said, it is thinner.
And you're producing less of these kind of clotting factors, et cetera.
So they just keep bleeding.
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