Victoria Song
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And I legitimately had my therapist go like, hey β
I've noticed you've been talking about food in a way that you haven't in a really long time, and I just want to investigate why this is happening.
And I explained this whole experiment, and she's like, I love your dedication to work, but can we consider that it's not out of the realm of possibility that you can enjoy a single slice of cake and see a spike, and that's okay?
This was the ultimate question I was trying to find out in the research.
And unfortunately, there is not a good answer.
So we have a lot of data about diabetics.
We have no consensus among experts about the data from non-diabetics.
So I actually interviewed Nicole Spartano from who had run this study where she took non-diabetic CGM data and gave it to 18 expert endocrinologists who extensively work with CGMs.
in talking to these researchers, they were telling me it could take years, just like several years before we have enough data, enough peer reviewed studies, enough consensus to have an actual actionable advice for people like me.
And I legitimately was losing sleep every night thinking that I had something wrong with me.
And so I went to another doctor
I was showing her all my data and eventually what happened was this doctor held my hand and she's like, I'm so proud of you.
You clearly take a lot of interest in your health.
And I'm here to tell you that your genetics are just crap and you need medication because no amount of taking control of your life
As RFK is saying that Americans should do in making appropriate lifestyle changes, you've done it for over a decade and it's not done anything.
So I need you to hear me when I say, here are three medical prescriptions I'm going to write for you.
And throughout all of this, I was thinking about, like, what does it mean to actually be healthy?
And it's kind of emotional for me because...