Brigid TitgemeierBeingBrigid Functional Nutrition · Transforming Women's Health Using Food as Medicine

If you want to stop crashing every day after lunch, here's the one simple hack to start with….

28 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this short health‑nutrition video, the speaker explains that the order in which foods are eaten dramatically influences post‑meal blood glucose. Eating vegetables before carbohydrate‑rich foods (e.g., broccoli before spaghetti) slows the absorption of glucose, producing a lower glucose spike, reduced inflammation, and a smaller energy crash that often triggers cravings. The same foods in the same quantities produce very different glucose responses solely based on sequencing, because the slower glucose entry into the bloodstream lessens the physiological shock and stress.

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Amazing scientists have found that when we eat vegetables at the beginning of our meal, it reduces the glucose spike of that meal versus eating the veggies at the end after the carbs, for example. Easy swaps, for example, broccoli and then spaghetti versus spaghetti and then broccoli, create a wildly different glucose spike even though it's the exact same food and the same amount of food that we're eating. So it's slowing down the absorption of the glucose from meal into your bloodstream. The slowness is really the important piece here. What we're trying to do is we're trying to slow down the speed at which glucose arrives in our blood, because that is the way that we slow down the symptoms. That's the way that we create less of a shock and less of a stress in our bloodstream. That's how we create less inflammation. That's how we also create less of a crash, because with the smaller spike, you get a smaller crash, and that crash triggers cravings and hunger.