Dr. Carrie Jones says stable blood sugar is the foundation of hormonal health. During perimenopause, insulin resistance climbs, raising glucose and triglyceride levels and heart disease risk. Chronic stress elevates cortisol, which boosts glucose on its own, so stress alone can spike blood sugar regardless of what you eat.
Can you explain how blood sugar is the foundation of hormone health? And unfortunately, it goes off the rails as women get into perimenopause, because the change in hormones can make her more insulin resistant. And so therefore, her glucose goes up, her triglycerides go up, and then we have all sorts of issues. I said already cardiometabolic disease. I mean, specifically, it's heart disease is the number one killer of humans. But we can add that metabolic overlay pretty closely up there. And when our blood sugar is all over the place, that ties into one in particular, cortisol. So our stress, stress response, because cortisol's job is to increase glucose. So you may have high glucose not entirely because of your diet, but because have high cortisol all the time, that will increase glucose. And that glucose impacts our brain, our tissues, our bones, absolutely everything. When your glucose is going up or you're becoming more insulin resistant.
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