A continuous glucose monitor worn for 6 to 8 weeks shows how your body handles blood sugar. Each spike triggers insulin, and repeated spikes push you toward insulin resistance, which causes brain fog, slowed thinking, and weight gain. Eat carbs last, skip snacking, and walk after meals to keep levels steady.
We are huge believers in the continuous glucose monitor for about 6 to 8 weeks for most people, not forever, just enough time to learn about how your body's regulating glucose.
What are those glucose spikes, or when we're talking about insulin resistance, what's that doing physiologically?
The more glucose spikes you have, the more you are trending towards insulin resistance because every glucose spike is an insulin spike. When there's too many insulin spikes, your cells start saying, why you keep trying to feed me when I don't need to be fed? Insulin resistance, it's like the baseline of all the other metabolic diseases, but in the near term, before you even get diagnosed with a disease. It can cause a severe amount of brain fog. It slows neuronal action potentials. It can weaken your heart muscle, weight gain, fat gain. You want to keep your insulin levels as regulated as possible, which means minimizing the amount of glucose spikes that you have during the day. So there's things like putting the carbohydrates at the end of your meal instead of at the beginning of the meal. Try to snack as minimally as possible and definitely go for a walk after every single one of your meals. It keeps your glucose curve steady.
