Naturally Lower BLOOD SUGAR | Wellness Force #Podcast

We try to honor nature. It's the intention of honoring nature that allows us to honor ourselves. And when we honor ourselves, we start naturally being attracted to good products. You know, like, this is on my. I have my station here. I got a brand new studio and it's this beautiful space and I have all my supplements, I have all my stuff, and I have the ACV right here. I mean, I literally have the ACV on my desk because I take it when I start to feel a little bit jittery, a little bit like, hangry. Maybe I'm on a podcast and I can't eat something, I'll just pop them real quick and take it. I don't know if I'm taking too much. Maybe you can tell me about that. But share with us as we nourish ourselves, as we honor her Mother Nature. Where does ACV play into this? And for people that don't know anything about acv, what is it, what's it used for? And how does it weave into blood sugar?

Yeah, I can't wait to tell you that I wanted to share something too. That what you were just saying made me think of, because I had a podcast with Dr. J. Teeta the other day and he taught me about his three levels. There's like the base level human who's just worried about their health, and we're all there sometimes. So if that's you, don't worry about it. Then we have the culture level human who's worried about. Okay, I'm well enough to worry about. What do other people think? And then there's the next level human level thinking about how am I, how do I fit into this world and what is what I'm doing, doing to the environment? And I thought, like, that is kind of our company in a nutshell. But as far as apple cider vinegar, like I was saying that stable blood sugar is so central, they find that the people who have this most stable blood sugar actually live the longest lives. And so that's where this product came from for me. Once I got married, I realized, wow, life is amazing. I need to hold on to it. And so I want to create this tonic that would help me promote longevity just on a daily basis. So what I did was find ingredients that would A, help promote or like bring down inflammation naturally, but also B, stabilize blood sugar. Because I know that was so central and it was something that so many people were lacking. And so apple cider vinegar was one of those ingredients that I was just blown away by. Hippocrates supposedly used it it's been used for literally thousands of years for so many different applications. And it's really simple and it's natural. And that's kind of a through line with our products, is that I don't want to. We are never going to be like, oh, we found this crazy molecule that's doing this amazing thing. We look at nature, the wisdom of nature, and we just bring the highest quality ingredients from nature into a version that people can use on a daily basis. So like I said, apple cider vinegar is going to promote blood sugar stability, but also it's been shown to help improve fat burning. The number one thing I hear from people is that it takes away their cravings. So you're using it in a beautiful, beautiful way. It promotes satiety. It makes you feel fuller, longer. There's also research about cholesterol. And, you know, you can use at topically. I mean, it goes on and on and on and on and on. There's one myth most people don't realize that it actually can damage tooth enamel. Which is why I was, oh, yeah.

We'Re gonna talk about that. I have that in my notes because that blew me away. I'm like, oh, my God, I had no idea it stripped enamel on teeth. That's why you do it in tablet form. Hello. I didn't think about it. We just don't think about these things.

No. And I came across it only because a friend who was a dentist, I was kind of preaching the benefits of everyone should have apple cider vinegar. She wrote to me, she's like, oh, Autumn, you don't be recommending that. That's actually going to harm people's tooth and animal, especially if you're having them consume it on a daily basis. But like I said, I was, yeah. Which people do and which I was doing. And because I wanted to have that tonic that I could have first thing in the morning to just set myself up for success the rest of the day. And so when I heard that, I was like, oh, shoot, okay, well, I'm just going to create in tablet form. So that's exactly how it happened. But I think we are in this world today where we think there's a pill for every ill. And then those are the answers that we're looking for. But our and apple cider vinegar and our products are just about, hey, there's a beautiful wisdom and a relationship between earth and our bodies. And we've evolved using that intelligence. And somehow I feel like we've all gotten very disconnected from that. And so our product line is just trying to bring people back to that, to that knowledge that your body, when it's given everything it needs and when you take away what it doesn't, can do beautiful things. And so we also added turmeric. We added ginger, lemon and cinnamon. Again because of their, you know, gas prohibitive benefits. They're carminative herbs.

What is carminative? What does that mean?

Carmine Gas reducing. So it actually reduces the production of gas in the digestive tract. Yeah, so that's like. And I came from an IBS world. That's what I was always diagnosed with. And my husband, I would look pregnant after meals when we first met. And I just, I know I hear from people I work with all the time that bloating is a big concern of theirs. And so again, rather than taking gas X or Beano, which is what they always told me when I had irritable bowel syndrome, I just wanted to find a natural, a real gentle push for my body in the right direction. And cinnamon and ginger do that beautifully. And then of course, turmeric is one of the most anti inflammatory substances ever studied. The Okinawans are known to have drank a daily turmeric tea, which is why we had to throw that in there. And all of them also help further stabilize the blood sugar in different ways. And so, yeah, it was really just about how can we. And spices. Who is eating that amount of spices on a daily basis? You don't want to eat curry every day. And so I wanted to give you a way you could still get them all into your diet.

You're like an orator of alchemy and an intelligent hippie. Like, all wrapped up into a beautiful bow. Like the way you just articulate all that was really cool because I think people can get so heady about this stuff. Like, and I fall into it. Like, I like science, I do. I enjoy learning and knowing what, you know, hormone cascades happen and what nutrient does this and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, Autumn, like, we have to use the report card of how we feel as the most determining factor of success. Like, if I feel in my body different, well, then that's, that's the best way to know if something's working or not. Who cares if I've taken gut health supplements? I've taken supplements before and I've taken them for a month and I'm like, I don't really feel anything. Like, I don't actually feel different. And so I use that as a barometer.

And so when it comes to blood sugar balance. Like I said, that is my absolute story. One of the biggest messages I want to get out there is I was someone who believed that a calorie is a calorie. I was, I was a dancer and it didn't matter the quality, just so that you didn't go too high in the amount. And as a result, I was also a maximizer. I'm like, well, then I'm just going to have big hunks and caramel apple suckers. And I had that all day, every day. And we didn't really share my story in this particular episode. But know that it got real bad. My moods were all over the place. I kicked a hole in my parents wall. I was kicked out of my parents house before I e even graduated from high school. And I honestly, I think there were two things that contributed to that. Maybe the psychiatric medications that I was on, Also this blood sugar roller coaster that I had no idea was profoundly affecting my mood. And so once you stabilize that and once I got into school, I realized that, wow, it's not just that it's not fun to be there because you're hangry and because maybe your mood is suffering and you're a little bit more irritable. It's because it legitimately increases your risk for pretty much every degenerative chronic disease there is, right? Insulin resistance, of course, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and then we know Alzheimer's, and on and on and on. So if we can use apple cider vinegar or something like that to just bring blood sugar stability back here you have this incredible wealth of bandwidth. All of a sudden you have more energy, you have vitality, you can sleep better, right? You're going to feel energized. A lot of people tell me this is an energizing supplement for them. So maybe you'll be more inclined to go out there and exercise. And like you said, this wellness wheel, those are all the other parts. And it seems crazy to say, oh, my supplement can give that to you. But in a way, if it's just what you have to start with, it could because of all the other simple actions that are possible when you can just have stable blood sugar and commit to yourself and commit to yourself.

That's really what it is, right? Because there's a decision that one makes based on the level that they love themselves, that they're going to do something different. And even more importantly, they're going to keep the promise. So if we can stack the odds in our favor. Our friend Sean Stevenson talks about this like stack the odds in your favor. Put the odds in your favor so you can actually succeed.