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I mean, it may be that there are other reasons why first thing in the morning It's not so good as well.

It might be to do with blood sugar or other things.

I'm not going to blame everything on my hormones.

I'm just guessing that there could be other factors.

We really appreciate it.

And now back to our conversation.

So is there research behind that your blood sugar can also affect brain fog? And the reason I ask is actually, I remember being much younger.

So before the sort of whole perimenopause thing kicked in and being like, why did I come into this room again? And I know then it couldn't have been, I mean, it could have been hormones.

We're going to talk about why some people develop loose skin after losing weight.

My blood sugar may be aging your skin faster than the sun.

What's one of your body's most powerful cellular repair system and what it has to do with healthy aging.

And we're talking about the simple daily habits that help your skin stay stronger, healthier, and more resilient over time.

It's smoking.

It's excess alcohol.

Even unmanaged blood sugar.

Each one adds a little more fuel to the fire, and eventually, your skin starts reflecting on what's happening beneath the surface, which is why healthy skin isn't just about what you put on your body.

There are over 10 million people worldwide with type one diabetes.

And although currently we cannot cure it, we can greatly improve your A1C, your blood sugar, how you feel, your vision, and we can drastically reduce the risk of you developing some of the terrible complications that come from uncontrolled or even poorly controlled type 1 diabetes.

Now, if you are a type 1 diabetic and you've used low carb or keto or even carnivore to reduce your A1C back to normal, I need your help.

I need you to tell your story in the comments below, but I also want you to tell your story on social media at large because there are so many type 1 diabetics who are suffering because they just haven't heard your story yet.

Number three, get a continuous glucose monitor.

Usually goes right here.

It checks your blood sugar.

or your actual, your interstitial fluid glucose every five minutes or so, but it's a very good proxy for your blood sugar.

That's different from saying that there's never a stress form in response to walking because pace, hills, temperature, heat, and fitness all affect how demanding a walk becomes.

We've talked about how your body delivers more blood to your working muscle, but what are those muscles doing with the fuel that's arriving? That's where the blood sugar story gets really interesting.

Number three, your blood sugar and metabolic health.

This is one of my favorite benefits because the mechanism is so practical.

When your muscles contract, they need fuel.

That's a population level association, really not a guarantee for any one person, but it sure is a meaningful finding.

The message here isn't that you need to earn your carbohydrates.

It's that your muscles are part of your blood sugar management system.

Is creatine for the gym only? If you walk into any supplement store, you'll find creatine on the shelf right next to tubs of protein and even pre-workout powders.

And they're marketed to younger men generally that are chasing bigger arms, etc., But what about a 65-year-old woman worried about falling, or a middle-aged man with rising blood sugar, or even anyone who wants a sharp memory deep into their 70s and beyond? Today we will look at the evidence for all of them.

This episode follows naturally from our recent conversation about protein.

In that episode, we talked about how much protein you need to build and keep muscle.

25 people completed the trial.

The primary outcome was hemoglobin A1c, which you'll recognize is a measure of how much glucose has glycated or attached to the hemoglobin in your red blood cells.

In essence, we use A1c to reflect the average blood sugar over roughly three months of time.

In the creatine group, A1c fell from 7.4% to 6.4%.

More and more research studies are surfacing and being done that show that fasting for some length of time is not the dangerous thing that we were once taught that it was.

Your blood sugar is not gonna bottom out.

You're not gonna die.

You're not gonna become fatigued and weak and just wither away to nothing.

Number two is fasting is going to decrease your levels of insulin and glucose back down near normal levels or even low normal levels.

This is very, very healthy.

We know that having high blood sugar is very dangerous and very detrimental to your health.

But what we're also discovering is that having chronically high insulin levels is also quite inflammatory and quite damaging to every single tissue in your body, it looks like.

I know with that, there are some symptomology things, especially when it comes to nutrition.

So how does ADHD medication change appetite, blood sugar regulation, sleep?

Yeah,

yeah, that's a big one.

And so I would recommend that you eat the iodine rich foods that I talk about in another YouTube video.

The fifth fact you should know about salt is that not getting enough salt in your diet can actually make your blood sugar higher.

This is very important for people suffering from prediabetes, type one diabetes, or type two diabetes.

If you're also trying to eat a very, very low salt diet, it can actually be making your blood sugar worse.

Salt your food to taste.

The sixth fact that you need to know about salt is that much of the artisanal salt that you can buy in grocery stores, the uppity frou-frou salt, it often comes from evaporated modern ocean water.