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Megan Whelan

Sep 22, 2026

7:26
Do you mind explaining for the listeners what happens for your body with lifting weights and your glucose levels? Yeah, so
7:33
I don't track my glucose.
7:35
I'm not wearing a CGM or anything, so I don't know in real time.
7:38
But what I do know...
7:40
Carl, you can help me out here because you're the scientist one.
7:44
Muscle is a metabolic organ.
7:46
And so the way I describe it is that basically the more muscle you have, the more carbs you can eat.

28 MINS LATER

ClaireHOST
35:44
How much do you think your activity impacts your diabetes, but also all of the things that impact your diabetes, like your mental health?
13:49
[laughs]
13:49
And, and, and she was like, "What happens if I tell you you can eat this amount of, amount of calories a day, and you get to 7:00 PM and you're, and you've eaten your calories, and you're hungry? What are you gonna do?" And I went, "Oh.
14:01
So it's not about, like, the calories or the counts, it's about how I feel in my body.
14:07
That's weird." Um, and I wasn't used to listening to my body.
14:12
Um, and so now I listen to my body.
14:13
I eat when I'm hungry, um, and I try and space it out through all the days and all of those things.
14:17
But, like, I'm so much more connected at, you know...

16 MINS LATER

ClaireHOST
30:05
Mm-hmm.

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