Real Nutrition: Healing From the Root Cause with Dr. Sarah Kahn

I love that.

And something that I picked up early in what you were saying was the 10-minute walk after meals.

And a statistic popped into my head.

I don't know.

It's a weird kind of, what day are we on? Wednesday? Anyway, a statistic popped into my head that 80% of Americans have insulin resistance and most of them don't know.

Don't remember where I heard that from, but I've heard that.

And that's really interesting to me because insulin resistance, I believe one of the main symptoms you get for that is correct me if I'm wrong, is fatigue.

Like you're just perpetually exhausted.

So that's really hard to tell in the US.

Are you perpetually exhausted because of stress, working three jobs or insulin resistance? Or is the answer yes? All of those.

Yeah, yeah.

And yeah, definitely.

Fatigue is definitely a sign of insulin resistance.

Brain fog is another sign.

Anxiety is another sign.

So yeah, there's all of these symptoms that are associated with dysregulated blood sugar.

And it is difficult to kind of parse out, right? Like there's, there...

even with like autoimmune disease you know a lot of the same symptoms you know people experience fatigue brain fog and that's i think one of the reasons autoimmune disease goes undiagnosed for so long is that they'll just go to their doctor and they'll say hey i have these symptoms i just i'm tired have brain fog and a lot of times doctor will just kind of be like you know it's just life you're busy you're a mom you have you know three kids three young kids or like you know you're a college student who's you know in college and probably studying and working hard so I think it is often hard to pinpoint unless you're doing blood work.

So I always tell my patients, always advocate for yourself at your doctor's office and ask for blood work.

One of the things I give my patients is just a full, complete list of all the biomarkers that they should get tested when they go to their doctor every year.

And it's broken down by inflammation, liver health, blood sugar, with blood sugar, including fasting insulin, because A1C and blood glucose will look fine for years until, you know, you could be having dysregulated blood sugar, but your A1C and your... fasting glucose can be fine.

So fasting insulin is a way better predictive marker of diabetes.

So I'm always giving them just like the information so they can go get tested and see if something is off because it's really just, it's, it's hard.

Cause like you yourself can be like, yeah, you know, it just, I've been busy.

Of course I'm, tired you know of course i have a little brain fog i haven't been sleeping well but it's always important just to get the blood work done and understand is are there any you know are there any nutrient deficiencies or are any of my numbers off like is there something wrong with my blood sugar or my liver health or my inflammation and these are really good markers um to understand and know that if something is off you can go get the appropriate help that you need earlier than later