Diabetes Game Changer

Feb 03 2025 43 ep. 16 mins

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Welcome to Diabetes Game Changer: Your Guide to Understanding and Reversing Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes. I'll be distilling the current science about food metabolism into easily understood concepts that you can apply to your own life to improve your own metabolic health. All scientific references can be found housed on the homepage of my website at diabetesgamechanger.com

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Common Misconceptions about Food & Blood Sugar Control

Feb 03 2025 16 mins

Are you under the impression that lactose free products are lower in sugar? Or that gluten free is healthier? Or sugar free products won't affect blood sugar? Or that controlling diabetes with medication stops diabetes from getting worse? All of this and more is explained in this episode!

Intuitive Eating Never Worked For Me

Jan 27 2025 21 mins

Have you tried intuitive eating? Successfully following your hunger and satiety signals? Listening to what your body wants to eat and finding it wants all the healthy things? Managing your weight and your metabolic health with no problem through this practice? Yeah, me neither. Here's why.

Get That OFC Working For You!

Jan 20 2025 18 mins

You have a portion of your brain, housed in the prefrontal cortex, which puts behaviors on a hierarchy based on the perceived reward for engaging in that behavior. Where it sits on the hierarchy dictates how hard (or easy) it is to engage in that behavior. You can change where a behavior sits, and learning how is key to breaking away from food addiction.

How do you gain fat? How do you lose fat? What's the physiology?

Jan 13 2025 18 mins

If insulin is required to gain weight, and you keep your blood sugar low and steady 24 hours a day, how is it that you are gaining weight? And what do you need to do to lose it?

The Protein Leverage Hypothesis

Jan 06 2025 16 mins

Have you heard of the protein leverage hypothesis and of protein dilution? Could the hypothesis explain our incessant food searching behavior, and could protein dilution be one of the causes of humans overeating?

Tolerating discomfort and Diet Mentality

Dec 30 2024 11 mins

Making lifestyle changes can be challenging. How well you tolerate the discomfort of change can make or break your success! And managing your mind around "diet mentality" is a must!

Insulin Resistance and Mental Health

Dec 23 2024 14 mins

Did you know that insulin resistance is one of the primary causes of various mental health disorders? So much so, that providers are now screening for insulin resistance in their psychiatric patients.

Carnivore, Vegan, Mediterranean - which best supports metabolic health?

Dec 16 2024 20 mins

Have you noticed how polarizing it gets when people to try to say which diet is "best"? In this episode I'll break them down and see what they might all have in common that might support best health.

"Eat Lots of Fruits & Vegetables" is TERRIBLE advice!

Dec 09 2024 14 mins

How many times have you hear the recommendation to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, as if they are in the same healthy category? That is far from the truth!

Is it addiction? Or simple habit? Or both?

Dec 02 2024 20 mins

Both alcohol and sugar are addictive. Both interact with those who have diabetes and those who do not differently.