Diabetes Game Changer

Apr 14 2025 52 ep. 16 mins 2

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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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"Tools in the Toolbox": chrononutrition and intermittent fasting strategies

Apr 14 2025 12 mins

There are quite a few "tools in the toolbox" that will help you achieve your blood sugar and weight loss goals. In this episode I discuss what the science tells us about chrononutrition and intermittent fasting.

Healthy Substitutions which might surprise you!

Apr 07 2025 17 mins

Let's face it, a dietary strategy completely devoid of some of the foods you love is not sustainable. Eat that slice of bread fresh out of the oven every once in a while! But MOST of the time, if you want to regain optimal metabolic health, you will want to keep blood sugar low. In this episode I will give you ideas on some great substitutions that will keep that glucose level in t

Luck, Hope and Self Efficacy

Mar 31 2025 13 mins

Have you ever thought something like "if I had a heart attack, THEN I would for SURE change my unhealthy habits!" Unfortunately, being "scared straight" is only a thing for a small percentage of people. The rest of us just feel scared, but make no changes. Luck and hope are not useful strategies. Self efficacy is! And it can be built!

Cognitive Load and Habits!

Mar 24 2025 12 mins

Have you ever tried to learn something new and felt completely overwhelmed? That's cognitive overload. Creating new habits can feel like that. In this episode, you will learn specific ways to build new health-promoting habits painlessly and just about effortlessly!

How do Diabetic Medications Work?

Mar 17 2025 17 mins

This topic is interesting if you take medication, of course, so that you can understand what it's doing in your body. If you are prediabetic, it is interesting to see what your future holds if you changed nothing about the food you are eating. If you are in neither category, it is still interesting to learn a bit more physiology! Isn't that ALWAYS interesting???

Lipids! Did you know LDL by itself is the worse predictor of heart disease?

Mar 10 2025 18 mins

You've probably gotten your lipid panel measured and you probably know your cholesterol, your HDL, your LDL and your triglycerides. And I'll bet all you heard about was your LDL! And yet that number is the ONLY number NOT associated with heart disease. Want to learn more?

Gout, HTN and Kidney Disease - they are all metabolic health problems!

Mar 03 2025 14 mins

Did you know that metabolic ill health is the major cause of gout, high blood pressure and kidney disease? In this episode I will help you understand not only the physiology of these diseases, but also how they are connected to metabolic health. And isn't it marvelous that simply by changing what you eat you can improve all of these problems?

What causes muscle loss? How do muscle grow? Can you stop muscle loss when you lose weight?

Feb 24 2025 18 mins

The typical adult loses 30% of muscle through aging. Rapid weight loss can cause even larger losses of muscle, even at a young age! Understanding how muscle loss happens, and then learning how to prevent that loss, can be a game changer! And it might even help with other "losses" you are experiencing!

GERD and Dental Health

Feb 17 2025 17 mins

Esophageal Reflux, or GERD, and Dental Health seem to be unrelated topics. But you may be surprised to learn that both problems contribute to insulin resistance! Poor dental health has a bi-directional relationship with insulin resistance, both being caused by, and causing, the problem!

Resistant Starch and Allulose

Feb 10 2025 13 mins

Do you sometimes wish there were a way to decrease the blood sugar load you get from rice, pasta, oats, and potatoes? You can! Turn the starch into "resistant starch." And what about sugar - do you miss the occasional sweet treat? Allulose might be the sugar you are looking for.