Are you an athlete trying to eat low carb and stay in Nutritional Ketosis?
When are you doing too much and need to vary your plan?
Are you matching your nutrition with your exercise intensity and duration?
How do you know when you need to make adjustments to improve fat loss, performance and longevity?
We are all unique individuals and what we eat impacts our glucose differently. It is not only what we eat, but when, how and why.
Every stress response is a blood sugar response – so be aware of how you respond and manage your stress!
What is the solution to personalize your nutrition, health and fitness program?
Test and not guess.
Kara and I chat about common low carb athlete questions on CGM – a continous glucose monitor.
1. Why/How would an endurance athlete benefit from wearing a CGM for 30-90 days?
2. How does EXERCISE and time of day impact our glucose?
3. How can we use CGM to match our NUTRITION with our exercise?
4. How does the CGM help us figure out which foods and meals work best for burning fat, weight loss and Nutritional Ketosis (test ketones)
5. What has your team learned from athletes wearing CGM – to burn fat, optimize health and improve performance?
6. How does SLEEP impact our glucose or why does glucose go up while we sleep?
7. How does STRESS impact our glucose?
8. Notes: hot questions – does this break my fast? Fasted exercise; fear of carbs; fasting/fed labs
A common listener question:
I’ve been wearing one for 2 months and love it! I’m trying to find sources of good fuel for long rides and runs. I tried a few foods before ( Ucann bar, gluten free bread with almond butter ) which spiked my glucose over 70 points! I would love to know 1. Are higher glucose spikes more acceptable during endurance events? 2. Are those high spikes followed by steep drops which are also bad ?
How does the food you eat impact your glucose levels?
You can use our code to save on Nutrisense: “LOWCARBATHLETE” that gives customers $25 off their first month and it provides you $25 off per purchase
Let’s test and not guess what is actually going on inside and under the hood! You can now measure your glucose levels 24 hours a day with NutriSense and get the feedback from a R.D..
1. Talk about blood sugar and food sensitivities and chronic stressors – hidden internal and external source of stress. How they impact our ability to burn fat – optimize health- improve athletic performance
2. Female hormone cycle and blood sugar -matching nutrition, training/exercise with menstrual cycle – track with NutriSense
3. Chronic stress – as “every stress response is a blood sugar response”
4. Immune system – as “stress is on and the immune system is depressed (SIgA)”
5. Food sensitivities – corn, eggs, soy, dairy, nuts, vegetable oils and other tagged IgG and IgA food sensitivities against CGM
6. Sleep – OURA ring (I wish I had one) to track quality of sleep vs. blood glucose vs. stressors – external and hidden internal stressors as pathogens, bacteria, fungal, yeast and microbiome
7. Microbiome imbalances and blood glucose
8. Congestion liver –“liver time” 1-3am
9. Hormone imbalances as Cortisol
10. Exercise type, timing, and glucose
11. Fasted workouts
12. Intensity of workouts and glucose- fat burning or glucose dependent
Have you ever looked at “liver time” 1am to 3am in Chinese medicine? Internal sources of chronic stressors -gut bugs/parasite/fungal activity at night– activate cortisol and cortisol raises glucose.
Interesting in TCH with Liver activity at night- not sure correlation to blood glucose but possible connection to liver congestion, toxins and detoxification https://www.healthline.com/health/chinese-body-clock
Order your Nutrisense and check out how your body responds to nutrition, stress, exercise, toxins, hormones and more. This would be good for all of you to test out for at least 14-days to monitor your blood glucose and see what impacts your blood glucose. I just loaded this onto my arm… 14-day CGM! NutriSense may be beneficial self-experiment for you as well. Click here to learn more https://bit.ly/3iDG16T
Here is my video we just recorded as I was scared to install it. https://youtu.be/jjWSCXbticI
Kara Collier is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Nutrition Support Clinician with a background in clinical nutrition, nutrition technology, and entrepreneurship. After becoming frustrated with the traditional healthcare system, she helped start the company NutriSense where she is now the Director of Nutrition. Kara is the leading authority on the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology, particularly in non-diabetics for the purposes of health optimization, disease prevention, and reversing metabolic dysfunction.Kara oversees the health team and product development and has personally interpreted thousands of complex glucose datasets.
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