The #1 Driver Of High Blood Sugar IS NOT Eating Carbs Or Sugar | Dr. Mindy Pelz

 

okay resetters we gotta dive into what

the number one reason number one above

all reasons and it's not what you think

that your blood sugar is going up

staying up and not coming down I want to

go through the mechanism and the reason

behind that because what hopefully you

always are learning from me is that your

body is always working for you not

against you so if you're working on your

food you're working on fasting and

you're not seeing the results your blood

sugar is still staying High I want to

walk through this number one reason with

you and make sure that we're giving you

tools to address it so we can start to

bring your blood sugar down first here's

where I want to go with this

conversation the first thing that I

really hope you all understand is that

this blood sugar number is pivotal for

your health not just your health today

but it impacts the diseases you will get

it impacts longevity so we want to bring

your blood sugar to a a normal balanced

place now I can tell you and I've done a

lot of videos on this I wrote about it

and fast like a girl what I like to see

is in a fasted state that your blood

sugar is somewhere between 70 and 90

milligrams per deciliter those are

American numbers and the second

measurement I really like to see is that

when you eat a meal your blood sugar

comes down to the same level it was

before the meal within a half an hour

now I know clinically like we see two

hours like we should see a meal come

down within two hours after you've eaten

back to its premial amount but I've

looked at a lot of cgms and Trends in

blood sugar and I'm going to tell you

coming down in a half an hour after your

meal is a very good sign of great

metabolic health so I want to I want to

put that out there in this conversation

just so we're clear on what we're

looking at okay here's the number one

reason stress

it's you being in a stressed state

and this could be stress in your life

this could be stress in your body that's

telling your brain that it's under under

a chronic issue that needs to be

addressed but the bottom line if you

cannot get your blood sugar down we've

got to look at your stress levels I want

to walk through what happens to your

blood sugar when you're in the stress

state but then I want to talk about some

resources and some ways that we can

start to manage stress in a different

way other than sitting you in the chair

and just teaching you to meditate there

are some cool ways that we can go about

looking at blood sugar and stress and

where these two intersect with each

other so the first thing I want to I

want to think about and and get you to

to dive into your body and realize that

when you are perceiving your environment

as stressful and that might be like

you're just you're just sitting in your

seat and all of a sudden somebody walks

into your office they tell you something

very stressful and your blood sugar

spikes you may not even be aware of it

I've seen this happen over and over

again it was something happened to me

the first time I put a CGM on I was I

was sitting in my kitchen and my

daughter who was a teenager at the time

came in and said something to me those

of you have teenage children know how

stressful that could be and we got in a

little tiff and then when she left I

happened to look down at my CGM hadn't

eaten anything and all of a sudden my

blood sugar was spiked 30 points so if

you are under this level of chronic

stress what's happening is your body

keeps dumping blood sugar from stored

tissues into the system to help you run

from the tiger so it can be something as

simple as you're enjoying working in

your office you're having a great day

with your family out at the park what

whatever you're like in a great place

and then all of a sudden a stressor hits

you and boom blood sugar goes up because

your body thinks it's running from a

tiger and so it keeps blood sugar levels

high so that you have plenty of blood

sugar for two areas of your body your

brain so you can think and you can just

be strategic remember the brain loves

ketones but it also 50 of what its needs

are blood sugar so the body will keep

releasing blood sugar into the system

because it needs to to assess the

stressful situation so it can get away

from it the second thing is if your

body's looking to run from a tiger then

it needs glucose in muscles so the

muscles can perform really well so that

they you can run from a tiger

so when we're under these chronic states

of stress all the time we've got to tell

your body to calm down you've got to

have some recovery and resets so let me

just give you one little hack if you're

living in a really stress-filled life

we've got to make sure that we have some

little recovery moments throughout your

week this might be meditation I know if

you're like stressed you're like oh I

gotta sit in a chair and close my eyes

and not think about my stress I get how

stressful that might be so maybe it's a

moving meditation I do this a lot where

like I put my my earplugs in or my music

in my in my earphones and out I go and I

walk all the time when stress hit

because I have to just calm my brain so

it doesn't keep accumulating so we've

got to look at this chronic stress as

being something that will run you and

keep that blood sugar high second thing

to know when you're under stress

cortisol makes you more insulin

resistant so we're going back through

the hormonal hierarchy and this if this

is the first time you haven't heard of

the hormonal hierarchy I speak about it

a lot here on YouTube I wrote about it

and both the menopause reset and fast

like a girl it is this priority system

of your hormones so and the hierarchy

looks like this sex hormones are at the

bottom above that is insulin above

insulin is cortisol and above cortisol

is oxytocin so what this means is that

you are going to become more insulin

resistant when cortisol goes up so as

long as you're stressed and cortisol is

on the scene not only is your body

putting all this stored sugar into the

system so you can run from a tiger but

cortisol is a is is surging through your

body signaling you to be insulin

resistant okay I gotta interrupt this

video because I have a free guide for

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Click here and you can jump right in so

now you're you know you're eating high

protein vegetables like I've taught you

here you've gotten rid of the carbs and

your blood sugar is still staying up

because cortisol is on the scene so this

is what I love and you're going to hear

this really throughout a lot of my

videos right now I am such a fan of

movement and walking because when we

walk we tell the brain yeah we know we

know we're running from a tiger we get

it we get it we're we're moving away

and as it moves away it'll slow down not

stored sugar from being released second

thing that you're doing is you're using

cortisol for energy which is the

movement not for storage so I'm assuming

that maybe you came to this video

because you're trying to balance your

blood sugar but you also are wanting to

lose weight so keep in mind that when we

start to move we use cortisol in the way

that it was meant to be used and this

goes back to our Primal situation but in

this day and age stress is coming from

so many angles like we don't even really

know where stress is coming it's just

popping in at all these different places

which is keeping the cortisol levels

really really high so when we move and

we we just go for a walk what ends up

happening is that we use that cortisol

and then the cortisol calms down and

then you tell your body hey you could

regulate blood sugar don't even don't

worry about just go ahead and bring

blood sugar down it's all good good it's

all peaceful in here we're not running

from the tiger we use the cortisol that

you that that was released and all of a

sudden your blood sugar will start to

come into balance okay third thing that

I want to point out on this particular

type topic because I know so many of you

are really putting in some great effort

to lose weight but let's go back to your

body I want to line you up with your

body I want you and your body to get to

know each other and if your body is

feeling threatened then it's not going

to prioritize weight loss so it's not

because you're undisciplined it's not

because you're doing something wrong

it's not because you're doing something

wrong it's not because you're not trying

hard enough it's because your body needs

to feel safe and relaxed to be able to

lose weight

so part of why I want to do this video

for you was not only for those of you

that are diabetic and you're looking to

balance blood sugar but those of you

that are trying to lose weight I really

want you to understand how impactful

stress is in fact it's so impactful I

literally have done a whole resetter

podcast on this you can go to the

resetter podcast

and you can and you can see the episode

I did on why you're not losing weight it

is to date the most popular episode I've

ever done on my podcast because this is

affecting so many people but instead of

giving you some like magic one-off like

you should do this don't do this I

really want you to like think about the

environment you're living in think about

the what how your body's responding to

that environment and realize that stress

will raise your blood sugar and keep

your blood sugar up a lot more than

carbs and the reason that this is

important is because we become very

dogmatic about needing to control our

carbs and yeah I mean I don't like

refined carbs but nature provided a lot

of great carbs for us but net let's not

get rigid around that and forget that

stress is the number one reason you're

not bringing getting that blood sugar to

drop I hope this was helpful uh women

over 40 I I've written a whole book

about rushing women's syndrome which is

part of what's bringing up this the

blood sugar levels I wrote about it in

the menopause reset the rushing woman

syndrome is a is a phrase that was

originally coined by Dr Libby Weaver she

has a whole book on it but I I want to

make sure that we're very clear that the

elephant in the metabolic room

is stress we're just not talking about

enough so work on stress move your body

so that you're you can your body can

feel safe and loved and it'll bring that

blood sugar down okay if you love this

video you're going to want to check out

the next video of my food series I on

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