#262 - How do lifestyle changes affect your metabolic health? | Dr. Robert Lustig & Ben Grynol

#262 - How do lifestyle changes affect your metabolic health? | Dr. Robert Lustig & Ben Grynol

Exercising and changing your diet are both beneficial for metabolic health. But you may be wondering which one has more benefits for fat loss, increasing insulin sensitivity, and more. Dr. Robert Lustig and Ben Grynol discuss the answer to this burning question and more, including how exercise, saunas, stress, and sleep affect glucose levels.


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🎙 What Robert Lustig, MD, & Ben Grynol discuss:

(02:30) — Why do you get a glucose spike when you exercise?

(04:22) — The sport drink industry puts fructose in its products

(05:27) — What happens to your glucose when you enter a sauna?

(06:26) — Is it better to exercise or change your diet?

(08:16) — How cortisol, the stress hormone, impacts blood sugar and health

(10:36) — How does sleep affect your metabolic health?

(12:22) — How do you fix sleep deprivation?

⁠⁠Transcript & Show notes⁠⁠

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