The Truth About Glucose Spikes, Ultra Processed Food and Microbiome Tests - Dr Nicola Guess

The Truth About Glucose Spikes, Ultra Processed Food and Microbiome Tests - Dr Nicola Guess

💬 “It's giving you very perverse and misleading and possibly even damaging advice by this glucocentric approach to nutrition.” -Dr Nicola Guess

⚡️ Dr Nicola Guess is a nutrition scientist at the University of Oxford, specialising in the dietary prevention and management of type 2 diabetes. She also debunks pseudoscience and misinformation on Instagram and Substack.

⚡️ In this episode, Nicola and I look at the latest diet trends and advice that you really shouldn’t be worrying about, and could actually be harming your health - with a particular focus on blood glucose and the CGM craze.

🎧 Stay tuned to find out:

➡︎Why continuous glucose monitors are useless, except for people who are actually diabetic

➡ Which diet “hacks” work for controlling glucose levels (and if they’re even necessary)

➡︎Why “personalised” diet advice from microbiome tests is a sham

➡︎Why it’s not all-or-nothing with ultra processed foods

➡︎The health markers you should actually be looking out for, with actionable tips

📕 Chapters

(1:16) Cutting through the pseudoscience

(3:58) CGMs and glucose spikes

(14:25) The real harm of worrying about glucose

(18:31) What should you ACTUALLY be tracking?

(23:03) How to control glucose (if you need to)

(30:36) Microbiome tests and personalised nutrition

(37:45) Probiotics

(43:52) Reality of ultra processed foods

📱 Connect with me:

TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/drkaranrajan

Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.karanr

📱 Connect with Nicola:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr__guess/

Substack: https://drguess.substack.com/

🔥 For more useful science for your everyday life, grab my best selling book “This Book May Save Your Life”: https://geni.us/DrKaranBook

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