💬 “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/
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