I know I like to have a little bit of balance in my life, my diet will never be ‘perfect’ and neither will my body. If, as soon as we ate that bowl of cereal, we were to have a panic attack then fall asleep at the table, we’d get it. I hugely enjoyed reading this book; Jessie offers a detailed understanding of the problem which faces so many of us - how to balance our blood sugar levels - along with simple and accessible science-based hacks which really could help you transform your health. Inchauspé volunteered as a subject, and was shocked to see how clearly her well-being connected to glucose spikes. Let's think through it: when we eat toast, which is starch, and we add sugar to it, like jam for example, the spike gets bigger.

So yes I’ll be loosely continuing to follow the steps, but also keep in mind that if the goal is weight loss then these hacks should be combined with eating a healthy balanced diet and a calorie deficit. This post was all about reviewing the Glucose Revolution diet and hope you may have found it helpful on whether this may be the right diet for you. First thing in the morning, when we are in our fasted state, our body is at its most sensitive to glucose . Here is our process: if, for example, we come across a study that shows on a large scale that walking after eating reduces the glucose spike of a meal, we create a glucose graph, testing this principle on our own body, to illustrate the paper. To minimize the impact on our glucose even further, we can eat our whole fruit at the end of our breakfast .In healthy people, our blood glucose is tightly controlled by our hormones and stays within a healthy range, this is supported by scientific evidence. Over the last few years, I have been steadily gaining weight, though I have always held body fat around my midsection as an apple shape, the old mum tum has been continuing to increase on the tape measure. Improve all areas of your health from your weight, sleep and cravings to your mood, energy and skin – and even slow down ageing – with easy-to-implement, science-based hacks to manage your blood sugar levels while still eating the foods you love. I can get really irritable and feel the effects of what we would often describe as having a blood sugar crash. The best way to have steady energy is to switch to a savoury breakfast , avoiding the crash we usually get a couple of hours later.

At age 19, thrillseeker Inchauspé, who grew up in Paris, was vacationing in Hawaii when she jumped off a cliff into the crystal blue lagoon below. Fasting glucose level and the risk of incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases," Diabetes care 36, no. Inchauspe states that “That the glucose method can support those with and without diabetes to improve – “cravings, constant hunger, fatigue, brain fog, hormonal and fertility issues, skin conditions, wrinkles, poor sleep, menopause symptoms, mental health symptoms, immune system”. Robert Lustig, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine (New York: Harper Wave, 2021). Inchauspé shines in her desire to ensure readers have a good grasp on the facts behind diets, and in her ability to communicate it well.

Jessie speaks about how balancing your glucose spikes can lead to improving hunger, cravings, fatigue, lessening menopause symptoms, reducing migraines, improving sleep, improving immune function and being especially beneficial for those that are attempting to manage type 2 diabetes. Alejandro Gugliucci, "Formation of fructose-mediated advanced glycation end products and their roles in metabolic and inflammatory diseases," Advances in nutrition 8, no.