"I'm gonna be completely honest with you here it's important I hope it's a subject matter of glucose was boring until I read your book and then I was like oh my God Jesse introspect the glucose goddess..."

"a biochemist an author teaching us the best hacks to eat right without giving up the foods that we love glucose is your body's favorite source of energy your brain cells are using glucose to think spe..."

"what happens is what I call a glucose Spike the more spikes you have the faster you die in your book you talk about these 10 hacks yeah eat food in the right order yeah after you eat move drink vinega..."

"was like either I figure out how to fix this or this is just too painful of an existence before this episode starts I have a small favor to ask from you two months ago 74 of people that watch this cha..."

"Jesse Steven what is it that you do and why does it matter I teach people about how food impacts their body"

"how food impacts their body and it matters because most of us are unknowingly eating in a way that causes many of the symptoms that we suffer from on a daily basis so it matters because once people un..."

"their whole universe upgrades all of the things that they thought were just who they were you know the poor energy the Cravings the acne the bad sleep the hormonal issues all of a sudden they can vani..."

"do you care about this stuff many different reasons um one is a personal story the other is because I see a lot of people suffering from diseases that they don't understand and that unknowingly they'r..."

"way that's good for them and that breaks my heart into pieces you know I want to give people the power back I want to give people the information back because the landscape we live in you know the the..."

"Health Journey um that got me to a point where I realized that health is the most important thing in the world and if you don't have have that you really don't have much and I mean we can go into some..."

"um long version so I grew up super healthy happy kid no health issues nobody in my family had any health issues it was very you know easy and then I'm 19 years old and I'm just you know becoming a tee..."

"friends and we go into the jungle just for a hike and the two guy friends were like super fit guys decide to jump off this waterfall this like 30 feet 30 waterfall and um like Jesse should do it too a..."

"I don't care like I can do whatever yeah I'm not scared so I decided to also jump off the waterfall spoiler alert it was not a good idea so I'm at the top of the the rocks and I'm looking down I'm lik..."

"you're falling you get that sensation in your stomach they're like and I feel that and I just freak out like I am terrified and so midair instead of Landing really nice and straight I kind of like try..."

"really intense pain and so I go under the water I come back out and I'm like swearing I'm like wow and my friends are like oh my God what's happening so I managed to climb out of the water of the pool..."

"up learning was a broken back um which was super dangerous yeah through adrenaline everything was um just pumping and allowing me to do that 24 hours go by I don't know what's happening I'm at home wi..."

"more difficulty and if you just got younger you know every year you'd be so grateful like oh my God like I'm getting you know I don't know my biceps back or my energy back or whatever and it's so trag..."

"you wrote a book called The glucose Revolution the life-changing power of balancing your blood sugar through that book last year why did you write a book about glucose of all the things in health and ..."

"glucose right it's so interesting essentially after having this realization that I needed to figure out how my body worked I went on like a quest you know with different chapters and so first chapter ..."

"bar you know the bar was quite low and even though DNA and studying it was interesting it actually your DNA doesn't give you a lot of information about what you need to do to feel good your DNA can te..."

"that my mental health got worse when my glucose also known as blood sugar was not healthy steady and balanced I discovered that when my blood sugar levels were kind of like a roller coaster these epis..."

"goddess I know they call you yes yes exactly I wanted to find a catchy name after you know two years um talking about this on social media at first my account was just my name Jesse interest pay which..."

"that I could find I had like a thousand tabs open on my computer browser I just went really really really deep and I discovered some amazing things so first I discovered that I was not alone that most..."

"second I was like okay let's look at all the symptoms that are associated with these spikes from the scientific studies right so the most common symptoms of glucose spikes are things like cravings for..."

"for a cookie wow and then I can fall out of like a sugar cycle where um because I've not had sugar in a while I don't I don't want sugar yeah so what I'm asking there is does that Sugar craving how lo..."

"now might have been caused usually by breakfast by the way by the breakfast that you had or the thing you ate a couple hours ago and I call that sort of starting the the sugar addiction cycle right so..."

"but unfortunately when we don't realize that the way we're eating is causing some of these symptoms we might feel like our body is fighting us we might feel like oh my body hates me my body's always d..."

"that were going wrong one of them being my glucose levels so anyway yes I'm all right in thinking that my body is not built or designed for the world that it currently lives in and that's part of the ..."

"we're going to get into yeah exactly how to do that I want to get a little bit back Upstream we were talking about the symptoms absolutely so we you've covered the Cravings um what other give me some ..."

"absolutely a better place to start no no I think symptoms is cool because most people will recognize a lot of these in their own lives so Cravings is the most common one then unsteady energy levels so..."

"glucose levels so the brain if you want your brain to be an optimal top shape studying your glucose levels is really key what if I want to sleep like a baby yeah absolutely also so the more spikes you..."

"and again the first place to look if you want to fix your hormones is balancing your glucose other stuff and there's a lot of symptoms here because glucose affects every single system in the body so t..."

"inflammation now often happens against your own body or just like chronically at a low level and that causes many many many issues so it's a state of stress of the body and it happens in all of us it ..."

"break down and there's a funny uh image for this so from the moment you're born your body is slowly cooking you slowly cook let me explain like a chicken in the oven from the moment you're born and th..."

"if you currently feel if you're like I could I could feel better than I do you know which most of us probably feel then balancing your glucose levels is a really really freaking important place to sta..."

"so to summarize yeah this short and long term symptoms there that I've written down here short-term symptoms cons if you if we aren't able to flatten our glucose levels yeah then we Face the chance of..."

"point where you're kind of cruising and you're like okay I kind of have a handle on things my symptoms are kind of getting better so to me that's that's the way to think about it so this begs the ques..."

"important and the main way that us as human beings we give our body this important substance is through eating foods and specifically through eating two categories of foods starchy Foods so that's lik..."

"that's why we feel all these symptoms so what's going on at a cellular level when I flood my body with glucose so there are three sort of main processes that I want to tell you about on this topic so ..."

"to handle so that's the first thing that happens and when you mitochondria breakdown it increases how much stress there is in your body and it increases that thing we talked about inflammation which i..."

"um something that we might want to talk about really fascinating topic is is that therefore conceivable you know I've got a friend that had um polycystic ovaries and um she said on a podcast that she ..."

"takes the glucose and it's and by the way it's not really a drug it's like something your body makes but then you can also take it um as a drug if you have diabetes for example so this chemical insuli..."

"foreign I think I get it now um is there anything that's like missing from that that picture you've painted for me I I Now understand the relationship between what I put in my mouth the impact that ha..."

"alive but as a consequence of maybe some of the ways you're eating all these symptoms are taking place quick word from one of our sponsors I have to say I've been on a bit of a journey with this brand..."

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"order is veggies first I should make a t-shirt veggies first proteins and fats second and starches and sugars last so let's take an example of a meal Maybe Stephen what's the typical meal you have and..."

"and how you're going to feel a lot of people when they do any do it very much in the opposite or in terms of like kind of they leave the veggies on the side of the plate you know I think when I was a ..."

"eat it at the beginning of a meal she does something absolutely amazing when she arrives first in your stomach and digestive tract she makes its way from your stomach to your upper intestine and there..."

"yeah about that one well so what do you know about calories very little yeah that's fine but tell me and tell me like the what I what I think they are um or just generally like it's a it's a thing yes..."

"you really should give yourself more credit because when before we started you were like I know nothing about food and biochemistry actually you know some pretty good I know from just like doing this ..."

"so I want to teach people about the molecules in the food so they actually start recognizing like oh that food is going to make a spike that food is not and teaching them hacks so they can you know im..."

"then you know restricting calories of course like if you go from 2 000 calories to I don't know how many but fewer than that you're essentially reducing how much you're eating right so yes it's possib..."

"calorie thing breakfast yeah what do you have for breakfast Stephen today yeah uh nothing yet today I I was going so I was actually I ordered food right to this this wonderful Studio here in London um..."

"because of this bread I think the bread is probably going to make me have a dump and I don't ever want to have like a energy dump half with your comments I don't want to fall asleep you know that's ru..."

"eat yeah yeah exactly you peel it but you know and then I showed her some of these pictures of these old bananas and they're like tiny and they're like full of seeds and stuff full of seeds and Tiny a..."

"so when we eat fruit juice we have to do it in a way that's like okay this is dessert right this is for my pleasure this is not for my health this is gonna give me pleasure and make maybe make me feel..."

"to be doing for the rest of the day so what is a whole fruit a whole first is like a piece of fruit that is just oh you think just like not processed okay yeah like like something you can hold in your..."

"you have these 10 hacks in your book and um there was one in particular that I you know there was none of them that I thought I can do this and then there was this other one where I was like let me gu..."

"which is important because you know insulin is also something we want to manage and you might be wondering like how the heck does that work well vinegar contains another cool molecule called acetic ac..."

"I'll think about it um moving on hack eight after you eat move people say this you know they go for walks and stuff after like the Christmas meal or whatever but why why is that from a scientific pers..."

"going to see me have this shot of vinegar and then sit here like I'm like I'm like there's something yeah but then they're gonna be like damn Stephen is doing so great look he's 65 and still kayaking ..."

"have a really really good Savory breakfast even if I'm not hungry before I leave for the plane so I have like my favorite like two egg omelet with feta and tomatoes it's my favorite thing to make what..."

"need to be really good about my Savory breakfast today so I just had that so going back then to my breakfast today yeah ahead of doing this podcast you know these podcasts sometimes last you know two ..."

"feeling now you've obviously been on a health journey of your own but where did you find yourself today man I am so grateful today because for example you know I'm on this trip now and I'm staying in ..."

"so I'm gonna write him a letter this doesn't make me want to do it because he's still around and alive so I love it so yeah not too late okay second question tell me something you have never told anyo..."

"well yesterday I spoke to my dad on the phone and you seemed sad hmm and I mean that made me sad and I just want him to be happy that's all I can think of you sounded sad yeah yeah he doesn't talk a l..."

"know not there you have a suspicion why he's sad don't you like a deeper suspicion yeah I think life is a little bit rough on him right now and um I think a combination of lots of stuff I'm not sure l..."

"yeah and it's like almost quite chronic isn't it like a lot of the subject matter we've talked about today like inflammation it's almost like a psychological inflammation that when you you know they g..."

"know maybe it's just because you know that's my own experience of things but I think those tools are most absent in men yeah typically you know those tools about expression and opening up and vulnerab..."

"it's different from me just asking you those questions versus you selecting one and it being on this sort of Middle Ground enamel object is because it removes the agenda yeah from the question exactly..."