How Toxic Relationships are WRECKING Your Health! | Glucose Goddess

maybe you haven't done any research on this yet but I'm curious about your thoughts of being in the wrong intimate relationship or in a toxic relationship and how it affects your glucose spikes and your health oh cool question uh there's one study that comes to mind that kind of shows um the reverse so they did this incredible study in the US they uh recruited I think it was 100 Couples married couples okay and they gave each person in the couple a voodoo representing their spouse oh my gosh and the researchers bless them they asked the participants to put a pin in the voodoo doll every time their spouse annoyed them come on I'm serious and then they also measured these people's glucose levels what did they find they found that the people who had the most irregular glucose levels the more roller coaster well they had put more pins in the voodoo doll representing their spouse and now we so they had anger and resentment towards their spouse more yep and they had more glucose spikes yep holy cow so one of the hypothesis of the scientist was that glucose spikes impact this hormone this molecule in your brain called tyrosine which is in charge of regulating your mood and keeping you Cal calm and cool and when you have lots of glucose spikes that thing does not do well and it's not at its normal levels and that can lead you to being more vindictive more irritable yeah so that's that's the only thing I know but then in terms of what happens if you're in a toxic relationship well you know if you're in a situation where you don't feel well and you're trapped or you're in a very difficult situation your nervous system is going to respond your nervous system is going to be in fight oflight cortisol levels are going to increase you're going to be seeking out dopamine to counteract the very difficult emotions you're feeling so as a result like I can totally imagine how that would lead somebody to eat lots of sugar have more regular glucose spikes etc for sure wow this is fascinating and for though you know you mentioned uh diabetes a little while ago if someone's not going to use a glucose monitor they're not going to monitor themselves what would you say are the top three signs of understanding if your blood sugar is out of balance or unhealthy well first of all your doctor should probably once a year test your fasting glucose levels so that's a pretty standard test um and that will tell you do you have pre-diabetes or diabetes but once that happens it's kind of like well okay now you do something about it but before that I would say the most common symptoms are cravings for sweet Foods I mean that is just such a sign especially if you have them multiple times during the day that means you're on the roller coaster and then second one which we haven't really touched on yet has to do with energy levels so let me explain to you something physiologically you know how I explain that your body Burns glucose for energy now there's one little organel that does this conversion of glucose inter energy it's your mitochondria the PowerHouse of your cell Etc your mitochondria their job is to grab glucose molecules that you just ate and transform them into energy for your body to use and your mitochondria are super happy when they receive a steady supply of glucose they're like steady transform into energy steady all good now the problem is if you give your mitochondria way too much glucose at once a little bit like if you gave a plant at home way too much water at once your mitochondria are going to stress out they're going to sort of go on strike they're going to go too much too much information cannot handle like I'm just going to go have a nap and they're going to stop converting glucose into energy as effectiv wow you as a human feel this as chronic fatigue playing with your kids is exhausting waking up is exhausting going grocery shopping is exhausting it's 3: p.m. you need five Red Bulls and two coffees to stay awake and then at night you can't fall asleep but you don't feel well oh man right so there's there's a problem in your energy capacity in your body your mitochondria are damaged with every glucose Spike you increase that damage of your mitochondria and so chronic fatigue is a Telltale sign that your glucose levels are out of work so I would say cravings and chronic fatigue oh my gosh you're like whoa oh my gosh this is amazing um there's something that you triggered in my mind to ask you about smoothies juices and coffee can we have them or do they cause too much of a glucose Spike that cause more damage than I guess healthy benefits first of all you can have everything I'm always going to tell you if if it's 2 p.m. I like it don't restrict me come on yeah I'm like if it's 10: a.m. on a Sunday and I want chocolate ice cream I'm going to have it okay yeah eat it 100% okay so but what happens to our glucose levels when we have smoothies juices or coffee okay so first of all coffee fine just don't put any sugar in it no sugar yeah or some something well then have the sugar but you have to have something else before yeah try to have if you have sugar in your coffee have it after breakfast instead of before breakfast don't just drink coffee with Sugar by itself big Duo Spike big one yeah what about coffee with like a milk or a creamer or something like that fine oats milk is going to be the worst for youro lels oats milk is like making pasta juice oh man so you cook some pasta you put it in the blender with some water you blend it until it's liquid that's pasta milk bed when you make oat milk it's the same what about oats by itself with a little bit of protein that's better yeah that's good for breakfast you can have that listen if you love oat milk have it you know I'm just telling you the different stuff so oat milk not my favorite favorites would be like whole fat dairy or nut milks almond milk unsweetened unsweetened almond milk little bit of D that's fine a little bit of stevia yeah why that's fine okay okay let's talk about fruit you ready yes okay what's the worst fruit to have ah there's no such thing as worst fruit what causes the greatest Spike fruit juice juices okay yeah let me explain so you know how humans um bred gray wolves into lots of different breeds of dogs like Chihuahuas Chihuahua is not a natural breed right we've for thousands of years we've been breeding different wolves and blah blah blah to make all these different breeds of dogs well we haven't been doing that just with dogs we've been doing that with plants and with fruit all of the fruit you find today at the supermarket is not natural not a single one they are all yes they are all the results of thousands of years of selective breeding to make fruit that are juicy full of sweetness not too much fiber not too many seeds Okay all the fruit that we have today is a human invention they're all human inventions if you compare let's say today's banana to an ancestral banana ancestral bananas are full of seeds they're tiny they're tart and they're really hard to eat so remember this fruits are a human invention today's fruit are human invention now the thing is if you want to eat something sweet having a piece of fruit is still the best thing to do because fruit contains fiber and fiber as I explained helps to slow the glucose Spike which fruits have the best fiber because fruit juice you're saying has no fiber very little yeah listen I don't I don't want to call out specific fruits I think have the fruit you like best um I don't I mean okay fine if you want me to call specific fruits I will um berries tropical fruit like mangoes even app these days are super sweet I mean have whole fruit I don't want to demonize whole fruit but what happens is that if you juice fruit you're throwing away the fiber that's the stuff that goes into the garbage bin that is the fiber that's the good stuff yeah for your gut and helps the spice to go down yeah and then if you make a fruit juice it's just water and sugar and without the fiber without the fiber so what if you had the fiber in some other food first and then you had orange juice sure if you want is the spike going to be lesser yeah I mean you can always you know be very ingenious about stuff but I would recommend people see orange juice as dessert if you want a juice it's for pleasure it's it's for dessert