The Basics of Blood Sugar for Metabolic Health

Sonja Manning explains how blood sugar is tied to your metabolic health and overall health.

⚡️ Metabolic health is all about energy. Having good metabolic health means that your body can efficiently make and use energy.

🥦 We get most of our energy from glucose, which is a sugar that comes from the foods you eat and circulates in your blood. It’s often called blood sugar.

💪 Cells take that blood sugar and they use it to make their own energy so they can do their crucial work, whether contracting muscles, relaying brain messages, or fighting off infections. Blood sugar isn’t the enemy. Without glucose, our cells don’t work.

🍽️ However, healthy blood sugar should gently rise after a meal and fall just as gently in the hours after you eat.

📈 But if you eat glucose more quickly than your cells can absorb it, glucose in the blood rises to unhealthy levels. We call this a blood sugar spike. When your glucose spikes, the excess sugar can stick to cells, making them less efficient at producing energy and doing their cell jobs.

🫠 After a spike, glucose often crashes, leaving us tired, cranky, and hungry, even if our body doesn’t need food. All that spiking day after day may lead to weight gain. And repeated spikes long term can lead to conditions like prediabetes, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and more.

✅ Levels can help you focus on simple and practical meals, activities, and lifestyle changes that minimize glucose spikes and boost your day-to-day energy level. These new habits can also help you achieve your strength and weight goals and stay healthy in the long run.

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