Menopause Reimagined with Andrea Donsky
Welcome to Menopause Reimagined, your go-to podcast for transformation and education around menopause and midlife wellness.
I’m Andrea Donsky, your host. With over 20 years as a multiple-award-winning nutritionist, four-time published researcher, and menopause educator, I bring you real talk and trusted guidance. As co-founder of wearemorphus.com, I’m dedicated to helping you take control of your perimenopause and menopause journey.
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Menopause Reimagined with Andrea Donsky
Episode #30: Balancing Blood Sugar with Dr. Steven Masley
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In this video, Andrea Donsky, nutritionist, menopause researcher and menopause educator, and co-founder of Morphus, interviews Dr. Steven Masley, a physician, nutritionist, trained chef, author, and the creator of the #1 health program for Public Television, 30 Days to a Younger Heart. He shares how high blood sugar is the #1 cause of weight gain, dementia and diabetes, insulin resistance, and the negative effects and specifically what diet and foods we should and should not eat to help balance our blood sugar.
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00:23 About Dr. Steven Masley
1:15 Why it’s important to balance your blood sugar in perimenopause and menopause?
2:00 Type 3 diabetes
3:30 Insulin resistance and the negative effects
4:53 Can you have both type 2 and type 3 diabetes?
5:40 How do we know if our blood sugar is not balanced?
7:09 Heart Disease and blood sugar
7:40 What you can do to help balance your blood sugar
9:57 How does Exercise control blood sugar?
11:01 Other reasons why when we are in perimenopause and menopause our body can’t handle sugar?
13:19 is a paleo or keto diet good options to help balance blood sugar?
15:36 Do legumes (peas, beans, lentils) help balance blood sugar?
17:29 Soy and blood sugar
20:23 Blood sugar and white potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, beets, and corn
23:52 The right oil
24:30 Intermittent fasting and its effect on blood sugar
27:07 What is the right way to intermittent fast?
30:55 How to know if what we’re doing is working?
31:57 Dr. Masley’s final thoughts
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