Age, Metabolic Health, and Glucose: Kara Collier

What is metabolic health? What is glucose? What is a continuous
glucose monitor? How does stress impact our glucose levels and
spikes? Why should we eat protein before carbs? How does time of
day impact our metabolism? How does caffeine impact glucose
levels? 


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Kara Collier is the co-founder and VP of Health at Nutrisense,
one of America’s fastest-growing wellness-tech startups, where
she leads the health team. Kara is a Registered Dietitian
Nutritionist (RDN), Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist (LDN), and
Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC) specializing in
glucose control and metabolism.


Kara joins us to discuss metabolic health, glucose as we age, how
stress impacts our glucose spikes, the importance of protein, and
more. 


“Typically what you see in the ICUs actually are complications
from lifestyle-related chronic conditions. Something like needing
an urgent leg amputation because of uncontrolled diabetes or
needing to be put on dialysis because of uncontrolled
cardiovascular disease. These were the types of instances I was
seeing over and over and that experience led to some frustrations
wishing I could help people sooner so they never had to end up
there in the first place.” 


“Just like a car has an engine that interacts with many different
components of the car to run it, we have a similar cellular
engine and that would be considered metabolic health as a
whole.” 


“It’s not that we never have our glucose move, it’s just that we
want to keep it in these  healthy ranges and we don’t want
to overload those places where glucose can go.” 


“If somebody is relatively healthy, their metabolic health looks
good overall but their fasted glucose level is always high,
typically the #1 thing that’s happening is chronic stress.” 


“With nutrition specifically, the framework we try to teach
people is: master the basics, understand the fundamentals that
everyone should be doing and then be malleable and empirical. Be
willing to be flexible in your approach based off of your own
personalized data because we all are unique.” 


“About the worst thing that you could do for your glucose levels
is a liquid form of sugar.” 


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