1815: Improving Fat Loss, Muscle Gain and Fitness With Continuous Glucose Monitors

May 16, 2022

Kara Collier and Dan Zavorotny, co-founders of Nutrisense, delve into the transformative power of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for optimizing health and fitness. They discuss how CGMs provide valuable data to personalize nutrition and encourage behavior changes. The conversation highlights the mind-body connection revealed through glucose monitoring and explores the importance of tailored strategies for metabolism and stress management. Additionally, they address the significance of meal frequency and individual dietary responses in achieving health goals.

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INSIGHT

CGM Benefits

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) provide real-time glucose data, unlike one-time tests.
This continuous data offers a more complete picture of your glucose levels.

INSIGHT

Fasting Glucose and Metabolic Health

Fasting glucose levels reveal how your body regulates glucose without food intake.
Wide fluctuations or dips in fasting glucose may indicate metabolic dysfunction.

ADVICE

Fat Loss and Insulin

Address insulin resistance and glucose control to manage calorie intake effectively.
Prioritize both calories and hormones for successful fat loss.

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In this episode Sal & Justin speak with Kara Collier and Dan Zavorotny of Nutrisense about how continuous glucose monitors work and how they function as a tool to improve health & fitness through personalized real-time data and individualized nutritional coaching.

What are continuous glucose monitors (CGM) and what are their values? (1:47)
Driving meaningful behavior changes through CGMs. (5:16)
How the numbers are a reflection of your current health. (6:41)
Why it’s more important to capture yellow flags and early warning signs than to wait until you have gotten to a disease state. (9:14)
When glucose rises, insulin usually follows. (11:36)
Why you don’t realize that mind-body connection until you have the data to back it up. (14:30)
Identifying how different we truly are. (18:01)
Insulin, the boy who cries wolf. (23:42)
The most important form of exercise to combat increased levels of glucose and insulin. (24:59)
Why are prescriptions required for CGMs? (27:34)
Why having the hardware, software, and a registered dietician has been the playmaker for NutriSense. (31:19)
How they use the data to coach their clients. (32:25)
The 4 variables you want to sink through when having a response to certain foods. (34:06)
The importance in implementing stress management tools and how the CGM can bring awareness. (37:23)
Are there supplements that mitigate higher glucose levels? (40:22)
Why she recommends eating 2-3 meals a day for the average person. (43:40)
The impact CGMs have on weight loss. (45:04)
How their device helps with the flexibility of tracking. (49:55)
Why with nutrition individual variance MATTERS! (54:13)
Have they seen customers/clients sticking around after the 2 weeks? (58:49)
Understanding how to eat through CGMs. (1:02:17)