I drank a drink recently as an experiment called immunity fix, and it was like a $10, juice bar drink. In excess or concentrated forms, fruit can have negative blood sugar effects. This is something interaction between my environment and my body that I have some control over.” I have the tools to adjust that.” And that can be really liberating like, “Okay, this is not just who I am. I think that sometimes we think of ourselves as like, oh, we’re just an anxious person or we are just someone who is always a little bit tired, I’m just tired all the time and you don’t really know why, and there’s a million wellness things to choose from, but having this data that’s like, “Okay, actually you’re feeling anxious when you crash after a glucose spike, that’s when you feel anxious.” It takes it away from like, “This is who I am,” to, “This may be related to a choice that I’m making, that I have the agency to change or to modify. When you understand why you feel tired or anxious, you can take steps to improve. Over time, if you’re doing that day after day after day for 30 years, there’s really no question that that’s going to contribute to insulin resistance. I’m trying to stay within that range of like a gentle peak, and so 60 is huge. For context, I generally don’t really want to go above 30 points ever with a meal above my baseline. In the beginning of the company, when the five co-founders, me and my four co-founders were all together, we did an experiment, where we each had a packet of just the Quaker instant oats, so it was like plain oats in a mug, fills up like a third of the mug, and you microwave it, and universally, our glucose all went above a 60-point rise, so from baseline to the peak after the meal, it was 60 milligrams per deciliter. Long touted as “heart healthy,” oatmeal and oat milk typically have an adverse reaction in most people. ![]() I’m going to the grocery store on a micronutrient, molecular information hunt. Now that we understand, we’re at this exciting point in the scientific sort of world where we really understand cell biology on a very, very deep level, and how food compounds are interacting with that, and so that’s really the framework through which I go to the grocery store. Really, when we go out and eat, we’re choosing what molecular information we want to put into our bodies, because that information is going to determine how our genes are expressed, how our hormonal pathways are signaling and how our cell biology works. The way I really frame food is that food is molecular information. You wouldn’t put water in the gas tank of your car, and you shouldn’t put unhealthy food into your body without expecting consequences down the road. You can bring down that glucose spike, and so just building a context around these foods so that you’re not getting such a heavy hit of a glucose spike. Like when you move even for 20 minutes after a meal, you can bring down that. When you track your glucose with a biowearable like Levels, you are able to understand the relationship between inputs and outputs.Įvery glucose curve is a learning opportunity, and for me, the learning opportunity with that is think about ways to pair grapes with other things, like could you add them to some sort of fat source or fiber source like a chia pudding or something like that to maybe offset some of the glucose spike? Maybe just make sure that you’re eating your grapes before or after movement. They’re not being paired with other things that can blunt the glucose response, and the things that really can be helpful with fruit in blunting the glucose response is adding fat, protein or fiber, so that could look like adding chia seeds or a nut butter or something like that, and we rarely do that with grapes. I think grapes are often being eaten like that. I’ve heard this concept of naked carbohydrates. It’s kind of unusual, so you’re often eating them alone. ![]() Like we don’t really pair grapes with nut butter or with yogurt even, or with oatmeal. I think one of the key things that might be unique about grapes is that we kind of rarely eat them with other foods. When you look at the nutrition of grapes, they do have about 10 to 20 grams of sugar per cup, so that is a lot. We have a lot of people logging different types of fruit, oranges, apples, berries, but grapes was just absolutely off the charts. ![]() Grapes was fascinating to me, because here’s a fruit. ![]() Because grapes are typically eaten in isolation, they have a significant impact on blood sugar.
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