Stress and Glucose levels
Dear Peter, Bob & Team. AMA #24 was a great podcast, thank you. This week has been my first week wearing the G6 CGM. I am non-diabetic but want to understand my glucose trends better and reduce variability. I was giving a presentation today (about 4pm and more than 3 hours after eating or drinking) and about 50 minutes into the presentation my alert went off as my glucose hit 8.3mmol or c. 160mg/dl. I have since gone back to Episode #54 with Kevin Sayer that covered briefly the impact of stress can have on both insulin and glucose. I have moderate to high anxiety with presenting, but was taken back by the impact and immediacy of that stress response on my glucose level. Can you share any insights on this and perhaps what that means for people with even low to moderate anxiety if they are regularly put into stressful situations at work or at home. It seems this group of people may struggle more with reducing glucose variability. Thank you very much.
Relationship between transition metals, especially zinc, and metabolic syndrome (2nd try)
After listening to your interview with Richard Johnson, I searched Pubmed to see if there are any natural inhibitors of fructose metabolism. There are numerous articles about how transition metals, especially zinc, an insulin mimetic, are negatively impacted by sugar consumption, and supplementation can improve markers of metabolic syndrome. Below are a sample of what I found. I hope you will cover this, or refer me to where you already did, if that's the case. Thanks. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191727 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7551875/ https://dmsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13098-019-0497-8
Create a "UFC" of movement
Background: There are a surprising number of people who share the hypothesis that the problem with stability/mobility/movement and chronic pain is that modern conveniences have made us move in ways we are not evolved to do so, and the solution is reversing that. The classic example of a 3 year old having way better movement patterns than an adult. These people include: Beth Lewis of bethlewismoves Michael Rintala of Dns Ron Hruska of PRI Jesse Schwartzman of fitforward Kelly Starrett of thereadystate Eric Goodman of foundation training Question: Stability is a core component of a longevity lever. Do you have a well defined objective for stability in order to evaluate the strategies and tactics that each of these people put forward? I believe this would allow for a gradient that would create a "UFC" of movement where one could combine the strong components of these practices and evolve a superior movement program similar to what the UFC did with martial arts. Hope this question isn't a stretch, An unmobile engineer