Today, I share Part 1 of a two-part series with blood sugar expert Laurie Villarreal.

Today, Laurie talks about glucose optimization for all body systems, including the endocrine, immune, digestive, and nervous systems. She explains how glucose optimization can improve your performance, metabolism, skin, and hair, allowing for longer concentration periods, more energy, improved mood, and better sleep. She explains how stabilizing glucose is a lifelong tool for creating optimal wellness as you age, helping you avoid the declining health so many women experience when going into perimenopause. She also clarifies how to use real-time biofeedback data to understand how your body responds to your nutrition, everyday activities, and lifestyle, highlighting the shifts that will impact your goals and success most.

Symptoms of a Glucose Crash

Cravings
Brain fog
Loss of focus
Less resilience
Feeling more stressed
Feeling on edge

Laurie Villarreal's Bio:

Laurie Villarreal, aka the Blood Sugar Maven, is a national board-certified health coach, functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, and a long-time endurance athlete and movement educator turned hormone specialist.

With over 20 years of experience in the health and wellness industry and a client list spanning the globe, Laurie is on a mission to help leading women get the life-changing tools and strategies they need to play bigger in their lives and leadership, using her unique data-driven methods for optimizing glucose, hormones, health, and performance.

In this episode:

How a continuous glucose monitor can help you understand the connection between blood sugar and hormonal symptoms (4:04)
What is the optimal fasting glucose level? (6:04)
Why it is essential to know your baseline glucose level and understand how your body responds to food (8:53)
How sugar fluctuations impact women's health (11:40)
Some examples of foods that could disrupt blood sugar (20:00)
How to delay glucose spikes and improve your blood sugar control (21:40)
How exercise impacts blood sugar levels (24:29)
How to know when it is the right time to exercise (27:39)