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I was wearing a glucose monitor on a long bike ride when I ate a bag of jalapeño cheese puffs. What can I say, things happen (even to healthy living advocates).
My blood sugar rose to 170.
And not just for a few minutes. It stayed elevated for hours after.
That got my attention.
Not because cheese puffs are âbad.â Not because I think every spike is a crisis. But because this is exactly how m...
We all marvel at our own ability to hit another birthday. Is it an accomplishment? Not exactly. Time marches sprints on regardless.
Still, it's a thing. You got here, wherever that is.Â
And so it is with me. I'm here, halfway through my fifties, and the thing I am marveling at is not so much that time passed, but that things added up.
My menopause transition has not been painful. I have my heal...
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It's not your metabolism. It's not your age. It's not even the calories.
It's the intersection of three things:Â your body's changing glucose response + ultra-processed food everywhere + not knowing how to spot it.
The good news? Once you can identify which foods spike your blood sugar fast (high bioavailability) and which don't (low bioavailability), everything...





