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The root cause of your imbalanced blood sugar is...stress!
Most of the clients that work with me tell me that they're not stressed, yet when we delve into their history, many indicators of stress are present. Here are some of the common ones:Blood Sugar Imbalances: Consistent high or low blood sugar, HbA1c above 5.7, roller coaster blood sugar readings, and/or blood sugar time-in-range < 80%Little Time For You: downtime in your day or downtime that always comes at the end of the dayBackloading Your Meals: Eating most of your food in the afternoons and eveningsOut of Range Lab Work: High blood pressure, cholesterol, or triglyceridesSymptoms: Difficulty in losing weight, fatigue, poor sleep, gas and bloating, frequent urination, shoulder tension, clenched jaw when resting, mood swings: reacting strongly to any minor inconvenience, strong cravings for carbs and sugarHormonal Imbalances: including estrogen, progesterone, and testosteroneFull Voicemail Box: When you're too scattered from all your demands, things like this are more likely to happen.We need to really redefine what stress because many times it's a point of confusion on what it means and the impact it can have.Stress is an inability to keep up with the demands you are placing on your body. It's like a computer that turns hot when it's on for a long time, a car that starts smoking when something is wrong with the engine, a phone that shuts off when it's too cold or hot. The thing is we can't get rid of stress. I have stress, you have stress, everybody has stress! The point is not to get rid of it. Rather, it's to improve your body's ability to tolerate it better so it doesn't continue impacting your blood sugar and health.Stress is not just the emotional stressors we feel, the anxiety of a busy day, or the demands of our work, but rather an accumulation of things in our lives that we just don’t have the resources to deal with.To explain the impact of stress, I like to use my Leaky Bucket analogy.Let the bucket represent your health, including how you feel and your blood sugars, the holes in the bucket represent your stressors, and the water represents the nutrition lost as a result of stress.You can even see the impact of this bucket firsthand. While stress does make us more insulin resistant, lowers carb tolerance, and tends to raise blood sugar, it also causes us to urinate more frequently.For example, have you felt the need to urinate more frequently when you've been really nervous or stressed prior to a presentation, job interview, or big decision?Stress is a diuretic, meaning it makes you pee more frequently, and guess what follows that fluid? It’s all the vitamins and minerals that we need to better manage our blood sugars, including potassium, magnesium, calcium, and B vitamins.If we just simply were to look at your nutrition and supplementation, we would never fix the holes in your bucket so that you can actually retain them.Good nutrition is not all about what you eat or supplement, but rather what you keep.Click the link below to learn more about how we can quickly support you in feeling your best and getting your blood sugar balanced in the next 30 days!
