4 things that affect blood sugar | Dr. Jody Stanislaw

Hi everyone, I'm Dr. Jody Stanislaw and today I'm going to talk about all the different variabilities that could be changing your

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sugar

levels during this time of quarantine if you haven't seen me before. My name is Dr. Jody Stanislaw. I had type 1 diabetes for 40 years and have dedicated my career to helping people with type 1 diabetes around the world through my virtual practice and online t1d training courses. I am also a holistic doctor, which means that when I work with patients I want to make sure that all of you, all parts of you are doing well, yes, I work with

blood

sugar

, but the mindset, the exercise, diet, all that stuff, sleep, it's so important right now, we're going through tough times all over the world, unity is great I think.

I have to say that we bring people together and we have to take very good care of our bodies right now, well, the four pillars that I have talked a lot about in my videos lately, good sleep, good food, good exercise and good emotional health, I hope that you have seen. My videos so you can remember all the great ideas that we can do for those four areas, but today I wanted to delve into some of the

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that I constantly work on and that I work with my patients through my virtual practice and that's it . variabilities that we need to consider in our lives especially right now that alter our blood sugar level so I've had type 1 diabetes for 40 years so I'm not new to this game and it's very frustrating for me when I I realize that.

Many patients have only been taught that they know that counting carbohydrates is the main way to control their blood sugar level and yes, I mean we need to count carbohydrates, but we also need to understand that there are many more

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our level of blood sugar in addition to carbohydrates. I'm going to delve into that today for you. Carbs can be fast. They can be slow. Low glycemic index. High glycemic index. You can eat protein with them or not. You can eat fats with them or not. All this makes a difference. I'm not going to get into that today I'm going to get into specific things about quarantine that could be

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ing your blood sugar because, frankly, the issue of how many things can be adjusting our blood sugar there's no way to that fits in a five. to ten minutes of video, so if you want to learn more about what I hope you want, you can visit my website.

I highly recommend you visit Google Dr. Jody diabetes and my website will appear: Dr

jody

nd.com. d-r-j-o-d-y-n as a naturopath like on doctor.com and you'll see a ton of free videos there and you can even click "let's chat" and we could have a live chat, which would be great because I love helping patients with type 1 diabetes. but Today I just want to mention four things that could be affecting your blood sugar right now that I want you to think about. Okay, a lot of things affect our blood sugar, but if you eat differently than normal, that will obviously adjust. your blood sugar changes it, so you'll have to learn to dose differently, maybe you have larger meals, you'll have to dose differently, maybe you have smaller meals, you'll have to dose differently.

True, I teach this in detail in my course. I'm a big fan of what I call microdosing, so microdosing is actually taking the dose of insulin for the meal and distributing it, and you really need to become an expert at that in order to become an expert at type one, um, but if you're eating differently, I hope you already know that you need less or more microdoses of insulin is more like the advanced step, just figuring out your first dose is pretty difficult. For most people, that's true, but I work with microdosing with patients to really understand that they know our meals aren't suddenly digested all at once and our blood sugar doesn't go up all at once, sometimes is slow.

Spike constant over time, so make sure you learn how to make adjustments to your different meals right now, that's tip number one. Okay, you have to adjust differently when you eat different foods. I'd love to help you learn more about it. Number two is what is your stress level like? We all know that stress can raise blood sugar, so if you have a lot of anxiety and who knows what else is going on in your life, you know that greed is not the only stressful thing in people's lives. worlds today um I certainly know that it's not just in mine too so I realize that the stress that I just noticed the other day I was running probably 10 or 20 points higher all morning when I was dealing with something very stressful um sometimes it's like a mild spike, but other times it's a really intense spike, you get the phone call, you're scared and you get the spike, so it's true, it's not just foods that spike our blood sugar. blood, our own emotions can raise our blood sugar level, so please.

Check out my page to see my feed of all the other videos I've been making. I have many videos explaining ways you can reduce your stress, which is very important right now. Okay, but that's step number two or thing number. Two, that always step that may be changing your blood sugar levels right now. Well, of course, the third thing is your activity level. Know? Are you being more active right now? You will need less insulin. Are you being less active right now? You're going to need more insulin. I really encourage you to stay active. It is key to keeping our immune system strong, but you need to learn to adjust your insulin, not only at meal times, but also to your environment if you are more or less active.

I'd love to help you with that if you don't know how to do that and then of course step number four that you might be changing right now is your sleep patterns. Will you stay up later? Do you sleep less? Do you sleep more? Getting good sleep really affects our blood sugar levels. Lack of sleep can cause a level of stress that lasts all day and that can create a need for more background insulin, or maybe you're less stressed because you're not at work. maybe all those stress chemicals aren't pulsing through your blood and then maybe you need less insulin, so those are the four things I wanted to leave you with today, although I want you to think about whether your blood sugar levels are unstable, TRUE? eat differently, do you need to dose differently? do you exercise differently, more or less? do you sleep differently?

And what is your stress level more or less? So those are four areas, interestingly enough, they correlate to my four pillars of health that I often talk about about how to sleep well. good diet, good exercise and good mental health, so I really want you to think about those four things, how they might affect your blood sugar. If you want my help making adjustments, you can watch some of my videos on my website. and you can even sign up for a free call with me. I'd love to help you brainstorm and guide you through this. I work with patients all over the world, so I'm here Monday through Friday to keep you full of positive ideas. motivational inspiration in these difficult times, leave a comment below if you like this video.

I always love getting feedback, it's fun just being on the phone. I like hearing from people, so leave a comment. um, I could go for a walk. or you could even take a nap. I just had lunch. I'm 132. My high alarm is at 1.20 because I keep it very set. You know, that's my goal. So maybe just go for a walk. lunch before this video, so it goes 120 130 and so on, to avoid that if you go out for a walk, you can flatten the peaks of postal mail. I talked about that in yesterday's video, the three ways you can avoid mail spikes or maybe that was Monday's video.

I think so, thanks for watching. I love inspiring guys around the world, but check out my website for more resources. Comment below what you like. If you have any questions, my website is Dr

jody

nd.com, that's d-r-j-o-d-y and as a naturopath. D like on doctor.com and I'll be back tomorrow so I hope to see you and then bye for now.