7 Contributing Factors to Blood Sugar Imbalances That May Surprise You

What you feed your body plays a major role in keeping blood sugar balanced but that's only one piece of the puzzle. There are other lifestyle factors that contribute to blood sugar being off balance. 

In this podcast we'll outline 7 contributing factors and offer suggestions to help you make actionable changes that will positively impact the health of your blood sugar. 

Stop Chasing Wellness is an online wellness coaching company founded by two Holistic Health Coaches, Gina and Kristin. Be sure to check out all of our offerings including our book, Stop Chasing Wellness; Create It, and our growing catalog of Hormone Specific coaching courses. All of our courses and offerings are designed to help you feel and live your best life in a simplified way that works for you. You can find Stop Chasing Wellness on Facebook and Instagram

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Hey there, everybody.
Thank you, and welcome back to another episode of our Stop Chasing Wellness podcast.
You're here today with my self-health coach, Gina, and the lovely health coach, Kristin,
who is my beautiful friend and business partner and co-owner of Stop Chasing Wellness.
Today we're here to talk about blood sugar and balance.
And we recently launched a program on teaching people how to manage their blood sugar like
a boss, and we wanted to delve into that a little bit more and talk about that a little
bit more today and some things that really, what you can do to help balance your blood
sugar and things that cause those imbalances.
So we'll start with that today, and the first thing we want to talk about is what you feed
your body.
What you feed your body plays a major role in keeping your blood sugar balanced, but
as you'll learn, that's only one piece to the puzzle.
I love that.
I think, and a lot of these things that we're going to talk about, I think, are not things
that people automatically think of when they think of blood sugar balance or imbalance,
right?
So I love that.
I think this is going to be pretty eye-opening.
So yeah, so tell us, so I mean, because I think, I mean, obesity is kind of the secondary
side effect too for diet, which is kind of the obvious part, right?
The diet piece, but how does obesity play that role in that imbalance?
Yeah.
So overeating definitely contributes to that overactive storage system and inflammation
within the body, right?
As well as that higher level of visceral fat inside the abdomen and around the organs.
You've heard of the visceral fat, right?
And fatty liver and things that we don't want that on the inside.
We definitely don't want that.
And obesity definitely is a part of that and causes that.
So things, how do we work on that?
What are some things we can do?
Well, okay.
I would suggest if you were my client, Gina, be those, you know, the refined carbohydrates
and the sugars, and that's typically where we get that excess weight gain comes from
eating those poor quality carbohydrates, right?
So when people say they're not eating carbs, this is where like, right, we get that, eating
carbs and you should be eating carbs.
We just want to see people crowd out those refined carbohydrates and sugars and things
like breads, baked goods, bagels, muffins, cookies, cakes, pizza dough, right?
All that stuff is your highly refined carbohydrates, that stuff just, if it doesn't have any nutritional
benefit, then it's not doing any good.
It's probably causing some sort of a harmful effect.
So we would, I would recommend that people crowd those out by increasing just fresh fruits
and vegetables and making sure that your meals, like every meal and snack includes fresh fruits
and vegetables.
It's an easy way to just stop you from craving, that we typically crave those refined carbs
and the blood sugar dips.
And we just want something to take that, you know, kind of crave, take that craving out,
but it's just a blood sugar dip.
So if you keep your healthy, fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet with every meal
and snack, it keeps the blood sugar more balanced and stops you from reaching for those crappy
carbs, right?
Yeah.
And those crappy carbs, that's all your, like you said, it's the cakes, the cookies, the
cereals, those pastas, all the white things, right?
The white flowers, the white sugars.
Let's work on getting those things out of the diet and adding in more of that rainbow.
Think about eating that rainbow every day, every meal.
How many fruits and vegetables can you get in your body raw, slightly cooked, whether
it's steamed or any way you can get them in is better than no way.
And fresh fruit, whole grains, vegetables, those are carbohydrates.
So just as Kristen said earlier, people don't quit carbs.
We hope, we hope they're just putting refined carbs, the ones we don't really want in our
diet.
Yeah.
Makes sense?
Absolutely.
And getting in those healthy fats and proteins, whether they're from plants or animals, there's
lots of good animal sources of healthy fats and proteins, right?
So those things can help just kind of satisfy, like it's that satiety level keeps you full
of, helps keep your energy levels up, keeps the blood sugar balance so you're not reaching
for the refined carbohydrates and things.
So with like, so some healthy fats would be things like what, like coconut oil is a really
healthy.
Oh, I thought you were going to say avocado.
My favorite.
Yeah.
So you got your avocados, you have olive oil, your coconut, coconut milk is one that I've
been adding to my green soup lately.
That's a good one.
I have a great recipe for a healthy soup.
The green goddess soup, it's kale and spinach and zucchini and broccoli, and it's just all
the good, great things.
I had onion and garlic in with it, cook all that stuff and then blend it up in the Vitamix
and add a can of coconut milk to it.
It is so good.
And so easy.
I'll vouch for that because I use, I have a lactose intolerance.
So when I, when there's a recipe that calls for like, for milk in a soup or something
like that, I will use coconut milk or even just the can of coconut cream.
Oh my God, it's velvety and it's such a great substitute for animal milk for cow's milk.
Yeah.
I love it.
So good.
And then when we talk about more healthy fats, if you can get some from your salmon or your
fatty fish, think of those are other options outside of just vegetable.
So talk to us more about the diet.
So diet is, I think this is one of the more obvious contributing factors to those blood
sugar imbalances, but it's really important that we eat a balanced diet so that we're
not, like if you're eating crappy foods or things that just are void of nutrition, again,
it causes you to just crave more things and you might be overeating, you might be snacking
between meals.
So we can, if we're focusing on spacing our meals three to four hours apart and getting
really good quality meals, we want to make sure that the diet includes a nutritionally
dense protein, fiber rich carbohydrates and healthy fat altogether at each meal and snack.
It keeps you satisfied, keeps you not snacking between meals and then you're just less likely
basically to just eat junk when you're getting all of the nutrition in there and getting
really good quality protein, carbohydrates and fats with each meal and snack.
It's just an easy way to just keep that satisfaction level up.
Right.
Yeah.
And I mean, then you're just getting all the good stuff, right?
And then let's talk really quick about how intermittent fasting can be really good.
Yeah.
So intermittent fasting is funny for me because I hate putting a label on that because I feel
like most people do that anyway, but I think the point is really just being more intentional
about it, right?
So if you're going to try and not eat after dinner and then make it through till the morning
when you break that fast, try and get at least 10 hours, 10 to 15 hours with no food.
So if you stop eating at six o'clock at night, maybe start breaking that fast around nine
o'clock in the morning, 10 o'clock the following morning, something like that.
And it's really beneficial to balancing blood sugar.
It's giving your body that break at night.
So your body can just finish its work for the day, clean up, prepare itself for the
upcoming day and get everything digested, doing what it needs to do.
Sometimes you've probably heard us talking about in the past, how our digestive system
has day workers and night workers, right?
So when we stop eating at night, you're giving those night workers a chance to get to work
while that good gut bacteria, let it do its job and get rid of what's in there, get rid
of everything that's there, digest and rest and reset for the following day.
And that plays a huge role in sleep.
The quality of sleep.
When we go to bed with a belly full of food, you're not sleeping properly.
You're digesting your body's work.
Yeah.
And that is a contributing factor to blood sugar imbalance.
I was going to say, Dave has a Garmin watch.
It's like the Apple watch, but it's a Garmin watch and it has his biometrics on there.
And he checks his watch all the time to see how we slept at night.
And I'm like, well, how did you sleep?
He's like, I think I slept good.
Let me check my biometrics.
He's got to check the watch to see, but he can always track it down.
If he has a late meal or a bigger meal, he doesn't sleep well.
And it's because the body is working overtime instead of doing what it's supposed to be
doing.
It's working to digest a heavy meal like that.
And that's not what it should be doing at those hours.
Not even just a heavy meal.
Like if you're eating empty carbohydrates, pretzels after you eat dinner, before it likes
before you go to bed, then it's, that's increasing your blood sugar levels, which is contributed
one of the contributing factors.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It all.
So all that not eating after dinner is really important.
And I think that that's a really important piece, but like, I love that you don't want
to name it.
Like, and I think that's important because then it just becomes more of a job, right?
When we're naming it.
It just makes you feel more fad-ish, right?
Like, oh, it's one more thing.
Oh, you're doing that thing now.
You're doing this thing.
No, I'm just taking care of my body the way it was designed to be cared for.
Right.
I mean, that's, that's really what it comes down to.
So things we talked about with the diet, the, that intermittent fasting and just taking
that break from dinner until breakfast, try to get that at least 10 to 15 hours between
those two meals, spacing your meals three to four hours apart during the day.
That helps also regulate your blood sugar and then eating that nutritionally dense protein,
fiber rich carbohydrates, not the refined kinds, not the kind that we're quitting the
fiber rich carbs and healthy fats, eat those together at each meal and your snack.
That's just good sound advice.
What next?
Okay.
So inflammation is another contributing factor to blood sugar imbalances.
And we're talking about chronic inflammation, not the kind, like when you get a, you know,
you bang into the coffee table and you got a bruise on your knee, right?
Like that's an obvious sign of inflammation because your body's got a bruise.
We can see it.
We're talking about chronic inflammation, and this is related to basically disordered
gut bacteria.
So that can lead to things like leaky gut syndrome and obesity and insulin resistance,
fatty liver, right?
It's that inflammation, not necessarily the fat that you're eating that can cause heart
disease and weight gain and some other chronic type of conditions.
So those say that again, inflammation, not fat fat, because we need fat, fat.
We talk about that in that in our, in our hormone, or rather your manager, blood sugar,
like a boss.
And in our eating for hormone health programs, we need fat.
We produce hormones from fat and cholesterol, but we need that really healthy, good quality
fat.
But it's the, it's the inflammation that can cause that stuff.
And inflammation is basically when you have inflammation and you ignore it long enough,
you're going to get a diagnosis.
It's going to present itself in the form of a diagnosis and things like heart disease
and chronic conditions, right?
Like type two diabetes, or I mean, it can even be like chronic inflammation is things
like allergies.
If you're not addressing the things that are causing those allergies, that's just a constant
chronic state of inflammation that can lead to other things.
So if you don't address it, one leads to another.
So an easy way to just keep inflammation at bay again is to crowd out those unhealthy
choices with fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy fats, proteins, all this stuff.
See, it's all the cure for all of these things comes back to diet, right?
Eating your healthy, healthy foods.
It's eating the food God gave us.
It's there.
It's always been there.
So some changes that you can do with inflammation are definitely crowding out, like you said,
adding in those fresh fruits and vegetables and the healthy fats and proteins.
And how about adding some movement?
30 minutes.
Just try 30 minutes, 30 minutes to move in your body each day, just to get that circulation
moving and that lymph fluid in your body, getting all that moving.
Stagnant lymph fluid is where most disease and inflammation comes from, right?
Like the inflammations in the body, if we're not moving that lymph, we're not eliminating
those toxins.
So when we talk about the lymph system, that's like the sewer system of the body.
I think I've heard you call it the plumbing system, right?
It's like what we use to, it's that fluid in the body.
We have our blood that brings in our nutrients and we have our lymph that gets out the toxins.
So we need to have healthy, nourishing foods to bring the nutrients in through the blood.
And we need to have good moving lymph fluid to get those toxins out of the body.
I love how you just, how you just wrapped that and tied that all in together.
So let's talk about toxins and things that we have in our bodies because we have, we
all have toxins in our bodies.
This is one of the contributing factors, right?
Yeah.
But we all have it.
We can't avoid it.
We can try, right, by eating our clean diet with our fresh fruits and vegetables and avoiding
all the junk, but we all have toxins and we get these things in our diets.
A lot of them come from plastic derivatives and this is so prevalent in just all the foods,
everything.
Go into the grocery store.
I always find it funny.
I'm like, you're eliminating plastic bags in the grocery stores, but literally everything
I'm bringing home in those bags is in plastic, right?
It doesn't make sense.
Well, if you have a plastic bag, you're going to make me pay for it, but the bag of spinach
I just brought home is in plastic, right?
So even your healthy stuff is in plastic.
We just have it somewhere, but those things can actually mimic, like mess with your estrogen
levels especially.
So it just leaches into the food supply so we can get also not just plastics, but things
like pesticides that are sprayed on foods, which is why it is important to buy organic
if you can.
Right.
Yeah, and things like just the nitrates and nitrites and nitrates that are in like preserved
and processed meats.
We get mercury from like big fish like shark and tuna and swordfish, cadmium.
There's flame retardants and things like it could be in your mattress.
It can be on your carpet in the furniture that you're sitting on, like your couch.
Those things are also flame retardants.
We absorb that through our skin.
Right.
The things that it's a marketing thing, right?
Oh, here's your child's little feedie pajamas.
They're flame retardant.
Right.
But it's, they're toxic.
They're toxic.
Yeah.
And all that stuff has and like chlorine and things like that, that stuff all has a negative
impact on the hormone levels, like I said, especially estrogen, avoiding those things
is being aware of it is part of the process, but then we can help the body shed itself
of toxins because the body's trying to do that every day.
And one of the easiest and best ways we do that is through dietary changes, but really
eating a diet that's rich in fruits and vegetables helps the body shed those toxins.
And then we can avoid things like smoked and processed meats because those have the nitrates
and nitrites in them.
We can avoid those fish that are high in mercury, like shark and tuna and swordfish, right?
And even cleaning, cleaning products, clean with things that don't have those toxins in
them.
One of the things we love is Norwex.
There's things you can do like clean with just like distilled white vinegar and water.
Right.
Baking soda is my go-to for everything.
Scrub with baking soda and even thieves oil, thieves oil.
And do you mix that with water in a spray bottle, Gina?
I know you use thieves.
I use the thieves cleaner, yeah, with water in the spray bottle and use that for, I use
that for everything.
I use baking soda for everything.
Those are like my, definitely my go-tos.
People are then buying all those cleaning products.
I think there's just, yeah, we don't have to spend a ton of money.
Drinking clean, filtered water, avoid your plastic containers and bags as much as we
can.
And then avoiding flame retardants, just being aware that they're in your, in your fabrics
and things.
And then using cotton, bamboo sheets and towels and linens, even showering with a shower filter
on the head of your shower can remove some of the toxins from the water that's being
sprayed directly like on your body and your hair.
Right.
Right.
So one of the things that we need to just acknowledge is we really can't eliminate all
the toxins, right?
We can try like hell, but we can't eliminate them.
They're in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the medicines people take, it's in
the foods.
There's, there's toxins everywhere, but we really can do our part in reducing what we
take in and what we ingest and what we absorb through our skins and breathing in.
It just comes from being aware of a lot of it.
Yeah.
Using clean cleaners, like the Norwex or Thieves, using clean filtered water, use it.
And then all the other things that we had just, that Kristen just mentioned.
So we can definitely do our part in improving what we are taking in.
Yeah.
So let's talk about stress.
Yes.
One of my favorites.
We don't have any stress in our lives, right?
Ah, stress, stress and cortisol, right?
But cortisol does get a bad rap, but cortisol is increased when we have stress.
There's no doubt about that, but that leads to more insulin being secreted into the bloodstream,
into the bloodstream.
So that it's a vicious cycle, right?
We have the overproduction of cortisol and insulin leads to insulin resistance.
It's like that chronic cycle of elevated cortisol is where we end up with all these
problems.
Short-term cortisol, like if somebody is chasing you or you have a bear running after you,
we need that cortisol because that's our fight, flight or freeze, right?
We need that.
We need that jolt of, I got to get out of here and I got to get out of here fast.
But it's the chronic long-term cortisol increase is where we end up with the problems in our
bodies.
Yeah.
Cause like, like you said, it's that cortisol raises insulin, insulin raises cortisol.
And then that's, so that's contributing to that blood sugar being elevated.
And then that contributes to that increase.
Like you're craving things, you've got this wall out of whack because of your cortisol
being elevated all the time.
So then you probably find that you're just like higher stress levels, make you create
crappy things.
You're just eating some of the wrong stuff.
So what are some things that we can do then?
Like we can't avoid it, right?
Stress is inevitable.
We just have to manage it, be aware of it.
There's a lot of great things we can do to reduce stress and some of that stuff.
We go into a lot more of that in our, you know, manage your blood sugar like a boss
program.
Yep.
Yeah.
Some of the other things that we can be doing are simply breathing, right?
Like if you have a lot of things going on at the same time, and there's a lot of stress
and this one's yelling, you have somebody at work upset and the baby's crying or all
horns are honking.
Like when you're in the thick of it, just stop and just five deep cleansing breaths
can help regulate that central nervous system and lower that stress level in the body.
So things like that or meditation or winding down, like we're going to talk about, we'll
talk about sleep next, but preparing for sleep, like just winding down and calming down the
day.
Like a hot bath, at least warm bath.
Yes.
Yes.
When you talk about breathing, like how often, and I guess I would challenge everybody listening
to this, how often do you find yourself where you're aware that like, I'm not breathing.
I need to take a deep breath.
I do it all the time.
I'm like, I just need to take a deep breath.
When was the last time I took like a really big lung full of air to the tippy top of the
lungs where it almost tickles and hurts, right?
Like put it in for a second and then let it out all the way out.
It's just easier to, we just get caught up in the hurried lifestyle, right?
And it's just very shallow surface breathing.
I do it.
Stop and take a minute.
I do it too all the time, but when you stop and take a minute and be intentional and just
take those breaths and focus on the breath, right?
So instead of worrying about all this outside stress, focus on the breath and do a quick
body scan, right?
How are, how's your head, how, where are you carrying, how you, you have those 11s between
your eyebrows.
Are you like frowning and scowling or are you relaxing in your eyebrows and your jaw
line?
How tight is your jaw?
Are you like clenched your jaw and down, move down into your neck and your traps and I'm
going, I'm saying this quickly, but just to like get the idea of going through your body
and down your shoulders and arms and lap muscles and like, where are you carrying that stress?
Is it in your low back with like mine usually is or your hips, are your hips tight?
And then just go down your legs and into your ankles and feet and toes and get everything
wiggling and moving and relaxed while you're taking those deep cleansing breaths.
Yeah.
I love that.
Just thinking about it, like I'm talking about jaw stress, I'm like, I've got a TMJ issue
that I've had for years.
I think I might be carrying a little stress in my jaw and my neck, maybe just a little
bit.
I carry it somewhere differently.
So yeah.
Yeah.
And then again, like going back to the food, just eating a clean, a clean, healthy diet,
really good quality fruits and vegetables.
Again, the fiber rich carbohydrates, good quality fats, and then good quality animal
protein that we get from ethically raised, pasture raised, ethically raised animals produce
better quality animal protein that is higher in levels of the CLAs, which is a fatty acid,
the conjugated linoleic acid.
And that has really great anti-inflammatory benefits and a lot of antioxidants as opposed
to the commercially raised animal proteins.
Those are stressed animals that are terrible, like the grain and the foods that they're
eating.
We're eating what the animals eat, so we're absorbing that.
So those poor quality foods can put stress on our bodies by, again, causing inflammation,
causing weight gain, all these other things.
So just the quality of the diet can help relieve stress on the body, which is super important.
So always consume some food.
Always back to the food, right.
And then another one of my favorite topics, let's talk about sleep.
I love this.
Yeah.
So we don't go to sleep.
Like when we go to bed at night, we don't just, most people don't just close their eyes
and go to sleep.
Like they're turning a light switch off.
It's a process.
It takes time.
So it should start earlier in the evening when, I know you talk about, you have the
dimmers in your house, right?
So if you have brighter light on during the day and as the night's going on, it's more
like the sun setting.
So turn those bright lights down and start getting your eyes adjusted and your body calmed
down to wind down that evening.
Have a nice cup of tea or take a bath or light a natural candle or a clean candle or-
Yeah.
I mean, I love to use a sound machine in my bedroom to spray essential oils.
Like I put a little bottle of, one of those little spray bottles with the water and some
lavender essential oil and they spray it on the clothes.
Lavender is so good for sleep inducing or just using like a diffuser, diffuse some aroma
like lavender oil or rub some on your hands and then rub it on your neck just to-
And you'll definitely have a better night's sleep that way.
And maybe switch to reading a book instead of staring at the electronics, right?
That's always a big one.
Like turn the TV off or take your face out of your phone for an hour before you go to
bed and just, there's a lot to be said about the blue light and all the electronics and
all that stimulation, what that's doing for your body instead of getting it prepared to
go to sleep at night and have a good quality sleep.
The reason that sleep is important is because the lack of sleep increases our hunger hormone,
which is called ghrelin or ghrelin, but some people, I don't know, are we pronouncing it
right?
Ghrelin, ghrelin.
The hunger hormone.
And then it's low, so it's increasing your hunger hormone, probably you're just, you're
tired and your body's looking for food probably, you know, just naturally to stay awake, right?
And then typically it's, then it starts looking for the things like the sugar, right?
The poor quality things that just, caffeine, all those things that are going to overstimulate.
So it's, it's increasing our hunger hormone and it's lowering the satiety hormone, which
is leptin.
So that imbalance can cause that increase in your hunger and it's just going to increase
your overeating calories.
And contributing to the diet and the obesity factor that causes imbalance in the blood
sugar.
So sleep really, it's not just us preaching, like, get a good diet, get a good quality
sleep.
There's reasons that that contributes.
We, I mean, research finds that people that don't get good quality sleep or get a lack
of sleep typically have weight issues, increases the body weight, right?
And increases the cortisol and inflammation in the body.
Again, it's a cycle.
It's definitely a cycle.
So we have to do our parts the best that we can.
So I hope everybody found this a little bit helpful and learned something new today based
on what we were talking about.
And I think, why don't you give a homework assignment, Kristin?
So we named some things, we talked about obesity and diet, inflammation and stress and lack
of sleep and toxins.
We talked about moving your body and exercise.
So when you reflect on those things, which of those are currently playing a role in your
diet particularly or your lifestyle?
So as we talked about those things, I'm sure you were thinking like, oh, I need to do this
or I need to do that, right?
Make a list of those things, write those things out.
And then we mentioned some changes and suggestions that you can begin to make to shift that balance.
So for you in particularly, which of those changes can you begin to make to shift that
balance?
Maybe just write about that.
Maybe make a promise or a commitment to yourself on things that you're going to do to change
the diet or how you can crowd some things in and start reducing some of maybe the poor
quality animal proteins or reducing some of the refined carbohydrates and replacing
them with better quality carbohydrates, right?
Just make a list of those things, things that you can do this week.
Maybe add some of those healthier things to your grocery list, right?
Or set a calendar alert to remind you to breathe, right?
Or to focus on it's getting like the evening is approaching, what can I do to start winding
down, turning off your electronics, make a little list for yourself and commit about
that.
We like, we're big fans of using a journal to write about those things or keeping a food
journal or whatever, like write notebooks just to keep track of those things.
But writing that stuff down helps you stay more committed to it.
So hopefully that, yeah, making those small changes, stay accountable to yourself, maybe
even mention it to someone else, right?
Get your spouse or a friend to do some of these things with you to help hold you accountable.
Definitely love it all.
And these small changes lead to better habits, lead to lifestyle changes, and all contribute
to us living a long, healthy, and happy life.
That's the goal.
Live long, die short.
That's my goal.
All right, Gina, this was good and hopefully everybody found it helpful and we'd love to
hear from you guys.
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healing journey and to take their health to the next level, reach their goals, learn about
nutrition and lifestyle choices so that we can all reach the goal to live a long, healthy,
and happy life.