Blood Sugar Testing and Placebo Responses

So yesterday, Zoe was at school and there's a thing. These people are all about to graduate, which is really fucking scary because people think that credentials mean you know shit. It doesn't. I know plenty of PhDs who don't know fucking anything, but they think they do because they've got a PhD. So these are all people coming out for clinical nutrition, naturopathy. And one of the girls who is massively anti-carb, you know me, like I don't, I, I, I'm a low carb person for me, but that doesn't mean I'm a low carb person for other people. Low carb for me is like 250 grams of carbs, right? And when I died, it might be now where I'm eating like 50 grams of carbs, but I, I match carbs to what I'm doing and that's how I look at it. So if I was doing a lot of triathlon duathlon training i'd be eating 600 grams of carbs right but this one she thinks carbs are the devil once they're going to kill you and so she she was telling everybody that she can eat a sugar-free lolly and it will take her fasting blood sugar from five to ten the blood sugars oh my god the blood sugar shit listen listen listen to what i said it's a sugar free that it doesn't have any reactive sugar in it it's it's sugar it's got some sugar alcohols in it very little like 500 micrograms 500 milligrams and then it's got some like fibrous stuff that doesn't fuck with blood sugar anyway so zoe sends me a message and goes here's the thing she says that her blood she tested her blood sugar was five she ate one of these lollies that doesn't have any sugar in it and her it took her blood sugar to 10 where the fuck is that blood sugar coming from and I'm like it's not came from anywhere she she fucked up somewhere it's even it's an isolated thing that happened and the last thing she ate was that lolly so she's attributing it to the lolly or she could have fucked up the the she could have fucked up the blood so then they all went and got those lollies and went and bought a glucometer and sure as shit she was convinced she was making all of these weird hypotheses of what was happening and one of them was just completely outrageous, but they did it again. She didn't react from it. So she probably, what probably happened was she didn't wash her hands off and had some sugar residue on her finger and that got in the blood. And that's what made it look like her blood went up because people don't always know you have to wash your hands before you stick. And you never take the first blood. You take the third or fourth drop of blood, squeeze them out, wipe it off on a clean rag, squeeze it out, and then take like the third or fourth. And that should be a better estimate of blood sugar. But she was saying, I think it's the cephalic response. I think it was my taste bud receptors tasted the sugar. And then I had a sugar somewhere, sugar was being pushed out by the liver or something. And I went, that doesn't make any sense because the cephalic response would basically push out insulin, which means you would have gone hypoglycemic. You wouldn't have gone hyperglycemic. So it makes sense. But this is where people can get really weird trying to figure out what's wrong and they can create all these weird scenarios in their head and none of them make any logical fucking sense it's usually that that's exactly why i usually hate the whole fixation on the stupid blood sugar bullshit it's like people are they're focusing on the wrong doesn't matter for the majority of people unless you're diabetic that shit doesn't matter well it does matter but it matters in specific situations and the only way the only way you're going to tell is if you actually measure your blood sugar. So if you are to, if you went, I think something's happening, it's the sugar I'm eating. Okay, cool. Let's spend three hours fast to take your blood sugar. Now let's eat, say 70 grams of sugar and let's see what happens. And all of a sudden the sugar goes sky high. I'm like, you're right. Right now at the current time, sugar's an issue for you. So maybe we go with a lower carb diet and then do that for three months and then we'll retest it. And then all of a sudden they're, they're, they're got a great blood sugar response, but or they may go, I think it's sugar. And then we take their blood sugar and their blood sugar

barely moves. I'm like, not the blood sugar, bro. Like we've just proven to you that it's not the blood sugar. It's something else. And what happened in that space between that is what coaches should like proper coaches, not like the PTs at the gym, but proper coaches should be helping you through to get your health in a good place. And this is where muscle comes in as well, because muscle allows you to be able to use carbs better because like Luke said, just previously, things get shuffled into your blood those things need to go somewhere that can get dispersed off as heat or something else or stored which is in the muscle and that is going to be so much better for your health than when it's circulating in your blood and when it's circulating in your blood it's going to have side effects that is going to stop you from getting the body composition results that you want it's going to stop you from burning fat effectively because now you have all of these cock blocks which i actually prefer that term it's cock blocking you for results the thing like the more muscle you have the more glycogen storage you have which means you have a little bit more wiggle room to eat more carbohydrates and have somewhere to put them other than esterifying them put them in fat cells i love that to tie this all off because i got asked from one of my older clients to ask you this as well and especially the fact that you're moving through your ages and you look as young as hell and you're keeping your body as young as hell.