The Truth About Glucose Spikes, Ultra Processed Food and Microbiome Tests - Dr Nicola Guess

💬 “It's giving you very perverse and misleading and possibly even damaging advice by this glucocentric approach to nutrition.” -Dr Nicola Guess ⚡️ Dr Nicola Guess is a nutrition scientist at the University of Oxford, specialising in the dietary prevention and management of type 2 diabetes. She also debunks pseudoscience and misinformation on Instagram and Substack. ⚡️ In this episode, Nicola and I look at the latest diet trends and advice that you really shouldn’t be worrying about, and could actually be harming your health - with a particular focus on blood glucose and the CGM craze. 🎧 Stay tuned to find out: ➡︎Why continuous glucose monitors are useless, except for people who are actually diabetic ➡ Which diet “hacks” work for controlling glucose levels (and if they’re even necessary) ➡︎Why “personalised” diet advice from microbiome tests is a sham ➡︎Why it’s not all-or-nothing with ultra processed foods  ➡︎The health markers you should actually be looking out for, with actionable tips 📕 Chapters (1:16) Cutting through the pseudoscience (3:58) CGMs and glucose spikes (14:25) The real harm of worrying about glucose (18:31) What should you ACTUALLY be tracking? (23:03) How to control glucose (if you need to) (30:36) Microbiome tests and personalised nutrition (37:45) Probiotics (43:52) Reality of ultra processed foods 📱 Connect with me: TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/drkaranrajan Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.karanr 📱 Connect with Nicola: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr__guess/ Substack: https://drguess.substack.com/ 🔥 For more useful science for your everyday life, grab my best selling book “This Book May Save Your Life”: https://geni.us/DrKaranBook 🎙️ An OG Podcasts production.