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119| How to Manage Your Weight and Maintain Stable Energy and Blood Sugar Levels by Understanding Your Unique DNA

119| How to Manage Your Weight and Maintain Stable Energy and Blood Sugar Levels by Understanding Your Unique DNA

FromRemove the Guesswork: Health, Fitness and Wellbeing for Busy Professionals


119| How to Manage Your Weight and Maintain Stable Energy and Blood Sugar Levels by Understanding Your Unique DNA

FromRemove the Guesswork: Health, Fitness and Wellbeing for Busy Professionals

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
May 1, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How can you use your DNA as a tool to unpick some of the guesswork around what type of diet suits you and what type of exercise is best for you? Let’s deep dive into a personalised approach to health, fitness, and wellbeing by taking a look at our unique DNA.

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Topics Discussed in this Episode:


What is the DNA test and why you should be keen to take it


How I transformed my diet


What happens when you’re carbohydrate-sensitive


Sensitivity to salt, caffeine, and alcohol


The upshot of having a personalized diet



Key Takeaways:


It’s when you lose weight very slowly that it’s sustainable because you’re just making little lifestyle changes, and once they’re embedded in you, you move to the next one.


Someone who has celiac disease cannot have any gluten in their diet.


Sensitivity to alcohol is not about how much you can drink alcohol or how well you process alcohol in terms of a hangover.  It’s about your sensitivity to alcohol in relation to cholesterol and whether you’re a fast or a slow metaboliser of alcohol.


It’s prudent to be careful of sources of food that contain salt, but we’re now understanding that salt is not necessarily the culprit behind hypertension.


Antioxidants help combat free radicals, which are cell-damaging molecules.


A study has shown that increasing your portions of vegetables by just two and a half gives you extraordinary benefits in terms of reduced mortality.



Action Steps:


Remove some of the guesswork around your health, fitness, and wellbeing by taking the DNA test.


Be mindful of how much salt you consume.


Consume foods that are rich in antioxidants.


Take a vitamin D3 test and see where your levels are at.


Increase your portions of vegetables by two and a half.



Leanne said:
“It’s always best, I think, to do whatever you can to take the guesswork out of health. If you can do a simple little blood test to find our what your D3 levels are, do it before your supplement… Vitamin D3 toxicity does exist.”

“The DNA is my genetic blueprint for good health. The blood gives me some real-time information about what’s going on.”

Thanks for listening!

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Links to things mentioned in the show:


DNA test for optimum weight management and genetic blueprint for good health


Berkey Water Filter


Why We sleep by Matthew Walker


Pukka Clean Greens


Vitamin D3 Test


Honestly Good Smoothies


Thyme Smoothies



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Released:
May 1, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Remove the Guesswork podcast is for busy professionals who want to improve their health, fitness and wellbeing using the latest science and technology to cut through the noise and get better results, faster. In each 30 minute episode I’ll talk with some of the leading names in the health and wellbeing industry about the latest innovations, interview people who have transformed their health to find out how they did it, and share my own personal story of chronic stress, burnout, career change and subsequent lifestyle transformation. Other popular topics include personalisation; optimizing human performance; work/life blend; the importance of recovery; finding consistency; thriving not surviving; becoming a health warrior; biohacking and intelligent training. Leanne Spencer is an expert in health, fitness and wellbeing. She is the author of two bestselling books, Rise and Shine and Remove the Guesswork and TEDx speaker on why fitness is more important than weight. Visit our website www.bodyshotperformance.com for more information.