TRICK TO REDUCE GLUCOSE LEVELS 😱

What are the simple exercises do you recommend if I've just eaten something that's high in glucose that I can do quickly to help bring down my glucose spike? Okay, so put your feet on the ground, Steven. Yeah. And just do some calf push-ups, calf raises. So you go up onto the ends of your feet and back down. Okay, so I'm going I'm lifting my heels. >> Exactly. Lift your heels up and down. So as you do this, there's a muscle in your calf called the soleus muscle. Can you feel it contract? It's your calf muscle. >> Yeah. Okay. So this muscle is very good at soaking up glucose from your bloodstream. So easy hack you can do after you eat something sweet is you just do some calf raises at your desk like this. Nobody can notice. 5 minutes and that's going to help reduce the glucose spike of what you just ate. I mean, 5 5 minutes? >> Yeah, I mean you can do 5 minutes. In the studies they do sometimes hours of this, but even just 1 minute is better than nothing to reduce your glucose spike. I mean, this is probably why a lot of cultures go for a walk after dinner, right? >> Completely. And a lot of the glucose hacks that I've talked about, they actually mirror a lot of traditions. So for example, the glucose hack of having your vegetables at the beginning of your meal. This is incredibly powerful, pregnancy or not pregnancy, because vegetables contain fiber. And when you have them at the beginning of your meal, they create this protective mesh in your intestine that slows down the glucose molecules from carbs and makes the glucose molecules arrive more slowly into your bloodstream, meaning smaller spike. Now, eating veggies at the beginning of a meal, that's something that we call crudité in France, which means there's this tradition that honestly people don't really do anymore of raw veggies at the beginning of your meal. The best thing to do is to move your body. So get up, find a spot in your apartment that needs to be tidied, find a place you got a vacuum, find some find some laundry to do and do that within 90 minutes after eating. Your muscles are your best ally in reducing your glucose spikes after you've eaten. >> So what's going on there? I start eating a cake. I finish eating the cake. How long have I got to get that cake into my muscles? Um That's a great way to put it. You have about 90 minutes, so an hour and a half. Okay. That's when the spike is usually going to be at at its maximum. So if I start squatting, Yeah, squats are a great great tool. I want to go for a big muscle, right? >> Yeah, absolutely. So there's some studies showing that if you do, I think it's five squats or 10 squats every 5 minutes, that is a very very powerful way to get your glucose spike down. Now, you don't always have the space to do some squats, but if you're alone and at home, go for it. That's one of the best ones. So what's going on in my body there? Is my I start squatting, I'm working my glutes. >> Yeah, so your glutes are looking for energy and the first place they look is in your blood. They're looking for glucose. Okay. Because glucose is the energy that your muscles are using.

Glucose goddess Jessie reveals that calf raises can help to reduce spikes in your glucose levels shortly after eating. #podcast #shorts #health #glucose