Why diet is not one-size-fits-all and how you can find one that works for you.
Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses:
Levels advisors Dr. Casey Means and Dr. Mark Hyman chat about bio-individuality, or how the same foods affect people differently.
🔬 Dr. Means shares info about a 2015 study published in the journal Cell (PMID: 26590418)
– Researchers used a continuous glucose monitor to track the glucose responses to nearly 50K meals in 800 adults who did not have type 2 diabetes.
– Each participant wore a CGM for 1 week and logged meals, physical activity, and sleep.
– They followed their normal routines and eating habits, except for their first meal of the day, which was 1 of 4 standard meal options.
– The scientists found a high interpersonal variability of glucose responses when different people ate the SAME meals.
– Some people’s glucose raised 10 mg/dL; others went up 100 mg/dL, again to the SAME foods.
– Researchers believe peoples’ microbiomes were a key factor in how they responded.
– They used machine learning to predict participants’ glucose responses.
– Factors included in the predicted response were a person’s blood parameters (e.g., blood pressure and cholesterol), gut microbiome, dietary habits, physical activity, and anthropometrics—body measurements.
– The researchers replicated their findings with a different group of 100 participants.
– They found that personalized dietary changes over just 1 week helped improve postprandial (after-meal) glucose responses and reduced glycemic variability.
– This is why we need ways of determining, in real time, how foods affect our individual health, rather than following one-size-fits-all dietary advice.
✅ Wearing a continuous glucose monitor can help you track your glucose responses. “It really comes down to choices,” Dr. Means says. “And right now we don’t have a lot of help to understand what choices to make for our own body. And that’s where wearables—especially bio wearables—can be very helpful.”
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Does anyone know where I can find this study?
Dr Richard K Bernstein has never mentioned anything like that, different results for the same foods.
Apparently here in the States, you can order without a script two different continous glucose monitors that are targeted towards persons in the pre-diabetic range such that they don't need out of range alarms.
Stello by Dexcom
Lingo by Abbot.
High fat and high protein is universally better than high carb of any kind.
Unfortunately there is so much missing here. People adjust to different eating strategies. We would need to know what all the test subjects were doing before the experiment.
It’s so hard, in western society, to have a healthy microbiome! All the things that can kill our good gut bacteria 😢😢😢
"They" took.. Where is the study? Thanx
Thats because these monitors are not that accurate compared to a blood draw..
It's the microbes. ✌️😷👍
Seems like no one is talking about the genetic factors of the types of food our ancestors been eating for thousands of years before we came to this global market of food variety that we have today. Bananas where not sold and eaten everywhere like it is today.
Just eat a Whole Foods diet. It fixes your microbiom, weight, etc. It's that simple. Some of these doctors and fitness gurus over complicate these things.
Where do you prove it was the microbiome? How did you test and categorize the microbiome? I doubt you did either.
I have a glycemic index book. I think I will compare my CGM data to foods in the index. 🤔
It’s crazy how nobody is talking about Rethinking Health Secrets! This book made me question so much when it comes to health, it has some serious knowledge
Does ANYONE know how to get into the Levels CLUB so that a would be user of the Levels app could GET IN and actually USE the app? You have to be a member before you can use the app. It sucks 😔.
Nonsense. It was their insulin resistance (or lack of it) that determined the glucose spike. Not the microbiome. Blood glucose in itself isn't enough to determine health status. Fasting insulin level is.
It's not about what you eat but how much (for healthy people)
The question is does it even matter? If you control the total calorie intake does it matter which food raises your blood sugar more or less?
Epidemiology study’s people lie
Not a doctor
Amen
It was common sense to me.
Very true. We are never the same.