107 | Mastering your blood sugar & cutting cravings with Kelly LeVeque
Welcome to episode 107 of The Optimal Body Podcast
Mastering your blood sugar & cutting cravings with Kelly LeVeque
Find yourself craving too often? Confused about carbohydrates and what to focus on getting on your plate? Wondering about juice cleanses and fasting? Kelly unpacks it all in this interview. Having always had a deep-rooted passion for nutrition, Kelly found her place in the nutrition field advocating for the importance of education as the primary means to allowing healthier choices. She dives into her FAB four approach and the importance of mastering blood sugar, regulating hormones, and optimizing well-being. She addresses the impacts of sugary breakfasts, describes different types of carbohydrates, the importance of breaking your fast strategically, the benefits of testing your blood sugar, and being mindful of the types of foods you consume. Moreover, Kelly explains the mechanism behind fiber and bloating, the influence of prebiotics and postbiotics, how to best source them, and offers her tips to manage bloating. Finally, she offers her perspectives on juice cleanses, briefly presents the research on intentional fasting, and discusses the relation between intermittent fasting and the circadian rhythm. Ultimately, she provides her top tips to promote digestion, metabolism, and energy! Tune in.
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What you will learn in this interview with Kelly LeVeque:
4:06 – What drives Kelly’s passion
8:59 – Education & empowerment
10:08 – Kelly’s fab four
14:16 – Eating optimally in the mornings
17:55 – Cellular carbohydrates
19:29 – Is sugar addicting
22:35 – Testing yourself with blood sugar
24:19 – Fiber & bloating
28:36 – Starchy vegetables & probiotic/prebiotic foods
34:40 – When to add starchy carbohydrates to your diet
37:47 – Juice cleanses & detox
41:55 – Research on fasting
47:51 – Courses & ppportunities with Kelly
About Kelly LeVeque:
Kelly LeVeque is a holistic nutritionist, wellness expert, and celebrity health coach based in Los Angeles, California. Be Well grew out of Kelly’s lifelong passion for health, the science of nutrition and overall wellness. Guided by a practical and always optimistic approach, Kelly helps clients improve their health, achieve their goals and develop sustainable habits to live a healthy and balanced life.
Kelly is extremely passionate about the science of human nutrition. Driven by the desire to help her clients, and her own intellectual curiosity, she studies the latest research, evaluates competing theories and reads everything. Most importantly, she uses that knowledge to make individualized recommendations for her clients.
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