Book review: glucose revolution

This book is really a compendium guide to her well established Instagram account--@GlucoseGoddess. A biochemist, Jessie goes into comprehensive detail about how to avoid blood sugar ‘spikes’, and so achieve healthy blood glucose levels, the ONE metric that affects all our body’s systems, to ‘take control’ of your blood sugar for quality of life.

While I love the practical strategies, useful visuals of glucose curves, emphasis on balance and enjoyment of food and efforts towards a sustainable glucose, insulin resistance, blood sugar spikes for improved health, I still can’t help questioning a bigger picture?

From my personal experience, medically thru brain tumour, professionally thru nutrition and exercise physiology, living in the USA in both California and Chicago, then back to Australia after 8 years and seeing home with time changes, many of our modern problems stem from narrow and highly specialised practice? And while that’s a pretty grand sweeping statement, and that we’re a system of systems, intraconnected and interconnected, siloing all our systems into ‘one’ metric, to ‘take control’ and avoid ‘spikes’ is almost fear based for me.

I’d also go as far as saying ‘real time’ feedback from a glucose monitor on how your body is responding thru your glucose spikes sounds like exactly what most of us need. But again, we’re so concerned with working out how to feel better that we’ve forgotten that maybe we should be working on how better to feel?

I’m a firm believer in our body’s ability to ‘talk’ to us thru cues, symptoms, cravings, healing and recovering than the digitisation of human health? Too much siloing and specialisation leads us away from the root cause to bandaids for symptoms which continue in a cycle of removing and losing instead of learning and building.

I’m done with a scarcity mentality; I’m trying to hold on to human potential. I love for instance, that no one has ever come close to explaining why our fingers wrinkle when we have long baths, or how so many millennia on, we each still have entirely unique fingerprints. I can’t explain this greater than Bill Bryson does in his book The Body: a guide for occupants where he explains in detail the make up of the body from initial cell division and specialisation and then suddenly, life, the moment of how exactly still baffles scientists. ‘And I hope it always does’.

So back to Glucose Revolution? Get into and actually try the practical strategies, get into the visuals of glucose curves, make your own emphasis on balance and enjoyment of food and efforts towards sustainable insulin resistance for improved health, but keep questioning a bigger picture. You got this. You.