Nutrition and Blood Sugars Levels: How to Improve Both in Midlife

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EPISODE SUMMARY:

As all of us know, as we age, our bodies begin to change. Whether these changes are emotional, mental or physical, it’s important that we listen to our bodies and learn how to properly take care of ourselves in different stages of life. When it comes to nutrition, eating foods that keep our bodies strong and healthy is vital. Every body is different; we don’t all handle certain foods the exact same way. Finding out what foods work for your body while still getting to enjoy what you’re eating can be a challenge for a lot of us. Nutritionist Caroline Keatinge understands that this can be a challenge and uses her work to help midlife and menopausal women find balance and create dietary habits that work well with our individual bodies and needs. Her expertise has helped women with diet, sleep, managing menopause symptoms, and so much more. In today’s episode, we sat down with Caroline to discuss blood sugar levels, how to moderate sugar intake in midlife, regulating your Insulin levels, and how low blood sugar levels can mimic menopausal symptoms.

Featured in The Lady Magazine (July 2020 )

Meet the Menopause Guru:

Caroline Keatinge

From Caroline’s Website:

Caroline is a Nutritionist who is passionate about helping individuals understand how their body functions, to enable them to make sound nutritional choices, which can fundamentally affect their health and wellbeing– whilst enjoying a delicious healthy diet.

She focuses on supporting women through the menopause and beyond, leveraging Nutrition to enable them to help manage menopause symptoms, as well as body shape, energy, mood, digestion, concentration and sleep – to name just a few aspects!

Caroline is a busy Mum of 2 children, and previously had a successful career of 20 years in corporate and consumer finance before moving over to retrain and work in an arena about which she is hugely passionate. Caroline has an MSc in Nutrition from Oxford Brookes University and is registered with the Association for Nutrition. In addition, she recently undertook a 5-day course in Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice as part of her on-going training and takes a Functional Medicine approach in her practice.

In this episode, we discuss…

[0:01] Introduction

[0:26] Guest Introduction

[7:30] Start of Interview

[8:15] The Importance of Blood Sugar Levels

[11:53] How to Help Regulate Insulin

[14:11] Insulin

[18:20] Moderating Sugar Intake

[19:29] Sugar Intake in Midlife

[20:41] Low Blood Sugar Levels V.S. Menopause Symptoms

[23:11] How Caroline Treats Patients

[24:23] Stress and Nutrition