The Blood Sugar Conversation Nobody's Having Right (PCOS, Insulin, and Why You Don't Need a CGM)

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Everybody's talking about blood sugar. Everybody's wearing a CGM. Everybody's afraid of a piece of fruit. And most of what you're hearing is oversimplified at best, and making healthy women sicker at worst.

In this episode, Kacey takes a real position: you probably don't need a continuous glucose monitor. Your blood sugar is supposed to go up when you eat. The metric that actually matters is what comes next — how fast it comes down and how stable it stays. And the fear-driven low-carb, no-fruit, food-terror movement is doing real damage to women whose blood sugar could have been regulated with more plants, not fewer.

Plus: the piece of nuance nobody explains — why your CGM can't tell the difference between a glucose spike from food and one from a cortisol dump. Why saturated fat is actually a bigger driver of insulin resistance than most people realize. What actually causes PCOS/PMOS and why it's more workable than you've been told. The plant-forward nutrition framework Kacey teaches. And how meal timing and short-term tracking fit in — without turning your life into a spreadsheet.

This week's Kick Rocks: the CGM affiliate industrial complex.

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