An Integrative Approach to Balancing Blood Sugar for People with Diabetes

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode we explore how to balance blood sugar, and we're excited to welcome Erica Zellner. Erica is a Connecticut-based Clinical Nutritionist and Senior Health Coach with six years of functional nutrition experience. A health coach at Parsley Health, Erica shares her integrative approaches to diabetes management, emphasizing the importance of personalized nutrition, stress reduction, and sleep hygiene. Learn about key nutrients, supplements, and environmental factors to consider, and discover how culturally relevant meals can improve blood sugar control.

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

Integrative approaches to diabetes management with personalized nutrition plans
Importance of stress management in controlling blood sugar levels
Impact of sleep hygiene on glucose metabolism and overall health
Significance of culturally relevant foods in managing diabetes
Tips for personalizing nutrition to individual preferences and lifestyles
Use of supplements like omega-3, vitamin D, chromium, and magnesium
Simple, consistent stress reduction practices for managing diabetes
Recommendations for improving sleep hygiene and avoiding screens before bed

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the diabetes digital podcast. Today we are super
0:05.9	excited to have Erica Zelner on the pod. Erica is a Connecticut-based
0:11.6	clinical nutritionist and senior health coach with six years of functional nutrition experience.
0:17.0	She earned her master's degree in nutrition and integrative health from the Maryland University of Integrative Health,
0:22.0	and she also holds her certified nutrition specialist
0:25.4	and licensed dietician nutritionist credentials.
0:28.7	And we wanted to have Eric on the podcast
0:31.0	because she works as a health coach for Parsley Health, which I happen to be a
0:35.9	patient of Parsley Health and I love it. They do telemedicine and they spend a lot of time with their
0:42.2	patients and really get into the kind of
0:44.4	mitigitty of what's going on especially if you have like random symptoms or
0:48.6	chronic health issues so we figured Erica would be the perfect person to talk to on today's episode.
0:55.0	Welcome to the Diabetes Digital Podcast. I'm Wendy and I'm Jess and we're best friends,
1:00.5	registered dieticians and diabetes educators.
1:03.3	Through our telehealth platform, diabetes digital.co,
1:06.4	we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling
1:09.9	for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes.
1:12.3	Visit diabetes digital.co that's CO to book your first appointment.
1:17.0	We accept insurance and offer affordable self-pay options.
1:20.0	Now let's get into today's episode.
1:29.0	Today we are going to talk about integrative approaches when it comes to diabetes management, how to tailor nutrition plans to reflect your individual needs versus what you're seeing online.
1:37.0	So really taking into account what is going on with you, which is something that Parsley Health does really well.
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