FIVE HEALTH HACKS FROM THE GLUCOSE GODDESS

New York-based French biochemist and New York Times bestselling author, Jessie Inchauspé, is a standard social media go-to for hacks on managing sugar spikes and diabetes.

- MYLENE MENDOZA-DAYRIT

She has 87.6 million views on YouTube @GlucoseRevolution, and 4.9 million followers on Instagram @glucosegoddess. Inchauspé, a BS Mathematics graduate of the King's College London, also holds a master's degree in biochemistry from Georgetown University. She started her Instagram account, where she shared graphs of her continuous glucose monitor data in 2019 to help educate the public on nutritional science.

She released her debut book, Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar in 2022 with more than one million copies sold worldwide. A follow-up book, The Glucose Goddess Method, was released a year after and landed on The New York Times Best Seller List.

Here are five of her most popular hacks:

• Eat food in the right order: Fiber or vegetables first, then protein and fats, carbohydrates and sugars last. "Scientists discovered that if you eat the veggies first during a meal, then the proteins and the fats, and then the carbs (the starches and the sugars), then you can reduce the glucose spike of your meal by up to 75%. If there's a clear separation between the elements in the meal, have the veggies first, then the meats and the fats, and then leave the carbs, like the rice, the pasta, the potatoes, the bread, and the dessert obviously, leave those for the end of the meal," she said in her YouTube video. "The reason this hack works is because veggies, when we eat them first, they create a powerful protective mesh in our intestine. Thanks to all of the fiber they contain. This mesh then slows down how quickly glucose molecules from carbs coming later can make their way to your bloodstream. You don't have to change what you're eating, how much you're eating, just change the order and see how much better you feel."