Inflammation is real. The best way to visualise it is as one of the many steps the body uses to let different organs and systems communicate with each other. 

So let’s establish that there is good and necessary inflammation that is a necessity to fight infections, heal tissue, digest food and constantly deal with the stream of pathogens in the air, food and environment that surrounds us. 

Even working out causes inflammation. Rolled your ankle? Inflammation will follow. And so does healing. Cut your finger? Inflammation. Drink iffy water? Inflammation. 

How about bad inflammation? 

Well it’s really hard to separate good and bad inflammation. Simply because, unless there is obvious discomfort, distress or you are incapacitated to an extent, it’s really hard to tell at what point inflammation becomes counterproductive. And even then, it can be hard to pin down what caused it unless there’s a pathogen, disease, food or injury holding a smoking gun. 

How about specific foods? 

You could have a variety of reactions to food. I’ve detailed a few in the slides below. 

How about insulin? 

Here are a list of all the numbers that you could work on: 

*HBa1c values are holding up well

*Your general blood work 

*Increase your lean mass levels (amount of muscle and bone you are carrying), 

*Lower your body fat levels (amount do adipose and visceral fat you are carrying. 

*Figure out what is your maintenance energy intake level. How much food should you eat for your weight to remain unchanged while hopefully your body composition improves. 


If you do all of the above, your insulin sensitivity will inevitably improve. It’s a long but tried and tested road. 

A food causing an insulin response is not enough to label the food your enemy. It just means your body is preparing to use the energy provided by digesting the food by moving it into cells. 

This is where CGM products bite you in the ass. They really make you believe a very normal, natural response to eating food is counterproductive. It isn’t. What is counterproductive is to spend your time, energy and money fixating over one metric instead of working on all the things in the list above that could actually help.