Metabolism Repair for Women Quotes

“To be clear, it's not just you who eats unconsciously — it's everyone because hunger is an unconscious drive regulated by the metabolic nervous system.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Now you might be thinking, 'But I can control how much I eat' — and sure, you can to some extent, but only some of the time. We consciously control how much we eat just as we consciously control how much we breathe: some of the time but not all of the time. We eventually need to just breathe, just as we eventually need to just eat. Hunger always wins.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Signs of metabolic inflexibility include fatigue and a tendency to low blood sugar or intense hunger, especially with exercise or fasting.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“With metabolic inflexibility, on the other hand, you will more quickly tip into burning glucose — even with light activity and maybe even at rest. Once that happens, you could feel fatigued and experience drops in blood sugar (hypoglycemia).”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“To access fat for energy, you need metabolic flexibility, which is the ability to easily switch between burning glucose and fat.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Food can directly supply energy for a few hours. Glycogen can supply it for twelve to twenty-four hours, but only if you don't use it up too quickly. Fat, on the other hand, can supply energy for days or even weeks — but only if you can access your fat stores.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Glycogen is a glucose storage molecule that is deposited in the liver and muscles after a carbohydrate meal. Glucose can then be released as needed.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“In simplest terms, metabolic health is about energy. Specifically, it's about your cells having all the energy they need, whether that's from the food you've eaten or — and this is important — from the glycogen or fat you've stored.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Of course, good metabolic health cannot guarantee those things nor magically prevent all health problems. Good metabolic health is not everything, but it is a lot.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Metabolic health is also important for all the good things in life, such as: daily energy to do the things you enjoy, a bright, stable mood, a pain-free body, regular, symptomless periods, smooth hormonal transitions, including postpartum and perimenopause, a reduced long-term risk of the 'big three' hazards—heart attack, stroke and dementia—that could rob you for an opportunity to grow old with the people you love.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Metabolic health is also important for all the good things in life, such as: daily energy to do the things you enjoy, a bright, stable mood, a pain-free body, regular, symptomless periods, smooth hormonal transitions, including postpartum and perimenopause.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“I've had a chance to witness first-hand how different diets work for different people, thanks to individual differences in gut microbiome, hormones and nervous systems.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“I view the body as a logical, responsive system that knows what to do when it's given the right support.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“One thing to be aware of right from the start is that your metabolic obstacles could be entirely different from someone else's.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“By that I mean understanding how the modern food environment has damaged you and all of us.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“I know just how strongly women's hormones are affected by insulin sensitivity.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“The three things to understand about insulin resistance—also called prediabetes or metabolic syndrome—are that:
1. It's linked with high insulin, but in most cases normal blood sugar.
2. It causes abnormally high hunger and an increased tendency to store fat.
3. It's extremely common, affecting at least 46% of adults worldwide.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Weight gain is primarily the symptom of metabolic dysfunction, not the cause. And if you have metabolic dysfunction, it's because something is amiss with your brain's regulatory mechanism.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“If you feel tired and hungry all the time—and can't lose weight—insulin resistance and metabolic inflexibility could be why.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Health is not a future where you will one day arrive. Instead, health is now, and living, connecting, and being joyful are essential parts of it.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“Treating metabolic health according to the old model—as merely a problem with conscious calories in versus conscious calories out—would be like treating asthma as merely a problem of conscious air in versus conscious air out.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health