107 | Mastering Your Blood Sugar & Cutting Cravings with Kelly LeVeque

Find yourself craving too often? Confused about carbohydrates and what to focus on getting on your plate? Wondering about juice cleanses and fasting? Kelly unpacks it all in this interview. Having always had a deep-rooted passion for nutrition, Kelly found her place in the nutrition field advocating for the importance of education as the primary means to allowing healthier choices. She dives into her FAB four approach and the importance of mastering blood sugar, regulating hormones, and optimizing well-being. Moreover, Kelly explains the mechanisms behind fiber and bloating, the influence of prebiotics and probiotics,  how to best source them, and offers her tips to manage bloating. Finally, she offers her perspectives on juice cleanses, presents the research on intentional fasting, and discusses the relation between intermittent fasting and the circadian rhythm. Ultimately, she provides her top tips to promote digestion, metabolism, and energy! Tune in. We also mention the GeniusMobility Supplement in this episode. In this Genius x DocJen collaboration, the supplement contains all-natural ingredients with superfoods known to have joint supportive, stress balancing, and anti-inflammatory benefits based on scientific research. Dose your joints with the nutrients it needs to soothe pain and move with ease. Click here to get your very own: https://www.amazon.com/geniusmobility What You Will Learn In This Interview with Kelly LeVeque: 4:06 – What drives Kelly’s Passion? 8:59 – Education & Empowerment. 10:08 – Kelly’s Fab Four. 14:16 – Eating optimally in the mornings. 17:55 – Cellular Carbohydrates. 19:29 – Is Sugar Addicting. 22:35  – Testing yourself with Blood Sugar. 24:19  – Fiber & Bloating. 28:36  – Starchy Vegetables & Probiotic/Prebiotic Foods. 34:40  – When to add starchy carbohydrates to your diet. 37:47  – Juice Cleanses & Detox. 41:55  – Research on Fasting. 47:51 – Courses & Opportunities with Kelly. About Kelly LeVeque: Kelly LeVeque is a holistic nutritionist, wellness expert, and celebrity health coach based in Los Angeles, California. Be Well grew out of Kelly's lifelong passion for health, the science of nutrition, and overall wellness. Guided by a practical and always optimistic approach, Kelly helps clients improve their health, achieve their goals and develop sustainable habits to live a healthy and balanced life.  Items mentioned in this episode include: Kelly’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bewellbykelly Kelly's Podcast: https://kellyleveque.com/be-well-by-kelly-podcast Kelly’s Courses: https://www.kellylevequecourses.com/ To learn more about Ashley and view full show notes, please visit the full website here: https://www.docjenfit.com/podcast/episode107/ Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Optimal Body Podcast. If you haven’t done so already, please take a minute to subscribe and leave a quick rating and review of the show! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tobpodcast/message