174: Blood Sugar Expert Dani Hamilton Rants On PCOS, Hormones, Paleo Failure, And Counting Macros

It’s Thursday and that means another action-packed episode of the realest talk on the internet–Real Talk with Jimmy Moore and Dr. Will Cole. Dr. Cole is taking a few weeks off so today Jimmy is joined by Dani Hamilton to talk about everything from PCOS to counting macros. “Write down your response to eating at certain places. Use that to make better choices the next time.” – Dani Hamilton “We can’t really address any of the elephants in the room until we deal with the fact that this is insulin resistance.” – Jimmy Moore Dani Hamilton (@daniellehamiltonhealth) was a typical kid with a sweet tooth. In 2012, in an effort to improve her health, she adopted a real food, paleo diet. She saw huge improvements with her health but after a stressful period in her life, she started gaining weight, getting cystic acne, and she lost her period. She realized she had PCOS and that the PCOS was a hormonal imbalance that caused weight gain and weight loss resistance, cystic acne, and missed periods. No matter how “healthy” she ate, and no matter how much she worked out, she couldn’t drop a pound and actually seemed to be gaining. she tried to balance her hormones and increase her progesterone but nothing seemed to be working. She was crushed. After graduating as an NTP, she decided that her mission is to help women discover and improve their blood sugar issues. Research suggests that 1 out of 3 adults has prediabetes. Of this group, 9 out of 10 don’t know they have it. 29.1 million people in the United States have diabetes, but 8.1 million may be undiagnosed and unaware of their condition.  Listen in as Jimmy chats with Dani about her incredible story of overcoming her health issues and how she is using that story to empower people everyday.