Optimizing blood sugar levels can help you clear high-risk HPV virus to negative and get a normal Pap smear result. As you optimize your blood sugar, you’re going to optimize your whole health because when we have optimal blood sugar, we have optimal immune function, optimal hormone levels, lower inflammation, and a healthier microbiome – both gut and vaginal.

This means we can prevent cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and dementia while improving energy levels, sleep, focus, memory, and body weight. There are many benefits to optimizing blood sugar, which is why this one of the first things I teach patients.

Why You Should Monitor Your Blood Sugar Levels Regularly

Even if your blood sugar has been normal for much of your life, a change can happen – whether it’s stress or perimenopause or post menopause. Learning what affects your blood sugar may be different for you than for others. Two different people can eat the same thing and have completely different blood sugar responses. This is an opportunity to know your body and track what’s going on inside your system.

It’s not just about how we feed our bodies. Stress shifts cortisol levels, which shifts insulin and blood sugar levels. Sleep affects blood sugar too, as does exercise. If there are changes in your life, there may be changes in your blood sugar levels, even if not to the degree of causing diabetes.

When we consume carbs or sugar, the glucose goes into our bloodstream. The job of insulin is to signal to our cells to allow the glucose in so our body can use it to make energy. If glucose is floating around in our bloodstream, without being able to go into the cells, it is highly likely to get stuck onto cells, which is damaging to our cells – that’s called glycosylation. This causes adverse effects like damage to the eyes and kidneys.

We want to prevent that from happening by helping glucose to get inside your cells where it can be used without causing damage.

How to Know If Your Blood Sugar Is an Issue

It is best to become aware of your blood sugar levels way before it becomes a severe issue, such as diabetes. If you already have diabetes, there’s still so much we can do to improve your blood sugar levels – so don’t give up!

The best way to know if your blood sugar is imbalanced is to get a fasting glucose test. Have your blood drawn in the morning before you eat, having fasted for at least eight hours overnight. You want it to be less than 90. I’m hoping to see it in the 80s. If your fasting blood sugar is in the 90s, that’s already on the edge. If it’s above 99, we definitely need to help your body lower the levels.

Another test is hemoglobin A1C, which measures how much sugar is attached to your hemoglobin. It reflects your average blood sugar over three months. You want it between 4.8 to 5.2. A fasting insulin test shows what your insulin level is when you’re fasting. You want the insulin on the lower end of the range.

You can monitor your blood sugar levels all day, every day with a continuous glucose monitor (CGM). It is a device you put on your arm for a couple weeks (14 days) and it connects to an app where you can match what you eat with when your blood sugar rises. A CGM can help you to figure out when is your glucose is going too high.

The Connection Between Blood Sugar and HPV

Research shows that when women have variability in their blood sugar—whether too high or too low—it increases the risk of testing positive for high-risk HPV virus and abnormal cells on a Pap smear. Even slightly elevated blood sugar can increase your risk. This is why it’s important to address your blood sugar even if you don’t have diabetes.

What You Can Do to Balance Your Blood Sugar

Start with small regular meals—three to four hours apart. If you delay eating too long, your body must compensate with a stress response to raise your blood sugar levels. Set a timer on your phone to remind you to eat every three hours.

In terms of what to include in each small meal, I use what I call the 20/20 rule: no more than 20 grams of carbs and at least 20 grams of protein. When your meal contains only carbs (and no protein or fat), it’s way more likely to disrupt your blood sugar. As soon as you put protein in with the carbs, the rise in glucose is delayed and not as high. It’s good to also include healthy fats like olive oil, avocado, or olives.

Remove easy sugar – simple sugar like cane sugar or brown sugar. Even fruit can have too much sugar if you have a whole banana or a cup of fruit all at once. Look for unnecessary sugar in condiments, salad dressings, crackers, and bread.

Once you eliminate those easy sugars and get your consistent small meals with protein happening, you’re going to see a difference. If you’re still struggling, look deeper. Are you fasting too long? Sometimes fasting protocols can raise your blood sugar and cortisol levels.

Make sure you’ve checked on your adrenals – your cortisol and adrenaline levels. You can track heart rate variability at home. Use breath work, meditation, and time in nature to help optimize your response to stress.

Supplements can help: chromium, berberine, alpha-lipoic acid, and organic cinnamon. Exercise is crucial—core strengthening, strength training, and aerobic exercise improve your body’s response to insulin.

Use my acronym C.A.R.E.:

• Clean eating—eliminating sugar and getting consistent meals with protein.
• Adequate sleep—better sleep optimizes blood sugar levels.
• Recovery activities—help optimize your body’s ability to recover from stress.
• Exercise—build muscle mass and improve insulin function.

The Benefits of Optimal Blood Sugar Levels

When you have optimal blood sugar levels, your body feels safe and secure. Your immune system can pay attention to viruses like HPV. You’ll improve your microbiome, balance your hormones, and lower inflammation. 

When blood sugar levels are higher, so is inflammation, which shows up as achiness, pain, headaches, weight gain, and skin rashes. As inflammation goes down, so does HPV, because inflammation in your body translates to inflammation in your vagina. We want to make it so HPV cannot survive.

Use these tools, listen to your body, track your levels, and you’re going to know your body better. Even after you get HPV negative, you’re going to continue using these tools to prevent health issues going forward. 

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