Muffins and Show of Hands

Today was a 5 muffin day. I’ve enrolled on the Zoe Science for everybody trial to see how my body reacts to various foods and food combinations.

I’m particularly interested in the trial as over the last 8 years or so I’ve been hovering near the pre diabetic line. I want to see what foods trigger the highest glucose response. This trial also studies gut health as current evidence shows that gut health is an important factor in both mental and physical well being.

Day 1 of the 14 day trial is all about tests, wearing a continual glucose monitor for the duration, taking a gut health test and a blood test. Then you eat the muffins, three for breakfast and the other two for lunch after four hours with only black coffee, herbal tea or water. After a further two hours you can do what you like.

On subsequent days you record your food intake and the glucose monitor records the effect it has on your glucose levels.

As you find out which foods give the highest spikes and deepest troughs then you can eat stuff to mitigate the impact.

There’s much more to it than that short summary and more than you might want to know. It’s a trial I paid to join and contributes not only to an understanding of my metabolism but also how what we eat affects thousands of others. I’ll keep you informed.

We zipped up to Blackheath to see Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes this evening. An excellent show by three musicians that complement each other so well. Phil Beer, the multi instrumentalist who looks more like God than God himself. Steve Knightly song writer and angry old folkie and Miranda with a voice as clear as crystal adding the thrum of the double bass.