If you’ve been here for a minute, you know I love talking about blood sugar. Listen to Episode 55: How to Tell if Your Blood Sugar is a Problem for a deep dive into all that.

It’s damn near impossible for anything to work well in your body if your blood sugar regulation is a mess. (That includes your hormones, friends.) Because I love this stuff so much, I did a 2 1/2 month experiment with NutriSense’s Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). (Insert pic of Erin wearing CGM?) I got so many questions about it on Instagram that figured I’d answer all your Qs in blog format!

Exercise is a hormetic activity, which means that exercise itself is a stressor. The right amount is healthy, but going over amount can become unhealthy. When you’re exercising too much, there’s very little opportunity for the body to recover.

When we combine over-exercising with other life stressors, such as a busy lifestyle, lack of rest and recovery, and under-eating, it can become a major contributor to adrenal issues.

A healthy sex drive is mark of vitality and health. So if your libido is low, that could be an indication that something is going on with your mental or physical health, most often hormonal imbalance. Despite how common low libido and hormonal imbalance is, people still feel pretty embarrassed about it. But there is no shame in your low sex drive game! In today’s podcast and blog, I answer a listener question: What’s up with my low sex drive?! to get to the bottom of why your libido might be low.

I was recently interviewed by Sara Curry of Blaze Yoga and Pilates to talk about why her students are bonking during Inferno Hot Pilates—a type of heated pilates that incorporates High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT.

Bonking, crashing, hitting the wall...call it what you want, but when it happens, it sucks. The great thing about HIIT is that you get a killer transformative effective workout in a short period of time...but ONLY if you’re adequately fed. Here are some common mistakes people make when trying to fuel their high intensity interval training."