April 6, 2025 • 23 mins
Do you know the warning signs of metabolic syndrome, even if you're not overweight? In this video, we'll explore the 8 signs you may have metabolic syndrome, including skin signs of hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance symptoms that can't be ignored. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and it's often linked to insulin resistance. But what are the signs of insulin resistance, and how can you reverse it? We'll dive into the symptoms of metabolic syndrome, from high blood pressure and high blood sugar to abnormal cholesterol levels and more. Learn how to identify the signs of metabolic syndrome, even if you're not overweight, and discover the steps you can take to cure metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. By understanding the signs and symptoms of metabolic syndrome, you can take control of your health and reduce your risk of chronic diseases. Watch until the end to learn more!
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:17 Main symptoms of metabolic syndrome
02:37 8 signs of metabolic syndrome
8:48 What causes metabolic syndrome?
9:15 Insulin resistance vs metabolic syndrome
11:18 Metabolic syndrome and cholesterol
15:39 How to reverse metabolic syndrome
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(00:00):
Do you feel like something's? Off with your health, but your
doctor says that all of your labs.
Look normal and you might not even be overweight.
Metabolic syndrome could be to blame even if you look.
Seemingly healthy. On the outside, and that's what
I'm going to be talking about intoday's video, is 8 signs that
you have metabolic syndrome, even if you're not overweight,
(00:21):
even if. All of your lab.
Tests look normal. We're going to be breaking down
what metabolic syndrome? Is what it actually.
Means to have it. What the cause?
Of it is and finally, what you can do about it.
Hi, I'm Kate, a nutritionist whospecialises in insulin
resistance, weight loss and blood sugar.
Control I have helped. Hundreds of clients with
metabolic syndrome regain their health and reverse this
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condition and. If you have.
Metabolic syndrome, if there's something.
Off with your health. Even if you.
Look healthy, as I said before. This isn't something to take
lightly. It's not just something to brush
under the rug. Because if you do.
Have metabolic syndrome. This increases your.
Risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease.
And many other diseases. So the.
(01:06):
Earlier you can recognise that you have it and take steps to
improve and reverse. It the better off.
Your health is going to be. Both short.
Term and long term, now we're going to get into.
Exactly what the criteria? Is for metabolic syndrome.
But you don't have to be overweight to have it.
I know when we think metabolic health, automatically our minds
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jump to either being overweight or being a normal body weight.
If you have poor metabolic health, we assume that means
you're overweight, but that's not.
Always the case. There are a lot.
Of normal. Weight people who do.
Have metabolic syndrome. But the good news is, is that
because it is a metabolic condition that's caused by diet
and lifestyle, it can be entirely reversed.
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And like I said, when you do that, you're going to reduce
your disease risk significantly.So what is metabolic syndrome?
Now, when we talk about syndromes, and I feel like a lot
of people don't know this, it actually means a cluster of
symptoms. So it's not really.
A disease per SE. It just means you have some of
the symptoms that are. Associated with it so.
(02:10):
When we're talking about metabolic syndrome, there are 5
main symptoms and to have metabolic syndrome you have to
have. Three out of the five.
So the first one is going to be a large, large waist
circumference. The second one is going to be
high. Blood sugar.
The third one is high triglycerides.
The 4th 1 high HDL and the fifthone high blood.
Pressure, but there. Are other signs as well, and
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that's what we're going to be talking about in today's.
Video because metabolic health goes.
Beyond these lab markers, the first one.
Is that you are. Constantly battling cravings and
especially for sugar and carbohydrates.
Now this happens when you have. Blood sugar.
Dysregulation and insulin resistance.
Both of these. Go undiagnosed a lot of the
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time, and this doesn't necessarily mean that you.
Have high blood sugar. Or at least not yet.
But if your blood. Sugar isn't being managed.
Properly by the body. Even if you don't have high
blood. Sugar, this is a.
Sign of metabolic syndrome. It's a sign that something in
your metabolism isn't working properly.
We experience these cravings andthey can be really intense when
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our blood sugar is going up and down dramatically.
Throughout the day. Your body gets stuck in the
cycle or it thinks it needs quick energy and that's when
these cravings happen. The second sign is.
That you have belly fat or a. Puffy midsection now I.
Spoke earlier about how. One of the main symptoms of
metabolic syndrome. Is if you have a large waist.
Circumference, but even if it doesn't meet the minimum
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threshold for metabolic syndrome, if you find you carry
a lot of weight around your midsection, if maybe you.
Consider yourself what is. Known as skinny fat, even if you
have a normal BMI, this can be aside of metabolic syndrome.
It means you. Have a visceral fat buildup,
which is. Caused by metabolic syndrome and
that's why eventually when your waist.
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Does meet that? Minimum threshold that will be
one of the main symptoms of metabolic syndrome.
The 4th 1 is skin tags and this surprises.
A lot of people. Now we're going to get more into
what causes metabolic syndrome and why metabolic syndrome
causes these symptoms in a little bit.
But skin tags. Are caused by high.
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Insulin levels in the body. Now, insulin is a hormone that
plays a big role in our metabolism.
It helps shuttle excess. Sugar from our bloodstream to
the cells in our body that need it so anytime our.
Blood sugar goes up. Insulin is there to help control
it and bring it back down to baseline and also to.
Fuel our cells. But insulin is also a growth
hormone, so when we have it in large amounts in the body.
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It causes growth. This is.
Why? And this is kind of a tangent.
Insulin levels go up when women are pregnant.
Because they are. Growing a baby and This is why
women will. Have gestational diabetes
because. Their insulin has went up during
pregnancy, but when you have metabolic syndrome, you have
higher than normal baseline levels of insulin in the body
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and this can cause growths on your skin, including skin tags.
Now when I'm talking about skin tags, I'm talking.
About little fleshy bits that usually appear.
Around the neck, in the armpits,in the groyne.
Sometimes they can occur on eyelids and it's a misconception
that skin. Tags are caused by.
Friction. A lot of people.
Will go to their doctor or theirdermatologist.
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And they can have them removed, but if you're removing skin tags
this way and not addressing the root cause, which is the high
insulin, then they're just goingto come back.
And the skin tags themselves, they're benign.
They won't cause any problems for you, but the cause of them,
that's what you should be concerned about.
So it. Shouldn't just be about?
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Removing them for aesthetics. It should be about.
Addressing the root cause of them.
That way they won't come back and then your metabolic health
is also going to be better. The 4th 1 is brain fog and
trouble concentrating and again this comes down to.
Blood sugar dysregulation. Our brain is super.
Sensitive to swings in blood sugar and we can experience.
The side effect Years. Before fasting blood sugar goes
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The next sign is hormonal imbalances and we see this in
both men and women. When you have metabolic syndrome
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as a woman, this increases. Your risk of PCOS this
increases. Your risk of having.
An irregular cycle. And this all comes down to the
hormones, one of which being insulin, which we just spoke
about being out of balance. High insulin and insulin
resistance is the key driver behind PCOS now.
PCOS is polycystic. Ovarian syndrome and again, like
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metabolic syndrome, it is the name for a cluster of symptoms.
So women who have PCOS? They have to have two out of
the. Three main symptoms symptom #1
is an irregular period, symptom #2 is ovarian cysts, and symptom
#3 is high male hormones and thedriver.
Behind all of these? Is high insulin levels I won't
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get into PCOS too much in today's video.
But if you are. A woman who knows you struggle
with hormonal imbalances, then you might have medical syndrome
as a result. I'm going to link to another
video on. PCOS up above.
That you can check out afterwards if you want to know
more. About that specifically.
Now the final sign we're. Going to talk about is if you
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have. Trouble losing.
Weight if it feels. Almost impossible, no matter
what you do. Now, I know we're talking about
signs that you have metabolic syndrome even if you're not
overweight. But if you have tried to lose.
Weight in the past Maybe you're not quite overweight, or maybe
you're on the cusp and you've. Tried to lose like. 510 lbs and
found it almost impossible. This is also a.
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Sign Hello Maisie of metabolic syndrome.
And this is because when you have metabolic syndrome, your
body is less metabolically flexible, it is relying a lot on
burning carbohydrates for energy, and it's not good at
using fat for fuel. Bless you big sees.
So if any of those. Struck a chord with you.
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You. Might have a metabolic syndrome,
but now let's get into what? Actually causes it, and we're
going to start off by. Talking about how metabolic
syndrome and insulin resistance.Are actually.
The same thing now I mentioned insulin several times throughout
this video and that is because. It is the key driver, while
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specifically high. Insulin and insulin resistance
is the key driver behind metabolic syndrome, behind the
symptoms. Associated with it and because
it's the 'cause it is also. The answer, a fun fact, or maybe
not a fun fact, is that metabolic syndrome used to
actually be called insulin resistance syndrome.
I don't know. Somewhere along the line, they
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rebranded. It because of.
All the metabolic. Issues that it causes.
And I guess it was, I don't know, I don't know why they
rebranded it. But anyways.
The fact that it used to be. Called insulin resistance
syndrome. Just goes to show how related
they are. But the disconnect we now have
between the two I think does more harm than.
Good because. If we know that metabolic
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syndrome is caused by insulin resistance, we can start to
address insulin resistance and take control of it, and I think
that's really empowering for a lot of people to know.
Because like I said. Metabolic syndrome, a syndrome
just means a group of symptoms. And if we just think that all of
those symptoms aren't related orwe're not sure what is
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connecting them, that's not helpful.
So if we go back. To the main symptoms of
metabolic syndrome #1 is a largewaist circumference.
The reason? This is a symptom of metabolic
syndrome. Is because high?
Insulin levels and insulin. Resistance cause us to.
Store more fat in our midsectionas visceral fat.
Now there are two types of fat that we.
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Can store on our body. There's visceral.
Fat and there's subcutaneous. Subcutaneous.
Is that squishy? Fat and it can be stored
basically anywhere on your body.It is really benign.
It's it's basically just. Stored energy, which all of us
need some level of. Of course, you can have too much
cutaneous fat and then you're going to be overweight.
But then there's visceral fat, and this type of fat is
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inflammatory. We only store it around our
midsection. It gets stored around our organs
and this is what will eventually.
Lead to like a. Protruding belly what is known
as a beer belly and this type offat is hard and the reason that
we store. Visceral fat is because.
Our insulin levels are high now remember that I said earlier
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that insulin. Is a growth.
Hormone, and this is also one ofthe things that it grows.
The second and third main signs of metabolic syndrome are high
triglycerides and low HDL. So these are cholesterol?
Markers and they basically mean that our metabolism isn't
working properly and you might have.
Noticed that LDL. And total cholesterol isn't
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associated with metabolic syndrome at all.
And that's. Because both of these aren't
actually good markers of metabolic health.
Triglycerides. And HDLR no matter if.
LDL is high or low, or if total cholesterol is high or low.
And I think it's funny that there is such an emphasis in
general on LDL and total cholesterol being high when with
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things like this, with metabolicsyndrome, we.
See that there is. No association to them.
However. Having metabolic syndrome
significantly increases. Your risk of heart.
Disease and stroke. So there is some connection, but
we just completely skip over LDLand cholesterol when it comes to
metabolic syndrome because it's not connected and I think that.
Just goes to show that. Looking at these numbers is a
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bit irrelevant if your. LDL is high, but your
triglycerides. Are in a good range and your
HDL. Is high as well.
You're in a good spot. Don't focus on.
LDL because you're just. Going to be focusing on changing
something that doesn't really. Correlate with your health.
The next main symptom? Is high blood pressure.
And again. This is highly correlated.
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With insulin resistance. Now there are other reasons why
your blood pressure might be high, but having hypertension or
chronically. High blood pressure. 90% of the
time is caused by insulin resistance.
Of course, our blood. Pressure can fluctuate.
Throughout the day. Caffeine can cause our blood.
Pressure to go up. Exercise can cause our blood.
Pressure to go. Up salt.
Can cause our blood pressure to go up.
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But when this happens, it's an acute reaction.
It only happens for a short duration, and this isn't an
issue, especially with things like exercise and salt.
A short increase in blood pressure isn't a bad thing, it's
when it's chronically. High that.
It's an issue and when it's chronically high, most of the
time this is caused by insulin resistance and the final main
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symptom is. High fasting blood sugar.
Insulin resistance starts years before our fasting blood.
Sugar starts to go up. And as I mentioned before,
insulin, one of its. Roles is to take excess.
Sugar from our bloodstream to our cells in our body that need
it for energy. And this is totally normal.
Like we all need insulin in order to be metabolically
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healthy and to function properly.
People who don't create insulin or don't create enough of it,
this is when we see type 1 diabetes and that's when they
have to inject insulin. Because without it, their blood
sugar. Would just keep going up and
that can be extremely dangerous and even deadly so when our
blood sugar is constantly spiking when we're eating a lot
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of. Carbohydrates.
A lot of. Sugar.
Insulin is trying to control ourblood sugar and keep it at
baseline. So it's taking the sugar out of
our bloodstream, trying to bringit to our cells.
But what ends up happening when we over consume sugar and
carbohydrates? Hydrates is our cells are
already full with all. Of the energy they can take
because our bodies can only store a limited amount of
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carbohydrates as energy, sugar as energy.
They can basically store. Unlimited.
Fat. Which is why.
We gain weight. Fat is stored energy, but
there's only a limited amount ofcarbohydrates they can store.
So once our. Cells are filled with all the
sugar. They can take that's when they
start resisting the actions of insulin.
So they start kind of turning insulin away and saying not
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we're full, we can't take anymore, and then your body.
Realises that your blood sugar is still elevated.
And it releases more insulin as a result, and that insulin tries
again to get your cells. To take the sugar and this rise.
In insulin. Is able to keep your blood.
Sugar in check for a period of time 5-10 even 15 years.
And that's why you can have insulin resistance and not yet
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have high fasting. Blood sugar, but.
Eventually the excess insulin isn't going to be able to keep
up and your fasting blood sugar.Will start to.
Creep up and that's when you will.
Have this. High blood sugar symptom.
But like I said. Because you can be insulin
resistant up to 15 years. Before.
Your fasting blood sugar. Starts to go up.
This can mean you still. Have.
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Insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and have normal blood
sugar. So what is the solution here if
metabolic syndrome, if insulin resistance are?
Caused by high. Insulin levels.
The solution is a lowering your insulin because when your
insulin goes down this. Allows your cells to.
Become more sensitive to insulinonce again, and when they become
more sensitive then they're taking in excess.
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Sugar, as they should. Everything's working properly
and your metabolic health improves.
And because A. Lot of the associated.
Symptoms are caused by high insulin levels.
When you bring that insulin down, the symptoms will start to
improve and can even go away entirely.
So if you've been paying attention throughout this video,
I'm sure you've seen a little bit of a trend how everything is
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connected here. How blood?
Sugar, insulin, weight gain are all linked so if you're trying
to bring your insulin levels down it.
Starts with what you eat, because this is what.
Has the biggest impact. On our blood sugar.
Yes, things like exercise, stress, sleep can impact.
Our blood sugar as well, but diet really is.
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The biggest contributor, the first thing you're going to want
to do is to prioritise protein at every meal, and I start with
protein. Because of the. 3 macro
nutrients carbohydrates, fat andprotein protein is the most
important there is a minimum amount that.
We need every single. Day in.
Order for our bodies. To function properly in order to
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maintain our tissue, in order tomaintain our muscles, in order
for our hormones to function. Properly because.
When it comes to carbohydrates and fat, their main role in the
body is energy. Carbohydrates are a quick source
of energy and. Fat is.
More of a long term source of energy, but with protein it's
not an energy. Source.
It has other. Roles in the body when you eat
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enough protein at your meals. When you centre your meals
around protein and kind of buildthem from there, this ensures
that you're getting enough #1. But it also helps.
With hunger and. Satiety because a lot.
Of the times when we're still hungry after a meal, it's
because we didn't eat enough protein.
So aim for 30 grammes of qualityprotein at every meal, ideally
animal protein things like meat.Fish, seafood, eggs.
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Even dairy is great. Get at least 30 grammes at every
meal, and especially 30 grammes at your first meal.
Even just doing this alone, you're going to see improvements
very quickly. Now the next thing you're going
to want to do is to. Cut out, processed.
Carbs and processed sugars. Carbohydrates are the
macronutrient that spikes blood sugar and requires the most
insulin when we eat carbohydrates, even if they're
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complex. Carbs, they are broken.
Down into sugar and this is whatcauses.
Our blood sugar. To go up now depending on how
processed. They are this will cause our
blood. Sugar to go up more rapidly or
more gradually. So the more processed, the more
our blood sugar is going to go up all at once, the more quickly
and the more insulin that's going to be needed all at once.
The first step here should be. Cutting out.
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Processed carbs, Processed sugar, because these are
digested. Rapidly and it's going to cause
this spike and it's going to require a lot of insulin, which
is what we're trying to avoid. So if you can cut these out and
even just stick to whole food carbs, that's going to make a
big difference. If you want to take it one step
further you can try to reduce your carb intake in general, but
honestly if you cut out the findcarbs and sugar you're going to
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see a big difference and especially ones that are in
liquid form. Because these are digested.
Even more rapidly. So I'm talking things like pop
and juice, even juice with no added.
Sugar, there's still. A lot of natural sugar in it
now. Another really effective
strategy for improving blood sugar control and reducing our
need for insulin. Is exercise.
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And I'm not talking about doing some big.
Huge exercise. Routine, even just going for a
1015 minute walk after meals. This allows your body to use the
sugar. And the energy from that meal
immediately and there's going tobe a more gradual or maybe even
no. Blood sugar spike.
And the really cool thing about?Exercise is that.
When we're exercise, When we're moving.
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Our bodies, our cells. Can.
Actually take in glucose. Without insulin, so this.
Is why exercise is so so. Beneficial for insulin
resistance, for metabolic syndrome, for weight loss in
general. But you need to be doing the
right. Type of exercise so.
Not intense chronic cardio I'm talking about.
Like I said. Walking after meals and
resistance training and the nextthing you can do.
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Is to use targeted? Supplements that help to control
blood sugar. Now this video is sponsored by
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difference. And the final thing you can do
is to incorporate some intermittent fasting into your
routine. Now this doesn't have to be
extreme even just fast for 12 hours a.
Day so. Finishing your last meal at 8:00
PM and not eating again until 8:00 AM can make a really big
difference. This is basically.
Well, when you're fasting, you are in a low insulin state
because obviously no energy is coming in and your body doesn't
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need to be producing insulin in order.
To control your blood sugar. More time in a fasted state
means your cells have more time to become insulin sensitive
again. Now of course there is a tipping
point here. You can over fast and that can
cause problems, especially if you're a woman.
Honestly like a 12/14/16 hour fasting window every day I find
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is very manageable for most people and can be extremely
impactful. So in summary, you don't have to
wait for a diagnosis to know youhave metabolic syndrome or
insulin resistance. If you have the.
Signs that we spoke about in today's video then this should
be. A bit of a wake up call.
And I don't say that. To scare you a lot of people.
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Think they're healthy? Because they're not.
Overweight, but they are. Experiencing some other side
effects that they don't realise are related and that could get
worse overtime. And the good news is, is that
metabolic syndrome completely reversible?
Yes, some people are more genetically predisposed to it
than others, as is the case withinsulin resistance, but just
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because you're genetically predisposed to something doesn't
mean you're automatically going to develop it.
Genetics load the gun died in lifestyle.
Pulled the trigger. But anyways.
Guys, I hope you. Found.
This podcast episode helpful. Let me know in the comment
section down below if you've been diagnosed with metabolic
syndrome or insulin resistance and if there's anything you've
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done about it so far, anything that's worked, anything that
hasn't, or maybe this has been totally eye opening for you and
you had no idea about any of this.
Before. Let me know down below.
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see you in the next one. Bye.
Do you feel like something's? Off with your health, but your
doctor says that all of your labs.
Look normal and you might not even be overweight.
Metabolic syndrome could be to blame even if you look.
Seemingly healthy. On the outside, and that's what
I'm going to be talking about intoday's video, is 8 signs that
you have metabolic syndrome, even if you're not overweight,
(00:21):
even if. All of your lab.
Tests look normal. We're going to be breaking down
what metabolic syndrome? Is what it actually.
Means to have it. What the cause?
Of it is and finally, what you can do about it.
Hi, I'm Kate, a nutritionist whospecialises in insulin
resistance, weight loss and blood sugar.
Control I have helped. Hundreds of clients with
metabolic syndrome regain their health and reverse this
(00:43):
condition and. If you have.
Metabolic syndrome, if there's something.
Off with your health. Even if you.
Look healthy, as I said before. This isn't something to take
lightly. It's not just something to brush
under the rug. Because if you do.
Have metabolic syndrome. This increases your.
Risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease.
And many other diseases. So the.
(01:06):
Earlier you can recognise that you have it and take steps to
improve and reverse. It the better off.
Your health is going to be. Both short.
Term and long term, now we're going to get into.
Exactly what the criteria? Is for metabolic syndrome.
But you don't have to be overweight to have it.
I know when we think metabolic health, automatically our minds
(01:26):
jump to either being overweight or being a normal body weight.
If you have poor metabolic health, we assume that means
you're overweight, but that's not.
Always the case. There are a lot.
Of normal. Weight people who do.
Have metabolic syndrome. But the good news is, is that
because it is a metabolic condition that's caused by diet
and lifestyle, it can be entirely reversed.
(01:48):
And like I said, when you do that, you're going to reduce
your disease risk significantly.So what is metabolic syndrome?
Now, when we talk about syndromes, and I feel like a lot
of people don't know this, it actually means a cluster of
symptoms. So it's not really.
A disease per SE. It just means you have some of
the symptoms that are. Associated with it so.
(02:10):
When we're talking about metabolic syndrome, there are 5
main symptoms and to have metabolic syndrome you have to
have. Three out of the five.
So the first one is going to be a large, large waist
circumference. The second one is going to be
high. Blood sugar.
The third one is high triglycerides.
The 4th 1 high HDL and the fifthone high blood.
Pressure, but there. Are other signs as well, and
(02:30):
that's what we're going to be talking about in today's.
Video because metabolic health goes.
Beyond these lab markers, the first one.
Is that you are. Constantly battling cravings and
especially for sugar and carbohydrates.
Now this happens when you have. Blood sugar.
Dysregulation and insulin resistance.
Both of these. Go undiagnosed a lot of the
(02:52):
time, and this doesn't necessarily mean that you.
Have high blood sugar. Or at least not yet.
But if your blood. Sugar isn't being managed.
Properly by the body. Even if you don't have high
blood. Sugar, this is a.
Sign of metabolic syndrome. It's a sign that something in
your metabolism isn't working properly.
We experience these cravings andthey can be really intense when
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our blood sugar is going up and down dramatically.
Throughout the day. Your body gets stuck in the
cycle or it thinks it needs quick energy and that's when
these cravings happen. The second sign is.
That you have belly fat or a. Puffy midsection now I.
Spoke earlier about how. One of the main symptoms of
metabolic syndrome. Is if you have a large waist.
Circumference, but even if it doesn't meet the minimum
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threshold for metabolic syndrome, if you find you carry
a lot of weight around your midsection, if maybe you.
Consider yourself what is. Known as skinny fat, even if you
have a normal BMI, this can be aside of metabolic syndrome.
It means you. Have a visceral fat buildup,
which is. Caused by metabolic syndrome and
that's why eventually when your waist.
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Does meet that? Minimum threshold that will be
one of the main symptoms of metabolic syndrome.
The 4th 1 is skin tags and this surprises.
A lot of people. Now we're going to get more into
what causes metabolic syndrome and why metabolic syndrome
causes these symptoms in a little bit.
But skin tags. Are caused by high.
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Insulin levels in the body. Now, insulin is a hormone that
plays a big role in our metabolism.
It helps shuttle excess. Sugar from our bloodstream to
the cells in our body that need it so anytime our.
Blood sugar goes up. Insulin is there to help control
it and bring it back down to baseline and also to.
Fuel our cells. But insulin is also a growth
hormone, so when we have it in large amounts in the body.
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It causes growth. This is.
Why? And this is kind of a tangent.
Insulin levels go up when women are pregnant.
Because they are. Growing a baby and This is why
women will. Have gestational diabetes
because. Their insulin has went up during
pregnancy, but when you have metabolic syndrome, you have
higher than normal baseline levels of insulin in the body
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and this can cause growths on your skin, including skin tags.
Now when I'm talking about skin tags, I'm talking.
About little fleshy bits that usually appear.
Around the neck, in the armpits,in the groyne.
Sometimes they can occur on eyelids and it's a misconception
that skin. Tags are caused by.
Friction. A lot of people.
Will go to their doctor or theirdermatologist.
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And they can have them removed, but if you're removing skin tags
this way and not addressing the root cause, which is the high
insulin, then they're just goingto come back.
And the skin tags themselves, they're benign.
They won't cause any problems for you, but the cause of them,
that's what you should be concerned about.
So it. Shouldn't just be about?
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Removing them for aesthetics. It should be about.
Addressing the root cause of them.
That way they won't come back and then your metabolic health
is also going to be better. The 4th 1 is brain fog and
trouble concentrating and again this comes down to.
Blood sugar dysregulation. Our brain is super.
Sensitive to swings in blood sugar and we can experience.
The side effect Years. Before fasting blood sugar goes
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The next sign is hormonal imbalances and we see this in
both men and women. When you have metabolic syndrome
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as a woman, this increases. Your risk of PCOS this
increases. Your risk of having.
An irregular cycle. And this all comes down to the
hormones, one of which being insulin, which we just spoke
about being out of balance. High insulin and insulin
resistance is the key driver behind PCOS now.
PCOS is polycystic. Ovarian syndrome and again, like
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metabolic syndrome, it is the name for a cluster of symptoms.
So women who have PCOS? They have to have two out of
the. Three main symptoms symptom #1
is an irregular period, symptom #2 is ovarian cysts, and symptom
#3 is high male hormones and thedriver.
Behind all of these? Is high insulin levels I won't
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get into PCOS too much in today's video.
But if you are. A woman who knows you struggle
with hormonal imbalances, then you might have medical syndrome
as a result. I'm going to link to another
video on. PCOS up above.
That you can check out afterwards if you want to know
more. About that specifically.
Now the final sign we're. Going to talk about is if you
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have. Trouble losing.
Weight if it feels. Almost impossible, no matter
what you do. Now, I know we're talking about
signs that you have metabolic syndrome even if you're not
overweight. But if you have tried to lose.
Weight in the past Maybe you're not quite overweight, or maybe
you're on the cusp and you've. Tried to lose like. 510 lbs and
found it almost impossible. This is also a.
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Sign Hello Maisie of metabolic syndrome.
And this is because when you have metabolic syndrome, your
body is less metabolically flexible, it is relying a lot on
burning carbohydrates for energy, and it's not good at
using fat for fuel. Bless you big sees.
So if any of those. Struck a chord with you.
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You. Might have a metabolic syndrome,
but now let's get into what? Actually causes it, and we're
going to start off by. Talking about how metabolic
syndrome and insulin resistance.Are actually.
The same thing now I mentioned insulin several times throughout
this video and that is because. It is the key driver, while
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specifically high. Insulin and insulin resistance
is the key driver behind metabolic syndrome, behind the
symptoms. Associated with it and because
it's the 'cause it is also. The answer, a fun fact, or maybe
not a fun fact, is that metabolic syndrome used to
actually be called insulin resistance syndrome.
I don't know. Somewhere along the line, they
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rebranded. It because of.
All the metabolic. Issues that it causes.
And I guess it was, I don't know, I don't know why they
rebranded it. But anyways.
The fact that it used to be. Called insulin resistance
syndrome. Just goes to show how related
they are. But the disconnect we now have
between the two I think does more harm than.
Good because. If we know that metabolic
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syndrome is caused by insulin resistance, we can start to
address insulin resistance and take control of it, and I think
that's really empowering for a lot of people to know.
Because like I said. Metabolic syndrome, a syndrome
just means a group of symptoms. And if we just think that all of
those symptoms aren't related orwe're not sure what is
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connecting them, that's not helpful.
So if we go back. To the main symptoms of
metabolic syndrome #1 is a largewaist circumference.
The reason? This is a symptom of metabolic
syndrome. Is because high?
Insulin levels and insulin. Resistance cause us to.
Store more fat in our midsectionas visceral fat.
Now there are two types of fat that we.
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Can store on our body. There's visceral.
Fat and there's subcutaneous. Subcutaneous.
Is that squishy? Fat and it can be stored
basically anywhere on your body.It is really benign.
It's it's basically just. Stored energy, which all of us
need some level of. Of course, you can have too much
cutaneous fat and then you're going to be overweight.
But then there's visceral fat, and this type of fat is
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inflammatory. We only store it around our
midsection. It gets stored around our organs
and this is what will eventually.
Lead to like a. Protruding belly what is known
as a beer belly and this type offat is hard and the reason that
we store. Visceral fat is because.
Our insulin levels are high now remember that I said earlier
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that insulin. Is a growth.
Hormone, and this is also one ofthe things that it grows.
The second and third main signs of metabolic syndrome are high
triglycerides and low HDL. So these are cholesterol?
Markers and they basically mean that our metabolism isn't
working properly and you might have.
Noticed that LDL. And total cholesterol isn't
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associated with metabolic syndrome at all.
And that's. Because both of these aren't
actually good markers of metabolic health.
Triglycerides. And HDLR no matter if.
LDL is high or low, or if total cholesterol is high or low.
And I think it's funny that there is such an emphasis in
general on LDL and total cholesterol being high when with
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things like this, with metabolicsyndrome, we.
See that there is. No association to them.
However. Having metabolic syndrome
significantly increases. Your risk of heart.
Disease and stroke. So there is some connection, but
we just completely skip over LDLand cholesterol when it comes to
metabolic syndrome because it's not connected and I think that.
Just goes to show that. Looking at these numbers is a
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bit irrelevant if your. LDL is high, but your
triglycerides. Are in a good range and your
HDL. Is high as well.
You're in a good spot. Don't focus on.
LDL because you're just. Going to be focusing on changing
something that doesn't really. Correlate with your health.
The next main symptom? Is high blood pressure.
And again. This is highly correlated.
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With insulin resistance. Now there are other reasons why
your blood pressure might be high, but having hypertension or
chronically. High blood pressure. 90% of the
time is caused by insulin resistance.
Of course, our blood. Pressure can fluctuate.
Throughout the day. Caffeine can cause our blood.
Pressure to go up. Exercise can cause our blood.
Pressure to go. Up salt.
Can cause our blood pressure to go up.
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But when this happens, it's an acute reaction.
It only happens for a short duration, and this isn't an
issue, especially with things like exercise and salt.
A short increase in blood pressure isn't a bad thing, it's
when it's chronically. High that.
It's an issue and when it's chronically high, most of the
time this is caused by insulin resistance and the final main
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symptom is. High fasting blood sugar.
Insulin resistance starts years before our fasting blood.
Sugar starts to go up. And as I mentioned before,
insulin, one of its. Roles is to take excess.
Sugar from our bloodstream to our cells in our body that need
it for energy. And this is totally normal.
Like we all need insulin in order to be metabolically
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healthy and to function properly.
People who don't create insulin or don't create enough of it,
this is when we see type 1 diabetes and that's when they
have to inject insulin. Because without it, their blood
sugar. Would just keep going up and
that can be extremely dangerous and even deadly so when our
blood sugar is constantly spiking when we're eating a lot
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of. Carbohydrates.
A lot of. Sugar.
Insulin is trying to control ourblood sugar and keep it at
baseline. So it's taking the sugar out of
our bloodstream, trying to bringit to our cells.
But what ends up happening when we over consume sugar and
carbohydrates? Hydrates is our cells are
already full with all. Of the energy they can take
because our bodies can only store a limited amount of
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carbohydrates as energy, sugar as energy.
They can basically store. Unlimited.
Fat. Which is why.
We gain weight. Fat is stored energy, but
there's only a limited amount ofcarbohydrates they can store.
So once our. Cells are filled with all the
sugar. They can take that's when they
start resisting the actions of insulin.
So they start kind of turning insulin away and saying not
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we're full, we can't take anymore, and then your body.
Realises that your blood sugar is still elevated.
And it releases more insulin as a result, and that insulin tries
again to get your cells. To take the sugar and this rise.
In insulin. Is able to keep your blood.
Sugar in check for a period of time 5-10 even 15 years.
And that's why you can have insulin resistance and not yet
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have high fasting. Blood sugar, but.
Eventually the excess insulin isn't going to be able to keep
up and your fasting blood sugar.Will start to.
Creep up and that's when you will.
Have this. High blood sugar symptom.
But like I said. Because you can be insulin
resistant up to 15 years. Before.
Your fasting blood sugar. Starts to go up.
This can mean you still. Have.
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Insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and have normal blood
sugar. So what is the solution here if
metabolic syndrome, if insulin resistance are?
Caused by high. Insulin levels.
The solution is a lowering your insulin because when your
insulin goes down this. Allows your cells to.
Become more sensitive to insulinonce again, and when they become
more sensitive then they're taking in excess.
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Sugar, as they should. Everything's working properly
and your metabolic health improves.
And because A. Lot of the associated.
Symptoms are caused by high insulin levels.
When you bring that insulin down, the symptoms will start to
improve and can even go away entirely.
So if you've been paying attention throughout this video,
I'm sure you've seen a little bit of a trend how everything is
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connected here. How blood?
Sugar, insulin, weight gain are all linked so if you're trying
to bring your insulin levels down it.
Starts with what you eat, because this is what.
Has the biggest impact. On our blood sugar.
Yes, things like exercise, stress, sleep can impact.
Our blood sugar as well, but diet really is.
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The biggest contributor, the first thing you're going to want
to do is to prioritise protein at every meal, and I start with
protein. Because of the. 3 macro
nutrients carbohydrates, fat andprotein protein is the most
important there is a minimum amount that.
We need every single. Day in.
Order for our bodies. To function properly in order to
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maintain our tissue, in order tomaintain our muscles, in order
for our hormones to function. Properly because.
When it comes to carbohydrates and fat, their main role in the
body is energy. Carbohydrates are a quick source
of energy and. Fat is.
More of a long term source of energy, but with protein it's
not an energy. Source.
It has other. Roles in the body when you eat
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enough protein at your meals. When you centre your meals
around protein and kind of buildthem from there, this ensures
that you're getting enough #1. But it also helps.
With hunger and. Satiety because a lot.
Of the times when we're still hungry after a meal, it's
because we didn't eat enough protein.
So aim for 30 grammes of qualityprotein at every meal, ideally
animal protein things like meat.Fish, seafood, eggs.
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Even dairy is great. Get at least 30 grammes at every
meal, and especially 30 grammes at your first meal.
Even just doing this alone, you're going to see improvements
very quickly. Now the next thing you're going
to want to do is to. Cut out, processed.
Carbs and processed sugars. Carbohydrates are the
macronutrient that spikes blood sugar and requires the most
insulin when we eat carbohydrates, even if they're
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complex. Carbs, they are broken.
Down into sugar and this is whatcauses.
Our blood sugar. To go up now depending on how
processed. They are this will cause our
blood. Sugar to go up more rapidly or
more gradually. So the more processed, the more
our blood sugar is going to go up all at once, the more quickly
and the more insulin that's going to be needed all at once.
The first step here should be. Cutting out.
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Processed carbs, Processed sugar, because these are
digested. Rapidly and it's going to cause
this spike and it's going to require a lot of insulin, which
is what we're trying to avoid. So if you can cut these out and
even just stick to whole food carbs, that's going to make a
big difference. If you want to take it one step
further you can try to reduce your carb intake in general, but
honestly if you cut out the findcarbs and sugar you're going to
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see a big difference and especially ones that are in
liquid form. Because these are digested.
Even more rapidly. So I'm talking things like pop
and juice, even juice with no added.
Sugar, there's still. A lot of natural sugar in it
now. Another really effective
strategy for improving blood sugar control and reducing our
need for insulin. Is exercise.
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And I'm not talking about doing some big.
Huge exercise. Routine, even just going for a
1015 minute walk after meals. This allows your body to use the
sugar. And the energy from that meal
immediately and there's going tobe a more gradual or maybe even
no. Blood sugar spike.
And the really cool thing about?Exercise is that.
When we're exercise, When we're moving.
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Our bodies, our cells. Can.
Actually take in glucose. Without insulin, so this.
Is why exercise is so so. Beneficial for insulin
resistance, for metabolic syndrome, for weight loss in
general. But you need to be doing the
right. Type of exercise so.
Not intense chronic cardio I'm talking about.
Like I said. Walking after meals and
resistance training and the nextthing you can do.
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Is to use targeted? Supplements that help to control
blood sugar. Now this video is sponsored by
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difference. And the final thing you can do
is to incorporate some intermittent fasting into your
routine. Now this doesn't have to be
extreme even just fast for 12 hours a.
Day so. Finishing your last meal at 8:00
PM and not eating again until 8:00 AM can make a really big
difference. This is basically.
Well, when you're fasting, you are in a low insulin state
because obviously no energy is coming in and your body doesn't
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need to be producing insulin in order.
To control your blood sugar. More time in a fasted state
means your cells have more time to become insulin sensitive
again. Now of course there is a tipping
point here. You can over fast and that can
cause problems, especially if you're a woman.
Honestly like a 12/14/16 hour fasting window every day I find
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is very manageable for most people and can be extremely
impactful. So in summary, you don't have to
wait for a diagnosis to know youhave metabolic syndrome or
insulin resistance. If you have the.
Signs that we spoke about in today's video then this should
be. A bit of a wake up call.
And I don't say that. To scare you a lot of people.
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Think they're healthy? Because they're not.
Overweight, but they are. Experiencing some other side
effects that they don't realise are related and that could get
worse overtime. And the good news is, is that
metabolic syndrome completely reversible?
Yes, some people are more genetically predisposed to it
than others, as is the case withinsulin resistance, but just
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because you're genetically predisposed to something doesn't
mean you're automatically going to develop it.
Genetics load the gun died in lifestyle.
Pulled the trigger. But anyways.
Guys, I hope you. Found.
This podcast episode helpful. Let me know in the comment
section down below if you've been diagnosed with metabolic
syndrome or insulin resistance and if there's anything you've
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done about it so far, anything that's worked, anything that
hasn't, or maybe this has been totally eye opening for you and
you had no idea about any of this.
Before. Let me know down below.
And before you go, remember to check out Good Idea Drinks.
That link will be in the description box down below.
Oh, and one last thing before you.
Actually go. Make sure you're subscribed if
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you aren't already because I'm posting videos on weight loss,
insulin resistance, blood sugar control all of the time.
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Really. Helps me over there.
I'm just getting started on Spotify.
I've been a YouTube many many years.
I know the game over here. But Spotify, it's a.
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Little bit different, so if you're watching on YouTube also
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Kait Malthaner
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