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#3 - Glucose Revolution

Subtitle: The life-changing power of balancing your blood sugar

Author: Jessie Inchauspé

Amazon: Amazon.de

Completion: 2026-01-12

Recommended: No

Summary: A book crafted for the loyal followers of an Instagram community, promising weight loss through a familiar formula: fear the glucose spike, worship the insulin curve, and package age‑old wisdom as if it had just been discovered in a secret lab.

My disappointment came early. The first page greets you with “testimonials,” and it becomes immediately clear I am not the intended reader. Every single one is signed by women—at least judging by the names—and the tone radiates the energy of a tightly knit influencer fandom.

The book revolves around a single revelation: the CGM is the author’s oracle. She strapped on a Continuous Glucose Monitor and suddenly the world rearranged itself into a series of peaks, valleys, and glycemic epiphanies. Everything is interpreted through that lens, as if a medical device had become a spiritual guide.

The book has three recurring ingredients:

  1. The influencer origin story. The author—guru, content creator, self‑declared “goddess”—walks us through a life that reads like a travel brochure for the wealthy: childhood in comfort, holidays in Hawai‘i, studies in Paris, London, the U.S., jobs at startups. She tried all diets, she tells us (keto gets name‑checked), none worked… until her system did or so she states. Now she floats above us, dispensing wisdom to her followers.

    And we, presumably, are meant to be the groupies.

  2. A basic glucose‑for‑beginners section: glucose, fructose, sucrose—call it whatever‑ose you want. Standard biology, dressed up with Instagram‑ready metaphors.

  3. A repackaging of common sense—ideas as old as the Romans—presented as breakthroughs because they’re now accompanied by CGM screenshots.

Take Example 1: Start your meals with vegetables and fat, then protein, and save carbs for last. The Romans did this. It worked for them. The astonishing part isn’t the advice—it’s the claim that it becomes meaningful only once validated by a glucose monitor.

Example 2: Walk after eating. Shocking, right? Except it’s exactly what my great‑grandmother did. And my grandmother. And, frankly, a huge number of people across history. Movement helps the body—not a revelation requiring a wearable device.

The book isn’t written for skeptics. It’s written for the “community,” a word the author invokes as often as she invokes glucose. To be fair, some people genuinely need guidelines, and if these help someone build discipline or structure—much like WeightWatchers’ points system—then the book serves a purpose.

But when someone declares herself the “Glucose Goddess” and repeatedly gushes about her online following (cut?), you begin to realize this isn’t a book so much as influencer content dressed up between two covers.

I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.