216 Why Lowering Your Blood Sugar Isn't Fixing Your Insulin Resistance, Especially with Hashimoto's, with Dr. Jason Shumard

Thyroid Mystery Solved: Hashimoto's and Hypothyroidism Revealed · May 28, 2026 · 53m

If you have Hashimoto's and have been told your blood sugar is "borderline" or "fine for now," this conversation will change how you think about it. Inna sits down with Dr. Jason Shumard, a functional medicine practitioner with more than two decades of experience in diabetes and insulin resistance, to unpack why blood sugar troubles and thyroid autoimmunity so often travel together. The surprising takeaway is that elevated blood sugar usually isn't a sugar problem at all. It's a signal that something has gone wrong at the level of the cell, and chasing the number alone tends to leave the real…