Jessie Inchauspe
| Jessie Inchauspé | |
| Born | 1992 |
|---|---|
| Birthplace | Biarritz, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Author, biochemist, content creator |
| Employer | Glucose Goddess |
| Known for | Founder of Glucose Goddess |
| Education | King's College London (BA); Georgetown University (MA) |
| Website | glucosegoddess.com |
Jessie Inchauspé (born 1992) is a French author, biochemist, and content creator known online as the "Glucose Goddess." She is the founder of the wellness brand Glucose Goddess and the author of two books on blood sugar management, Glucose Revolution (2022) and The Glucose Goddess Method (2023), both of which became international bestsellers.[1][2] Inchauspé built her audience through Instagram and a YouTube channel, Glucose Revolution, where she shares dietary "hacks" intended to reduce blood-sugar spikes. Her work has popularised concepts such as eating food in a particular order and consuming vinegar before meals to moderate glycemic response, ideas that have attracted both a large mainstream following and substantive criticism from scientists who consider some of her claims overstated.[3][4] She is a contributor to the French radio station RTL and presents the 2025 Channel 4 series The Glucose Goddess.
Early life
Inchauspé was born in 1992 in Biarritz, a coastal town in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.[5] She has described a personal turning point that shaped her later professional focus: at the age of 19 she sustained a serious back injury after falling from a waterfall while on holiday in Hawaii, an accident that required spinal surgery and a long recovery. During the years that followed, she experienced symptoms that included depersonalisation, fatigue, and mood disturbances, which she later attributed in part to dysregulated blood-sugar levels.[6][7]
She has recounted in interviews that her interest in glucose was crystallised by a particular morning in her twenties in Silicon Valley, when a sugary breakfast on the way to work prompted her to begin experimenting with continuous glucose monitors and to investigate how everyday foods affected her own biology.[8] That self-experimentation, combined with her scientific training, became the foundation for the Glucose Goddess brand.
Education
Inchauspé studied at King's College London, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and subsequently completed a Master of Arts at Georgetown University in the United States, where her studies focused on biochemistry.[5][2] Her academic background in biochemistry and mathematics is frequently cited in her published work and in profiles, and it provides the framing she uses to translate scientific literature on glycemic response into consumer-facing recommendations.[7][1]
Career
Early professional work
Before launching Glucose Goddess, Inchauspé worked in the technology sector in the United States, including a period at the genetic-testing company 23andMe in Silicon Valley.[8][6] Her work in genomics and data analytics informed her later interest in quantified self-experimentation, particularly the use of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) to track minute-by-minute fluctuations in blood sugar levels following meals.[6]
Glucose Goddess platform
Inchauspé began publishing her glucose experiments on Instagram in 2018 under the handle "glucosegoddess." The account combined CGM graphs, food photography and short explainers, and presented a series of "hacks" intended to flatten post-meal glucose curves. Among the best-known of these are eating vegetables before starches and proteins; consuming a tablespoon of vinegar diluted in water before meals; taking a short walk after eating; and avoiding sweet breakfasts in favour of savoury ones.[8][9]
The Glucose Goddess brand expanded into a website, a paid community programme and a YouTube channel, Glucose Revolution, launched in 2022.[10] By 2026 the YouTube channel had accumulated approximately 1.8 million subscribers. Her Instagram following grew to several million during the same period, and she has been described in profiles as one of the most prominent food and wellness influencers operating in both English- and French-language media.[3]
Books
Inchauspé's first book, Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar, was published in English by Simon & Schuster in 2022.[1] The book sets out ten "hacks" for managing glycemic variability and draws on peer-reviewed literature alongside anecdotal case studies submitted by members of her online community. It was translated into more than 40 languages and reached bestseller lists in multiple territories, including the United Kingdom, France and Australia.[2][9]
Her second book, The Glucose Goddess Method, followed in 2023 and presented a four-week structured plan based on the same principles, with recipes and meal templates.[2] Both titles appeared on The New York Times advice, how-to and miscellaneous bestseller list; Glucose Revolution was listed there in May 2023.[11]
Broadcasting and media
Inchauspé is a regular contributor to the French radio station RTL, where she discusses nutrition and metabolic health.[5] In 2025 she fronted the Channel 4 series The Glucose Goddess in the United Kingdom, a programme structured around her dietary hacks and the use of CGMs by participants. She has also written for general-interest publications, including a 2026 guide for the Financial Times on what she described as the best savoury breakfasts in Paris.[12] Her work has been profiled in publications including Paris Match, Le Point, Le Temps, Vogue, Bustle, The Sydney Morning Herald and Marie Claire.[5][7][13][6][9]
Scientific reception and criticism
While Inchauspé's books and social-media content have reached a broad consumer audience, her claims have drawn criticism from clinicians, dietitians and science communicators. The McGill University Office for Science and Society characterised parts of her output as overstating the evidence on glucose variability in non-diabetic populations and noted that some of the "hacks" she promotes are supported by small studies whose findings she generalises beyond their original scope.[3] A 2025 analysis published by the American Council on Science and Health described the broader "glucose spike" framing as a wellness trend that conflates clinically meaningful hyperglycemia with normal post-meal fluctuations seen in healthy individuals.[4] The Swiss daily Le Temps similarly questioned whether routine glucose tracking offers benefits to people without diabetes.[13] Le Point has examined the scientific basis of Glucose Revolution, acknowledging that some recommendations — such as the order in which food components are eaten and post-meal walking — have peer-reviewed support, while concluding that others are extrapolated from limited data.[7]
Inchauspé has responded by emphasising that her recommendations are aimed at the general public rather than clinical populations, and that the practical changes she advocates are low-risk dietary adjustments rather than medical interventions.[6][8]
Personal life
Inchauspé married in the early 2020s and announced in 2025 that she had given birth to her first child. She has spoken in interviews about pregnancy loss, postpartum recovery and her decisions around nutrition during pregnancy, and has said that she attempted to apply the same principles of stable blood-sugar eating during her own pregnancy.[14][15]
She divides her time between France and other locations in Europe, and frequently writes about French food culture, including in her Financial Times column on Parisian breakfasts.[12] She has described her Basque upbringing in Biarritz as a continuing influence on her culinary preferences and on the savoury-breakfast philosophy central to her brand.[5]
Recognition
Glucose Revolution has appeared on national bestseller lists in multiple countries. In the United States, the book was included on The New York Times bestseller list for advice, how-to and miscellaneous titles in May 2023.[11] The publisher's rights agency reports that the work has been translated into more than 40 languages, an unusually broad international reach for a debut nutrition title.[2]
Inchauspé's profile in French-language media has included features in Paris Match and Le Point, and her work has been the subject of investigative coverage in Le Temps.[5][7][13] In the English-speaking press she has been profiled by Bustle, The Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, Business Insider and Marie Claire UK.[6][9][14][8] Her YouTube channel, Glucose Revolution, reached approximately 1.8 million subscribers by 2026, and her Instagram presence has been cited as one of the largest in the nutrition-influencer category.
Her work as an author has been indexed in major national bibliographic authorities, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the United States Library of Congress.[16][17][18]
Legacy
Inchauspé's career has coincided with — and helped to popularise — a broader shift in consumer health culture toward metabolic self-monitoring. The use of continuous glucose monitors, originally a medical device for people with diabetes, has expanded rapidly among non-diabetic consumers in the 2020s, and commentators have credited Inchauspé among the figures most responsible for translating CGM data into mainstream dietary advice.[3][4] Her vocabulary — "flattening the curve," "glucose spikes," "the order of food" — has entered general usage in nutrition journalism and on social media.[8][9]
The reception of her work has also become a reference point in the wider debate over the role of social-media influencers in public health communication. Critics, including academic science-communication units, have used Glucose Goddess content as a case study in how peer-reviewed findings can be selectively cited and amplified outside their original context.[3][4] Supporters, including readers profiled in mainstream press coverage, point to the practical accessibility of her recommendations and to the fact that many of the underlying behaviours — eating vegetables earlier in a meal, walking after eating, reducing sugary breakfasts — align with conventional dietary guidance.[6][9]
Her commercial success, with two international bestsellers, a multi-million follower audience, a national broadcast series and translations into more than 40 languages, has established Glucose Goddess as one of the more visible nutrition brands of the mid-2020s.[2][1] The longer-term influence of her work on consumer behaviour, on the CGM market and on the regulation of health claims by influencers remains a subject of ongoing discussion in scientific and journalistic commentary.[4][13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Glucose Revolution". 'Simon & Schuster}'. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Glucose Goddess". 'Susanna Lea Associates}'. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "The Sweet Embellishments of the Glucose Goddess". 'McGill University Office for Science and Society}'. 2025-09-05. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "The Glucose Spike Myth: Don't Fall for This Wellness Fad". 'American Council on Science and Health}'. 2025-09-01. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 "Jessie Inchauspé : sa méthode révolutionnaire contre l'abus de sucre". 'Paris Match}'. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 "Glucose Goddess Jessie Inchauspé Book Interview". 'Bustle}'. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 "Glucose Revolution : la vérité scientifique derrière le best-seller". 'Le Point}'. 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 "The 'Glucose Goddess' says 3 food hacks helped her reduce blood sugar spikes for better mood and energy".Business Insider.2026-02-27.https://www.businessinsider.com/glucose-goddess-simple-diet-swaps-balance-blood-sugar-more-energy-2025-10.Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 "How to eat cake and lose weight".The Sydney Morning Herald.2022-03-30.https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/how-to-eat-cake-and-lose-weight-20220330-p5a98w.html.Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ "Glucose Goddess". 'Glucose Goddess}'. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous Best Sellers". 'The New York Times}'. 2023-05-21. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "The Glucose Goddess's guide to Paris's best savoury breakfasts".Financial Times.2026-02-15.https://www.ft.com/content/e6309f93-3277-4c3b-91c9-08db9706768e.Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "Régime: gérer son glucose, une perte de temps?". 'Le Temps}'. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Glucose Goddess's Golden Rules for Eating Well During Pregnancy".Vogue.2025-07-29.https://www.vogue.com/article/glucose-goddesss-eating-pregnancy.Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ "Jessie Inchauspé on pregnancy, postpartum, and the science every mom should know about her body". 'Motherly}'. 2025-11-18. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ "Jessie Inchauspé — Bibliothèque nationale de France". 'Bibliothèque nationale de France}'. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ "Jessie Inchauspé — GND". 'Deutsche Nationalbibliothek}'. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
- ↑ "Jessie Inchauspé — LC Name Authority File". 'Library of Congress}'. Retrieved 2026-06-08.
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