For several months now we have been hearing more and more about Jessie Inchauspé, French biochemist who proclaimed herself Glucose Goddess on Instagram and wage war on sugar. Followed by 4.9 million subscribers, the 32-year-old holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from King’s College London and a master’s degree in biochemistry from Georgetown University in Washington. It seduces with its simple analyzes and efficient and his many advices. Every day, the influential biochemist posts videos of sweet foods consumed daily and which can be “dressed” to avoid the blood sugar roller coaster. Author of two successful books published by Robert Laffont, she published Make your glucose revolution in 2022 and The Glucose Goddess Method, in 2023. In an interview on the set of Dailyfacing Yann Barthès, in June 2024, she explained: “As you have seen through my books, my passion is glucose”.
And to continue: “Very clearly, I never thought I would get to this point. It’s a long story… In fact, I broke my back when I was 19, major problems with mental health, physical health, etc.” “Big change to rebuild myself personally and it was thanks to glucose that I succeeded in my reconstruction and afterwards, I wanted to share because the science that I had discovered was so crazy!”, she assured. The one who “dream of going away for three years, disappearing, going around the world and talking to lots of scientists about another subject, like mental health, then coming back and doing another book about it”, as she confided this Tuesday, October 8 to Release can count on the support of those close to him. Born in Biarritz to a stay-at-home mother and a banker father, “she lived a comfortable and wealthy childhood, cradled in the arms of Anglo-American nannys”specify our colleagues. His parents separated and his mother married Franklin Servan-Schreiberthe son of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the founder of L’Express and politician. Jessie Inchauspé’s stepfather completed dual training as an engineer and historian at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. In particular, he worked in media and technology in New York.
A very present father-in-law
Franklin Servan-Schreiber is also the brother of David Servan-Schreiber, a renowned neuropsychiatrist who died in 2011 of brain cancer at the age of 50. He is also the brother of Emile, the husband of Laurence Debray, a famous woman of letters and journalist. His stepfather also had a lot to do with the turn his studies took. Indeed, after studying at Notre-Dame des Oiseaux, she had to make decisive choices for her future. “I was thinking of doing scientific preparation in Paris, but my father-in-law pushed me to go to the Anglo-Saxon world“, she confided to Release. Our colleagues also specify that “it was also Franklin Servan-Schreiber who introduced him to his literary agent, Susanna Lea”.
