109. Improving Metabolic Health and Body Composition Through Better Blood Sugar Balance | with Dr. Casey Means
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
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🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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**DISCLAIMER: THIS PODCAST IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE AND IS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.**
Get ready to get nerdy on today's episode. For today's show, we're talking with Dr. Casey Means from Levels Health. We're doing a deep dive into how blood sugar is a key component of all things related to cellular and metabolic health, disease prevention, and body composition. Proper blood sugar control isn't just for diabetics and pre-diabetics, it's for anyone trying to live a longer, healthier, happier life; anyone looking to perform better, and anyone looking to maintain a healthier body composition.
Casey Means, MD is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tech-enabled tools that can inform smart, personalized, and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Dr. Means's perspective has been recently featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Hill, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more. She has held past research positions at the NIH, Stanford School of Medicine, and NYU.
Levels is the first biowearable system to provide real-time feedback on how food impacts your health in realtime. By leveraging continuous glucose monitoring technology, the Levels program helps users close the loop between health and daily lifestyle choices around food, exercise, sleep, and stress management. Our customers are losing weight, discovering their optimal diet, and improving long-term risk factors.
In November, 2020, Levels raised a 12M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Marc Randolph (co-founder, Netflix), Esther Dyson, Dick Costolo (former CEO, Twitter), Michael Arrington (Founder, TechCrunch), Matt Dellavedova (NBA, Cleveland Cavaliers), and others. Levels is currently running a closed beta program focused on product development and has a waitlist of over 115,000 people.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Embody Radio. I'm your host Emily Duncan. I hope you're |
| 0:05.7 | having a beautiful day wherever you are today. I typically record my podcast intros in |
| 0:10.9 | like the afternoon, early evening, but the day that I'm recording this I have much on |
| 0:16.0 | my to-do list. So I'm like, we're knocking this out early in the morning so that I don't |
| 0:20.6 | forget. And so as a result, welcome to my dulcet morning tones. Anyway, I hope you're having |
| 0:27.7 | a beautiful day wherever you are. Today we have an education packed episode on an under-discussed |
| 0:34.0 | in my opinion, especially within the fitness industry, but an incredibly important aspect |
| 0:38.0 | of health and especially like disease prevention, which is your blood sugar. So not only is your |
| 0:43.2 | blood sugar really important for things like body composition and performance, but like |
| 0:47.1 | I said, very important for just longevity and disease prevention. So today we have on |
| 0:52.0 | the show Dr. Casey Means. Casey is an MD, a Stanford trained physician, a chief medical |
| 0:57.4 | officer and co-founder of metabolic health company levels, an associate editor of the |
| 1:02.2 | International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. Her mission is to maximize human |
| 1:06.7 | potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with |
| 1:11.0 | tech-enabled tools that can inform smart, personalized, and sustainable dietary and lifestyle |
| 1:16.2 | choices. Dr. Means Perspective has recently been featured in the Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:20.8 | The New York Times, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, |
| 1:27.0 | The Hill Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more if you can even imagine there being more. |
| 1:32.0 | She has held past research positions at the NIH, Stanford Medical School, or Stanford School |
| 1:36.7 | of Medicine, excuse me, and NYU. And today we're talking about blood sugar, along with |
| 1:41.5 | her company levels. So levels is the first bio wearable system to provide real-time feedback |
| 1:47.2 | on how food impacts your health in real-time using continuous glucose monitoring. By leveraging |
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