342: Are healthy foods secretly spiking your blood sugar? | Casey Means, M.D.

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🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Casey Means, M.D.: “Metabolic health is not just about avoiding long-term chronic illnesses…It's also about feeling good in the moment.” Means, a Stanford-trained physician and co-founder of Levels, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss which healthy foods can secretly spike your blood sugar, plus: - How your microbiome affects your blood sugar - How to prepare your body for a glucose spike - Underrated tips to keep your metabolism stable - Why you should switch from sweet to savory breakfasts - How to actually know if your metabolism is healthy Referenced in the episode: - Levels. - Data showing the average American eats 152 pounds of sugar in one year. - A study on how poor sleep can affect metabolism. - A study on how microbiome can dictate glucose responses. - Levels blog post on the top 10 worst foods for blood sugar. - mbg Podcast episode #294, with Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D. - Product recommendations: Unreal chocolate quinoa peanut butter cups, Lief Therapeutics HRV monitor, Siete Foods burrito size tortillas, Whole Foods nori sheets, Forager Project cashew milk yogurt. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford trained physician,
0:04.0	chief medical officer and co-founder of Metabolic Health Company,
0:08.0	Lovells, an associate editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal
0:12.0	and Prevention. Her mission is to maximize human potential
0:16.0	and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease
0:20.0	by empowering individuals with tech-enabled tools that can inform smart,
0:24.0	personalized, and sustainable dietary lifestyle choices.
0:28.0	And today, we're going to talk about all things Metabolic Health,
0:32.0	blood sugar, and wearables.
0:39.0	Casey, welcome.
0:41.0	Thank you, Jason, so glad to be here.
0:43.0	So great to have you, and I figure a good place to start for this conversation
0:48.0	is a primer on all things Metabolic Health.
0:52.0	I think we hear the term so often,
0:54.0	especially coming out of COVID,
0:56.0	we've heard the statistics so often,
1:00.0	88% of us are metabolically unhealthy,
1:02.0	12% of us are metabolically healthy.
1:06.0	So let's take a step back.
1:08.0	How do you define Metabolic Health?
1:14.0	Yeah, so the key question here, yeah, how do we define Metabolic Health?
1:18.0	I think stepping back the first way I like to think about
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