Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Brett Schur. Today I'm joined

by Dr. Casey Means. Now, Dr. Means has a pretty unique story on how she got into being

on the forefront of metabolic health and continuous glucose monitoring. She actually started

as a surgery resident in ear, nose and throat, ENT, and from that, realized,

as you're going to hear, that most of what she was treating was probably preventable with

proper nutrition and lifestyle, which is pretty different for most surgeons to think.

So from there, she went on to get trained in functional medicine, started her own medical

practice focusing on these sort of deeper dives

and bigger discussions about what's at the root cause of inflammatory problems

and now has gone on to be a co-founder and chief medical officer of Levels Health.

And through this whole process has really focused on continuous glucose monitors

and the amazing amount of data and information we can get from them

and how that affects behavioral change because that's really what it comes down to.

We could have all the data in the world, but if we're not using it to motivate ourselves

and to change our behaviors and to improve our health, then what good is it, right?

So she sees CGMs as such a

powerful tool and she clearly has a wealth of information. So we're going to talk about a lot of

the data, a lot of the concepts about CGMs and sort of bring it back towards how that affects

inflammation and metabolic health. And near the end, we get into some, we try to get in a rapid

fire, but you can see she's got too much information for rapid fire end, we get into some, we try to get in a rapid fire,

but you can see she's got too much information for rapid fire, but we get in some really

practical tips on what you can do, what you can take away of how to use the CGM, how to talk

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