EFR 458: Improving Metabolic Health and Potential Indicators That Your Blood Sugar Levels Are a Problem with Dr. Casey Means
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Chase Chewning
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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Casey Means, MD is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Levels, a metabolic health company that provides individuals "real-time continuous glucose biofeedback coupled with machine-learning driven insights to inform personalized diet and lifestyle choices."
Glucose, unlike other biomarkers, provides us a closed biofeedback loop which if tracked helps us make better diet and lifestyle choices on the fly. Other biomarkers, such as genetics or cholesterol, do not provide that real-time information which means we cannot track changes around them based on our nutritional and lifestyle choices on a day-to-day basis.
"The beauty of glucose," says Dr. Means, "is that there are tools, right now, that can measure our glucose levels in real-time, at home, with a wearable sensor. Unlike these other variables, we can actually see how this biomarker is changing based on choices that we made five minutes ago."
For several years, glucose monitors have been available as a treatment tool for diabetes. What Levels has done is take this technology to the mass consumer market to be used as a precision nutrition tool.
Listen in as Dr. Means explains how Levels translates real-time insights around your blood glucose into actionable steps that you can use to improve your metabolic health today.
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Key Highlights
- Why did Dr. Means decide to focus on metabolic health specifically in helping people improve their diet and lifestyle choices?
- Why should someone who is not diabetic or prediabetic be concerned about monitoring their glucose?
- What are the "reps" we need to put into improving our metabolic fitness?
- What are the indicators of potential blood sugar problems?
Episode resources:
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- Learn more about Levels at https://www.levelshealth.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Dr. Casey Means and I am the co-founder and chief medical officer of |
| 0:05.8 | metabolic health company levels and I'm thrilled to be on Everford radio. |
| 0:10.3 | Today we talked about why glucose management is our superpower, what metabolic health is, why |
| 0:17.4 | personalizing our diet and lifestyle around glucose can help us live our best lives now and in the future and some great strategies to keep |
| 0:24.8 | our glucose on point. |
| 0:25.9 | All right, here's the deal. |
| 0:28.1 | You're training hard, you're working hard, you're living your best life and in doing so you're letting go of a lot you're sweating it |
| 0:36.2 | out you're losing water vitamins nutrients minerals electrolytes and many of you may just be reaching for let's just go with |
| 0:44.6 | insert popular electrolyte drink name here well in most of those you're getting |
| 0:51.1 | about 2 to 230 milligrams of sodium 65 milligrams of |
| 0:55.7 | potassium zero magnesium and then about almost 30,000 milligrams of sugar. You heard me right. You reach for a generic electrolyte drink mix or a bottled electrolyte drink. That's what you're getting. But today's sponsor, Element Recharge, well, they make convenient grab and go packages so you can add into your favorite |
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| 1:56.0 | Well, if this sounds too good to be true, it's going to get even better because as a valued |
| 2:00.4 | listener of Everford Radio, they want to send you product for free. |
| 2:04.9 | You heard me right. |
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