How insulin resistance effects the whole body | Casey Means, MD

The Lindsey Elmore Show

Lindsey Elmore

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine

5.0 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

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’ perspective has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, 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. Topics covered in this episode: •What does it mean to be metabolically healthy? •How to know that you don’t have metabolic flexibility that allows you to create stable blood sugars. •How do we fix our metabolic health? •Intermittent fasting; who it is and isn’t appropriate for. •What are hormesis? Referenced in the episode: •The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 113 Reversing Diabetes | Dr. Brian Mowll To learn more about Casey Means, MD and her work, head over to www.levelshealth.com * Levels is currently running a closed beta program with a waitlist of over 120,000 people. If you'd like to skip that line and participate in their early access program today, just use link: levels.link/lindseyelmoreshow. 88% of Americans suffer from metabolic disease and don't even know it. Learn the signs and symptoms, as well as how you can take control of your health and feel better. Download a free eBook to learn: •What is metabolic disease? •Warning signs of metabolic disease. •Traditional and natural prevention and treatment methods. •Where to start and setting SMART goals Are You Ready To Take Control Of Your Health? Then head over to: https://lindseyelmore.com/metabolic-makeover-ebook Wellness Made Simple is a new subscription platform; a one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about how to course correct or how to prevent symptoms from happening in the first place. Head over to www.wellnessmadesimple.us to sign up today. We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to today's episode of the Lindsay Elmore show.
0:04.0	Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of biological factors characterized by abdominal obesity,
0:11.5	dyslipidemia, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes.
0:16.1	When people have metabolic syndrome, there is an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, arthritis,
0:23.9	chronic kidney disease, schizophrenia, and several types of cancer, as well as early death.
0:30.6	The connection between metabolic syndrome and an increased risk of illness has been described
0:36.7	for many, many decades.
0:40.3	The prevalence of obesity among U.S. adults has steadily increased since the 1990s and is now
0:47.6	at epidemic proportions, with over two-thirds of U.S. adults either overweight or obese. Currently, the prevalence of
0:59.3	type 2 diabetes and hypertension has also steadily increased, accumulating in substantial
1:05.7	increases in the proportion of adults who meet the criteria for metabolic syndrome. Believe it or not,
1:13.3	88% of Americans have at least one marker of metabolic dysfunction. And no one is talking about
1:25.6	how do we prevent everybody in the United States from having
1:31.7	metabolic disease.
1:34.5	My guest today is Casey Means, a Stanford trained physician who is dedicated to helping people
1:40.5	make better dietary and lifestyle choices so that they don't end up steadily walking a path
1:48.9	towards diabetes over the course of 15 years. Instead, let's prevent you from getting diabetes
1:58.3	in the first place by working on our metabolic health, having personalized
2:05.2	nutrition, and consciously crafting a stable blood glucose by assessing what foods are causing
2:15.1	our blood sugars to be unstable?
2:18.9	Let's get to the show.
2:20.4	Welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show, a podcast for people who deserve to be healthy.
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