How to Control Your Blood Sugar & Spike Your Energy – Levels Health with Dave Asprey : 797
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is an engineer with expertise in metabolic dysfunction. Josh Clemente co-founded Levels Health, a company that has designed a biowearable continuous glucose monitoring device.
The idea of using blood glucose, which is a marker for how much of the most common energy is available in the blood right now and how good is your body at regulating it, is a real-time feedback thing. It's really powerful.
When he was working at SpaceX, he discovered his metabolic dysfunction and high glucose levels were making him feel like garbage. He read about continuous glucose monitoring, and shortly thereafter found out he was borderline pre-diabetic, despite being a CrossFit trainer at the time and having a healthy diet.
Over 120 million people in the U. S. have prediabetes or diabetes, and most American adults don’t know even they’re prediabetic. Most people don’t know their glucose levels unless they find out at an annual doctor’s appointment. Using Levels technology, we can change that.
“If our population isn't resilient enough to have an immune system that can fight viral infections because it is frankly undermined or hampered by insulin resistance and all of the byproducts thereof, we won't ever get there,” Josh says. “So, it is incumbent on each individual person, and I think also on society in general, to improve our metabolic health and therefore the resilience of our entire population.”
Continuous glucose monitoring is crossing a barrier in health monitoring because it’s going below the skin “to an invisible metric that we otherwise wouldn't have access to” Josh explains. Biowearables is a brand-new space.
Our conversation walks you through how the Levels app works, the urban myths behind “heart healthy” foods, and how tracking your glucose levels can get you better in tune with what your body really needs.
“The data set is a means to changing the future of metabolic health by driving large scale research and helping us to understand how people are living, what is improving outcomes, and where the opportunity is to remove the biggest offenders for worse health,” Josh says.
“The Levels app was developed for the management of diabetes,” he continues. “But we're showing that the opportunity to ultimately give people the empowerment and their health and wellness before they have something go wrong is here to stay.”
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| 0:00.0 | Fasting Myth 2. Fasting is dangerous for your body because you'll go into starvation mode. |
| 0:05.4 | Nope, that's a myth. Fasting regulates your insulin levels and triggers biological processes |
| 0:10.9 | that actually slow aging called autophagy. Fasting also improves stem cell regeneration, |
| 0:16.6 | it's great for your microbiome, and it reduces inflammation and enhances how your body performs |
| 0:22.0 | all the time. You can do it without pain. All you've got to do is go to fastthisway.com |
| 0:27.6 | or to my brand new book that I spent thousands of hours writing and I will teach you everything |
| 0:32.0 | in the book for two weeks. Fastthisway.com. I'll see you there. |
| 0:42.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. Today we're going to talk about something |
| 0:47.5 | awesome. It's metabolic flexibility, metabolic fitness, and how you can actually look at it |
| 0:54.3 | in real time and what you can learn from doing that. Our guest today is Josh Clemente, |
| 1:00.1 | who is a founder of levels health. He started this company the day he figured out his metabolic |
| 1:07.0 | dysfunction was screwing up the way he performed during the day. Sounds familiar. I have the same |
| 1:12.6 | thing happen to be in Silicon Valley, but he found his glucose levels were all over the place |
| 1:17.0 | in the prediabetic range and he's a mechanical engineer and a crossfit level to trainer, |
| 1:23.6 | but his day job is designing life support systems for astronauts and rescue systems for emergency |
| 1:29.6 | response teams. It's this weird combination of engineering, brain wanting to go to Mars and stuff |
| 1:36.0 | like that as well as why can't I hack this stuff myself? If there was a stereotypical perfect guest |
| 1:44.0 | to talk about biohacking and controlling your own biology and hacking everything, this is the man. |
| 1:50.6 | Josh, welcome to the show. Dave, couldn't be happy to be here. |
| 1:55.7 | All right, you're a SpaceX guy figuring out how to keep Bob, Ben Ken, and Doug Hurley alive |
| 2:02.8 | on their May 2020 trip to the ISS. Good work. They're alive, so a mission accomplished, right? |
| 2:09.5 | Thank you. Yeah, I think so. I had an opportunity to talk with the president of SpaceX, |
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