Welcome everyone to another episode of Assister and her Mr.

Today we have Dr. Lauren Kelly-Choo. She is the head of clinical product at levels.

Lauren graduated from medical school at UPEN and throughout her career she has been inspired

to build products like continuous blood glucose monitoring devices to make good

health accessible to everyone. On this episode today we will be talking about metabolic dysfunction,

insulin resistance and how you can improve each naturally with diet and lifestyle changes.

Welcome Lauren to Assister and her Mr. podcasts where we love to have you on.

And I guess today we're just going to talk about metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance,

you know diabetes as well and how it all relates to PCS so let's get started.

Yeah we're so excited to have you. So metabolic dysfunction, it's the largest health crisis

facing the world and PCS women as well. Maybe you can break that down for our audience because

we always talk about metabolic health metabolic dysfunction but what is metabolic dysfunction

and we will discuss in this episode how PCS women can go about managing it.

Yeah well very excited to be here thank you for having me. So I think a good place to start is

what is metabolic health and really what is metabolism? So metabolism is the process that the

body goes through to convert the food we eat into energy. We have about 37 trillion cells

and every cell needs energy in order to do its function. So when that process is happening smoothly

we call it good metabolic health. Unfortunately because of primarily lifestyle factors so for

example eating really high carb foods, eating highly processed foods many of the things that are

pretty much normal in today's world especially in very industrialized countries this process gets

disrupted and can't operate smoothly and when that happens we call it metabolic dysfunction

and the estimate is that for example in the US about nine out of 10 Americans have some marker

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