TMHS 548: How To Improve Your Metabolic Fitness - With Dr. Casey Means

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

For most of human history, folks didn’t put much thought into what was going on with their blood sugar unless they had a diagnosis of diabetes or prediabetes. But that’s changing—more and more people are becoming aware of the impact that blood glucose has on metabolic health and overall health. One of the leading experts in this area is our guest today, Dr. Casey Means. Dr. Means is a Stanford-trained physician and the co-founder of the revolutionary metabolic health company, Levels. Her mission is centered around optimizing health through blood glucose levels, disease prevention and reversal, and empowering patients in their food and lifestyle choices. On today’s show, we’re taking a deep dive into the world of blood glucose levels. You’re going to learn about the multitude of factors that can impact your blood sugar levels, and how this biomarker affects other important processes in the body. We’re going to talk about specific foods that can make your blood sugar rise, and what you can do to reduce the spike. You’ll also hear an important and timely conversation about how gaining access to our biomarkers can empower us and transform our health and our society. You’re going to be blown away by the brilliance and expertise of Dr. Means; enjoy! In this episode you’ll discover: The multitude of biomarkers that are related to blood sugar. How many Americans have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. The way that exercise can impact blood glucose levels. Which illnesses are related to dysregulated blood sugar. The role that the liver plays in metabolic health. How fatty liver disease occurs. The number one thing you can do to improve your cell function and overall health. How triglycerides are related to heart disease. What glycemic variability is. Five processes that contribute to heart disease. The reactive nature of the US healthcare system and how we can change it. How Levels continuous glucose monitor works. The power of having personalized health data about what’s happening in your body. Why the future of nutrition is built on data, not food marketing. Surprising foods that might be spiking your glucose levels (& how to balance them). The best and worst breakfast foods for stable glucose. How monitoring your blood glucose can help you make informed choices. The impact that stress and sleep can have on blood sugar. How high blood sugar can cause immune cell dysfunction. Items mentioned in this episode include: PiqueTea.com/model -- Use code MODEL at checkout for 10% off! Levels.link/MODEL -- Join Levels with my exclusive link! Levels Website / Blog / Newsletter / Instagram / Twitter / Facebook Connect with Dr. Casey Means Instagram / Twitter Join TMHS Facebook community - Model Nation Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to automatically receive your episodes: Apple Podcasts Stitcher Spotify Soundcloud *Download Transcript

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0:00.0	You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson.
0:04.0	For more, visit TheModelHealthShow.com.
0:07.0	Welcome to The Model Health Show.
0:14.0	This is Fitness and Nutrition expert Sean Stevenson.
0:16.0	And I'm so grateful for you tuning in with me today.
0:19.0	On this episode, we're going to be talking about one of the most important and powerful components of our metabolic health.
0:27.0	We're going to be doing a master class on blood sugar and specifically glycemic variability.
0:35.0	How this impacts our body weight, how this impacts our insulin sensitivity, our risk for heart disease, our risk for infectious diseases.
0:44.0	This is one of the most powerful episodes that we've done to date.
0:49.0	It's really, really going to knock your socks off.
0:52.0	Now, this is all part of one of the most empowering facets of human health moving forward.
0:57.0	And something for you to take with you everywhere that you go from here on out.
1:01.0	And this is the understanding that each and every person on earth right now and who's ever existed prior to this moment and who has ever going to come later on.
1:11.0	Every single human being has a unique metabolic fingerprint that is unlike any person that has ever lived before us or who will come after.
1:21.0	No person on earth right now, even identical twins do not have the same metabolic fingerprint.
1:29.0	And there are many different factors that make up our metabolic uniqueness.
1:33.0	One of those being our microbiome, our microbial fingerprint.
1:38.0	The cascade of microbes that we have is completely unique to us.
1:42.0	Now, being within the same household as somebody, you are definitely going to have a more similar microbiome.
1:49.0	And there's even new data indicating how our microbial health influences our relationships with other people, namely in our intimate relationships.
1:59.0	And so our microbial health is affecting so much about us.
2:02.0	And a big part of that is because every single one of our bacteria that we're carrying, the trillions and trillions upon trillions of bacteria that we have in and on our bodies, each bacteria has its own genes.
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