What's up, folks?

Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with top athletes, scientists, experts, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak.

And what you can do to unlock your own best performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we are on a mission to unlock your own best performance. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of

Whoop, where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. We got a good episode this week

covering a topic that is on the rise. Metabolic health. Only one in eight Americans are

considered metabolically healthy. Gosh, that's scary, isn't it? A measure of your

blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, waist circumference, and triglycerides. That's metabolic health.

And that's an alarming statistic. One in eight Americans is considered metabolically healthy.

Our VP of Performance, Kristen Holmes,

fearlessly sits down with Dr. Casey Means,

a Stanford trained physician and chief medical officer,

co-founder of the metabolic health company levels,

for an in-depth discussion on metabolic health.

Dr. Means is one of the leading experts on this topic.

She's a guest lecturer at Stanford

University, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,

men's health, metabolism, and more. She is on a mission to reverse the epidemic of preventable

chronic diseases, and that all starts with the right choices when it comes to your diet,

sleep, exercise, and

stress. Casey and Kristen discuss how our bodies respond to glucose and what we need to do to set

ourselves up for success. The warning signs we often ignore when it comes to our metabolic well-being.

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