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Why track your glucose levels? - Josh Clemente, Levels Health, Ex-SpaceX engineer

The Kevin Rose Show

Kevin Rose

Business, Entrepreneurship, Technology

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kevin speaks with Josh Clemente about continuous glucose monitors, insulin, metabolic health, tips for hacking glucose levels, and more. Josh Clemente, Founder of Levels, is a mechanical engineer and CrossFit-L2 trainer. At SpaceX, he led a team to develop life support systems that sustained astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on their May 2020 trip to the International Space Station aboard Dragon Endeavor: the first new crew-carrying spacecraft since 1980. Josh has also spent time designing and building Hyperloop technology at Virgin Hyperloop One and leading engineering for a company providing vehicle-based rescue systems for emergency response teams.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Kevin Rose here.

0:01.0

Welcome back to another episode of the Kevin Rose Show.

0:04.0

Before we get into this episode, a quick reminder that I publish an email newsletter that comes

0:08.6

out every four to six weeks or so.

0:11.4

It's really once I've kind of accumulated enough for a newsletter, I publish it.

0:15.2

So it's not weekly where I'm trying to like figure out how to cram in stuff just to fill out

0:20.0

a newsletter. This is really high quality things, things that I'm paying attention to, apps and

0:24.2

products that I'm checking out, sometimes a little mini reviews and some great tips on how to live a healthy

0:29.9

and balanced life. You can sign up for that over at my website at Kevin Rose.com.

0:34.0

Now today's episode is all about glucose and insulin. Its impact on fat storage,

0:38.8

energy levels, cancer and dementia risk and why that even if you're skinny you should

0:44.0

consider tracking glucose levels with a continuous glucose monitor.

0:47.6

So today's guest is Josh Clemente, founder of Levels, which is a startup that uses data and continuous glucose monitors to give people a window into their real-time health.

0:58.0

Josh is a mechanical engineer and Cross Fit L2 instructor, and previously he developed life support systems at SpaceX and

1:05.8

actually the most recent launch that we all watched here just a few weeks ago

1:09.6

that took those astronauts to the space station and back. He was the one that had developed those life support systems,

1:15.0

which was just insane.

1:17.0

And then even previous to that,

1:19.0

he was working on another Elon Musk project, Hyperloop.

1:22.0

And so he did that for Virgin Hyperloop.

1:25.1

So just an insanely talented engineer,

1:27.4

fellow biohacker, and someone that really

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