The Secret to Longevity, Reversing Disease and Optimizing Health: Fixing Metabolism with Dr. Casey Means

The Secret to Longevity, Reversing Disease and Optimizing Health:
Fixing Metabolism | This episode is brought to you by Joovv,
ButcherBox, BiOptimizers There are three key biomarkers that can
show us where a person’s metabolic health falls: blood sugar, blood
pressure, and cholesterol. When we see these are higher than the
optimal range, one of the main drivers they all relate back to is
insulin resistance. Dysfunction in our metabolic health paves the
road for chronic disease. That’s why it’s so important to regulate
our blood sugar and insulin responses. Now, with the help of
continuous glucose monitors, that’s becoming easier and more
personalized than ever before. Today, I’m excited to talk to Dr.
Casey Means about the importance of metabolic health for longevity
and how we can use real-time feedback to cut through the mixed
messages on nutrition and hone in our diets.  Dr. Casey Means
is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and
Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, an Associate Editor
of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention,
and a Lecturer at Stanford University. Her mission is to maximize
human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic
disease by empowering individuals with tools that can facilitate
deep understanding of our bodies and inform personalized and
sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Dr. Means’ perspective
has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch,
Entrepreneur Magazine, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more. This
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details from our interview:  Why Dr. Means left her role as an
ENT surgeon to pursue Functional Medicine and work to improve
metabolic health across the population (5:09) Indicators of poor
metabolic health and how metabolism works (13:47) The same foods
can affect blood sugar levels differently for different people
(24:23) What happens to your body when your blood sugar is out of
control? (30:58) Insulin resistance as a precursor to obesity and a
range of chronic diseases (33:15) How wearing a continuous glucose
monitor can lead to personal empowerment around our own health and
improve the doctor-patient relationship (38:54) Insulin’s role in
weight gain and loss (45:17) Lessons learned from Levels users
(47:23) How the time of day that you eat can cause variation in
glucose levels (50:10) Changing dietary behavior (53:41) Skip the
line to participate in Levels early access program today with the
link levels.link/hyman. Follow Dr. Casey Means on Instagram
@drcaseyskitchen and on Twitter @drcaseyskitchen. Keep up to date
with Levels at levelshealth.com/blog and on Instagram @levels and
on Twitter @levels.