EFR 458: Improving Metabolic Health and Potential Indicators That Your Blood Sugar Levels Are a Problem with Dr. Casey Means

<p>Dr. Casey Means, MD is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Levels, a metabolic health company that provides individuals “real-time continuous glucose biofeedback coupled with machine-learning driven insights to inform personalized diet and lifestyle choices.”</p> <p>Glucose, unlike other biomarkers, provides us a closed biofeedback loop which if tracked helps us make better diet and lifestyle choices on the fly. Other biomarkers, such as genetics or cholesterol, do not provide that real-time information which means we cannot track changes around them based on our nutritional and lifestyle choices on a day-to-day basis.</p> <p>“The beauty of glucose,” says Dr. Means, “is that there are tools, right now, that can measure our glucose levels in real-time, at home, with a wearable sensor. Unlike these other variables, we can actually see how this biomarker is changing based on choices that we made five minutes ago.”</p> <p>For several years, glucose monitors have been available as a treatment tool for diabetes. What Levels has done is take this technology to the mass consumer market to be used as a precision nutrition tool.</p> <p>Listen in as Dr. Means explains how Levels translates real-time insights around your blood glucose into actionable steps that you can use to improve your metabolic health today.</p> <p> </p> <p>Follow Dr. Casey <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/drcaseyskitchen/">@drcaseyskitchen</a></p> <p>Follow Levels <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/levels/">@levels</a></p> <p>Follow Chase <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/chase_chewning/">@chase_chewning</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Key Highlights</strong></p> <ul> <li>Why did Dr. Means decide to focus on metabolic health specifically in helping people improve their diet and lifestyle choices?</li> <li>Why should someone who is not diabetic or prediabetic be concerned about monitoring their glucose?</li> <li>What are the “reps” we need to put into improving our metabolic fitness?</li> <li>What are the indicators of potential blood sugar