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.

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Here are more of the 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)

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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.