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- Episode 13 – Understanding Human Longevity with Jason Prall
The Human Longevity Project is not just a film series. It’s a wake-up call to those suffering from chronic illness and those who believe the eventual onset of chronic disease is unavoidable. By studying other cultures, and the elders in the communities of remote villages, this film sheds light on what is really important to establishing and maintaining health and how to live longer healthier lives.
This film series interviews not only the communities and their elders in over 50 different countries, but also professionals working in the various areas of medicine who are teaching the principles of what is necessary to maintain or regain health in our culture.
The western world is filled with convenience and ingenuity, but at what cost? Can we have the comfort of modern society but balance our innate desire to connect with the earth and one another to promote better health?
Listen in as Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, talks with Jason Prall, creator of The Human Longevity Project, about the film series on how we can adopt more simplicity, better quality food, and connection to our communities into our lives for better health.
Jason Prall is a Longevity and Optimal Health Practitioner in Southern California who worked as a mechanical engineer and struggled with his own health before finding his way to health and wellness. He helps people around the globe as an entrepreneur, filmmaker, and Health Optimization Practitioner.
Learn more about how tracking with Heads Up Health can help you to quantify and track the impact your lifestyle changes have on your health.
Listen in iTunes!
This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode!
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In this podcast you’ll learn:- Advice on how to live longer; the Human Longevity Project interviewed 9 countries of experts and elder populations to understand what life was like for them including birthing practices, childrearing, work, social aspects, and more
- Why the aging we see in our Western world is not seen in other parts of the world
- More about what can we do from a lifestyle perspective to manage health
- About the difference between managing chronic disease and health
- How societal influences affect what is accepted for health
- That one of the biggest things Jason Prall learned was that “time wasn’t money” in the cultures with the best longevity, rather time was something to be cherished
- How we can engineer our way back to simplicity through the use of biohacking devices because they offer trackable data to see what works for our unique bodies.
- How finding your purpose helps increase longevity, but finding balance is important
- About getting more of a calm, serene aspect into your life
- Why technology we’ve created can is beneficial and not necessarily bad; we just need to find a way to balance it
- How we have to take responsibility for all of our actions and be proactive to move forward with our health
- Revolutions start with just 3% of the population changing
- How EMF’s are impacting our health and how 5G will be a disaster if implemented on a wide scale, for our health
- How Eastern traditions help balance our technologically intense society
- Why we are losing the community aspect to our meals, and will have to recreate this in the future for human longevity
- Why community trumps all the aspects of bio-hacking sleep, HRV, glucose, ketones, etc.
- How lifestyle changes are quantifiable and thus changeable with Heads Up Health, Oura ring, and Elite HRV with tracking and other devices
- How technology can help us connect to our innate intelligence of what we are feeling and what is going on in our body, so we understand what health actually feels like
- Why we can’t go backward with technology so we have to learn to use it to our advantage in understanding how to live longer and healthier
- How we see the world affects our health and if we are grateful for the opportunities that we have, we can overcome more of the health challenges
ReferencesThe Human Longevity Project
Oura Ring
Elite HRV (heart rate variability)
Our Partners:Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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1 hr - Episode 12 – Personalized Nutrition Based On Your Gut Microbiome: Interview with Dr. Stephen Barrie from Viome
Fix your gut, fix your health. That is the sentiment that Dr. Stephen Barrie espouses in his work as a founding pioneer in the gut microbiome field for the last 35 years. His most recent work in developing Viome provides personalized nutrition recommendations based on your gut microbiome to support your health.
Dr. Barrie is a physician, entrepreneur, scientist, teacher, keynote speaker, and author. He founded Genova Diagnostics in 1986 and developed the first clinical intestinal permeability lab test, SIBO breath test, and comprehensive stool analysis. Dr. Barrie has also spent seven years assisting the Chinese Central Government in incorporating Functional Medicine into their healthcare system.
As the Chief Business Development Officer at Viome, Dr. Stephen Barrie has contributed to a system that takes microbiome testing to a new dimension. Viome offers home testing with results accessed through a phone app. Results show gut, metabolic and body scores, as well as what you can do to support keeping your gut microbiome, and therefore you, healthy.
Viome helps you understand how the bacteria in your gut affects your health, what bacteria you have and how to feed it with foods that are optimal for you. It can even help you support proper blood sugar regulation by recommending foods that help balance your gut microbiome.
Listen in as Dave Korsunsky, Founder of Heads Up Health, talks to Dr. Stephen Barrie about how both of their companies help people quantify elements of their health — sometimes a puzzle! –and how this health data empowers users to take control of their health so they can make their own decisions.
Listen in iTunes!
This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode!
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In this podcast you’ll learn:- How we can understand the activity of the microbiome with Viome and gain practical info on how to implement the findings
- What a microbiome is and how it’s bigger than just your gut
- That the metabolic genetic activity of the gut is 1000 times more than all our other human cells
- How there are 8000+ different species and the more species you have, the better your health
- How a dysbiotic gut means that your health is affected due to the diversity getting narrower, creating an unstable environment
- Why the cause of virtually every chronic disease is the microbiome, including Alzheimer’s and Autism
- How to get started with Viome and the user-friendly app
- Results provided are implementable, as the data is interpreted with algorithms that are beyond human interpretation
- How based on your gut microbiome, you can react positively or negatively to a food no matter how healthy it is
- Why Dr. Barrie believes there is no one universal healthy diet, that it depends on what is going in your gut microbiome
- That you can restore your gut health and open up your diet to many more healthy foods
- How we can look at the gut to provide insight into glycemic reactions of foods without having to test blood sugar
- Due to gut microbiome differences, two people can eat the same thing and have different blood sugar reactions
- That the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy and the gut microbiome are linked
- How you can combine the personalized nutrition suggestions from Viome with any dietary restrictions you already follow for deeper healing
- That the gut can up- or down- regulate the inflammatory pathways in the body
- Staying on a restricting healing diet, too long, can be detrimental to long-term results, so retesting can give you new personalized nutrition suggestions every few months
- You can reduce flares of autoimmune diseases by supporting your gut health
- How HRV can be linked to gut microbiome activity and health with tracking
- Most brain activity is not independent but following what the gut is telling it
- Improving your HRV will also help improve your microbiome and vice versa as your microbiome sends messages out and is also listening to incoming input
- What a PREbiotic is and how it supports the gut microbiome
- How you can narrow in on what probiotic strains you need and what foods benefit their colonization based on Viome results
- How in the future Viome and Heads Up Health can be linked to provide greater data integration for you to implement
- A YouTube (coming soon) screen share of what the Viome app looks like
- Learn about specific probiotic strains identified in your sample
References- Viome discount link
- Dr. Barrie’s book 7-Day Detox Miracle
- Dr. Barrie’s book Energize Your Life
- Potential of manipulating gut microbiome to boost efficacy of cancer immunotherapies
- Gut bacteria can stop cancer drugs from working
- Oncologists tap the microbiome in bid to improve immunotherapy outcomes
Our Partners:Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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50 min - Episode 11 – Keto on the Road: Long Haul Driver Ginny Shelby’s Health Transformation
Ginny Shelby is now a retired long-haul truck driver who experienced a complete health transformation after teaching herself to eat keto on the road, from the cab of her semi-truck!
Listen as Dave Korsunsky talks with Ginny about how she was able to manage keto on the road and track her statistics with Heads Up Health while she lost 85 pounds and reversed her symptoms of pre-diabetes, diabetic neuropathy and plantar fibromatosis in the process!
Starting the keto diet in Feb of 2016 she has been able to attain and maintain her goal of lowering her A1C, and daily blood glucose readings in addition to her incredible weight loss.
Initially motivated by a genetic predisposition to diabetes and heart disease, her health transformation extends further than just disease avoidance.
Now, both she and her husband are retired from driving and living on the Oregon coast. They continue to eat a ketogenic diet and track their health status with the Heads Up Health tracking app.
If you’ve considered trying a ketogenic diet and felt like you just couldn’t manage it with your busy life, then you need to hear Ginny’s story about how she had a Keto Lifestyle Transformation while on the road.
Ginny is a great example of the saying “when there is a will, there is a way”.
Listen in iTunes!
This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode!
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In this podcast you’ll learn:- How she successfully lost 85 pounds and kept it off after years of yo-yo dieting
- That she improved her A1C from 6.2-5.4 without drugs
- Why she isn’t someone who can let up on strict keto due to carb cravings to be successful
- About her Facebook group LongHaulKeto Cooks
- How while eating keto food on the go she eliminated food thought and cravings
- Why she realized that eating keto is different for each person and tracking is the best way to find out what works for you
- Why she had to find a new doctor after implementing the keto diet
- How she saw foot pain resolve that she had been suffering with for years in just two weeks on the keto diet
- Why Ginny thinks continuing to listen to podcasts and info on keto is helpful in the long-term
- What items she kept in the truck to prepare food
- How she was able to shop and prepare when at home for a week on the road
- The health metrics she chose to track were blood glucose, fasting, blood ketones, breath ketones, glucose-ketone index, weight and blood pressure
- Why she chose to avoid statins and other meds and change her diet instead
- How she incorporates daily fasting now
- Why podcasts and current books can keep you more informed on new science than your medical doctor
- That walking into your doctor’s office with your data in the Heads Up Health app can help you to prove to them that diet modification works
ReferencesGinny’s Facebook group LongHaulKeto Cooks
More on Ginny’s story here
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Our Partners:Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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40 min - Episode 10 – Heart Rate Variability Training Basics with Jason Moore from Elite HRV
Have you considered tracking heart rate variability to improve your health, or to train smarter? In this podcast, Dave Korsunsky sits down with Jason Moore, Founder of Elite HRV to talk about the basics of heart rate variability training on how anyone can apply this technology toward optimizing their health.
Jason Moore, CEO of Elite HRV, combined his education in Information Systems and Operations from Texas A&M University with his love of health and fitness as a health coach and personal trainer when founding Elite HRV.
Working with doctors, researchers, athletes and more, they have compiled data to make supporting your health with heart rate variability training as easy as downloading an app and using a monitor for as little as 2 minutes a day.
Elite HRV training helps individuals access information about their own health that was previously unavailable to them without very expensive equipment and a team of scientists to interpret it.
Learn more about Jason Moore and how he became involved in heart rate variability training and how his company is providing data to individuals empowering their own health.
Are you including HRV training in your health tracking metrics?
Listen to learn how to identify stress patterns with heart rate variability training, to see how effective your meditation practices are, as well as which days are best for you to train harder.
Listen in iTunes!
This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode!
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In this podcast you’ll learn:- How Jason merged his background of data analysis tools with HRV in 2014 to establish Elite HRV
- How the free app on iOS and Google Play is the same one Olympians use
- Learn what HRV training is and how it applies to chronic illnesses, stress management and strength training
- Why it’s an inexpensive way to get a lot of valuable health information quickly and easily
- Learn what HRV monitoring is and how it differs from using a wrist-worn device to monitor heart rate
- How to understand when your HRV indicates that you’ll be more prone to cravings and use it to keep you on track with your goals
- That it only takes 2 minutes a day to track to get a good baseline
- Having a good HRV trumps chronological age
- How you can use heart rate variability training to uncover things that are not supporting your body and how to see what is working for you
- How to use heart rate variability training to know when you can train harder
- When you’re doing all the right things–diet, exercise, meditation–and you’re not getting the results you want, HRV training can help
- How to use HRV training to create a bio-individually healthy lifestyle
- That in the future you may be able to use HRV to uncover food sensitivities
References- Elite HRV
- CorSense Finger Sensor
- Polar H10 Chest Strap
- Free App for iOS or Google Play
- Compatible devices for the Elite HRV app
Our Partners:Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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54 min - Episode 9 – The Ketogenic Diet and Traumatic Brain Injury: Cavin Balaster’s Story of Recovery
Cavin Balaster’s story is an inspiration to all that know and follow him. After falling off a two-story building in 2011 and nearly dying, Cavin used functional medicine to aid his recovery from his resulting traumatic brain injury. In this podcast learn how Cavin connects the ketogenic diet and traumatic brain injury to aid in brain recovery.
While emergency medicine saved Cavin’s life after his injury, he gives more credit to functional medicine and the ketogenic diet for improving his quality of life in his recovery.
Ketogenic diet and traumatic brain injury are gaining more attention and Cavin Balaster is a big reason for the connection between the two.
Cavin is a speaker, educator, musician, author of How to Feed a Brain: Nutrition for Optimal Brain Function and Repair, and host of the adventuresinbraininjury.com Brain Injury Podcast. You can find him on YouTube LinkedIn Facebook and Twitter as @feedabrain
His work to spread awareness and change the way we support those recovering from traumatic brain injury is changing the quality of life for those suffering from brain injuries.
Listen in iTunes!
This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode!
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In this podcast you’ll learn:- Hear about Cavin’s life both before his traumatic brain injury accident and after
- About his Diffuse Axonal Injury
- How he used a ketogenic diet to aid his recovery from a traumatic brain injury
- The appalling food sources hospitals feed traumatic brain injury patients
- What it takes to really feed a brain to heal
- How he grew up in a health-conscious town but never bought into it until his health depended on it
- Why a ketogenic diet and traumatic brain injury is the best way to feed a recovering brain
- About the serendipitous events that lead him to the right specialists at the right time to guide his healing
- How the window for healing a brain is bigger than we’ve previously thought
- How the gut and the brain are so linked that you can’t heal one without addressing the other
- That the gut-brain connection is bi-directional
- How he considered himself a ‘foodie’ before realizing what real food was really about
- How nutrition wasn’t initially on his radar for healing and how it became a critical foundational to his recovery
- Why mindset can make all the difference in healing from a traumatic brain injury
- How he has been able to bring music back into his life to continue doing what he loves
- About his work with Dr. Alex Vasquez and functional neurology
- About his interview series – Feed A Brain with functional medicine and ketogenic leader such as Dr. Perlmutter, Dr. Kharrazian, Dr. Wahls, Nora Gedgaudas, and more
References- Dr. Alex Vasquez’s books
- Dr. Alex Vasquez
- Feed A Brain
- Book link – How to Feed a Brain: Nutrition for Optimal Brain Function and Repair by Cavin Balaster
- Cavin Balaster’s Brain Injury Podcast adventuresinbraininjury.com
Our Partners:Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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50 min - Episode 8 – Health is a Mosaic: How to Read Blood Test Results When Eating Keto or Low Carb – with Amy Berger
Join Dave Korsunsky as he interviews Amy Berger of Tuit Nutrition on how to read blood test results as part of your low-carb ketogenic lifestyle. Amy breaks down all the important facts on how to read blood test results, which ones to keep an eye on and how to interpret your own test results through a low-carb/ketogenic lens. This podcast is a continuation of Amy’s in-depth blood chemistry master class on the Heads Up Health blog.
Check out Amy Berger’s full series of “Low-carb Lab Testing” blog posts here.
Amy Berger is a USAF veteran, who holds a master’s degree in human nutrition, is a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) and certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP). She is a low carb/keto/paleo nutritionist, author of The Alzheimer’s Antidote, and blogger at Tuit Nutrition. She can also be found on Twitter.
If you’re new to, or considering a low carb lifestyle, this podcast will help you understand which labs to ask your doctor for and how to read blood test results to empower your health.
If you’ve been at this for a while, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of what your blood sugar test results mean. You’ll learn which labs you should be paying attention to, as well as what to do when your doctor or insurance won’t get you the labs you need.
Listen in iTunes!
This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode!
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In this episode you’ll learn how to read blood test results on low-carb/keto:- About blood sugar patterns after intense exercise
- How Heads Up Health brings metrics from all your tracking apps together including blood test results.
- The differences between fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1c (HgA1c), fructosamine, fasting insulin and how some measurements are more accurate than others
- When to use fasting glucose vs. post-prandial (after meal) blood sugar test results
- What you need to know about how to read blood test results and be your own advocate for getting what you need for your health
- About at home testing as well as how to obtain your own labs when your doctor or insurance won’t order them
- Why fasting insulin is “the most important test your doctor isn’t ordering”
- What the Hemoglobin A1c (HgA1c) test is and why it’s not always as accurate as you’d expect
- Why you can have normal blood sugar test results with elevated insulin, indicating serious metabolic issues, despite having labs that ‘look great’ to your doctor
- The reasons why hyperinsulinemia can indicate a system out of balance and how the body is overcompensating for elevated blood sugar levels.
- What the HOMA-IR is and what it tells you regarding risk of metabolic disease
- Why fasting blood glucose is the last thing to rise and is not a reliable indicator for early metabolic issues
- The two best blood sugar tests for early stage indicators of metabolic issues
- Why most thyroid tests doctors run are incomplete
- How without a full thyroid panel diagnosis can be missed leaving those suffering with symptoms of subclinical thyroid disorders and no support
- What The Kraft test is and when it’s most useful
- The reason why TSH isn’t the most important thyroid lab and why it alone is not enough
- About myths surrounding low carb and hypothyroidism, and how the numbers can sometimes fluctuate but not be a reason to abandon low carb eating
- Why high insulin in the presence of normal blood sugar test results, is the leading cause of any major illness including; gout, high blood pressure, obesity, PCOS, cardiovascular disease, erectile dysfunction, and more
- What the Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Score is and why it can help you discern when you actually have an atherosclerosis problem
- Why cholesterol numbers do not always mean as much as we’ve been taught regarding heart health
- Amy Berger’s advice to anyone adopting a low carb lifestyle
Low-Carb Lab Testing – The SeriesCheck out the ongoing series on our blog that gives you all the information you need to read blood test results as part of your low-carb ketogenic lifestyle:
- Low-Carb Lab Testing – Part 1 – Blood Sugar Tests
- Low-Carb Lab Testing – Part 2 – Fasting Insulin Test
- Low-Carb Lab Testing – Part 3 – HOMA-IR
- Low-Carb Lab Testing – Part 4 – Do-it-yourself Testing – Don’t Wait to Measure
- Low-Carb Lab Testing – Part 5 – A Case Study
- Low-Carb Lab Testing – Part 6 – Thyroid Panel
- Low-Carb Lab Testing – Part 7 – The Kraft Test (Hyperinsulinemia)
- Low-carb Lab Testing — Part 8: The CAC Test – A Better Way to Evaluate Cardiovascular Health
References:- Journal of Insulin Resistance – Hyperinsulinemia and Insulin Resistance: Scope of the Problem
- Amy Berger’s book – The Alzheimer’s Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline
Our Partners:Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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54 min - Episode 7 – Why Are Vegetable Oils Bad For Your Health? Quick Hits with Dr. John Limansky
Are vegetable oils bad for your health? Does the quality of fats in your diet really matter? Absolutely!
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Welcome to the first of our new Quick Hits feature episodes, delivering the quick and dirty details on topics that are important to you and your health. In 15 minutes or less we’ll deliver important health info to you to keep your mind active whether you’re waiting in the carpool lane, on your morning commute, or fitting in a quick workout!
Why are industrial seed and vegetable oils bad for your health? In this Quick Hits episode, Dave Korsunsky sits down with Dr. John Limansky, MD board-certified physician of Internal Medicine to ‘chew the fat’ on this important topic.
We’re diving in quick to get you the big ideas and then we’ll provide you some resources at the bottom of the page for further reading if you want to learn more. You’ll get a quick intro into why vegetable oils are bad and why you should take measures to avoid them in your diet for optimal health.
While ketogenic dieting has gained a lot of popularity, it is important to note that the quality of fats is just as, if not more important, than the quantity you consume.
You literally build your body with every bite you take, so take a few minutes to learn just why are vegetable oils bad and why you should avoid them.
Are you still unclear on which fats are good, and which are associated with increased health risks?
Take a listen and see how your diet rates!
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In this Quick Hits episode, you’ll learn:- The importance of eating healthy fats, especially while doing a ketogenic diet
- Why are seed and vegetable oils bad for your health?
- What specific vegetable and seed oils are detrimental
- How we got to the point of thinking these were “heart healthy” fats
- Why these vegetable oils are so prevalent in our food supply
- How trans fats are created through the processing of vegetable oils
- How canola oil is derived, and how it was not even initially allowed for human consumption
- How a man converted his car to run on vegetable oils for fuel
- How these bad vegetable oils get stuck in your body and cause damage
- How these vegetable oils lead to overproduction of free radicals and other health risks
- Why you need a 1:1 ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 fats in your diet
- Why these bad vegetable oils are pro-inflammatory
- How there can still be trans-fats in foods labeled “no trans fats”
- How these vegetable oils can damage cells and become plastic-like, decreasing function in your brain and liver
- What you can do about improving your omega 3-6 ratio
- What foods are healthy fat sources
- How fasting can help get rid of these damaging vegetable oils
References:- Man who drives across country on vegetable oil
- Study-Evaluation of the non-aldehyde volatile compounds formed during deep-fat frying process
- Study-The changes in the volatile aldehydes formed during the deep-fat frying process
- Study-Dietary monounsaturated fatty acids promote aortic atherosclerosis in LDL receptor-null, human ApoB100-overexpressing transgenic mice
- Study-Influence of sources of dietary oils on the lifespan of stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats
- Study-Erythrocyte membrane fatty acids and subsequent breast cancer: a prospective Italian study
- Study-Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73)
- Study-Intake of saturated and trans unsaturated fatty acids and risk of all cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Our partnersYou can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade breath ketone analyzer, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
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15 min - Episode 6 – Test for Ketosis with a Simple Breath: The LEVL Ketone Breath Meter with Dr. Joe Anderson
New to low carb or ketogenic eating and unsure if you’re in ketosis? Or eating low carb but not achieving the results you were hoping for? Measuring breath ketones with the LEVL ketone breath meter is an accurate and non-invasive method to measuring and tracking.
No more poking your finger multiple times a day to get feedback on whether or not what you’re doing is working. Find out more about how this device works and how to easily track this data along with other metrics using Heads Up Health.
In this podcast episode, Dave Korsunsky, sits down with Joe Anderson, Ph.D. of LEVL. Together they share how tracking breath ketones with the LEVL ketone breath meter and integrating it into your Heads Up Health account can help you optimize your approach to fat burning and metabolic health.
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In this episode, you’ll learn about the LEVL ketone breath meter and much more:- The correlation between breath acetone to fat loss
- Importance of using an FDA approved medical device for testing
- What makes the LEVL ketone breath meter accurate
- How the LEVL ketone breath meter doesn’t allow you to test inaccurately
- Learn how the LEVL ketone breath meter offers a user-friendly app and integrates seamlessly with your Heads Up Health account
- The difference between testing urine, blood and breath ketones
- Why the LEVL ketone breath meter provides superior accuracy for breath ketone testing
- Why the LEVL ketone breath meter is easier than testing blood ketones
- How you can save money by using the LEVL ketone breath meter when testing multiple times per day
- How easy it is to use and calibrate the LEVL ketone breath meter
- How ketones correlate to what you’re eating/level of exercise, etc.
- How to see the cause and effect of input (carbs, exercise) to output (ketones) through testing
- The difference between the glucose-ketone index (measured with blood ketone testing) and the glucose-acetone index (measured with breath)
- How nutritional ketosis is beneficial for disease state reversal–brain health, cancer, diabetes, etc.
- How Heads Up Health helps you correlate your own metrics to find a customized dietary, exercise plan for yourself
- How Heads Up Health integrates with other apps like MyFitness Pal, wearables like Oura ring, and devices like LEVL and Keto Mojo, your blood lab results (learn how to connect to Quest or LabCorp), and more to provide a treasure trove of data for optimizing your health
- What info is tracked in the LEVL app
- See a screen share of the LEVL mobile app (forthcoming YouTube video)
- A screen share of Dave’s Heads Up Health App integrated with the LEVL device.
References:- Discount code for LEVL Device
- LEVLnow.com
- Study: Measuring breath acetone for monitoring fat loss: Review
- 1993 Kundu Study
- LEVL Team
- Glucose Ketone Index Calculator Study
- How to track the glucose ketone Index in Heads Up Health
Our Partners:Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
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46 min - Episode 5 – Oura Ring Deep Dive with Chuck Hazzard
Curious about the Oura Ring and how it can help you achieve better sleep and recovery? Wondering how you can use recovery information for better performance, and how you can use it to optimize your health?
In this podcast episode, Dave Korsunksy sits down with Chuck Hazzard, VP of Sales at Oura, to ‘nerd-out’ over various quantifying metrics, and talk about all things Oura. Chuck, also an endurance runner and technologist, is a total badass in the world of biohacking and data collection. Check out the YouTube video (forthcoming) where Dave and Chuck do some screen-sharing to really deep dive into the data.
You can find Chuck here and on Facebook. He blogs at The Human Optimization Project, where he recently wrote about discovering a correlation between his insulin load (using Heads Up’s Analyzer feature) with his resting heart rate, as measured by his Oura ring.
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In this episode, you’ll learn:- How Chuck became involved with Oura
- The capabilities of the Oura ring and how it translates to better sleep
- Best practices for extending battery life
- The differences between Gen 1 and Gen 2 rings
- Differences between Oura and Whoop
- Why wrist-based trackers only give an estimation of heart rate
- Advice on sizing and tips for optimal data collection at night
- Why recovery is important and how you can tell if your nervous system has recovered
- How HRV and Resting Heart Rate is figured into the readiness score
- How temperature sensors on the ring can detect impending sickness or overtraining
- How women can track their menstrual cycles the Oura ring
- The possibilities of quantifying a meditation session with the Gen 2 Oura ring
- How Chuck did his own N=1 experiment with a bottle of Dry Farm wine, using Heads Up’s Carb Tolerance Test to see the impact of the keto-friendly wine on his blood sugar levels
- How Chuck uses Heads Up Health when tracking and trending core metrics
- What top two health metrics are important for both Chuck and Dave
- A peek into Chuck’s Oura cloud screen share
- A screen share of Chuck’s Heads Up dashboard
- Some biohacks and best practices for optimizing sleep scores and getting better sleep
And much, much more!
Watch on YouTubeCheck out the interview on YouTube where Dave and Chuck share screens and see what core metrics are trended and tracked using both Oura and Heads Up Health:
References:- Oura
- Valencell
- Oura HR & HRV nocturnal accuracy document
- The Sleep of the Ring: Comparison of the ŌURA Sleep Tracker Against Polysomnography
- Michael Bruce’s book: The Power of When
- Robb Wolf
- Dry Farm Wines
- Fit Wine
- Libra by Abbott
- Dexcom
- Fitbit
- Garmin
- Primal Hacker
- Emfit
- Kevin Rose meditation app: Oak
- Swanwick Sleep
- CBD oil Elixinol
- EarthPulse PEMF
- Philips Hue
- IFTTT
- Essilor glasses
- TrueDark glasses
- Essentia mattress
- ChiliPad
- Ketogains calculator
- HDE Laser glasses
- KetoMojo
- MyFitnessPal
- MyMacros+
Our partnersYou can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade breath ketone analyzer, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
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1 hr 3 min - Episode 4 – Transforming Lives with Dr. Philip Blair: On CBD Oil, Keto, Whole Body Vibration, and Statin Injuries
Can CBD oil, the ketogenic diet, and whole body vibration translate to better health? And why should people abstain from statins?
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In this episode, we chat with Dr. Philip Blair, a board-certified family practitioner and a retired military officer from West Point who does many things to help people transform their lives, including education about CBD oil, low-carb and ketogenic diet approaches, statin injuries, and disease management. He also provides consultations regarding cannabidiol (CBD) from industrial hemp.
Among the many other hats the awesome Dr. Blair wears, he is also an advisor for Elixinol, as well as the Medical Director and Vice President of Pro Health Advisor, providing innovative nutritional and disease management services. His program believes in “empowering individual patients to make lifestyle changes and coaching them through the difficult transitions until they realize success…and maintain their positive outcomes for life.”
You can find Dr. Philip Blair at Pro Health Advisor and on Facebook.
This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
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In this episode, you’ll learn:- Why you should abstain from statins
- Injuries and side effects that can result from statin use
- The importance of cholesterol
- The link between statins and neuropathy
- How diabetes can be induced by statins
- The use of whole body vibration in the ICU
- Whole body vibration: how it can help obese and bedridden individuals
- Why people don’t lose weight with just exercise
- The many health benefits of CBD oil
- How the combination of CBD oil and whole body vibration can help PTSD
- The difference between CBD oil and marijuana/THC
- Which brand of CBD oil Dr. Blair recommends
- Imbalances of the endocannabinoid system and how CBD oil can help
- Why the low-carb and ketogenic approach helps diabetes or metabolic syndrome
- How Heads Up Health users can use data to personalize a low-carb keto approach to health
- How life experiences are translated into the body via the endocannabinoid system
- The benefit of CBD oil with cancer, inducing apoptosis
- How CBD oil can help migraines
- Why using both CBD oil with the keto diet is ideal when going through cancer
- General dosage guidelines
- CBD oil and exercise performance
- And more!
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Watch on YouTubeCheck out the interview on YouTube where Dave and Dr. Blair share screens and take a closer look at the data behind CBD oils:
Links- CBD Blair Consultation
- Elixinol
- Respira
- Statin Effects on Muscle and Kidney
- SpaceDoc (Resource info about derogatory effects related to statins)
- Hypervibe
- Project CBD
- Gary Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories
Our Partners:Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up HealthHeads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
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