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August 28, 2018Episode 22 – Using Nutrigenomics to Achieve Optimal Health | Alex Swanson of Nutrition Genome
Knowing that an illness or disease runs in your family is one thing. But learning how to work with the genes that predispose you to it through a personal DNA test to achieve optimal health is the ultimate in biohacking. Alex Swanson, nutritionist and founder of Nutrition Genome, has built a program to tell you all about your nutrigenomics through a simple cheek swab for DNA.
Unlike other companies that do little more than telling you that you do or do not have a gene, Nutrition Genome tells you how to work with them, including which foods you should emphasize and which to avoid. They even have a referral list of providers you can work with who understand the data and have gone through their training program.
How your environment and food interact with your genes affects your disease outcome, which is why knowing more about your genetics helps you to achieve optimal health.
Concerned about privacy? If you’ve been interested in learning more about your genetic predispositions to specific health issues, but have been following the news and how 23 and Me have recently agreed to allow the use of customer’s data for pharmaceutical research, you may have become leery of running this test. Fear no more. Nutrition Genome offers user-friendly data, and a promise never to sell your data or use it for other purposes.
If you’ve already run a 23 and Me report before their big changes in August 2017, you can even upload the raw data to Nutrition Genome for a fee and have them interpret your data as well.
Alex J. Swanson, M.S Applied Nutrition, is the founder of The Health Beat, Nutrition Genome and is the co-owner of Swanson Health Center. He is a second-generation nutritionist with over 12 years of clinical experience, specializing in genetics, nutritional biochemistry, physical performance, mental health, and longevity research.
Listen to Alex Swanson tell Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, in this podcast what information you’ll find in a report with Nutrition Genome and how you can benefit from running this one time test.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
Why your genes are not your destiny, but a blueprint; its expression changes in response to your environment [8:00]
How understanding your genes can lead you to course correct your health [8:30]
Why you will never need to have another gene test, but as new information comes out, your profile will be updated [9:45]
Why nutrigenomics is the future of personalized nutrition [11:20]
How knowing your ancestry will help you to understand what type of diet your body will thrive on [11:55]
How Alex’s own nutrition practice lead him to start Nutrition Genome, initially using raw files from 23 And Me [13:00]
How the process works when you sign up with Nutrition Genome: from ordering to collection to interpretation [16:00]
Dave and Alex share what a report looks like and the information you’ll learn from it, including: (YouTube coming soon) [19:00]
Overview
Increased vitamin need genes — learn what foods you should and shouldn’t eat
Methylation genes
Neurotransmitters genes
Understanding the interplay between genes and how they affect one another
List of foods to focus on
Gene combinations
Anti-oxidant protection
How to find practitioners who understand how to utilize this information [23:45]
How the personalized reports give tangible results to clients for understanding why they may need to avoid certain foods and stressors more than someone else [27:30]
About the genes for mental health and neurotransmitters (ex. low dopamine receptors and the connection to sugar addictions, obesity, etc. as well as ADD, ADHD) [31:45]
How COMT breaks down catecholamines like coffee, wine, tea; why some people are more sensitive to these drinks leading to anxiety and anger issues
About the glutamate-to-GABA-conversion and why your mind won’t shut off at night [37:00]
How different types of exercise are great for people with certain genes [37:50]
Antioxidants and how those with genes with lower antioxidants are more affected by environmental toxins [39:00]
Where to start with your results [40:00]
How genetics can be influenced by epigenetics to affect your — and your children’s — future health [43:00]
References
Nutrition Genome
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 Health
Heads 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
August 01, 2018Episode 21 – How Karen Parrott is Winning the Battle of Obesity by Being Data-Driven
How do you know if what you’re doing to improve your health is working? If you’re not tracking your changes, it’s nearly impossible to understand. Karen Parrott overcame her lifelong struggle with obesity through a low-carb diet using data-driven tracking. She supports her weight maintenance by continuing to track her progress with Heads Up Health, where she can link all her data and see what’s working and what isn’t.
A Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Karen Parrott is also a single mother who works full-time and commutes 2+ hours. Yet Karen managed to take control of her health after struggling with her weight for 40 years. After yo-yo dieting and stress-eating for some time, Karen realized she’d have to make some changes if she was going to turn her health around. When she was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, Karen decided it was time to take her health into her own hands. She began tracking her health data and became her own advocate for testing. Through diet, tracking and lifestyle changes, Karen has successfully lost over 70 pounds — and kept it off — for 6+ years!
Listen to Karen’s interview with Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, as they discuss her health journey, nerd out over her numbers via the tracking she’s done through apps connected to Heads Up Health.
Karen blogs at www.gardengirlkp.blogspot.com, is active on Twitter and Instagram, and shares her photography work on Instagram under a separate account.
“We live in a world where the odds are not in our favor against developing a disease. People who monitor their health learn their body.” – Dave Korsunsky
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
Karen Parrott’s story, background, and why she’s a data geek who loves tracking her health with Heads Up Health [4:25]
As a Heads Up Health beta user, she was able to merge data from My Fitness Pal, Fitbit, and Apple Health to deepen her understanding of what was changing in her body [5:30]
How she participated in an intermittent fasting study with Dr. Satchin Panda in July of 2016 and the changes she saw [6:00]
Why she tracked her own data simultaneously through Heads Up Health while participating in the study with Dr. Satchin Panda to help her get the results she wanted [6:50]
How you can change the times you eat during the day and not necessarily have to change the quantities of food to improve your desired results [9:50]
Why finishing your last meal of the day by 6pm can improve your sleep, which can be tracked with your Oura ring [10:30]
How she was able to go back through the data when her cholesterol began rising to see what had changed [14:00]
That her A1c was stuck at 5.5 – 5.4 but when she started intermittent fasting she dropped to 5.0 – 4.8, which she was able to see because she had the data to make the connection [16:00]
About empowering yourself to track your own info and make your own changes to achieve the goals you are reaching for [16:30]
How her doctor wanted to put her on a statin as her cholesterol levels elevated, so she ordered her own lab testing and convinced her doctor to order a coronary artery calcium score to see what her risk for heart attack really looked like [17:30]
About the psychology of eating and Carole Freeman’s recent podcast with Heads Up Health [28:35]
How Karen was able to look back at her struggle with weight, her ability to abstain from triggers and where she was most successful with weight maintenance [29:15]
How she found out, through testing her genes, that she has an extra gene for ghrelin production which means she can even overeat things like ribeye (why she’s diligent in tracking her food intake) [37:15]
Karen talks about her triggers for overeating and her strategies to quell those urges [39:40]
Karen and Dave nerd out over the numbers and tracking with Heads Up Health – see YouTube Video (coming soon) [41:50]
What metrics Karen has found most helpful in her tracking [53:20]
How even though Karen’s doctor’s health system doesn’t connect to Quest, she can pull it up on Heads Up Health and show her doctor her own health data and trends [54:45]
Karen’s advice to anyone struggling with obesity that’s starting down their own path; why tracking –and continuing to revise your plan — is so important, to keep you moving in the right direction [59:40]
References
Karen Parrott’s blog
Found My Fitness Podcast with Dr. Satchin Panda
Salk Institute Dr. Panda
Cholesterolcode.com
Dr. Brian Lenzkes
The Low Carb Cardiologist Dr. Bret Scher
Jeff Kotterman Trainer
Dave Feldman
The Feldman Protocol
Amy Berger’s Coronary Artery Calcium blog post
Dr. Nicole Avena
Dr. Ted Naiman
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 Health
Heads 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 6 min
July 22, 2018Episode 20 – Biohacking Mental Illness Using Keto for Bipolar: How to Become Your Own Detective | Carrie Brown
Is biohacking mental illness even possible? In this podcast episode, learn how Carrie Brown became her own detective to heal her mind and body using her “seek the tweak” approach and how she used keto for bipolar to optimize her health and live her best life. Listen to Carrie talk about her experience with Bipolar II Disorder and how she has biohacked mental illness through tracking health data, a keto for bipolar diet, MTHFR support, supplements and lifestyle changes.
Now completely medicine-free, she maintains a healthy mental outlook by understanding what her body needs and how to support it.
If you’ve ever felt even a little bit of that darkness, you know that it isn’t something you can talk or will your way out of. Your body is literally starving for what it needs, and while a pharmaceutical may be necessary to help you while finding your root causes, you do not have a medication deficiency.
After years of being crippled by overwhelming thoughts of killing herself, Carrie hit a point where she was nearly committed to an institution but was able to pull herself out into the light enough that she had an opportunity to find another way. Carrie wants you to know that there is another way and if you’re willing to do the detective work and seek the right avenues for support, you too, have an opportunity to heal unmedicated. Although she emphasizes that everyone with bipolar disorder has their own path, she is a firm believer that you need to listen to your body and remember the importance of collecting and monitoring data. “Even data such as: How do I feel when I eat X? Or I eat Y?”
It is Carrie’s hope that her story inspires you to take control of your own health, to be your own detective, in the knowledge that she believes there is a fix for you, to know there IS light at the end of the tunnel.
Carrie Brown is a former-professional-pastry-chef-turned-keto-cookbook-author, recipe developer, keto advocate, motivational speaker, and podcast co-host of Ketovangelist Kitchen. She is also part of Ketovangelist Unlimited (a membership for people who are serious about keto, who want to take it to the next level).
You can find her here: Carrie Brown-Life in the Sane Lane, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Flickr, and Instagram.
Listen to her inspiring story and know that you are not alone. Suicide is a very real subject and anyone having suicidal thoughts should call the National Suicide Helpline at 1-800-273-8255. Ask for the help that you need.
If you know someone struggling, reach out to them. You may be the lifeline that they need.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
Carrie Brown’s history and background; how she was born depressed and did all the conventional meds and therapies [5:45]
While working at Microsoft and in the corporate world with a high profile career, she learned very early to fake it (happiness) to be able to make it [8:50]
How exhausting it is keeping up the front that everything is normal while inside your thoughts are obsessive and all-encompassing, and everything in your brain is telling you to die [10:00]
How she talked herself out of being committed at the hospital in the middle of the night, by agreeing to meds and therapy [13:45]
Why she was frustrated at the lack of critical thinking in conventional treatment (i.e., being a deep thinker, started asking about things she could try and her therapist was just agreeing with what she was suggesting). They just wanted to medicate her to the point where she didn’t want to kill herself but was socially acceptable, not asking the question of why she was bipolar [17:30]
Why she fired everyone except her psychotherapist [18:15]
How “you can’t talk your way out of clinical depression or bipolar any more than you can talk yourself out of a broken leg or diabetes” [18:30]
She started her detective work with her DNA (23andMe) and uploaded her data into a website to help her unpack the info into something useful (like Genetic Genie) [19:30]
She’s found out she’s heterozygous for MTHFR and learned that it has the ability to cause a lot of issues including anxiety, depression and bipolar [23:55]
That it’s super important to live in a non-toxic environment from the cleaners she uses to the furniture she buys due to her impaired detox abilities, and how uncovering this information through 23andMe testing gave her a place to start [26:00]
How she was on Lamotrigine which was originally an anti-seizure med and via Dr. Ted Naiman’s help, made the connection that the ketogenic diet was originally prescribed for seizure prevention in children; there might be a strong enough connection to work on the same mechanism to help her bipolar [28:15]
That more ketones do not mean more weight loss, but it can be helpful when working with the brain to have higher ketones, which she refers to “peetones” for urine testing to figure out which foods were working for her [32:55]
That she was terrified to come off of her Lamotrigine, but she was able to in a week or two (under a doctors care) and has been completely off of meds with no bipolar symptoms in the 2.5 years while being on a ketogenic diet [35:30]
How she wants everyone to know that their experience will be different and their needs will be unique to them, even if they are doing a ketogenic diet or if they have methylation issues…you need a healthcare provider who will support you in finding your combination for your unique body [37:35]
How your needs change over time, so it’s important to review your supplements and diet, etc. to continue supporting you (or “seek the tweak,” as Carrie calls it) by tracking your data [41:40]
Why it’s super important to find an ND and/or a functional doc to work with that understands all of these tests and the ketogenic diet [50:00]
More about Carrie Brown’s current work with writing cookbooks, working on the Ketovangelist podcast team developing recipes for keto and teaching individuals how to cook and make delicious food, as well as speaking at conferences such as KetoCon [53:40]
About her gratitude for what she went through to be able to be given the opportunity to give back [1:00:20]
References
23andMe
Genetic Genie
MTHFR.net
Strategene report by Dr. Ben Lynch on methylation
Dr. Ben Lynch’s book: Dirty Genes
Promethease
Plant Paradox by Dr. Stephen Gundry
Bristol Stool Chart and tracking
Ketovangelist Unlimited
Ketovangelist Kitchen
Kickass Keto: Your 28-Day Quick Start Guide to Health, Fat-burning, and Weight-loss by: Carrie Brown
The KETO Ice Cream Scoop: 52 amazingly delicious ice creams and frozen treats for your low-carb high-fat life by: Carrie Brown
101 KETO Beverages: Amazingly delicious, health-boosting, sugar-free lattes, teas, hot chocolates, frozen drinks, yogurt drinks, sodas, mocktails, and infused waters by: Carrie Brown
The KETO Crockpot: 40 scrumptious, simple, fat-burning, health-boosting recipes that cook themselves while you’re on the go! by: Carrie Brown
KETO for the Holidays: 53 scrumptious, fat-burning recipes so you can thrive on delicious KETO food through the Holidays by: Carrie Brown
The KETO Soup Bowl: 50 delicious fat-burning, health-boosting bowls of soup, chowder, hodgepodge, gumbo, stew, and gazpacho by: Carrie Brown
Dr. Ted Naiman
Dr. Georgia Ede
Brain on Fire
Perfect Keto Ketone Testing Strips for Ketosis
VIDEO: KetoCon2018 – Carrie Brown: Mental Health on Keto – From Surviving to Thriving
VIDEO: KetoCon2018 Stories Panel with Carrie Brown with Shawn Mynar, Gillian Szollos, Jade Nelson, Vanessa Spina, Allison Gannett
Nutrition Genome
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 Health
Heads 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 2 min
July 13, 2018Episode 19 – The Case for Regenerative Farming & Nutrient Dense Food | Tyler Boggs of Heart2Heart Farms
Tyler Boggs and his wife Elizabeth own and operate Heart 2 Heart Farms and believe that sustainability in farming, while important, is not enough. Enter regenerative farming.
After having retired from the military, they both set out to find a new path, wanting to get out of the city. They bought some land outside of Portland, Oregon and began growing their own food. At first they just wanted to support themselves but as they became more aware of the way foods were commercially produced, quickly realized there was a need to support their community in accessing quality meats and produce free from antibiotics, hormones, and chemicals.
Their farm has evolved from simply growing food and raising animals to now farming and educating individuals who want to understand better how a regenerative farm operates. They give back to their community by running a food pantry where they give away 100,000 lbs of food every week for free through their work/trade program.
Heart 2 Heart Farms provides food, consultations, teaching and education on how to build a regenerative food system and how to source high-quality foods, especially when on a limited budget.
Always willing to talk farming, environmental impact, and nutrition, Tyler Boggs tells Dave Korsunsky of Heads Up Health all about the farm that has grown from feeding just his own family to now educating and feeding thousands.
Listen and learn more about how regenerative farming is different, and a step up, from sustainable agriculture.
You can learn more about Heart 2 Heart Farms through their website or Facebook and about Elizabeth Boggs Nutritional Therapy practice at Heart2HeartHealth.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
What regenerative farming is and how it’s different from sustainable farming [4:00]
About Tyler and his wife’s transition from military life to farming [5:35]
How industrialized CAFO raised animals differ from regenerative farm raised animals [7:35]
About a conversation Tyler had with a man who works as a meat washer for conventionally raised meats, and how horrified he was after seeing the wash eat through his sweater when he accidentally spilled it on himself! [8:35]
How that it only takes two weeks to change the composition of meat when fed grains instead of grass, which is why it’s important to look for grass-finished when purchasing red meat, not just grass-fed [10:20]
That everyone has access to sourcing, but it does take work to find it [12:50]
How cortisol raises in animals when transported (all commercial meats are required to be processed in a USDA slaughterhouse) which in turn changes the composition of the meat. [14:10]
Why you have to meet your farmer if you’re serious about your health, to find out how the animals are raised and slaughtered [15:00]
Why buying your organic feed from a quality source is important when raising your own animals for food [16:40]
Why Heart 2 Heart farms raises-mostly USDA exempt meats like alpaca and yak, chukar, quail, duck, pheasants, geese, turkey, rabbit, but also raise a small amount of cow, pig, goats, and sheep for people who want to slaughter their own [17:45]
Why you should make an appointment to meet your farmer and what that process looks like and how to find a local farmer. [18:45]
How to search Craigslist for what you want and how to approach the farmer for information. (Hint: be kind.) [20:45]
Learn about the 3/6/12 month internships that Heart 2 Heart Farms offers to learn about regenerative farming [22:00]
How one customer can make the difference between a regenerative farm from surviving and not making it [23:30]
Why regenerative farming costs more, but it’s worth it [25:15]
Why it takes 16 heads of cabbage today to get the same mineral content of one cabbage in 1952; produce can’t absorb something that’s not present in the soil due to depletion of nutrients. (You can’t judge the nutrient density by looks alone.) [26:40]
Why the nutrient density of the soil is just as important as what types of food you’re choosing, and how as a result of depletion in our soil (and in turn, our food today) we’re simultaneously malnourished yet overfed. [27:25]
How getting your foods from local farmers can provide you with foods you’ll never find on supermarket shelves. [31:00]
References
USDA Changes in grass-fed labeling
Changes in nutrient density over time 
Food Inc
NTA
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 Health
Heads 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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40 min
July 06, 2018Episode 18: The Keto Doctor’s Intro to the Health Benefits of Cold Water Therapy – Quick Hits with Dr. John Limansky
Are we literally jumping into a freezing cold lake just for the health of it? Absolutely! Join Dave and Dr. John Limansky for this Quick Hits episode about the benefits of cold water therapy and how it can benefit you in reducing stress while costing you nothing. Be sure to watch the video!
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Welcome to the latest Quick Hits feature episode, 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!
When was the last time you jumped into a cold lake, just for the fun of it? In this Quick Hits episode, Dave Korsunsky talks with John Limansky, MD, board-certified physician of Internal Medicine to discuss the stress-reducing, immune modulating, and therapeutic benefits of cold water immersion therapy.
We’re diving in quick to get you the big ideas and then we’ll provide you with some resources at the bottom of the page for further reading if you want to learn more.
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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 like the Oura ring as well as other devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
What cold water therapy is and why your body responds positively to specific stressors that stimulate your body short term [1:50]
How you can induce this hormetic stress with cryotherapy and cold immersion therapy in your home or outside in nature [3:00]
Why the immersion temperature for cold water therapy has to be below 50 degrees to initiate a hormetic stress response [3:30]
The differences between clinical cryotherapy (-200º) for 1-2 min. vs. cold water lake immersion (50º or colder) 5-10 min. [4:40]
Why you have to build up to it for it to be effective and not harmful [5:00]
How to recreate this effect in your bathtub [5:40]
That your body adapts its response, initially shivering in response to burning energy, and then non-shivering where biochemical changes happen. [6:00]
Why it’s vital to submerge deep enough to cover the vagus nerve (neck) and how covering your head can be even more beneficial [6:35]
Why studies show a reduction in blood pressure, cortisol, and positive changes in neurotransmitter levels [7:55]
How cold water immersion therapy can reduce inflammation and can increase dopamine 530% after one hour at about 57º study [8:25]
How biohacking with cold water therapy inhibits TNF-a, stimulates the immune system to include benefits similar to autophagy that happens when fasting as well as decreases inflammatory prostaglandins [10:00]
How cold immersion therapy helps with stress reduction and how doing it in a natural body of water has additional benefits [12:00]
Eat your own dog food
Check out this video where Dave and John take a dip into the balmy waters of Lake Tahoe at 42 degrees!
References
Link to cold water immersion video
STUDY: Human physiological responses to immersion into water of different temperatures
Dr. Limansky’s podcast: The Ketohacking MD
Dr. Limansky’s website: www.biohackmd.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 Health
Heads 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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18 min
June 25, 2018Episode 17 – A Keto Bodybuilder’s Guide to Tracking Health and Performance: Interview with Robert Sikes of Keto Savage
Most people know the ketogenic diet can help with weight loss, but did you know you can actually build muscle too? Is keto bodybuilding legit? Let us introduce you to Robert Sikes, AKA Keto Savage, a lifetime natural competitive keto bodybuilder. Using the ketogenic diet, he has seen consistent gains in building lean muscle mass, finding it to be much less stressful on the body than bulking and cutting the traditional way with carbs.
Robert Sikes went from a 115-pound kid in high school to 230 pounds in college and started competing in 2010. A few years ago he began transitioning to a keto bodybuilding approach and found that his body recovered faster after competitions and that the ketogenic diet provided a much more sustainable and healthier way to building lean muscle.
When not training, you can find Robert providing online coaching through his company Keto Savage. He and the love of his life, also a phenomenal keto competitive bodybuilder, Crystal Love (and also a keto coach), founded Keto Brick, a 1,000-calorie meal replacement bar that meets all the keto macros for anyone actively training, running, hunting, mountain biking, backpacking, and more. (Be sure to sign up on their list as these keto bars sell out like hot cakes!) Robert believes that anyone can achieve the same physical success that he has if they are willing to invest the time, effort, and dedication in their diet and fitness.
Take the next step and learn more about his new 90-day comprehensive program with KetoConnect’s Matt and Megha: Deeper State Keto. You can also catch the awesome Keto Savage podcasts here.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
Robert Sikes’ (AKA Keto Savage) history of keto bodybuilding [3:40]
Why there is not one perfect approach to the ketogenic diet, and how tracking can help you decide what is working for you based on trackable measurements [4:45]
How you can apply keto with bodybuilding for mass building [5:45]
About the bulking/cutting phase, and how that affects body composition with carbs vs. fat [6:50]
Why keto is more sustainable for putting on mass at a steady pace without taxing the body during “cutting” [8:15]
How you can increase calories without gaining a lot of fat [9:00]
How keto can be used for endurance performance like long-distance running or adapted for building muscle [10:20]
Why you can you put on the same amount of lean mass with the ketogenic diet [11:20]
How building muscle with keto is more sustainable because you don’t lose as much in the cutting season [11:35]
Why building with keto is more enjoyable than cutting on carbs [12:00]
How to do the cutting phase with the ketogenic diet [12:20]
How Robert gets down to 65g of protein in cutting and doesn’t lose muscle because he’s using a ketogenic diet [13:30]
How to set up macros for someone wanting to lose fat vs. someone wanting to put on muscle [14:15]
Why the one area you have 100% control over is your macros and how to work with them for muscle building vs. fat loss [14:40]
Why women usually have to increase their calories when building muscle [16:15]
How adjusting inputs (macros, training, HRV, etc.) can be like a game and tracking is the only way to see how what you’re doing is affecting your goals [16:55]
Which biomarkers Keto Savage tracks for optimal performance [19:20]
How his performance was better on higher fat than higher protein [21:50]
More about Robert Sike’s Deeper State 90-day comprehensive program with Matt and Megha of Keto Connect and how Matt lost 20lbs and Megha lost fat and gained muscle tracking metrics for meeting their goals [23:20]
About the details of the Deeper State Program and its practical application to anyone who wants to build muscle [26:25]
References
The Art and Science of Low Carb Performance by Jeff S. Volek, and Stephen D. Phinney
Deeper States Program with Robert Sikes, Matt, and Megha
InBody Test Body composition test analyzer
Skulpt to measure body fat percentage and measure muscle quality
Our Partners:
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29 min
June 17, 2018Episode 16 – The Terrain Ten Approach with Cancer Survivor and Thriver: Dr. Nasha Winters
Listen to Dr. Nasha Winters, a cancer survivor — and thriver! — talk about her work with cancer treatment and her program: The Terrain Ten. Dr. Nasha Winters’ holistic approach emphasizes that a person is more than the sum of their diagnosis. It honors that how we find ourselves with a cancer (or other chronic illness) diagnosis does not happen in a vacuum. All of our life experiences, as well as our childhood traumas, affect how our genes are expressed, and in fact, can make a more significant impact than any one-specific dietary, supplemental or prescription treatment! To be a cancer thriver, Dr. Nasha Winters believes we must take a whole body, mind, spirit approach.
Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, talks with Dr. Winters about psychoneuroimmunology and how the whole body, mind, and spirit are interlinked, and how optimal health cannot be achieved without addressing them all. Dr. Winters also talks about the top five labs that she monitors monthly in all of her patients with active disease processes, and why you should be checking these at least a couple of times a year to maintain your own health.
Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO, L.Ac, Dipl.OM, has over 25 years experience with direct patient care. She is a best selling co-author, a speaker, and an educator. She is the Founder of Optimal Terrain Consulting, offering integrative oncology, philosophy, and methodologies.
You can follow Dr. Nasha Winters and her work on Facebook, LinkedIn, and her website Optimal Terrain Consulting.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
Dr. Nasha Winters’ own experience with a terminal cancer diagnosis — 27 years ago! — and how it fueled her to make this her life’s work. [05:20]
How our ability to access any information at any time of day can cloud our connection with what our bodies need as individuals to heal. [10:30]
Why a large part of your survivability of cancer has nothing to do with your treatment team. [11:20]
Learn about The Terrain Ten, Dr. Winters’s cancer program for achieving optimal health, and how it’s an adaptable framework based on the individual and not a particular protocol. [15:55]
The difference between carcinogenic emotions vs. carcinogenic environmental toxins and how they both affect cancer. [19:15]
Why your immune system gets suppressed for a minimum of 7 hours after getting into a fight with a loved one. [22:45]
How trauma locks people into a rut so they can’t see other options or possibilities, thus driving physiological changes. [23:15]
About The ACE score for adverse childhood events, and how it can affect disease development. [27:00]
A discussion of Michael Pollan’s new book and how microdosing psychedelics can help to heal traumas. [30:25]
Learn which quantifiable measurements Dr. Winters recommends and what they mean. [33:10]
What the LDH test is and why you should be watching it. [46:00]
How you don’t have to be a medical expert to track your health and make significant changes. [57:00]
How genetic SNPs can affect the ability to get into ketosis, and why being in ketosis is not the same as metabolic flexibility. [59:00]
About glucose-ketone index tracking and reasons why it can be difficult to achieve this in a real-life scenario, but you can still have amazing results with a ketogenic diet. [1:01:35]
Why tracking your sleep with the Oura Ring is super useful. [1:03:45]
Learn more about her book and her husband’s work with CBD oil. [1:04:45]
References
The Metabolic Approach to Cancer, by Dr. Nasha Winters, ND, L.Ac., FABNO and Jess Higgins Kelley, MNT

Radical Remission, by Dr. Kelly Turner
The Healing Platform, by Annie Brandt
Molecules of Emotion, by Candace Pert, Ph.D.
The Biology of Belief, by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
The ACE Score

How to Change Your Mind; What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan

KETO for CANCER by Miriam Kalamian
Best Answer for Cancer Conference
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1 hr 10 min
June 03, 2018Episode 15 – How to Control Your Appetite: Understanding the Psychology of Eating with Keto Carole
In this podcast, Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health talks with Carole Freeman (also known in the ketogenic world as “Keto Carole”) about understanding how to control your appetite better. Carole is a Certified Nutritionist with a dual Masters of Science in Nutrition and Clinical Health Psychology, as well as a licensed Hypnotherapist. Understanding the psychology of eating gives Carole a unique perspective on creating a personalized keto diet while bringing in a whole body approach to her work with clients.
Carole’s journey into the ketogenic diet world began after suffering a traumatic brain injury in 2014 where she was in debilitating chronic pain from a motor vehicle accident. She used her educational background to dig deeper into the research on ketogenic diets and how they can support brain health, and began modifying her own diet. As she began this therapeutic ketogenic diet to heal her brain, she also began to see a whole body transformation and knew she had to help others with this lifestyle.
Now, Carole runs a nine-week online coaching course to help individuals with metabolic issues to be successful in lowering their blood sugar, insulin, and other inflammatory markers through dietary changes.
What makes Carole’s program so successful — she has a weeks-long waiting list — is that she understands the psychology of what can sabotage a healing diet. She can anticipate the areas where clients may struggle and help to prevent them from having to go through the frustration that can sometimes occur.
Helping clients understand “their WHY” for staying motivated, as well as understanding why they feel like they can’t avoid some of the most sabotaging foods, empowers them to have the success that they haven’t been able to achieve on their own.
You can find Keto Carole on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and her website www.ketocarole.com
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
How you must address the psychology of eating and addiction to be able to be successful with any diet
About reward circuitry in the brain and the biology of cravings
Why Carole is passionate about wanting people to feel really great about themselves
How Carole sticks with keto
How dopamine is like a “Scooby snack”, rewarding us for doing something that keeps us alive like eating, sex, etc
How dopamine can increase just by being in a familiar place, or with a particular person whom you’ve done certain things with, like eating sweets
How habits that are deeply ingrained have moved into the part of the brain that is reflexive and becomes automatic, which is why situations can trigger cravings
Why awareness of the dopamine response can keep you from sabotaging your diet, and how in the moment it’s almost impossible to resist it
How changing behaviors may be necessary (e.g., taking a different way home to avoid seeing fast food triggers)
Why avoiding things that affect all of the five senses is important in retraining your brain and habits
Why connecting how people are feeling to what they are eating is important
How food addiction is like any other addiction, and that situations as much as exposure to certain foods can sabotage even the most strong-willed person
That stress is the biggest catalyst to fall back into old habits
How she uses stress relief techniques to keep people on track with the keto diet
How food manufacturers employ scientist to create the most addictive foods and influence consumers’ diets and health
About the Dorito challenge that Carole used to use in her private practice
Why it’s important to remember “your WHY” and to keep it front and center in your mind to stay on track
Why you should make your keto lifestyle public and let it become part of your identity
How community — being around others doing the same thing — keeps you on track
About Carole’s intake process for new clients, and how she works with clients
How you can use Heads Up Health to track your own journey and metrics to take your health into your own hands
References
Stephen J.Guyenet, PhD
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss
The Hungry Brain by Stephan Guyenet
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink
Wired to Eat by Robb Wolf
The End of Overeating by David A, Kessler, MD
The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker
The Craving Mind by Judson Brewer, forward by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Heal Clinics
Virta Health
Keto Chat Episode 64: The Secrets Behind Carb Cravings Ketocon Talk
Keto Carole’s YouTube Channel
Our Partners:
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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.
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About Heads Up Health
Heads 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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May 26, 2018Episode 14 – Hacking Performance and Health with Shawn Wells: On Smart Drugs, Microdosing, Nootropics and More
In this podcast, Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, talks to Shawn Wells about hacking performance. Dubbed the “World’s Greatest Formulator” by Dr. Jacob Wilson, Shawn Wells is the CEO of Zone Halo Research, a consulting group for supplement formulations and also Chief Scientific Officer at BioTRUST, responsible for R&D and Quality Control.
Grab a pen and paper; you’ll want to take notes! This podcast is full of useful information on brain health, hacking performance, and advice on how one can be more productive. Dave and Shawn cover smart drugs, nutritional formulations, lifestyle modifications, biohacking, stacking nootropics, top supplements for brain health, and even the topic of what is microdosing when it comes to LSD, THC, MDMA and psilocybin for health.
Shawn Wells, MPH, RD, CISSN, FISSN is an author, formulator, and clinician. He has a unique blend of expertise with a Masters Degree in Nutritional Biochemistry and a minor in Exercise Science from UNC-Chapel Hill. Shawn is also a lifetime biohacker-activist (“hacktivist” as he’s coined it), long-term keto dieter, scientist, nutritional biochemist, RD and certified sports nutritionist. You can read more about Shawn on his website, or follow him on Instagram: @zonehalo
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
What is microdosing and how to use it to get in a creative space for performance or cognitive enhancement
How microdosing can reduce hyper-distractibility and increase creativity
Why mouth taping at night can improve nasal breathing
How you can meditate anywhere, even in the middle of traffic
Why you need to turn off your notifications on your phone and your email to stop the dopamine rush that perpetuates the cycle
The importance of slowing down, increasing meditation and appreciation for the little things in life
Shawn’s favorite supplement brands and supplements as well as forms and doses
Why creatine is for brain health, methylation, ATP production, and protection of cells from damage and not just building muscles in the gym
Why you need a balance of nutrients for optimal nootropic stacking (a layering of 2 or more supplements to support brain health)
CBD oil’s role in a cognitive stack
What crystallized intelligence is and how it can open the door to more fluid intelligence
How mitochondrial dysfunction is at the heart of all chronic illnesses
Shawn’s opinion on the two most important labs that you should test twice a year
How berberine is just as effective as metformin in lowering blood glucose
How a brain injury (even minimal without concussion) can create insufficient cellular energy (ICE) so we have to provide it with cellular energy like exogenous ketones, the ketogenic diet, berberine and reducing neuroinflammation with CBD and other compounds
How berberine is anti-aging and improves insulin sensitivity, allowing for better body recomposition
Why it’s not good to graze on protein all day, and it’s better to have 1-2 larger protein meals
How ketones bypass mitochondrial dysfunction to provide cellular energy and help repair the brain
How fasting sharpens your senses as ketones increase, and why you’ll never be “ketone-resistant”
About resistant starches, and how different food was before we’ve hybridized it to be bigger, sweeter and more plentiful.
Why keto is not the norm now since the introduction of the foods of commerce in our food supply
Why it’s normal to be fat-adapted, able to burn both glucose or ketones easily
About narrowing focus and not trying to multi-task all the time to get more done
Myths about LSD that have been perpetuated
How we can hold emotional traumas in our physical bodies and how to utilize microdosing to release physical pains
Why you should practice daily gratitude journaling with your health data tracking for a deeper understanding of what’s affecting you and the importance of using a paper journal
References
Oura Ring
Headspace Meditation
Zone Halo
BioTRUST Supplements
Ben Greenfield podcast on Psilocybin
Sleep Strips
“Your brain on FaceBook” by David Rock
Own the Day, Own Your Life by Aubrey Marcus
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday
MAPS research on MDMA
CIIS school in San Francisco
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.
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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 Health
Heads 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 32 min
May 18, 2018Episode 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.
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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
References
The 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 Health
Heads 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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