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May 14, 2018Episode 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.
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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 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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50 min
May 07, 2018Episode 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”.
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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
References
Ginny’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 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.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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40 min
May 01, 2018Episode 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.
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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 and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
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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 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.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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54 min
April 22, 2018Episode 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.
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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 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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50 min
April 12, 2018Episode 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.
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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 Series
Check 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 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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54 min
April 05, 2018Episode 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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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 like MyFitnessPal or MyMacros+ and use your data to optimize your health!
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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 partners
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.
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 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.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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15 min
March 30, 2018Episode 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.
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 like LEVL and use your data to optimize your 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 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.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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March 08, 2018Episode 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.
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 like the Oura Ring, and use your data to optimize your health!
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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 YouTube
Check 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 partners
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.
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 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.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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1 hr 3 min
February 12, 2018Episode 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?
Listen in iTunes.
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!
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:
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!
Have episode suggestions? Email us!
Use our discount code — 10off1079 — and get 10% off on your purchase of Elixinol!
Watch on YouTube
Check 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 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.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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1 hr 19 min
January 22, 2018Episode 3 – Advocating for Keto: Cancer Survivor Derek Green’s Mission
What does one do when first diagnosed with cancer? Learn why Derek Green is advocating for keto.
After his cancer diagnosis, Derek Green, sought answers as he waited six grueling weeks to be seen by his surgeon. Like a detective, he found resource after resource until eventually discovering low-carb, keto, and fasting. When these powerful dietary tools were added to conventional treatment, he was delighted to discover he was cancer-free.
Now Derek’s on a mission to help people newly diagnosed with cancer find resources and options to learn more about metabolic therapies in cancer treatments, and why he’s advocating for keto. Because anyone could go to Google, with all the confusion out there, and land on the wrong person, Derek wants to empower people by connecting them with primary research and options into a digestible form. A self-described data junkie, Derek used his glucometer for biofeedback as he tracked his ketones, fasting glucose, and glucose ketones index (GKI). He also collected data on macros, isolated foods with anti-cancer properties that were also low-carb, and built a diet around that. With his forthcoming website, he wants to help others newly diagnosed with cancer navigate the confusion that comes with knowing what to eat.
We’re excited to chat with Derek Green, who was generous enough to share so much wisdom around everything he learned during his battle with cancer, and his plans to empower people with cancer to optimize their health.
Derek Green can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
Stay tuned for his forthcoming website!
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!
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In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why Derek is advocating for keto and using the ketogenic diet, along with fasting, as a powerful adjunct to conventional treatments during his cancer
How cancer led Derek to switch careers, finding a new passion for advocacy and awareness for metabolic therapies in cancer management
Why Derek continues to eat keto, in ketosis, and is never looking back
How simply switching to a low-carb diet eliminated Derek’s symptoms within two weeks
The book that led Derek to discover an integrative cancer clinic
Why having resources for recently diagnosed cancer patients is critical
How Dr. Jason Fung and Megan Ramos at IDM helped Derek switch from low-carb to keto
Why Dr. Ralph Moss and the Moss Reports were invaluable
How Derek built his ketogenic diet around low-carb foods with anti-cancer properties
What Derek’s routine looks like: meal-timing, fasts–intermittent and extended
Why a three-dimensional approach to cancer is important
How Derek used an integrative oncologist as part of his care team
The treatments Derek used during his cancer
His love for data and the health biomarkers tracked during and after cancer
Why Derek tracks his GKI (glucose ketones index)–“all the time”–to stay in therapeutic ketosis
How Derek’s meal building tool on his website will help cancer patients eat keto
How Heads Up Health can collaborate with Derek’s work: the potential in collecting this data at scale, giving people the ability to anonymously opt in to share for research studies
Watch on YouTube
Check out the interview on YouTube where Dave deep dives with Derek about his journey and mission with keto and cancer:
References:
Cancer Killers by Charles Majors
Clinic of Biomedicine in Toronto
Cancer Decisions (Moss Reports)
Dr. Dugald Seely, ND, M.Sc.
Intensive Dietary Management (Dr. Jason Fung and Megan Ramos)
Marsden Centre
Dietary Therapies (Miriam Kalamian)
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management and Prevention of Cancer Dr. Thomas N. Seyfried
Tripping Over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer is Overturning One of Medicine’s Most Entrenched Paradigms by Travis Christofferson, M.S.
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.
Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now!
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