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Today I'm joined by my friend and fellow biohacker, Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health. In this episode, we take you on a journey through the evolution of biohacking—from the early days when continuous glucose monitors were a novelty and cryotherapy sounded like science fiction, all the way to the sophisticated, data-driven tools we have at our fingertips today.   What we discuss:  Dave's journey: Heads Up Health and the rise of health data ... 00:08:18 Making sense of health metrics: Knowing if protocols work ... 00:10:06 GLP-1s: muscle loss risks, proper technique, and hydration ... 00:16:18 Clinical stories: HRV, autoimmune disease, and diabetes management ... 00:25:57 The foundational power of sleep, hydration, and micro-experiments ... 00:34:14 Core metrics: HRV, blood sugar, sleep, and their significance ... 00:40:46 The promise and impact of new longevity diagnostics ... 00:50:42 No-equipment longevity tests: grip, hang, balance, sit-to-stand ... 01:00:31 Aggregate your data and run micro-experiments ... 01:05:25   Our Amazing Sponsors: Bio-Shield by Young Goose - It's a broad-spectrum serum that protects against UVA/UVB, infrared, AND high-energy visible (HEV) light—aka the stuff pouring out of your laptop right now. Visit YoungGoose.com—use code NAT10 to get started, or 5NAT if you're an existing customer.  Troscriptions - Blue Cannatine - think of it as a small but mighty brain boost that melts in your mouth. A precise blend of methylene blue, caffeine, CBD, and microdosed nicotine gives me steady energy, focus, and mental clarity without the usual ups and downs. Try it for yourself at  troscriptions.com and use code NAT10 for 10% off. Get in the zone and stay there.  OraltidePro - A unique mouthwash that: Promotes growth of shrinking gums, Speeds healing of mouth & tongue, Prevents oral infections (such as gingivitis), Helps with enamel remineralization, Reduces bacteria growth and etching and Fills slots in damaged enamel. check out OraltidePro at profound-health.com and use code NAT15 for 15% off your first order.   More from Nat:  YouTube Channel Join My Membership Community Sign up for My Newsletter  Instagram  Facebook Group

Welcome to Episode 175 of Autism Parenting Secrets. This week, we focus on how you can upgrade the way you manage, organize, and use your child's health data.  Our guest is Dave Korsunsky, CEO and Founder of Heads Up.Dave recognized an opportunity to build a software solution that makes it easier for anyone to take control of their health through better use of their data.It's impossible to feel good about the decisions you're making for your child if you feel unclear, lost, or confused about what's happening right now.Understanding your child's health biomarkers is important.And paying for labwork and other testing, while expensive, can be very useful.But not doing anything with the data you have is a waste of time, energy, and money. The secret this week is…Better DATA = Better DECISIONSYou'll Discover:How To Reduce The Overwhelm (4:43)The Power of the TREND LINE (8:58)Why Centralization Is Essential (13:32)How Tracking Helps Improve Sleep (18:18)Arguably THE Top Biomarker To Measure (25:08)How To Leverage Wearables Safely (29:37)The Habit That's Disasterous For Sleep (31:17)How You Can Make PDFs Come To Life (33:17)About Our GuestCEO and Founder of Heads Up. Dave has fifteen years of experience working for industry-leading technology firms and most recently served as Director of Technical Alliances at VMware (NYSE: VMW), Inc., where he led strategic partnerships with global EHR companies, including EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, GE, Allscripts and many more. Dave went on to lead sales engineering at CloudPhysics, a big data firm collecting and analyzing over 80B data points per day. As an avid health enthusiast, he recognized an opportunity to build a software solution that makes it easier for anyone to take control of their health through better use of their data.Heads Up HealthReferences in The Episode:For 30 Day Free Trial, go to Heads Up HealthBreathe: The Science Of A Lost Art by James NestorAdditional Resources:Take The Quiz: What's YOUR Top Autism Parenting Blindspot?To learn more about Cass & Len, visit us at www.autismparentingsecrets.comBe sure to follow Cass & Len on InstagramIf you enjoyed this episode, share it with your friends.

Unraveling Thyroid Health and Lab Testing with Dave Korsunsky | Podcast #388 Heads Up Health Sign Up: https://justinhealth.com/headsup Schedule a FREE Consult: http://www.justinhealth.com/free-consultation The Thyroid Book: Coming Soon! Products: Digital Fertility Thermometer: https://justinhealth.com/thermometer Timestamp: 00:51 - Dr. J Brief Background 05:44 - Thyroid Health by Dr. J 11:24 - The Thyroid Book Sneak Peak 20:24 - Emotional Stress Impact on Overall Health 30:07 - Temperature Testing 35:54 - Top 3 Metrics of Dr. J 39:49 - Takeaways Podcast Transcription: http://www.justinhealth.com/unraveling-thyroid-health-and-lab-testing-with-dave-korsunsky-podcast-388 Review us at: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/itunes Welcome to the Data Driven Health Podcast, where we discuss thyroid health and lab testing with Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health. In this episode, we explore the importance of thyroid function, key lab tests, and factors affecting thyroid health. Dave shares insights on personalized treatment plans and the role of data-driven decision-making in managing thyroid disorders. We also dive into the Heads Up Health platform, which integrates health data for optimized thyroid health management. Discover emerging trends and advancements in thyroid testing, as well as the future of data-driven thyroid health management. Learn tips for improving your thyroid health through collaboration with healthcare professionals and empowering yourself with data and technology. Don't miss this enlightening conversation on the intersection of health and technology for thyroid health management. Subscribe to the Data Driven Health Podcast for more episodes like this! References: Gluten Video Series: http://www.justinhealth.com/gluten-video-series Thyroid Hormone Balance Video Series: http://www.justinhealth.com/thyroid-hormone-balance Female Hormone Balance Video Series: http://www.justinhealth.com/female-hormone-balance ===================================== ***Click below to SUBSCRIBE for more Videos http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=justinhealth ===================================== Dr. J's Links: http://www.justinhealth.com/links

Dave Korsunsky is the founder and CEO of Heads Up, a digital health analytics company based in Scottsdale, AZ. As an avid health enthusiast, David created Heads Up to makes it easier for anyone to take control over their health through more effective use of their data. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Heads Up is a platform where you can analyze your own health data, make adjustments in real time and then share that data with any health expert that you want so that they can give you that next level of interpretation. 2. Companies are building the user experiences specifically for end users, and they're able to gather billions of data points to do things like predictive analysis for you. 3. Be able to give back. When you give without expecting in return, you get a dopamine hit even stronger than winning money. Visit The Ultimate Health Dashboard - Heads Up Health Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Let ZipRecruiter help you find the best people for all of your roles! Try ZipRecruiter for free at ZipRecruiter.com/fire! HubSpot: Learn how HubSpot can help your business grow better and get a special offer of 20% off on eligible plans at HubSpot.com/eof! Podopolo: The best podcast listening app in the world is here! Visit Podopolo.com, download the app for free, mention John Lee Dumas (my Podopolo username) when you sign up, and start listening now!

Dave Korsunsky is the founder and CEO of Heads Up, a digital health analytics company based in Scottsdale, AZ. As an avid health enthusiast, David created Heads Up to makes it easier for anyone to take control over their health through more effective use of their data. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Heads Up is a platform where you can analyze your own health data, make adjustments in real time and then share that data with any health expert that you want so that they can give you that next level of interpretation. 2. Companies are building the user experiences specifically for end users, and they're able to gather billions of data points to do things like predictive analysis for you. 3. Be able to give back. When you give without expecting in return, you get a dopamine hit even stronger than winning money. Visit The Ultimate Health Dashboard - Heads Up Health Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Let ZipRecruiter help you find the best people for all of your roles! Try ZipRecruiter for free at ZipRecruiter.com/fire! HubSpot: Learn how HubSpot can help your business grow better and get a special offer of 20% off on eligible plans at HubSpot.com/eof! Podopolo: The best podcast listening app in the world is here! Visit Podopolo.com, download the app for free, mention John Lee Dumas (my Podopolo username) when you sign up, and start listening now!

Drea Burbank is an M.D.-technologist and serial entrepreneur whose work is focused on applying high-tech from hard science into critical sectors. She has projects from artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, to stem-cells, and microbiome science. Her interdisciplinary skill set comes from a dedication to reducing barriers to innovation at the intersection of medicine, technology, and research, and the pursuit of enriching public health through these developments. Drea Burbank brings so much to the table in the world of medicine and tech, and it was insightful to hear what she had to share. Tune in as she talks about struggles inherent in healthcare technology, her passion for public health, spirituality, and her work with indigenous groups. HIGHLIGHTS [00:46] Drea Burbank in Background in Medicine and Technology [06:59] Her Current Projects [08:04] Challenges of Electronic Healthcare Systems [12:09] Bringing in More Tech to the Healthcare Industry in Terms of Security and Care [19:07] Lifestyle Approaches to Healthcare [22:33] Drea's Interest in Public Health, Preventative Medicine, and Spirituality [26:21] On Spirituality and Medicine [33:43] Drea's Thoughts on the Intersection of Medicine and Technology with Spirituality [38:37] More on Drea's Current Conservation Project [42:59] Takeaways from Working With Indigenous Cultures [47:05] Importance of Health Data and Sensor Technology 00:02 Dave: Hey everyone, welcome back to another season of Data-Driven Health Radio, I’m your host Dave Korsunsky. On this show we dive deep into how you can use data to measure, manage and optimize your health with the latest science and technology. This show is brought to you by Heads Up which is our web and mobile app designed for individuals and healthcare professionals who need a precise way to measure and manage health data. Check us out on headsuphealth.com. If you’ve got comments, questions or feedback on this show shoot us an email support@headsuphealth.com, we’d love to hear from you, and with that said let’s get into our next exciting episode. 00:47 Dave: Hey everyone, welcome back to Data-Driven Health Radio and I have a very special guest today Drea Burbank, she is an MD and a technologist and a million other things that I could not actually have time to finish going through in anticipation of this interview but I just went down the rabbit hole of Drea in all of the interesting projects that she has her hands on so, we are gonna get into all kinds of really, really interesting topics related to health, optimization, technology, some of Drea’s personal passion projects that she is working on that she wants to share with the world. So, Drea, we first got on your radar screen because you had written some content around the struggles that are inherent with electronic record systems and that’s actually why I started my whole company in the first place. So, we will have lots to talk about there, really just like, can I even get a trend line of the most important health metrics that matter to my existence above ground, it was a nightmare. It was like paper records and patient portals and I was trying to work on a health issue and I just needed a simple trend line of like inflammation markers and to this day that is still impossible so I would really like to dig in there and we’ll branch off from there. But Drea, if I may, I would like to take a crack at your background just from like the initial cursory research I did cause there was just some absolute gems on your website, can I and then you can correct me. 02:17 Drea: Yeah sure, I’m curious to see what your takeaway was. 02:20 Dave: Alright, so I just scribbled a few things here but Drea is an MD-technologist and she is a digital nomad with a yoga addiction, love that. She pretends to live San Francisco but we don’t actually know if she lives in San Francisco, yoga dirtbag, professional pyromaniac, uptight uber nerd and smartass. So those were the nuggets I pulled off the site. Welcome Drea to our show. 02:48 Drea: Thank you, I am so happy to be here. 02:50 Right on. Well, let’s just start with something simple like the content, the piece you put out there around inherent challenges with electronic health records, technology like I said that’s why we built our company but I’d love to hear about your background as an MD first and foremost, sounds like you probably ran into a lot of those challenges but maybe we could just start with your background in healthcare and the types of work you did or maybe still doing in the medical field and then lets go from there into all these other amazing worlds that we can open up. 03:23 Drea: Yeah, happy to talk to about it. So, I grew up off the grid in central Idaho, I did 9 years in forest fires and then I went to medical school in Canada. I was in a rural and remote training program and.. 03:35 Dave: Where in Canada? I’m from Canada. 03:37 Drea: Really? I was in Kelowna, I was the first of four medical students in the hospital in Kelowna. 03:42 Dave: It’s beautiful up there. 03:43 Drea: It was stunning. We were so lucky they had just, they had kept med students out of the hospital for a long time and a lot of the, you know, top clinicians across Canada would retire to Kelowna cause it was a kind of a beachfront property for Canada. 03:56 Dave: Yeah. 03:57 Drea: And they ran the hospital the way they had always wanted to run their hospitals so the nurses basically functioned like residents, and they had a really collaborative relationship with the physicians and they had a huge catchment area so they would pull all kinds of specialty cases but they still did overnight call from the hospital. So, I worked with mostly attending physicians and I had just had a really idyllic version of medicine. Yeah, it was like the best of specialty care with generalist care and like good working relationships, interdisciplinary, yeah and really, really talented physicians, clinically talented. So, we had a daw system in the hospital that had been introduced and I was watching these amazing physicians trying to use this daw system and I was like I could do better I started playing Plants vs. Zombies and I was like wow you could just do something like this it would be easy. Yeah, so, I think sometimes that naivete is necessary to do interesting things, you’re like oh this would be easy. So, I was like well I’m just going to do a year in Silicon Valley, I’ll design something and then I’ll, I’ll come back to medicine. 04:59 Dave: I got ya, so that was what kind of like, first of all you’re a US citizen but you went to Kelowna to do the training, is that correct? 05:06 Drea: So, I was a forest firefighter and I followed it north. I started following big stacks in British Coloumbia, all the best falling if your you know a logger or forest firefighter happens in Canada so I really wanted to learn that. I married a Canadian and I was already in Canada so when I went back to school I went to school for medicine in Canada. 05:24 Dave: And then that experience got you down to Silicon Valley to start working on technology centric problems in healthcare, is that accurate? 05:33 Drea: Yeah, I still think that if you want to get really hard tech skills you gotta go to Silicon Valley. I know that sounds exclusionary but the competition in Silicon Valley is global and so when you go there you end up working with the best people from all over the world. There are other tech hubs obviously, Toronto has a great tech hub, Vancouver does, Austin all these other placed I was just in Dubai and it’s great but if you want to get that really, really hardcore skillset I think you need to spend some time in the Valley. 06:01 Dave: Yeah, I spent the better part of 10 years out there, I was in Paolo Alto working at VMware and that’s where I got to really like build my skills, work alongside all of these amazingly brilliant people just learn how that whole industry works out there. I don’t think I really could have started a company, I probably could have, but the skills I learned there are I think just inherently part of what’s helping me stay successful is just cutting my teeth in Silicon Valley basically. 06:32 Drea: You don’t have to stay there I just, they have got a really good ecosystem like if you go to Stanford hospital a lot of the academics will leave for a couple of years, start a tech company and then go back to Stanford so they kind of like cycle through and the hospital is pretty good, they have got a like a really nice like, I worked with Nirav Shah for a little bit he is a computer science professor who works with a lot of the doctors, Nimar Agaeepour so they are just super integrated with the clinical needs and that’s where, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it anywhere else. 06:59 Dave: So, are you practicing now or are you mostly working on other types of projects? 07:04 Drea: Yeah, I left clinical medicine in 2018, we got drafted to work on all kinds of high-tech stuff during Covid. We ended up running a concierge Covid testing network for Hollywood which was so random, I was just, they called us, they couldn’t work at all during the height of the virus and they asked us to get test results back and we were like yeah we can do that it’ll be easy. So we, they were getting their test results back in 7 days from Labgen it was our TPCR we got our first results back in 6 hours and then every producer in Hollywood called us and we ended up testing like NFL players, sports broadcasters during the height of the shutdown. So, that was a lot of fun for us because it was basically using both sides of our head you know, like, the ability to scale really rapidly comes from my tech but the ability to do like serious work like a legitime RTPCR test that no body can question is, comes from medicine and we really like those kind of projects. We’re highly serious but we can still access all these different skills. 08:03 Dave: Awesome, I love it. Well, just kind of going back to like how we first got on your radar it was really looking at the inherent challenges of EHR systems. I was reading through the article and there’s implications in terms of the amount of extra load that it puts on to a providers workday. There’s the challenges of actually how can we even start pulling the data out of these systems and doing more with it, that’s why Heads Up started because we wanted to find a way to allow an individual to pull in all of their information regardless of what system it’s in and then also the data that they are using on the sensors at home, you know, all these sensors, CGM’s different devices that we can use now are actually getting incredible data, patients now actually have incredible data they have higher fidelity data than the doctor does, they have more contextualized data than the doctor does. They don’t have the clinical expertise necessarily to do a lot of the interpretation but there is incredibly promising startups out there that are bringing medical technology to individuals and building user experiences that help them understand their bodies own bio feedback. So, what we try to do at Heads Up was say how do I get all that lab data in cause that’s stuff your testing once a year, once every six months and if you’re making correct modifications in diet and lifestyle or maybe you’re already in a good place, you’re making optimizations in diet and lifestyle or maybe you’re in a red zone state health wise and you need to change certain things in your daily routine so we wanted to find a way to overlay lifestyle metrics coming from sensors and devices with more like episodic clinical data. So, that’s what we do at Heads Up. I know you and I haven’t really had a chance to talk at any level of depth but we really wanted to build like the agnostic analytics layer in healthcare which was really lacking and we needed a way to quickly plug in new technology, new data sources, new devices, new types of information and then what we wanna do is build an analytics layer and then an intelligence layer on top of it but maybe you could just summarize like what some of the top pain points are that you put in an article for everyone who is listening and then we can kinda go from there, they were pretty succinct. 10:23 Drea: Yeah, I was, it was a little profane but that is one of my tendencies from firefighting 10:27 Dave: I saw that on your website that you dropped a lot of profanities and f-bombs, we are gonna get along great. 10:33 Drea: Yeah, there is something about the stress relief aspect of it for me, but yeah, I think so the first thing I wanted to say yes somethings going wrong, like a lot of doctors are so stuck down in their trees they are not realizing their forest is getting cut down and they’re feeling the pain but they’re feeling it without any kind of like conscious awareness of like why that forest is getting cut down when the larger market forest is behind it. So, I wanted to acknowledge that something is wrong and it’s so wrong that it has to change at some kind of a critical level. Yeah. 11:03 Dave: I would agree with that, I mean just, we had an experience recently working with a large health system and it was actually to the point where it was impossible to do business with them due to a lot of these limitations and we all just chased our tails around for 18 months and then the project got shut down and went nowhere. So like, that’s I dunno, that’s what we are up against basically. 11:22 Drea: Yeah, it’s literally like it’s become a complete heart block to use a medical term. The physicians are leaving the profession in droves right now and we hear all these statistics about burn out and physicians wanting to leave and it’s being attributed to Covid but I don’t think it has anything to do with Covid. I think Covid was just like you know, the straw on the camels back, what I think it’s about is like the quality of the workday of the average physician and these are sensitive people who are high performing who are intellectual, they are hardworking and if they are burning out there is something extremely wrong, and doctors in particular because we feel such a, you know, obligation to give more and more and more and more and that’s impressed on us from such an early age in training and we get a lot of like social positive social feedback for all the things that we give so when we are burning out there’s something wrong with that. 12:08 Dave: Yeah, and you were also making some comments around how do we help the profession as a whole bring in more technology. How do we help them bring in more of the latest types of things like digital health technology that could enhance what they do and provide better patient care but I think one of the points that you were making is that there’s really even an inability to bring in innovation at this point so even if there was a desire there is no innovation reaching these types of professionals. Did I get that right? 12:38 Drea: Yeah, well what I wanted to say was that this is not happening by accident there is a layer of for profit EHR systems that profit from not providing high quality technology and blocking high quality technology from entering, and the only people who can break through that membrane is doctors themselves and to ask them to do that is a lot because they are already like overwhelmed they don’t necessarily know what to ask for and they don’t feel like there is any help on the other side of that membrane. But, in reality there is all kinds of very useful technologies that cannot penetrate right now like what you are working on. 13:16 Dave: Yeah, so if we were to kind of like wipe the slate clean and start over again for example, when we work with physicians in other countries for example, there’s one system for everybody. So, at least they’ve got all the data in one place, we’ve got the data in 30,000 places right now. So, there’s that issue of data fragmentation and then there’s obviously the inherent security challenges, like one of the challenges of trying to work with this large health system is just like the number of ransomware attacks that they’re dealing with on a daily basis and it’s like 9 months just to get their security team just to give you the thumbs up because they are under so much threat from a security point of view so like there’s that whole angle of it, and then there’s the ability to like also be innovate but also keep the Titanic moving in the right direction, you know what I mean? So like, how could we imagine a better way to do this type of thing, I don’t know that there is an answer right now but when you think about it what would the next iteration look like. 14:23 Drea: Well first I wanna go after the security thing cause the security thing is why doctors are always told you have bad health tech because there is a security risk. There is only a bad security risk because it’s terrible software, anybody at [unsure] nuclear power we have got a cohort that is nuclear power cyber security and everybody knows if you wanna hack somebody’s system you go after health tech because it’s so poorly designed. There’s just no excuse… 14:43 Dave: It’s a fundamental issue in the technology, that makes sense. 14:46 Drea: Yeah, it’s so badly built on the backend.. 14:48 Dave: and 500 different servers connected to the internet… 14:50 Drea: Yeah, that’s why they’re so busy they are playing like whack-a-mole for like a terrible system with a bunch of holes in it. So yeah, I see that a lot doctors are like oh I have terrible software because it’s so unsecure, no it’s unsecure because you have terrible software so yeah that first. Second off, so I have two solutions that I think are absolutely critical of physicians, you know I’ve been drilling down on them pretty hard because after 10 years you start to look at what’s the solution, like I just get tired of problems. So, the two solutions I think are absolutely critical is that medicine needs to create a technology specific specialty it’s become critical, I don’t like using that word but it’s become critical. Doctors do not own technology as a profession, they will continue to rely on external professions providing their technology and they’re never gonna have the context that clinical training is unique. Somebody asked me the other day what I meant by clinical, and I said I mean putting your hands on 1000 patients with undiagnosed conditions with legal skin in the game for their outcomes, that’s clinical and then once you do that, okay yeah, now you can start looking at if there’s any technology for doctors but if you don’t do that you don’t know what they are thinking and more importantly you don’t have the same risks like doctors have so much professional, legal and financial risk for any mistakes that happen in medicine that if you can’t have empathy for that you’re never gonna understand their aversion to experimenting so that’s the first thing. Second thing is I think doctors have a really good legal case for opening, for cracking the software interfaces open and I think if they were able to crack the interfaces open they could bring better technology in by default. Technology companies would flood in the door and then if they had an app like interface they could select the ones they liked and that would just solve so many problems all at once, cause I know probably like 20 different apps that are usable, solve clinical problems and do a great job, they are HIPAA secure, they are way more secure than most hospital systems but doctors can’t buy them or use them or get to them in their regular workday because they don’t run on top of these interfaces. 16:51 Dave: That’s the challenge we just ran into was we had medical professionals in the system that wanted to use our technology to solve a very specific problem and they introduced us to a group that could help us get shepherded in to the front door, you know, so we had a sponsor that was a very clear use case, it was a program that was going to integrate the oura ring into a sleep optimization type of a program a pretty simple thing and we went down the path of trying to make this available to this group which was super exciting for us and it was the most dysfunctional red tape failed project I have ever been a part of, we couldn’t even get it, it was impossible we failed after like 18 months of spinning our wheels. So like you said, even if there was an interface where they were like hey I love this I want to apply this it meets all the security requirements, it’s HIPAA, it’s validated it was not possible. 17:49 Drea: These are legal problems for two reasons and this is coming from, I did a year in tobacco control and I worked with Stan Glantz. Stan Glantz got the unmarked boxes of tobacco documents back in like the 80’s, somebody sent him like 20 boxes of unmarked documents and then he went to court and like you know he’s a pretty hard headed guy he took it across California, he legislated tobacco and his back take away I remember one day he was standing there and he was waiving his hands in front of me, I talked to him for like an hour, and he was like if it’s for profit it’s a legal problem. So the people that made it impossible for your doctors to get your technology and for your technology to get in benefitted financially and when that happens, when they have a financial incentive to block new software from coming in to block the data on the backend from going out the only solution is legal and I think in this case, the people with the best and sharpest legal case are clinicians themselves because they can just tag the extra 6 hours they work a day and for doctors that’s a huge financial pace. They can tag those 6 hours to a class action and they don’t even have to be at mass for it they have to be individually recognized but for a class action, you have to get enough doctors saying yeah I worked an extra 6 hours a day and here’s my salary and then a legal firm will litigate it on their behalf. 19:07 Dave: Yeah, well when we started building out product and taking it to market we obviously were aware of the challenges of going into the conventional systems. We were well aware of the boneyard of startups that died on the vine trying to sell a great solution into a system and just ran out of cash even just like waiting to get a pilot agreement approved. It was extremely challenging and so what we did was we entered the market through what I would call more lifestyle medicine and we entered the market for us through the cash based side of healthcare and the types of practitioners that don’t take insurance, they used to work in the system and they have left and they are now in private practice and they are doing holistic or integrated or functional care, same types of things but they are now compensated in a way that allows them to spend 60/90 minutes with you going over a specific type of a situation. You’re paying them cash, you’re paying them out of pocket generally but those were the professionals who said okay I would pay this product and I’ll use it because it is giving me insights into what’s happening to my patients outside the office so now I can get a really, really precise view into lifestyle factors that are driving a health outcome like why does this persons blood sugar hit 180 every night at 9pm and then they have a crap sleep right, so like we started selling it to that market because they understood the value of the data, they could make really quick decisions, they could evaluate a product, sign with us and have this up and running in a week versus like what we went through at some of the larger systems. So, the way we though about it was well let’s go into this, I don’t even know what the right word for it is, I will just call it like integrative market for now, they were already doing a lot of lifestyle medicine they wanted to know what was happening to you during the day, they wanted to know what you were eating, they wanted to know certain information about maybe certain genetic snips, they wanted to run more advanced diagnostic testing in some cases that would be really hard to get a regular doctor to run something exploratory. Like, can you test these 10 things I don’t even know if there’s going to be anything there but I wanna keep going, I wanna dig deeper. So, we just kind of like found our tribe bringing our product in through that market and the reason I bring that up is because it looks like a lot of your professional interests are also in this world of integrative approaches to healthcare even just things like yoga it sounds like you are yogi. I also, I teach yoga, I teach kundalini yoga, Ashely who you connected with on my team. Ryan who you connected with on my team is a yoga teacher so like bringing that part in I wanna talk about your work in rainforests as well but you also dropped a little few clues on your book which I just ordered around shamanism so like there’s the plant medicine side of the house and that gets into mental health stuff which is like super important and I’m super excited to see things like ketamine and sustivan starting to come to life in clinical significant ways. So, it just seems that you also think that way and maybe you could just share on like some of your thoughts on the lifestyle approaches to health that are most interesting for you. 22:34 Drea: Yeah, so wow, okay, Canada is a great system and there is a lot of public health focus so I got a ton of public health training during my training and I was like dramatically interested in plastic surgery and micro surgery which is like the far end of down stream like and then I was really also simultaneously interested in preventative medicine and public health, and I ended up going the public health route. It was a tough choice, I loved both of them but my brain’s a little bit more lateral so I was like you know public health is going to be better for me. So I went into preventative medicine and then I started chasing that rabbit hole and I chased it around the world, you know, I looked at ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, indigenous medicine and the more I looked at it the more I saw like subtle effects of preventative medicine. It’s so holistic it’s hard to measure in the data, so I got really interested in that aspect and yes there is a tribe for that. I am a certified bikram yoga teacher so I did a project a few months ago, about 6 months ago, where I did twice daily 90 minute classes of bikram for 6 months and at the end of it… 23:33 Dave: You did it personally? 23:35 Drea: Yeah, it was fun and I did it in Thailand with […] and yeah […] a character and I’m a character we had a lot of fun. 23:43 Dave: I wish I had the time to do two bikram classes a day. I’m lucky if I get in one a week these days. 23:49 Drea: It was post Covid I was like totally burnt out and I was like, cause we did that testing network and then when the vaccine came out I was like that’s it I’m never working again so I went off for 6 months and then of course it didn’t take and I went back to work again afterwards but at the end of it I wrote this book and yes, it is out there, it’s of the other side of my brain the one I don’t talk about very often in a professional setting. But, yeah I have a strong, personally I have a strong spiritual experience that I would probably compare mostly to Shamanism or Zen Juadism I guess the type of Buddhist Christian Marie and Jed McKenna are like my favorites.  I think in the western world we tend to differentiate between spirituality and medicine, they are completely independent things and we don’t talk about spirituality or we delegate it to other people but that split doesn’t occur in all cultures so I just spent the last month in the Peruvian Amazon working with indigenous Shaman and they were explaining that as a Shaman they were like well first off, I’m a community leader so the role of a Shaman is to be a community leader and also I mentioned this split between spirituality and medicine in the west and they were just kind of aghast they were like how could you separate the two? That doesn’t even make sense and I was like yeah it’s really interesting that for them that was kind of like outside of the bounds of acceptability. Whereas for us it’s just like a given in medicine and I wonder how much of our frustration with the system is also a frustration with the concept of what is health, because we are so busy treating disease and it’s a bell curve obviously you know, disease and health and so little of our training is in this concept of health, like if we want to fix somebody when they are diseased then what does it look like when they are healthy and you know we don’t know that much about it like how many doctors know about blue zones or you know the longevity science or you know how many of them study professional athletes when they study musculoskeletal injuries. You know we just always assume that we have understood everything about the human body cause we have studied pathology but no we just really studied one end of the bell curve and I think that without a concept personally and professionally of what health is we can’t truly treat disease and that’s what a lot of these guys bring it is this idea of holistic mental health and we don’t have that in our society right now. 25:58 Dave: Well that is incredibly fascinating insight to like have deeper in which is like we have this bifurcation of spirituality and medicine. Arguably a bifurcation of lifestyle and medicine and I think that’s like another major gap especially when it comes to things like food for example and stress. So, how could we start to bring that type of care more into the mainstream? I also think that our mental health, the amount of mental health disease in our country is maybe in a lot of developed countries is probably moving in the wrong direction as fast as what you would consider typical chronic illness like obesity and heart disease and stuff like that, this is just a completely subjective assessment but like the mental health, the number of people that could be diagnosed with mental health issues might even be climbing as fast as some of those like rampant Neolithic diseases and so like the spirituality and medicine idea is incredible and it’s so far outside of the purview of where we are now here I don’t know how we could close the gap on that. I can only say that I am encouraged by the FDA starting to fast track research into certain psychedelic medicines and other compounds and I think that is a good start especially if that could be standard of care where you can get that type of treatment in a medically supervised environment with proper people who can help you integrate an experience and have that. I think that could be a huge step forward for us and it’s already happening with ketamine clinics, it’s not meant to be preventative at this point, it’s meant to be acute where typically you’re going in there with like extreme cases of treatment resistant depression or something like that. But the point is that you can go to a medical clinic and ask for that type of experience from a mental health point of view so what are your thoughts on bringing more of that into the mainstream and having that as a treatment option for people who may not be like at the extreme edge of mental health but they could just be dealing with everyday depression so there’s that aspect of spirituality. There’s also the aspect of spirituality that has nothing to do with plant medicines, it’s yoga and meditation and learning how to be fully present and aware with our own mind and our own body and that we’re part of a larger connected whole. So, when you think about spirituality and medicine, what comes up in terms of how we can change the status quo or what would you like to see happen in that domain? 28:43 Drea: Well, I like to call the attention to the work of doctors who are more embedded in the medical system cause I feel like I have the freedom to be you know to be openly spiritual cause I’m kind of outside of the medical system and I live in a much more like unrestricted environment so I like to call attention to the work of Eben Alexander who is a Harvard neurosurgeon who wrote a book about his near death experience and it’s brilliant, it’s compassionate, it’s kind and he has done a lot of work with death and dying. Another one of my favorite physicians is Gabor Maté, he is a Canadian physician and he wrote a book called “When the body says no”, I mean like everything he has written is genius and it’s very much integrable into western practice today as it stands. He has done his work, he has done his research and he can speak in kind of a code switching language. I wouldn’t call it spirituality but it’s kind of like applied spirituality within a western context. He has a new book coming out that’s “the myth of normal” and I strongly recommend it, I think it’s going to be genius and it’s kind of about this concept of health. And the last person I want to call attention to is Emily Silverman does a show called the nocturnist, it’s a podcast out of San Francisco and it’s storytelling for doctors and it’s kind of like it’s almost demonic in a sense of like catharsis that happens both in the show and then the storytelling and it’s very much a western, it’s a way to attach meaning to western experience that it kind of a religious. So, those are three doctors that are just you know straight up like super reputable but integrated in the system for a long time and they bring that aspect of meaning back to healthcare in a way that’s, I think, acceptable within current restrictions. I wanna talk about psychedelics, we have a cohort that does legalization of psychedelics and we were working on a legalization project in Colorado that’s also partnered with John’s Hopkins for psilocybin and we have practitioners that use ketamine and psilocybin in Canada, in L.A. and these are chiropractors, clinical psychologists and we have death doulas so it’s a group of people who basically is looking at how to integrate this deeper meaning in more functional ways. I always say as a yogi, as a yogi who has been in indigenous settings with indigenous people using psychedelics I will say that I think psychedelics are a tuning fork for the mind, they can give you a tone like something that you can hit but you can access those states with other ways that don’t involve external substances, so yoga, meditation, all these things kind of teach you how to tune your mind to a different channel and the end goal of I think of either using traditional psychedelics if that’s in your path or using yoga or meditation is to have more control over your consciousness states and what frequency your tuned into. And you can follow clinical psychology for that too, you know, there’s all kinds of great work coming our of functional MRI and neuroscience that teaches you how to do the same thing with neuro feedback and stuff so I don’t think the path matters so much as the conscious control over where your mind is at. This concept of metacognition and doctors are really good this, either they are always thinking about thinking and many of them do it in very like, I see surgeons all the time you know I remember seeing these surgeons, they would sit down they would have a call or something with a family member before a case and they would be emotionally stressed out but when they got into the case this just kind of calm would settle, you know really experienced surgeons, and they would go into like an output state and it was just that moment the patient, you know and they wouldn’t think about the outcomes they would just think about the process and like that is, I see doctors doing this all the time, you know, they go from one room with an angry, stressed out emotionally uncontrolled patient to another room you know with a happy family and a child and they dump it in between so how do they do that? We have this capacity we can do this. 32:23 Dave: Yeah, I like the way you framed it which is there’s lots of way to get there in terms of developing more of an inner awareness, there are plant medicine, there’s yoga. For me, the kundalini yoga that I have been doing for the last 18 months, 24 months, has been incredible that I think has helped, I’ve been doing meditation for a long time but more of the deliberate breath work and the types of practices that are much more emphasizing around the auric field and the connection with infinite. So, I’ve had really strong experiences through yoga and mediation and also through plant medicine and then you also brought up technology that’s coming on the market. Where it’s bringing more tools downstream to more people like neuro feedback types of tools and this device I just tested Brain Tab where you can put on a binaural beat guided meditation and have a simulated light experience in front of your eyes, like anybody can do that and so, it’s happening it’s just not part of the traditional system that’s out there, it;s kind of in this other side of healthcare that you put more into like wellness and digital health and other kinds of things like that, and it’s there, it’s not part of conventional medicine so is it ever possible that those worlds come together where they co-exist or are they separate completely? 33:50 Drea: So, I think I would be remiss if I wasn’t clear about this because my book is very clear about it I’m just not usually clear about it in my professional context. So, I had a full kundalini awakening that was involuntary at the end of medical school and that’s not a common thing. I think in the medical literature it’s characterized as a physio-kundalini syndrome is kind of how they describe it and yoga, it’s kind of an accepted norm. In India it’s been researched for thousands of years but when I first experienced it, it was completely outside of the bounds of my clinical or western training and I had no preparation for it. I did find people that understood it and helped me with it and I wrote my book primarily to help with people like me who have a western life and they have a scientific life and they want to find a way in integrate these two journeys in a way that they can later function, and I think in my book I compared it to the particle wave experience, you know and physicists just kind of intuitively get this so like yeah it’s a particle and it’s a wave it’s cool it’s the same thing, and it’s not, you’re like you know maybe it’s gonna split on this but it doesn’t really and so you can have this intensely spiritual journey I think and still function within the parameters of science because to me, as somebody who’s like the biggest Richard Feynman fan in the world and I just love empiricism and data, if I can get my hands on it you know like I love facts and so , somebody who loves facts I’m okay to have my facts contained within a much bigger world that I don’t understand and maybe never will, maybe my memory can never encompass it so I don’t consider my work in science or technology to be exclusionary to my spiritual world, it’s just my spiritual world is much bigger and I’m very comfortable with the border of what can know at any given time. 35:33 Dave: Well everything that we do here is about what can we actually quantify health so everything I do in my professional life is how can I objectively measure, how can I get as much data as possible on my health because it has changed the way I manage my own health in ways that I can’t even articulate. In fact, the data has changed how I manage my own health so profoundly that I have gone on and started this company to try to make this available to other people. Simple preventative things that you can do on your own and get objective data immediately to know if it’s working or not every single day, it can calibrate your health and your life in real time. So, like I’m similar, I want all the data that I can possibly get and then the other side of me is this other realm that is much more vast and unknown and they co-exist beautifully. I haven’t really found ways to bring them together in a commercially viable sense yet but I live in both of those worlds quite successfully as well and I;m trying to think of ways, maybe they never will come together in any formal way, maybe they are just completely separate parts of consciousness and life that don’t have any overlap. But I’m starting to put together pieces like I’m gonna be offering a retreat in May of next year and it will be all about health quantification and all about kundalini yoga. So I don’t know what’s gonna come out of that but it will be like sensors and kundalini in the same thing. 37:05 Drea: No, you know what came out of my 6 month bikram process where I was just deep in the reams of kind of like just letting everything go which is a very like unknown space, and I was like what am I gonna do next, I don’t even know. What came out of that was this really amazing project where we’re just doing reforestation so we’ve got an app, we do fair trade carbon offsets, we work with indigenous farmers who are the most practical people on the planet by the way, if they didn’t have a really rock solid sense of reality they wouldn’t survive in their environment, and we are paying them for carbon offsets directly and it was funny because I thought, you know, I’m just maybe gonna be a yoga teacher for the rest of my life maybe I’m just gonna wander off to the edge of spirituality and never come back. And so what happened was I came back in very concrete actionable and more precisely intellectual ways. I feel like the fuzz kind of went out of my head and I was able to appreciate more what is, and I think that this exploration of the unknown kind of, if you follow it far enough will bring you back to tangibles like what is now. It’s made me a better scientist. 38:10 Dave: Totally agree, same for me and it’s made me better at everything I do in my professional life which is highly technical and analytical and building this crazy cloud platform and the spirituality makes me a hundred times better at what I do. I think clearer, I’m more emphatic, it clarifies my sense of why so they just seem to reinforce each other quite nicely. 38:33 Drea: Yeah, I think Victor Frankl said if you have a why you can do any how. 38:36 Dave: Well, I wanna hear more about this project, I know you wanted to share more on it so can you tell us more about that work that you are doing in the Amazon? 38:44 Drea: Yeah, it’s crazy, so much fun. It’s indigenous led so I traveled to Colombia during kind of this period of my life and the indigenous group I was working with said hey you know we really wanna conserve, we have our own organization, we have been fighting off the loggers for 10 years, can you bring us some resources to do this with but we want no strings attached. I love that concept of no strings attached cause I see so many indigenous groups around the world, I work with indigenous groups in Canada and the US and Latin America and this concept of no strings attached is so important to indigenous health so I thought okay how do we even do that so I started looking at trust less validation systems so like GPS, machine learning on smart phones the various cart drones to measure carbon sequestration and we looked at ways that they could prove that they were reforesting without having to do a lot of middle men and without having this people going onto their land and doing surveys who weren’t from their region and I think we came up with a pretty good simple method they can run outside of cell service on a cellphone. We also experimented we can pay them directly with micro-payments so I can conserve carbon for pennies on the dollar which is great because what’s actually killing tropical forests and consequently our atmosphere is 80% of the deforestation is happening on farms less than 5 hectares and it’s happening with about 1 billion indigenous people and small farmers who have no other method of transacting on the market. Their only income is pulling down the trees that surround them and selling it to the international hardwood suppliers but it’s not what they want to do, and I think this assumption in the western world is these guys don’t care. In fact, they care I think more deeply about their forest than anybody because they understand their forest better than anybody else and when they wanna preserve it I feel like it’s an energy that can be, you can tap into and so much of this is like I always go back to this concept of you can’t replace something with nothing. So, if you have intense pain in clinical medicine with software systems you can’t replace that with nothing, you have to replace it with something and it’s the same principle because when I look at the solution for technology and medicine I try and find doctors that are already doing it and when we look at the solution for carbon offsets we look for indigenous groups that are already doing it and we just give them more resources when they are out of something. 41:06 Dave: And so they now have a way to generate alternative income streams that do not involve cannibalizing the land. 41:15 Drea: Yeah, and it’s so cheap. I mean the amount, so for instance on one hectare of rainforest if you can grow a cow in three years and at the end of the three years the cow brings you $12, but I can pay about $12 a day for taking that same hectare and replanting it to conserve jungle, and the trick is because as a technologist and as somebody who’s adopting, you know, I can write NIH grant proposals unfortunately with my eyes closed at this point, so like it’s not that hard for me to sit down and like figure out all the fancy technology or the paperwork that’s necessary for them to get what they need, so that’s kind of what we are doing on our end it is just translating. 41:53 Dave: Are there ways that people can support that project that you would wanna put out there? 41:57 Drea: Oh yes please, if you wanna support the project I would be delighted you can, so we have, we are BCorp, we have a non-profit and a for-profit and if people want to donate they can donate. The donations always go to expanding farmer capacity like getting them a bank account, getting them literacy training, silviculture training, so like ways that they can participate in the market and then the for-profit is you can buy carbon offsets at any point in our pipeline. If you want to resell them when they are you know fully certified or if you wanna wait and buy a certified offset all of that’s possible. 42:28 Dave: So where would people go you know in either case? 42:31 Drea: Savimbo.com so, our project is called the savimbo project that’s actually out of Kenya and it means trust so it’s the savimbo project and savimbo.com. 42:42 Dave: Cool, well we’ll link to it for sure, Heads Up’s officially on board to support financially, I love it and everyone who is listening if you wanna go and support its S as in sierra, A – apple, V – Victor, I – Indigo, M – Mary, B – Bravo, O, savimbo project. Any other things from the indigenal health world, you’ve had such an opportunity to spend so much time in these indigenous communities and with all of your technological expertise and your medical expertise like the lens you have coming into these cultures and the way you think about how they approach health and spirituality and medicine like it’s kind of an open ended questions but like are there some big takeaways you’ve learned from working in these environments that you can share? I know it’s kind of open ended but these indigenous cultures are fascinating and we can learn so much from them and such a small percentage of people ever get to experience them so like, what are some of the biggest takeaways for you personally from working with all of these incredible people? 43:46 Drea: Well, the first thing I would say is that while I am a good translator I am not indigenous myself and so the best people to speak about indigenous health is the indigenous people themselves. I do believe that people should do their best to find ways to interact with indigenous healers and learn from them and respect their ways. Whether that’s, you know, through a book that they have written or through community involvement that’s fine. One of my takeaways from indigenous health in general has been, one thing I didn’t realize about, so I work in Colombia right now, they were smelting platinum at the same time Europeans were so they were not a technologically backwards society by any means, they never have been. When the Spaniards showed up, you know it wasn’t super healthy for the local population and a lot of that knowledge went into the jungle and while Europeans have different natural resources, what they have in the Amazon is they have the most incredible array of biodiversity on the planet and so a lot of their technology which is by no means inept is biological technology. It’s knowledge of biota, of plants, of animals, of trees. I went out last week with an indigenous farmer and he showed me 30 different trees on his land, 30 different species of trees that the fruit, he knew all the names, he knew which animals ate them, he knew all this and it wasn’t really even like unusual knowledge for him. I grew up in central Idaho and we have several species of trees but we don’t have anything like that, just the variety. So, the technical knowledge in these societies is precious and it’s not shared often and one of the reasons is that is has them in safe for indigenous communities to share their knowledge because when it’s commercialized or taken advantage of they aren’t benefitting. 45:33 Dave: I’ve read about that where there is actual companies that will go down there specifically to look for things that are in their indigenous knowledge that could be then turned into or patented or not patented but can be commercialized and nothing goes back to the community itself. 45:50 Drea: Yeah, so ethnobotany is a branch of medicine that looks at how to commercialize plant knowledge in a way that benefits the initial community and if anybody wants to get a hold of me I will send you like some amazing like tree dust is like how to conduct this kind of collaboration. But it comes down to land rights primarily so if indigenous communities have land rights, if they have existing organizations like financial structures … and then finding ways to enable collective ownership of benefits. So, I grew up in central Idaho and tamoxifen originally came from yew trees in central Idaho and I remember living in central Idaho when they were cutting down all the yew trees and skinning the bark to sell for tamoxifen, eventually they synthesized it and it still remains one of our best cancer drugs and so I don’t know if the end result was bad but I think that the solution could have been much more integrative and that’s what I’m interested in because I think our biggest breakthroughs in science, in western science and western medical science are not going to be out of a lab with synthesized compounds. I think it’s going to be finding ways to access the biota that we already have so for us to do that we have to preserve what we’ve got and then respect the people that have this knowledge. 47:04 Dave: I love it. Well, we are coming up on the top of the hour here Drea, we have covered a lot of ground from like the limitations of EHR systems to all kinds of topics around yoga and spirituality and medicine and what we can learn from indigenous health. I think these are all incredible topics and even just starting to think this way can help to change peoples health when they start to think more holistically and think more about connecting with different parts of different cultures, different lifestyles, different mindsets around what health even means, the definition of that, we have our understanding but we’ve kind of touched on a lot of different exciting areas. In closing I wanna say a couple of things. 1, I would like to take your bikram class so when your teaching somewhere please let me know. That’s actually how I first started practicing yoga, it’s still my jam I might go today here in a few hours, we’ll see. So, that’s option number 1, if you ever wanna take a kundalini class with me I can send you information where I teach so that could be some fun follow up items and we’ll see what comes out of there. We touched on your work on the savimbo project and then just any other things you want to put our there on the airwaves for our people listening. It’s a bunch of health data nerds but we are all like minded so anything that we didn’t cover that you wanna put out there as we close out here. 48:26 Drea: Well, I just wanna give you some credit for what you’re doing because I am a massive advocate for primary data. So much of our health tech is looking at EHR records and I think that most of that data is fictionalized, it’s not really valuable when you look at scientific research and there is so much better primary data out there so I strongly agree with the use of wearables with the use of lifestyle sensors that can be integrated into clinical practice and then the more pristine the data like video footage or just the data streams just need to be better. If we applied all of the infrastructure that we are using on electronic health records towards primary data which is so available now, I think we would see really amazing things coming out for medicine. 49:08 Dave: Well I appreciate that you know 1 of my favorite examples are just these bloody continuous glucose monitors it’s like the data is incredible, it comes in every 5 minutes, I can immediately notice that someone is starting to go outside of range and do a preventative intervention in seconds that can be life changing and even just people who are trying to lose some weight the data is incredible and you can get it in real time and its amazing so thank you for acknowledging that. We’re incredibly excited about sensor technology because the data is getting better and better, the sensors are getting cheaper and cheaper, they are able to passively measure more and more things which means there is not even the friction point of asking people to take a measurement anymore it’s just happening and so, there is like incredible opportunities for us to do more with that. That’s why we try to get our hands on every sensor, plug it in and then find ways put practitioners on the other end, or technology that can start identifying anomalies automatically that’s an even bigger upside, or starting to look for signals in that data, they could be complex signals from multiple devices but that’s our jam so thank you for acknowledging that, appreciate that. I’d love to show it to you sometime. 50:18 Drea: I will definitely check it out. I wanna put a plug in for one of my friends, he makes a sensor that you can wear like a wristband that can distinguish between anxiety and happiness and I’ve just been really happy, I mean you see these kind of advances you think oh my god what can I do with that, like I can do so many things. 50:33 Dave: I wanna see the happiness light up all the time that’s like motivation for me. You get a little bit of bio feedback and you feel great. 50:40 Drea: Yeah, if you can measure it you can work with it and like you know when we, also when we look at a health record and we are tracking a diagnosis like a diagnostic term we don’t allow for that paradigm shift, you know the term ulcer and you know has now been replaced with the term H.pylori and the underlying data is about the same, it’s like pain in this one area. So, when we look at primary data we can adjust our paradigms, our disease paradigms. 51:05 Dave: I love it. Well thank you for taking our outreach. I know we hit you up cold on LinkedIn and I had no idea we were going to get into so many exciting and awesome topics so this was just completely unexpected and wonderful in every possible sense. 51:20 Drea: It’s serendipity for sure, thank you so much for having me. 51:23 Dave: Thanks. This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web and mobile app designed to help both individuals and health practitioners centrally track the vital health data that matters. Instantly synchronize your (or your clients') medical records, connect favorite health devices and apps, and use the data to optimize your health (and that of your clients). Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. (Opens in new tab) Get My Free Trial! Sign Up For A Free Heads Up Starter Account. The post Episode 63 – Drea Burbank MD: Why EHR systems suck, Kundalini yoga, sustainable growth and other musings appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

About the Episode Latt Mansor shares his knowledge about exogenous ketones and their applications for peak performance, health, medical therapies, and more. In the show, Latt breaks down the differences between exogenous ketones and the evolution from ketone salts to ketone esters and now ketone IQ’s R-1,3-butanediol. Latt and Heads Up founder Dave Korsunsky share their direct experience of using exogenous ketones and the benefits they experience. While also discussing their experiences fasting and getting into a ketogenic state with endogenous ketones. You’ll learn all the the benefits and new opportunities ketogenesis has for us and the many ways to apply it in your life. Learn more from Latt and his expertise in the wonderful world of Advanced Ketogenics. Health & Performance Hack:Using Sodium Bicarbonate With Exogenous Ketones Plus Carb Loading Before A Big Performance Event, Has Been Shown To Maximize Performance Capacities While Balancing Fatigue Inducing Blood Acidity Levels. 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His PhD is in physiology, anatomy and genetics from Oxford, also a master’s in biotech from Columbia. So he’s a smart cookie. He knows a lot about metabolic therapy and a lot about how we can use exogenous ketones and other products along the journey. And we’re gonna dive into how to put these products into use in, in day to day application, both for individuals, and then also for practitioners who are working with clients or patients, depending on the type of practice you’re in how to introduce these into the program and into the protocol. And then in the spirit of data driven health radio, we’re gonna talk about how do you, how do you measure the effects of these products both acutely and then over time and how can individuals and practitioners start to see the benefits of these products in some of the diagnostic lab data, maybe the data coming back from different devices. So welcome to the show, Mr. Latt, Latt Mansor Thank you very much, Dave, Great to be here. Dave Korsunsky: Yeah. Thank you. You, you guys have been on our radar screen for a long time. You guys were the OGs in, in exogenous ketones. So you guys have been doing this for a while. Tell us just a little bit of, of the history about the company and, and how you guys really, in my opinion were first to market with this. And, and, and how did that all come about? Latt Mansor I think it started all the way in like 2016 where our co-founders Jeff and Michael decided to look into the science around bio hacking, cuz they were already quite big around nootropics and intermittent fasting, metabolic health. So exogenous Ketone was just the next step where, you know, how do we hack the system so that we can get all the benefits of fasting and calorie restriction or ketogenic diet without going through that sort of grueling, you know, diet or grueling, like, you know, fasting period and still get the ketones. And that was when they started doing the research and then they spoke to the University of Oxford, professor Kirin Clark got their license to market. The first keto ester in the world in 2017, I believe I didn’t join the company, unfortunately until 2019 where they already got a phase two STTR, which is a contract with the government military contract, cuz they did a phase one before showing a Exogenous ketones managed to mitigate the decline of cognitive function in hypoxia. Latt Mansor So then the government was like, well, you’ve, you’ve done the proof of concept. You, you’ve proven that it works. So let’s expand this research into a bigger population with more data points, again, data driven, right? This is very relevant. How do we convince everyone that this actually works, especially for military personnel who are operating in high altitude where they’re always exposed to low oxygen environments, which is hypoxia. So I came in, joined the company in 2019, became their research lead and also became their principal investigator for this particular project. So yeah, there you go. A little bit of a ketone history with HVMN Dave Korsunsky: Yeah, I, I recall from the early days that, while the original studies on exogenous ketones were in hypoxia environments, it did come out of military applications where they did see a big benefit in a very specific use case. And, I’ve personally been involved in the world of ketogenic therapy for a really, really long time. And I remember some of the first products and, and they’re still on the market are actually the salts and that was kind of the, those came out first. But for those who are listening and, and who have never used these products before, could you just maybe distinguish between the two in terms of the difference and, and just give us like a really basic newbie overview on exogenous ketone. And, then I’ll go into some more specific questions around how can we strategically apply these products? Latt Mansor: Of course. So let’s start with the definition of Ketone bodies. So Ketone bodies are essentially substrates that our body makes from fat when we are running low on sugar carbs and glycogen stores. So that is achieved via ENT fast orogenic diet. So the three main keto bodies that our body make are beta-Hydroxybutyric, aco-acetate, and acetone. The first one, beta hydroxybutyrate is the main keto body that is used for metabolism and energy. Having said that, exogenous keto is one form or another that increases the beta hydroxybutyrate levels in the body. Keto salt are essentially beta hydroxybutyrate bound with a salt, whether it’s sodium potassium, magnesium. So you have BHB bound to a salt because BHB is an acid. So it can be bound to a salt chemically, and you’re consuming the BHB directly. And then your body processes it and increases your blood BHB ketone esters on the other hand are BHB bound to a butanediol. The difference is the, the bond itself is an Esteban and that’s why it’s called ketone ester. And when you ingest ketone esters, you will then cleave the molecule into half. So you get a BHB molecule and a butanediol molecule. The BHB molecule will go directly into your bloodstream and increase your blood BHB level. While butanediol will go to your liver and gets converted into BHB as well, giving that extra boost of elevated blood BHB level. Dave Korsunsky: Nice. You get two for one. So Latt Mansor: The, exactly. So, so the difference here is that ketone salt, it can’t elevate your blood ketos level too high because you, it, while it is, it may be dose dependent, you can’t really pile up the consumption of ketone salts because it does increase the risk of GI issues with the increased salt load. Dave Korsunsky: Okay. That’s extremely helpful. So then hypothetically speaking, if, if you were to take a normal serving of the esters, the HVMN esters, for example, or maybe maybe a, a normal serving versus a large serving and, and you were testing your, your blood ketones with a meter, for example. When might you start to see the numbers go up, you know, in my own, just kind of like anecdotal testing it’s somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes, I’ll start seeing the curve come up. What kind of curve could I expect? Like how high would I, obviously it’s gonna be dependent on the individual. Dave Korsunsky: Yeah. Latt Mansor There’s tons of external factors. Like was the person even in ketosis before they started, et cetera, et cetera, but just general rule of rules of thumb. What are you seeing out there in terms of like, how long does it take to kick in and, and what might I see on the meter at various stages, all else being equal? Dave Korsunsky: So, so let me clarify this first as well. So the Ketone Ester that we talked about was pretty much our version one, and we no longer sell Ketone Esters. And right now what we have is ketone IQ, which is not a Ketone Ester. So it’s made of entirely pure R1-3 butanediol. So remember what I said about Ketone Ester it’s BHB bound with butanediol. So we took half of that and made it our currently pure R13 butanediol. And that’s what ketone IQ is. Now. The reason we, we came up with that is two twofold, right? One, we want to still keep that efficacy. And we know that, you know, from the ketone ester studies, we know that BTL does increase blood BHB two. We want to improve the taste. Oh, and the three, the third point is also price point, right? Latt Mansor R-1-3 Butane allow us to really scale up production and also allow us to start with a lower price point program of, of exogenous ketones here. Dave Korsunsky: Gotcha. Latt Mansor For consumption, especially for people for therapeutic health, for metabolic health and, and therapeutic users where people might have to consume it on a daily basis. So that, you know, compared to our previous ketone esters, which was $33 per dose, which is around 25 grams, it seems too expensive to have multiple dose per day or even one dose per day. Whereas now we have a $40 per hundred grams of R13 butanediol. And that is why, you know, it became much more practical option and for consumption. So in terms of elevation of blood, blood Ketones. So the curve that we have seen Ketone Ester versus ketone IQ, Ketone Esters, you will see an elevation up to three to five millimolar within half an hour, and it will stay up for about four hours depending on your activity. Latt Mansor: And, and that’s a very high spike because of the presence of the BHB and Beto, right? So you get both the BHB and Beto and the BHB is the quick spike. And then the b is the slower releasing spike by the liver. Whereas keto and IQ, you won’t see that huge spike in the beginning. It will start elevating within half an hour. You will still see elevation within half an hour, but I, I would say around like, you know, one minimal and then it will continue going up. We have seen, we have seen peaks at about two to three hours where it’s dose dependent as well. It goes up to like 2.5 and it will stay up if you, you know, if you’re at rest and not doing exercise or activity, it stays up above 1.0, millimolar up to six hours. Dave Korsunsky: Nice. Latt Mansor: Depending on what usage you want. So in our sort of conversations with all the researchers in Metabolic health, they want something that they can easily take without having to top up often, you know, cause obviously they’re, they’re cognizant of, of the costs as well. Something that tastes better than Ketone Esters, because they are terribly bitter. And they want something that can last, you know, elevate the blood ketone levels as long as possible so that they can reap all the benefits, you know, throughout the day. And then they can take another dose before they go to bed and just keep that ketosis. Dave Korsunsky: So there’s a lot of really, really incredible information that you just dropped on us there. So let’s just unpack it a little bit. Yeah. So there are different applications than it sounds like if, if you did need for a very specific use case, you know, just a shorter, higher spike for example. Yeah. Okay. And, there may be reasons to do that. Like I used to back in the days of the salts, for example, if I had a big presentation at work, for example, or I was speaking like you and I were talking about ketocon, which is right around the corner and I was giving a presentation in front of a large group, or I was doing anything where I just needed a performance edge. I would, I would pop it 60 minutes before and pretty much without failure, this was subjective. But I, I always felt like I was delivering a really, really high performance output whenever I did that. Dave Korsunsky: Yeah. So I was just using them as a short term performance hack, but, and I’m just sharing some examples that may be helpful for the listeners. But I also coach a lot of people. For example, I work with a number of professional poker players and they’re sitting at the table for a very long time and they need to perform at an extremely high cognitive level for a very hard, long time. They probably would not want the quick spike and then the tail off they’d want a slow burn. And then I also, we also work with a lot of people who deal with things like epilepsy, for example, or they have other issues, conditions, let’s call them where they need the long term elevation, where they may need to stay in a state of elevated ketosis for a very long periods of time. So that, that would be an application for the, a better application for the IQ. Dave Korsunsky: Just knowing that you’re gonna stay in the sweet spot. If you’re staying above 1.0 for up to six hours, man. It’s incredible. Yeah. So that helps me understand. And then the price point as well, like you said, if you’re using this for a medical application and you’ve gotta be taking this thing several times per day. Yeah. It’s, it’s gotta be affordable as well. So it sounds like that’s how you guys have come at it, which is how can we then optimize this thing for continuous application consistent daily use, affordable daily use and long sustained performance boost. Is that a fair assessment? Latt Mansor: That is a fair assessment. And in fact, you know, before this, we always thought higher is better. You know, more ketone is always better, but certain papers have actually illustrated, you know, in the past year. So that higher does not necessarily mean better because one paper says between zero to two millimolar blood BHB, you get a high oxidation of ketone. You get an elevation of oxidation, which is what we expect. But Dave Korsunsky: When yeah, you wanna burn them, you wanna uptake them Latt Mansor: When you go from two to four, that oxidation rate reduces significantly. So you get a diminishing return. So you, you still get an improved oxidation rate, but not as high as, you know, zero probably makes zero to two. Yeah. And then another paper also showed for athletes. They, when they are blood, BHB is too high. They increase their cardio respiratory stress biomarkers because they saw a decrease in BHB pH because BHB, as I said earlier, it’s an acid, right? So you are decreasing the blood pH and increasing acidity here. So what they are feeling is they are increasing their heart rate. They’re increasing their breathing rate to expel the carbon dioxide in order to buffer out their acidity. So they have a higher rate of perceived exertion without an improvement in performance. So you’re just working, granted. They did not do worse compared to placebo, but they did not improve either. But you just feel like you’re doing more work. So who won that? If you just feel like you’re doing more work, you’re not actually winning the race. Dave Korsunsky: That’s not biohacking. We, we wanna, we wanna feel like we’re doing less work and get better output. Latt Mansor: Exactly, exactly. So, so that, you know, so far there is one only one paper. So I think a lot more to unpack a lot more to investigate there. What is the sweet spot? What is the goldilocks zone of blood BHB level for performance? What is the go deluxe zone for diabetes, for, you know, glucose control, what is the goldilocks zone for best, you know, sleep performance, you know, recovery. So I think there’s so many areas now. And so many researchers are, are, are increasingly, I’m building all the interesting questions around exogenous ketones and its use cases that it’s such a, a vigorous area of, of research at the moment. Dave Korsunsky: Yeah. It’s incredibly exciting that, you know, it was not long ago Latt, that, that the whole world of even just putting your body into ketosis was like this novel idea, even though we’ve had this machinery since the Dawn of time. Yeah. Basically I remember just a few short years ago. Oh, wow. If I just restrict my carbohydrates or do some fasting, my body produces these magical compounds and, and that’s how the whole craze really started. And, and you get these wonderful appetite suppression benefits. I remember the first time I actually put my body into measurable ketosis, a little bit of backstory on heads up for whoever is listening. You know, I had built, I had built the dashboard basically. And as a free product that we had put out on the market, one of my early business partners and I, and the first people that really, really started using our system started seeing these people logging in 5, 6, 7, 10 times a day. Dave Korsunsky: And we were flattered that somebody, somebody thought that we had built something useful. So we emailed these people and they said, yeah, we’re on the keto diet. And your dashboard’s the only place I can like to record my ketones, record my blood sugar sync, my carbs, and my macros, basically from my fitness pal. And so in the olden days, you know, we used to have to do it the hard way to get these, these benefits. And, and now we have companies like yours that are basically bringing these products to market that can deliver those benefits instantly. And, and, and the amount of science and research coming into this field is incredible. We just came from the metabolic health summit, which is one of the premier scientific events of the year that are really pushing the forefront of ketogenic therapy into all kinds of different medical applications. Dave Korsunsky: Some of the new ones this year I saw at the event were around spinal cord injuries and, and the use cases keep expanding every year. Yeah. We’re like, we’re finding more places where this is helpful and, and. Latt Mansor: Now the cardiovascular disease. Dave Korsunsky: Yeah. And, and the tech, your technology is getting so good, you know, that it’s making this accessible to people, even for a lot of people who wanted ketone benefits in the early days, it’s still very hard for people to make the nutritional changes required when you’re heavily dependent on a Western diet and your body has been conditioned to carbohydrates for decades. You know, it honestly took me years of on and off the carb wagon before I, my body just completely became 100% metabolic flexible where I can just absolutely control it at will. But right. I remember for the first couple years, even if I fell off the wagon and had some refined flour or some, something like that, it would take me like a week or two to get back onto a low carb diet. Dave Korsunsky: I, I don’t, I think a lot of the reasons relate to the microbiome in addition to other reasons, but now you can use the technology of products like yours available to everyone. You know, some of the, some of the ways I’ve, I’ve seen these are especially helpful are for one people who are new to a ketogenic diet. And, and they’re trying to get into ketosis for the first time, but it’s really hard because you’re addicted to carbs or sugar or whatever, refined, whatever, you know what I mean? And, and so a few applications for anyone who’s listening are first of all, just taking them in the morning to just provide a little bit of a bridge into ketosis. Okay, I’m gonna go zero carb or low carb. I’m gonna be on the struggle bus here for a couple days until my body kicks into ketosis. Dave Korsunsky: You know, these are just a beautiful way to like smooth out the journey if you will. And it’ll, it’ll, it’ll provide some immediate appetite suppression, some immediate energy boost, some immediate reduction of food craving. I remember the first time I got my body into ketosis. Yeah. And I tested it with a blood ketones. It was the first time in my life where I felt like I had absolute 100% control over my food choices. Hmm. I I’d never had that level of control over craving or food in my life. And it was so pronounced that it was incredible aha moment for me. I I’d never felt that you could put my favorite food right in front of my face. And I could just push it away, like when your brain’s on ketones. That was the level of self-regulation that I had. And, and we’re all looking for that level of self-regulation, especially with food, because in many cases, food is engineered to be hyper palatable. Dave Korsunsky: Right. That’s how food companies exist and not all food companies, but, but a lot of food is engineered to be as tasty as possible. So you got food companies, building stuff to make it as hard as possible to resist. Yeah. Right. Irresistible, that’s their job. But, but, but what defenses do we have, we need to make sure that we have the self-regulation to resist said food. So even just getting it to Ketosis for the first time, but it was hard. It’s like, I’d never restricted carbs before I like, what does 20 grams even mean? It’s like, you know, for the average Joe, that there’s a, there’s a pretty big cognitive hurdle just to even figure out keto, honestly like, okay. So how do I figure out this whole macros thing? And like, I gotta read all the labels and yeah. Make sure there’s no hidden carbs. You’re, it’s a big leap for a lot of people. So what do you think of that first use case Latt, lot where it’s just like, this is a nice baby step into the world and it’ll make it easier for you to learn this whole thing and, and have some success. Is that fair assessment of the use case? Latt Mansor: Absolutely. I mean, we have been saying that to, you know, on our website and our FAQ as well. Like it, it serves as a bridge to people who want to be in ketogenic diet, cuz a lot of questions came about when customers ask, can I take ketone IQ if I’m not on ketogenic diet? And we are like, absolutely. You know, that’s the whole point of exogenous ketones is so that you can have the benefit of ketones regardless of the diet that you’re on and based on your own use cases and based on whatever goal you’re trying to achieve. And if you are trying to go into ketogenic diet, as you said, you know, you might struggle for a bit. You might, you know, you might have to reevaluate your relationship with food, your relationship with carbs. And you know, this will provide that, that appetite suppression that, you know, food craving suppression as well as, you know, if you are intermittent fasting, for example, that also helps in giving you energy throughout the day. Latt Mansor: Now granted what I tell people is like it, it does contain calories. So if you are doing intermittent fasting for autophagy, then it does break your fast because it contains calories. But if you’re doing intermittent fasting to get into ketosis or to lose or to calorie restrict yourself, then this could prove to be quite supplementary to your fasting regime because it does provide you with clean energy. It doesn’t have any carbs. It gives you mental clarity, but on top of that, it powers through, it powers you through the day without having a full blown meal. Dave Korsunsky: So what’s the next use case that’s really interesting is assisting with fasting, you know, for a lot of people, it’s just a miserable concept. You know what I mean? In general. Yeah. I’m at the point now where I actually love it. I feel so good after 36 hours into a fast. It’s amazing. I actually feel better than when I’m eating food, but it’s taken me a while to get there. You know, just the psychological idea of fasting. It’s a little uncomfortable, I’m hungry. So it’s also a really nice compliment to intermittent fasting where you may want to go 12, 18, 24 hours and use this throughout the experience. Just kind of like grease the skids a little bit as well.  Latt Mansor: Yeah. Dave Korsunsky: So that’s kind of the second one I wanted to call out was like as a compliment to fasting, I use that I do a lot of three day water fasting and I’m not in, I’m not maniacal about being completely zero carb, like a little bit of exogenous ketones I can tolerate, they actually make the experience better. It’s like, you’re already flying really high when you’re doing extended fasting and, and you’re on ketones and this just makes it better, but a, a bridge and a as a adjunct therapy to fasting, whether it’s intermittent fasting, I’d call that a shorter term type of a thing, 1824, or you’re doing extended multiple day. I think it’s another beautiful way to integrate this type of product. Would you agree? Yeah. Latt Mansor: Yeah, I would agree. But the only caveat, like I said, it really depends on the goal of the fast as well. Sure. Yeah. Like if you’re doing Autophagy you don’t want to have any calories in because you’re forcing your body to recognize that it’s in survival mode. Hence you don’t want to put any calories in, it’s gonna go into survival mode and it’ll start cleaning itself out of autophagy, reusing recycling and, and, and eliminating whatever waste that is in your body. Dave Korsunsky: Cool. Okay. So we’ve covered it just like a bridge into ketosis. We’ve talked a little bit about intermittent fasting. I think another area that would be really interesting to talk about is how can they help with, with glucose control? So, I mean, there would be obvious benefits. This is just my layman’s interpretation of it and you can correct me, but if I’m using, if I’m using an, an exogenous ketone product, I’m, I’m naturally gonna have increased ability to self-regulate my food choices. I’m naturally gonna have a little bit of appetite suppression. And just, just by default, it’s gonna help me make better choices and lower glucose, but are there other applications where even if I am making a bad choice and I have the ketones in me, do they somehow kind of cancel out the postprandial blood sugar or something like that. Can you educate us on, on how those things fit together? Dave Korsunsky: That’s a very interesting question. And it is an area that is still very new in research, probably in the past 2, 2, 3 years, professor Jonathan Little from university of British Columbia published three papers. At least I think she probably published more now, but the initial three papers were on acute use of Ketone Esters in healthy individuals, acute use of Ketone Esters in obese individuals and then use of keto Naster for 14 days in obese individuals. And all of them looked at, you know, insulin, blood glucose and all that. And they took it, you know, after they had food. So post prendale, beautiful. And they saw consistently there is a slight drop of glucose after they consume exogenous keto. Now exogenous, keto, meaning Ketone Ester, and so far keto, I've also shown the same pattern. I don’t believe ke salt has the same effect. Latt Mansor: I don’t know if it’s because it doesn’t raise the blood BHB high enough because the hypothesis around why blood glucose is going down blunted blunted a little bit. So the hypothesis around it is that if your blood BHB is high enough, it somewhat gives the signal to the liver to temporarily seize or downregulate gluconeogenesis, which is to produce its own glucose within, within your own body. Because your body’s saying that, Hey, you know, you’ve got enough stuff straight in the body to create energy. Now, why don’t you dial down the gluconeogenesis a little bit? So that is the, the, the theory, the hypothesis so far, but we haven’t really explored into, you know, confirming that or, or validating that. But surely, you know, it certainly has a place for people who, you know, want to go back, say, say you are on ketogenic diet and, and you were invited to a birthday party, you had a piece of cake, you know, you had a high glucose. Latt Mansor: Now you wanna go back into ketosis really quickly and you wanna lower your blood glucose, take a shot of, of ketone IQ. That’s why I usually do sort of cheating, but at the same time, like it does bridge that, that keto, ketone ketosis much quicker. And on top of that, I dunno if you, you feel like for me personally, if I have been on a low carb diet for a bit, and if I introduce quite a large amount of carbs and glucose, I have that glucose crash. Like I just feel very lethargic. I just want to have an app having a shot of ketone IQ actually stops that for me. Yeah. So, you know, I think it, it, it really depends on individuals and, and, you know, on another like point to prove the effect of, of ketones in, in, in glucose control and in diabetes as well. I mean, Verta health has been doing, you know, tremendous work in using a ketogenic diet to treat diabetes. But granted we know that, you know, ketogenic diet is naturally low, very low restricted in, in carbs anyway. So you are already restricting in carbs and then, you know, to add ketogenesis and, and ketosis on top of that is just a bonus. Dave Korsunsky: Yeah. You, you brought out Verta, it’s such an incredible example where they’re, they’re bringing ketogenic therapy into the standard of care, which is really cool. Just, just tangentially. Do you know if they’re using ex exogenous ketones in their protocols? Latt Mansor: No, no, they are. They are not at the moment. Dave Korsunsky: That would be pretty sweet. That’s a nice partnership opportunity there. AB absolutely. You guys are right down the street. Latt Mansor: Yes. And I did talk to no Dr. Steve Finney and he, he gave me a challenge essentially because, and he has a point and, and, you know, we here at HVMM, we always stand for the transparency and we stand for the science and we stand for a win-win situation for both the company and for the people. So Steve posts a challenge that, you know, he said, how much ketones can my body create in a day? Right. He said about like 75 to a hundred grams. And that is free from your ketogenic diet exogenous ketones can you make it free? Right. How am I going to compete with ketogenesis with endogenous ketones? If you, you can just use it as, you know, use ketogenic diet versus a fair point, ketone IQ. It’s just a matter of cost. Yeah. And, and, and I can always argue about the adherence, right? Latt Mansor: They have been proving that, you know, there’s quite high adherence amongst the people and they’ve published these papers. So one point to argue is, okay, adherence. What if some people, you know, the exogenous ketones might give these people some form of flexibility in ketogenic diet. It will allow them to at least have a bit of carbs. And then it boils down to the end user. Do they even want that flexibility? Or do they actually want a strict regime where they stuck to their ketogenic diet? So there’s still a lot of work to be done here to really optimize the final product of ketone IQ we can always, and we always do Dave Korsunsky: So already iterating on the product just based on the way you’ve kind of forked it from the original. Latt Mansor: Absolutely. I mean, they can, it can always be cheaper. It can always taste better. It can always act better. It can always be more efficacious. It’s science, it’s technology, right? Whatever data there’s other that’s, that’s the great point here that that’s the perk of my job is to be able to have these kind of conversations with all the researchers around the world who are doing research in different areas, but all involving both endogenous and exogenous ketones and really understand where the state of the art is and where the current state of science around ketones is. And, and that is very important because then we know where to steer our product towards, you know, what is actually proving to work, what molecule is actually proving to, what do people actually want? Do they want a big spike and then a drop, or do they want something that lasts as long as possible before they top up another dose? You know, do they want something that, you know, is between X and Y range of blood BHB? Or do they want a general, like anything above 0.5? So all those questions have always been asked consistently within our company and me as a research lead also, you know, it’s my job to go out there and find all these resources to be able to answer them to both internal and, and external parties. Dave Korsunsky: So you get to keep your hands in, all the different pies out there, all the research being done. You’re just kind of looking across the landscape and looking at what are the different types of studies coming out? What are the different demands from consumers? You guys have a huge direct to consumer business, a fantastic brand out of the market. So you’re obviously hearing it from the individuals who are using it, all the biohackers, all the people using ketogenic therapy. Then you’ve got the research aspect. Where, where is that going? How do, how do these products fit in? So you get to look across the landscape and then you’re bringing that feedback back into the product team. Is that correct? Latt Mansor: That is definitely a privilege. I’m very grateful to have. Dave Korsunsky: Cool. Let’s talk about high performance applications. I, I mentioned one example earlier where you have a use case around someone who is sitting at a poker table with some of the top players in the world going, you know, head, head to head, for example, long days, that would be one application sport, high performance sport. That’s a different type of application where it may not be sustained long term, unless it’s an endurance type of an event, for example. Yeah. So what are you guys seeing out there? What’s the state of the art in, in using these products in, in high performance applications, any specific nuggets you wanna share with us? Latt Mansor: Sure. I mean, exogenous ketones have been used very ubiquitously in enduring sports, especially in triathlon, in cycling and in the Tour de France. You know, they had a whole article published on how cyclists in the Tour de France used Keyes from the history of men before. So that was really big. And, you know, are Dave Korsunsky: They are allowed in this day and age? sorry to interrupt you. Is this, is this permitted in, in, in competitive sport? Latt Mansor: Yes, it is because all our products are also third party tested for band, substance and compliance. So all of that is covered. Usually athletes, they will ask for it and we’ll send them, you know, ask them what back they have, all the certificates everything is done. And obviously, we have the FDA grass as well, which is generally recognized as safe. So we get all the paperwork covered. And as I said, you know, earlier we are all about, you know, transparency and science and making sure that people are getting what we say they’re getting. So for endurance wise, we, we have seen papers and, and studies that showed improvement when faster. So that was the big paper in 2016 and some metabolism that showed 2% improvement when the cyclists were faster. And then another group repeated that study with fed cyclists because they were like, well, you know, no, one’s gonna go into a race faster. Latt Mansor: So let’s replicate a more ecological setting here. So they saw no, no improvement in the fed group. And then they repeat that again. But this time, knowing that the increase in blood BHB decreases blood pH and, and increased acidity, they added sodium by carbon and that improved performance by 5%. So, the current understanding of the protocol is that balancing or buffering the intake of Ketone Esters with Sodo by carbonate did improve performance in endurance athletes. Now people ask, how does that apply or translate into keto IQ? What I tell people is that keto IQ does not spike in blood be that high. And in fact, it’s a much slower releasing, slow burn. Yeah, slow burn. So you possibly don’t have to buffer it because it doesn’t go to that level. And it, it, because our blood, our body obviously, you know, in homeostasis balances and buffers itself out. Latt Mansor: So it gives the body time to, to balance that, that acidity out. And hopefully, you know, that way we can already see an improvement in performance without having to, to either be fasted nor having a sodium by carbonate buffer. So currently we are running a study with the University of north Georgia to replicate the use of Ketone Ester in cognitive and physical performance. But this time using keto IQ, hopefully the data data, data collection will be complete in August. And we are looking to present at the national strength and conditioning association conference next year, hopefully with that data as well. Dave Korsunsky: Cool. So you’ve got endurance athletes, and I think that was really kind of, you know, just going back to the old Steve Finney books, the art and science of low-carb living, the art and science of low-carb performance. It was really these ultra endurance athletes who had really put keto on the map because they had gone through a full four week fat adaptation, probably a little longer than that, even before competition. So yeah, this is not a matter of where they said, Hey, I’m just gonna carb restrict for a couple days before the competition and go in, they had car restricted and been in a ketosis for up to four plus weeks where according to the books, if my knowledge is still accurate, that that’s a full adaptation of every cell in the body, you know, weeks of, of ketosis. And then yeah, they went into the endurance ultra endurance race in this prime state and, and were not dependent on any type of external fueling at all like the gels and whatever the other people were using. And, and they had extremely successful Latt Mansor: Outcome. And, and I might, I might want to add as well that these protocols that I just mentioned for endurance athletes and endurance exercise is that they have been taking exogenous ketones, but also they have been taking their standardized fueling strategies, which means about 60 grams or one gram per one gram of carbs per kilogram or body weight per hour. So that’s what they have been using. So they’re using essentially a hybrid fuel gotcha system where they have both carbs and ketones. And somehow we have also shown that that system itself does have a glycogen sparing effect. And that is also what pushes these endurance cyclists or endurance athletes a bit further. And then the same group that used sodium by carbon to buffer the acidity of Ketone Esters. They also did another study to look at, to look at overreaching symptoms and recovery. So for a three weeks study, they gave the cyclist ketones and proteins and carbs after their workout, as well as before bed. And they saw an improvement of 15% work output at the end of three, the third week. So, you know, to me, that compounding factor of, of using it for recovery is definitely very significant. Dave Korsunsky: Well, it’s interesting that you’re starting to see hybrid strategies that that’s new to me where you’re using the exogenous keto, but you’re also taking 50 to 60 grams of carbs per day. And, and what you’re saying is that those protocols can deliver equal levels of performance relative to someone who has been purely ketogenic. Am I understanding that right? Dave Korsunsky: Yeah. Yeah. So, that’s a whole, that’s a whole idea. And the benefits of Exogen keto is that you totally, you don’t need to, you get the best of both worlds diet, you get the best of both worlds. So you can’t. So there, it is not a possible physiological state where your body has both carbs and ketones to, to choose from, Dave Korsunsky: Well, not in the natural world, but there is now exactly, Latt Mansor: Exactly. So this creates that. And, and what we have seen is that that gives your body because your body will just, you know, choose whatever that it can burn and it burns more efficiently. And that has been proven to really give your body the advantage to, to go further or go faster. And that is exactly why when athletes start using ketone IQ for performance, we always tell them to use it together with carbs because, you know, one dose of, of ketone IQ is like, what 70 calories, it’s impossible for it to sustain your whole, you know, endurance race, right? You are burning your own, your own storage. And if you are already on a ketogenic diet, you barely have any glycogen in your body. So you are burning your other, your fat storage and all that. And if the process of conversion is like lipolysis and all of that does not catch up to your activity, you’re just gonna bunk out. Latt Mansor: Right? So that’s where, you know, the hybrid fuel system is, is quite helpful because it lets your body balance itself out as well as it gives your body time to decide, okay, am I burning the glycogen now, am I, am I mobilizing all the fats now while I’m burning the glycogen or, you know, am I am running the ketones and all of that. And on top of that one thing that most people, because when these studies are published, they look at performance, they look at glycogen sparing, they look at muscle metabolism. Another point is also the subjective feeling of cognition like cognitive. I love the benefits. So that is another really profound effect of Exogen ketones that I have experienced is that when you are at the verge of passing out, you are so fatigued. And the only thing that is pushing you forward is your mental strength and resilience. Latt Mansor: This puts me in that zone and, and really gives me that, that clear thinking process where I can just, just hyper focus on one thing. And that is especially useful for, for me, going weightlifting, for example, and, and strength training, because I’m not going for the marathon, I’m not going for the endurance, right? So I, I can’t measure, you know, how long can I burn the substrate for, but instead it gives me that mental focus that, okay, I’m gonna do this heavy lift, get into the, into the zone, engage whatever muscle groups that I need to engage, make sure my form is correct. You know, I’m alert to everything. I can feel everything and, and do it correctly. Dave Korsunsky: Yeah. I love that. So I also really love the idea of having this flexibility to do a hybrid strategy. It doesn’t mean that you can smack back a few donuts and a pizza, but what does mean is you might have some really nutrient dense carbohydrate sources, for example, sweet potato, as an example, or, or other like the, the highest quality carbohydrate sources so that you get the benefit. And, and those have other benefits around just hormonal health and other things where you can still really give the, the amount of carbohydrates in the body to keep hormone levels optimal, do do long, long term ketogenic diets, maybe reduce a lot of the downside of, of long term keto, if, if that’s what you wanna do. So knowing that you can layer that in, and now you have a world where you can have both fuels in the body, which was largely impossible up until this type of product came to market. Dave Korsunsky: So it’s interesting to see that these hybrid strategies are coming out. I wanna just talk a little bit more about performance applications and then just recap it here for everybody. So if, if I’m understanding things, let’s just recap. So if, if I just want to use them acutely, right. I haven’t been following a ketogenic diet at all, but I wanna use these for a, you know, big presentation at a conference or something like that. Just acute applications. I carry this in my backpack with me everywhere. So like everybody listening needs to have a couple bottles of these in the backpack at all times. And you can just use them acutely, like, yeah, I need to snap in my focus for a couple hours. I’m a little lethargic, or I have a big performance event coming up. I play competitive tennis here. I’ll take them before I play a competitive sport. Dave Korsunsky: So there’s those acute applications. You can also use them. It sounds like if you are already in a state of ketosis and, and you want to perhaps amplify the effects of that, of that state. So you’d have the body producing exogenous ketone, maybe you’re at a low level of nutritional ketosis, 0.5 millimeters millimolars or something like that. And this can give you that little push, you know, up into like maybe the 1.5 LAR range. And then if you’re, if you’re already in a very, very deep state of therapeutic ketosis, maybe you’ve been fasting for several days, or maybe you’re on a, a cancer protocol or an epilepsy protocol where you have to be in a therapeutic ketosis, which is gonna be like a glucose keto to an index, like less than three I’ve even pushed mine less than one before, which is super intense. I would imagine that. Would you recommend it in that use case as well? Or you are already so deep that you wouldn’t recommend it. What’s the best practice there? Latt Mansor: So what we have seen, interestingly enough, unlike ketone esters, ketone IQ, if you’re already in a deep state of ketosis, let’s say you are already at two, right? It doesn’t increase your, it, it’s not directly proportionate to, it’s Dave Korsunsky: Not just gonna double it.  Latt Mansor: For example, it’s not gonna double. It’s gonna, Dave Korsunsky: Your body will regulate it somehow. Latt Mansor: Exactly because it’s being gate capped by your liver. So your liver is gonna have the signal that says, you know, your blood keto is quite high now. So it will. So what we have seen is like the person with, you know, 2.3, you know, 2.4, they’ll go up to 2.5 or six. And then now what does the ketone IQ do then? You know, people also like, why do I need it? It actually prolongs that period of high, high ketosis. Cool. So, so depending on what your goals are, you know, if, if you think at two millimolar, that’s more than enough, what you need, you already have the mental focus, you already have the energy, or if you are, you know, fasting and you are low energy, but you have high ketosis, then maybe one shot will, will give you that, that boost of energy. Right. Cool. Because there are calories going in. So even though you are creating your own ketones, this one is external calories that you’re putting in that would essentially, you know, create energy and vitality. Dave Korsunsky: Yeah. I, I also think it’s important that, that we mentioned for people listening, that you can test yourself if you’ve never tested ketones before, you know, that was something that even a few short years ago, I remember the days where we had to like scour the web for test strips from Australia, cause the precision extra strips in the us here were like $5 a strip. You know, it wasn’t that long ago that that was the, the, the, the state. I remember ordering on my ketones strips on eBay from pharmacies in Australia. They were like, I could get ’em for like a dollar 20th strip or a dollar 40th strip cuz in the us for lots of reasons, we don’t need to get into, you know, the companies could charge $5 a strip. Now we’re at the point where it’s like, I don’t know, it’s like down to pennies on the dollar to test ketones. Dave Korsunsky: So if you’ve never tested, that’s actually one of the most rewarding parts about this whole thing. Yeah. And you can get really, really good keto meters on the market nowadays. And, that’ll give you some really accurate biofeedback that you’re doing things correctly and you can start to see how the product is changing your metabolic profile, your blood sugar and your ketones. So lots of easy ways and affordable ways to test lots of incredible products. Like HVMN that are out on the market. Now that just have incredible benefits across the board, you know, EE provides just out of the box benefits of ketogenic therapy for people who are new or people who really struggle even to get into ketosis. And then on the other side of it, there’s the medical applications. And then there’s also the high performance applications and, and it just keeps getting better and better. Dave Korsunsky: And what tools are accessible, these are not expensive tools. These are not cost prohibitive. These are tools available to anyone who’s really interested in being their best self every single day, unlocking the secrets of your body’s performance. It’s just something that is incredibly exciting. So Latt in closing here, are there any recommendations you would give for people who are just starting out here or, or maybe if you could share some of your, the top resources on your website for people who wanna learn more and just, if, if they’re listening, how do they, how do they get started here, cuz I’m sure we’ve peaked to curiosity, not just of our end users on the system, but if you are one of the practitioners on the heads up platform, working with clients on metabolic therapy and, and you’re working with people who, you know, may struggle with a ketogenic diet or who need extra help or who want to use these in fasting, I use them with people I work with in high performance applications. It’s just an awesome performance hack. And if you’re a high performance coach on our system, layering this into the stack, incredible. So lots of ways to infuse these into different programs and protocols out there, but what’s the best way Latt for people to get access to your product? And if you could maybe share like your top one or two resources out there that you’d recommend to people to read or watch to learn more. Yeah, that’d Latt Mansor: Be awesome. I mean our website HVMN.com. We have a lot, I mean, I personally worked on that myself. We have, you know, on the KETONE science page itself, we have all the resources and all the citations, all the studies that showed, you know, the, the benefits of exogenous ketones under the FAQ sections, we have different use cases, especially for advanced use cases. Either you are, you know, using it for athletic performance, you’re using it for recovery or you’re using up metabolic health. You know, the dosing guidance, all of them, are available either in the FAQs or in, in the help section of health center @ hvmn.com and feel free to follow me as well on Twitter and Instagram at Latt Mansor. Dave Korsunsky: That’s amazing. You’ve got me sold. I was going old school. I like the slow burn. You know what I mean? I think that’s actually gonna be a better use case for me personally. And, and the clients I work with. That’s not to say it’s for everybody, but the clients I work with, they need that long, slow, continuous, like, just keep me above 1.0 for six hours. That is money. Yeah. So please, please keep iterating on the product. I know you guys have been really at the forefront of this science for years. You guys were really first on the market with this type of stuff. There may have been some other ones, but you guys really are first to bring it to the mainstream, to the masses. So keep doing all of the amazing work that you guys are doing. Yeah. We’re, we’re very grateful that you shared your expertise with us here today and there’ll be more coming between heads up and HVMN and the near future. So stay tuned and thank you Latt. We’re very grateful. Latt Mansor: Thank you for having me. Thank you. 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About the Episode Dr. Sachin Patel of The Living Proof Institute and Perfect Practice Mentorship sits down with Dave Korsunsky to discuss how Dr. Patel implements the Oura Ring into his practice. The pair dive into their favorite metrics to monitor, how to build a successful practice, and how each of them got into functional medicine. “Getting people more parasympathetic heals and it helps restore the function of all of their organ systems. It also restores blood flow to those organ systems.” – Dr. Sachin Patel Heads Up This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web app designed to help both individuals and health practitioners centrally track the vital health data that matters. Instantly synchronize your (or your clients') medical records, connect favorite health devices and apps, and use the data to optimize your health (and that of your clients). Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! START TRACKING! Living Proof Institute The Living Proof Institute offers personal and corporate health solutions. Our goal is to improve the health and wellness of our community by improving the health of its citizens. Our mission is accomplished by patient education, dietary and lifestyle consulting, exercise prescription, and advanced functional laboratory testing. Perfect Practice Mentorship Perfect Practice is a world-class personal, professional, and practice development mentorship. Our mission is to provide simple, practical and affordable growth tools to help functional medicine practitioners and coaches deliver transformational care for their clients. Dr. Sachin Patel Sachin is a father, husband, philanthropist, functional medicine practice success coach, international speaker, and best-selling author whose philosophy is that, “The doctor of the future is the patient.”  He founded The Living Proof Institute and coaches practitioners all over the world on how to step into their power and profoundly serve their communities. And, he has taught thousands of functional medicine professionals how to start, grow, and scale their practices. Sign Up For The Future Webinar With Dr. Sachin Patel & The Heads Up Team. Show Notes (2:10) Dave talks about how practices can use wearable technology to benefit their patients. Practices can get rapid feedback, personalized programs, and more. (3:15) Dr. Patel started as a chiropractor for sports, soft tissue, and repetitive strain injuries. He ended up on the news, which resulted in more than 50 people calling his practices. All of these people had chronic health issues, as opposed to soft tissue injuries. This led Dr. Patel to functional medicine. (3:43) Dr. Patel started the Living Proof Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. The institute helps people get to the root cause using functional medicine, lifestyle, medicine, and mindset to help them heal. (3:56) He moved back to Toronto to start another clinic. Other practices started reaching out to him about how he built his own practice. This led Dr. Patel to coaching. His goal is to establish a movement to create and deploy an army of practitioners that are making the world a better place and using technology in a responsible way to enhance their clinical outcomes. (5:37) Dave reflects on how a functional doctor helped him identify the root cause of his health issues. This led him to move off of the Western diet and ignited a series of personal health changes. (7:04) Dr. Patel shares how he grew up eating a bunch of grains as a vegetarian. He started removing gluten and dairy from his diet. This included meat substitutes which were stitched together with gluten. (8:07) He would wake up tired, stiff, and achy every morning. He had major digestive issues. After altering his diet, his skin cleared up and many of his issues disappeared. He has now been gluten free for over a decade. (9:44) Dave discusses how he is also now an early morning person. (10:22) Dave shares how understanding Oura Ring metrics on himself now helps him interpret the data of his loved one's through Heads Up. (11:45) Dr. Patel met Harpreet Rai (CEO of Oura Ring) at Genius Network. This led him to invite Oura to come to Dr. Patel's in-person event, which resulted in dozens of practitioners ordering rings. (12:22) In Ontario, Dr. Patel had to figure out what claims he could make regarding his messaging. He decided to focus on vitality and health optimization. (13:13) Dr. Patel realized that boards would go after practitioners requesting testing. Dr. Patel wanted to create a program that doesn't use testing.  (14:44) Dr. Patel wants patients to become their own doctor by having data. People who were put on a lifestyle design program were getting amazing results in 3-6 weeks. They got off their meds, lost 20-60 pounds, and transformed their health before getting tests done. (15:44) By improving lifestyle and environment, there's collateral benefit to their entire family. They want to teach the figurehead in the household how to create an environment of health in the home. (16:17) In one family, a woman lost 27 pounds, the husband lost 45 pounds, and the daughter lost 27 pounds. Dr. Patel doesn't want skinnier versions of people, but healthier versions of people. (17:12) Dr. Patel focuses on heart rate variability (HRV). HRV correlates to bone health, muscle health, brain health, immune system function, digestive function, and other systems in the body. He tracks HRV through the Oura Ring. (18:01) Dr. Patel gets 50-100 Oura Ring sizing kits delivered directly to his practice at a time. He includes a sizing kit in each client's welcome package. (19:11) Dave discusses the limitations of working within the Canadian system. Dave's sister is a naturopathic doctor in Winnipeg and she can't order labs for her patients, even a simple Vitamin D test. (21:38) Dave talks about why it's a great idea for Dr. Patel to stock the sizing kits for his clients to reduce friction when ordering the Oura Ring. (23:50) Dave believes combining metrics and using that for engagement opportunities is the best approach for practices. (24:36) Dr. Patel discusses how they use a health coach. Their patients can do a daily check. They can submit a journal entry, log their weight, hydration, bowel movements, sleep scores, and any other questions they may have. (25:24) Dr. Patel's practice shares patient progress, oftentimes through Heads Up Health Reports, during follow up meetings. The practice focuses primarily on sleep and HRV. The patient shares information the ring can't tell them and Heads Up gives them information that the patient can't tell them. (26:53) Practices don't need to be perfect to get started. You learn things and make improvements along the way. (28:19) Dr. Patel enjoys gamifying within his community. He can hold sleep score contests with his clients. (28:52) Dave talks about how the Heads Up employees all have their Oura Rings connected and a Slack Channel to discuss their scores.  (29:59) Dave goes over some of the best metrics to monitor using the Oura Ring. These metrics include resting heart rate, temperature deviation, HRV, the actual readiness score, the respiration rate, and the sleep score. Temperature deviation can be a precursor to pending illness. Respiration rate can indicate impending illness and level of cardiovascular health. (32:11) You can't cheat heart rate variability. It shows how somebody is handling a stressful situation. Dr. Patel uses HRV as a measure of resilience. HRV is a good measure of parasympathetic tone; a good indicator of how well we're recovering, repairing, and regenerating. (34:50) Sleep is one of the most important things that we do. It is the most parasympathetic thing that we do. The Oura Ring shows how well protocols and recommendations are working. (36:10) Dr. Patel had a friend who couldn't sleep and Dr. Patel recommended that he turn off all artificial lighting after the sun goes down. His friend felt better, but the Oura Ring showed him the value within the data. (37:18) Dr. Patel also focuses on respiratory rate. He uses a nose strip, mouth tape, and proper positioning when he sleeps. (37:45) Dave tries to think about the central nervous system when he prioritizes his help. He turns the lights down early before bed and views it as the goal of meditation. (39:07) Changing how you consume alcohol or cannabis can help with sleep onset. Water can also be used as an excellent source of relaxation therapy. (40:28) The key to Dr. Patel's program is to pair your nervous system with the activity that you are trying to accomplish.  (41:18) Bob Rakowski shared a study that measured blood flow in extreme athletes. A sprinter, in a very fight or flight state, is sending only 5% of his blood flow to his liver and kidneys when he's in that state. At rest, they send 50% to those organs. (41:46) If you want someone to detox better, the key is to increase blood flow and nutrients to the organ system so they can function properly. By healing your parasympathetic system, that helps restore function and blood flow to their organ systems. Your digestive system works better when you're parasympathetic. Instead of changing your diet, slow down, chew your meal, enjoy it, and be grateful for it. Western culture views food as an inconvenience. Our digestive system is most effective in mid-day when the sun is in the highest position (not necessarily noon). That's when you should have your biggest meal. The most parasympathetic thing you can do right after that is take a nap and digest that meal, instead of going to exercise immediately after. (43:24) Dave noticed that he should eat his biggest meal around 3pm. (46:26) Dr. Patel noticed that food choices, meal timing, and stress affect HRV. You can't eliminate stress, but you can change how they interpret it. If somebody's HRV is not responsive, he starts to look into trauma. There may be something that is keeping them in a sympathetic state despite the fact that their physical health is improving. (48:36) There are many things that are easily modifiable in our day-to-day life; our environment, lighting before bedtime, ambient bedroom temperature, meal timing, and meal choices. (49:06) When you want to move on to the next level, you look at things that are psychospiritual including stressors in relationships with others and yourself. (49:36) Dave and Dr. Patel discuss the power of plant medicines. Dr. Patel had a patient who had a 30% permanent improvement in their HRV score after a psilocybin ceremony. (50:55) In Dave's personal experience, if his HRV numbers are in the 50s, he feels there is nothing that he can't accomplish. He also makes sure that he doesn't overtrain. (53:04) Dr. Patel looks at how long it takes him to sink into resting heart rate and calibrates his day accordingly. Sometimes our body will tell us one thing, but our mind can always tell us something else. He gives himself permission to override the data and choose how he feels about the day. (55:40) Dr. Patel gives insight into how patients respond to remote patient monitoring. When he tells people that they offer remote patient monitoring, it serves as a filtration process. People who don't like to be measured won't want to sign up. (57:03) Dave likes wearable technology and biometric data in the clinical setting because it holds both the patient and the practitioner accountable. (58:40) Remote patient monitoring validates practitioners' processes. It is evidence that their program works. There are practitioners that make big claims, but don't have evidence to back that up. There are patients who say they're doing certain things that may not be. (1:01:23) The top three metrics that Dr. Patel personally lives by are HRV, fasting insulin, and high sensitivity CRP. HRV is instant biofeedback. Insulin resistance is a major predictor of many issues in your body or longevity. Fasting insulin shows how someone's managing their metabolism, blood sugar. High sensitivity CRP is an inflammation marker. References Living Proof Institute Perfect Practice Mentorship Program Harpreet Rai Dr. Bob Rakowski Mymetabolicreset.ca Sign Up For The Future Webinar With Dr. Patel & The Heads Up Health Team The post Ep. 60 – Integrating the Oura Ring into your Functional Medicine Practice with Dr. Sachin Patel appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Dr. Sheila Dean of the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy dives into how she started IFNA, what the academy's courses teach, functional nutrition, becoming a VA vendor,  and where conventional and integrative medicine differ. She covers all this and more with Heads Up founder Dave Korsunsky. Heads Up This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web app designed to help both individuals and health practitioners centrally track the vital health data that matters. Instantly synchronize your (or your clients') medical records, connect favorite health devices and apps, and use the data to optimize your health (and that of your clients). Click on the start link below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! START TRACKING! “It’s not just about Sheila Dean in private practice, but it’s about empowering and educating as many nutrition healthcare professionals as possible to get out there and to do this.” – Dr. Sheila Dean Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy The Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA) is one of the most respected online functional nutrition training and mentoring programs in the industry. It was founded by two of the nation's premier integrative medicine nutritionists, Dr. Dean and Kathie Swift MS. Consisting of 5 tracks with 33 modules, the IFNA program teaches leading-edge, evidence-based, whole systems approaches to patient care.  This emerging medical nutrition model focuses on identifying root causes and imbalances to significantly improve health outcomes and combines the very best of modern science, clinical wisdom, and critical thinking. Click to enroll in IFNA Dr. Sheila Dean Dr. Sheila Dean, DSc, RDN, LDN, IFMCP is a registered and licensed dietitian nutritionist, board certified integrative and functional medicine certified practitioner, clinical nutritionist, and exercise physiologist. She was a Certified Diabetes Educator with the NCDBE for 15 years. She received her undergraduate training through Rutgers University, completed her internship and graduate training with University of Rhode Island and Brown University's teaching hospitals, received doctoral training in nutritional genomics and pharmacology through the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and completed her Doctorate of Science degree through Hawthorn University.  Dr. Dean has received advanced training in functional medicine and nutritional biochemistry through the Institute for Functional Medicine and is a board certified IFM practitioner. She has also worked with the Duke University Medical Center's Endocrinology and Metabolism Disorders Clinic and the Joslin Center for Diabetes as a certified diabetes educator. She's served as the consulting sports nutritionist for the Philadelphia Phillies, has consulted for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Toronto Blue Jays and was the media spokesperson and columnist for the Ironman Institute and is the author of Nutrition & Endurance: Where Do I Begin? (Meyer & Meyer Publishing). In this episode: (2:13) Dr. Dean discusses her background being a dietician for 30 years. Around 2000, she became disillusioned with the field and was exposed to functional medicine. After her research, she concluded that this was a field she was excited to join. (4:29) Dr. Dean started incorporating her functional medicine knowledge into her practice. The types of patients who went to see her began to expand. (5:26) Dr. Dean and Kathie Swift were constantly being called and texted by people asking for training. IFNA launched in 2015. (6:54) Dave reflects on Dr. Dean's journey and how she created her functional nutrition business. (8:04) Dr. Dean and Kathie felt that dieticians were pretty ignored. They wanted to create a program for dieticians. (9:30) Dr. Dean dives into her functional nutrition program and what people will learn from it. IFNA teaches people a specialized area. There are 33 modules and it takes about a year to finish. There are nine components. Track 1 covers everything from food is medicine, conventional labs, functional blood chemistry interpretation, dietary supplements, the science, and the art. Track 2 gets into all the different systems areas. Track 3 is about the application and building your own private practice. There is a track dedicated to therapeutic elimination diets. The final track, Track 5, is dedicated to case studies. (15:35) Dr. Dean says the ideal scenario for her students is for them to setup an integrative-based practice. IFNA are VA vendors, so they have a contract with the government that pays for the all the programs that their VA dieticians go through. (17:59) Dr. Dean believes that asking questions about root cause analysis is the foundation of trying to understand how to restore health and function. (19:20) Dave narrows in on the issues with the standard American diet and lack of education for children. (21:01) Dr. Dean and Kathie are focused on empowering as many functional nutrition healthcare professionals as possible. Heads Up Health's mission is to give certified professionals the remote ability to measure and analyze how patients are doing. (25:19) Conventional and integrative communities agree that autoimmunity is a condition where the immune system is hyper vigilant and maybe attacking its own tissue. The difference in the communities lies in the way the issue is handled. Once the patient is stabilizied, Dr. Dean thinks the physician should figure out or outsource the patient to somebody who will figure out the underlying issue. (29:39) Dr. Dean cautions practitioners not to replace a drug with a supplement. (31:51) If you take a personalized approach, there isn't one or two panels that you need take. But, a really good overall panel is a nutra eval. It looks at many different biomarkers related to nutritional status. (34:05) STAIN is an acronym used by IFNA. Stress, Toxins, Adverse food reaction, Infection, and Nutritional deficiency. Dr. Dean gives examples for each type.  (37:52) Dave shares how he discovered an infection in his microbiome that showed up in a test once he started working with a functional doctor. (40:06) Medications can cause nutritional deficiencies. Magnesium and CoQ10 can typically be depleted by medications. (43:48) Dr. Dean says it is key for functional nutrition practitioners to track data and stay organized. References IFNA Dr. Sheila Dean: LinkedIn | IFNA  Kathie Swift Stay Up To Date With The Latest News In Digital Health Subscribe Below To Receive Future Podcast Releases. The post Ep. 59 – Integrative and Functional Nutrition with Dr. Sheila Dean from the IFNA appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Are you a practitioner looking for an easier way to conduct functional medicine lab testing?  Tara Viswanathan, Co-Founder and CEO of Rupa Health, discusses with Heads Up's Dave Korsunsky how her company simplifies this process for medical professionals. Dave and Tara also talk about why they believe root cause medicine will eventually become the standard of care, how Rupa Health and Heads Up are educating practitioners, and the origins of Rupa Health. Rupa Health is a company that focuses on making the lab testing process easier for practitioners, so they have more time to focus on patient care. Tara Viswanathan graduated with a Master's Degree in Management Science and Engineering. She achieved her Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Operations Management at Pennsylvania University. Tara previously did product consulting for consumer health startups. Functional Medicine Functional medicine focuses on the biological systems in the body. A single diagnosis can have multiple causes. Ultimately, the purpose of functional medicine is to identify and treat the root cause of the disease.  Heads Up This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web app designed to help both individuals and health practitioners centrally track the vital health data that matters. Instantly synchronize your (or your clients') medical records, connect favorite health devices and apps, and use the data to optimize your health (and that of your clients). Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! START TRACKING! “I've had complete conviction in the fact that root cause medicine is going to become the standard of care.” – Tara Viswanathan Follow Tara: Twitter @TaraViswanathan LinkedIn Tara Viswanathan In this podcast you'll learn: (2:25) How Dave and Tara became interested in health through their careers in technology.  (3:57) How Rupa Health makes functional lab testing easier. The company has over 2,000 different tests that healthcare practitioners can order within minutes. Rupa Health manages the entire patient experience including support with phlebotomy, specialized instructions, and 24-hour customer support. (5:40) Rupa Health supports everybody from solo, independent acupuncturists to small private practices to large hospital systems. Tara breaks down how a practitioner can enroll and ease the burden of ordering patient tests. (7:33) Patients have access to 3-month payment plans through Rupa. (9:13) The benefits of stool testing. Dave jokes about his experience presenting the Bristol Stool Chart at a conference. (10:12) The information you can learn from checking your urine and stool. (11:04) Rupa Health began in January 2020. Within months the company spread to clinics in 47 states. The company is continuously releasing new features. (12:34) Tara believes root cause medicine is going to become the standard of care. Tara wants to enable all practitioners to be able to pursue root cause medicine. Rupa first built a matching service to help pair patients with practitioners. The company then built a clinic, discovered the issues with lab testing, and decided to shut down the clinic and focus solely on lab testing. (14:50) One of the main issues with functional labs is that many of them do not have any web-based APIs (Application Programming Interface) to pull from. These labs and patients are stuck with a bunch of PDF files. Rupa Health has helped to build services around these facilities' current systems. (19:00) Rupa can help doctors process all of their lab tests without having to learn everything step-by-step. (20:10) Root cause medicine can be the future of medicine. Root causes can be microbiome environment, heavy metal toxin exposure, and more. (22:23) Remote patient monitoring is becoming widely accepted and there are now reimbursements from the payer system. Commercial insurance covers most microbiome testing. (24:14) Rupa Health is working on helping educate practitioners through Rupa University. These courses teach practitioners how to understand and interpret lab testing. Heads Up Health has also launched Heads Up University, which aims to serve a similar purpose. (25:49) Dave and Tara are super involved as patients when interacting with their doctors. (26:43) Tara's advice to practitioners is, “It's not easy, but it's worth it.” You can reach out to Tara at tarav@rupahealth.com where she can explain Rupa Health to you in more detail. References Rupa Health Bristol Stool Chart Rupa University Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) for Functional Medical Practices The post Ep. 57 – Simplify Functional Lab Testing with Rupa Health appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Curious how continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) can lead to significant behavioral change? Kara Collier of NutriSense discusses how this happens with Heads Up founder Dave Korsunsky. Constantly being exposed to how your lifestyle affects your blood glucose increases your personal health awareness and motivation for making change. Kara covers how NutriSense came together, how the company is reducing the barrier for patients to get CGM, and how NutriSense's apps and services help patients understand their data. She also talks about how most Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients are people with immediate complications from lifestyle-related chronic conditions. Kara campaigned to the hospital administration and nutrition department for a year asking them to stop serving sodas to patients because of its negative health effects. When no action was taken, Kara left the hospital, worked at a nutrition software company, and eventually founded NutriSense with two other people. Kara Collier is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC) who specializes in glucose control and metabolism. She graduated from Purdue University and previously worked at Memphis VA Medical Center as a clinical dietitian at Providence Hospital and in a management role at Nutritionix. Heads Up This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web app designed to help both individuals and health practitioners centrally track the vital health data that matters. Instantly synchronize your (or your clients’) medical records, connect favorite health devices and apps, and use the data to optimize your health (and that of your clients). Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! START TRACKING! Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Continuous glucose monitoring is the practice of using a device (like the FreeStyle Libre CGM) that automatically tracks your blood glucose levels. You can view how this data changes throughout the day based on what you eat, how you exercise, and other daily activities that you do. Habitually viewing and understanding this data can lead to substantial lifestyle changes. This data can also be shared with your practitioner, so they too can monitor your health. Your practitioner can notify you if they think you need to take action on your health. “When you think about ICU, you expect to see gunshot wounds or car trauma – accident trauma. But more often, what you’re seeing in the ICU is actually immediate complications from lifestyle-related chronic conditions.” – Kara Collier In this podcast you'll learn: (2:19) How Kara started as a dietician primarily in the ICUs and hospitals. She saw more chronic lifestyle conditions as opposed to gunshot wounds or car accident trauma. Those lifestyle conditions included diabetics who didn't know they were diabetics or people with uncontrolled hypertension. (3:09) Kara details the frustrating layers in the healthcare system. People are reluctant to change after four decades of bad habits. A lot of the traditional dietetic information is antiquated or biased. The hospitals were never addressing the root cause. (4:56) The last straw for Kara was that sodas were served to patients even though they're supposed to be healing them. Kara campaigned in the hospital to have sodas removed and nothing happened. She then left the hospital. (5:50) Kara worked at a different nutrition software and learned more about start-ups. Her journey led her to research root causes, behavioral change prevention, metabolic health, and continuous glucose monitors. (6:34) How using continuous glucose monitors and seeing the data in real-time will help fix users' issues early on. CGM will also increase motivation to make behavior changes. (7:25) Kara's co-founder, Dan, had a sister who was a Type 1 diabetic. Dan was trying to increase profitability while working in healthcare consulting and realized that we keep putting more money into the healthcare system, but people keep getting sicker. He realized his sister's device might help solve financial problems. (8:18) The third co-founder, Alex, has a tech background and was interested in nutrition and biohacking. He used the devices on himself and built a software and app to showcase the data in a better way.  (8:57) The group came together when Dan and Alex posted on LinkedIn stating that they were starting a company and needed a nutrition or healthcare expert. Kara happened to stumble across the post and moved to Chicago to help build out the company. (9:44) Dave and Kara discuss how surprising it is that chronic lifestyle conditions are the number one thing bringing people to the emergency room. Those cases could have been prevented. (10:48) Part of the chronic lifestyle condition issue is that a lot of people aren't following up regularly with their primary care until it becomes urgent. There is also a lack of prevention and our society isn't proactive with our health. (12:43) How Facebook health groups are helping to spread health awareness. People are becoming more aware of their health. (14:47) How Heads Up benefits individuals, healthcare professionals, and practitioners' client bases. (17:19) NutriSense's products. Its consumer product comes with a continuous glucose monitor, dietician coaching, and NutriSense's app. (18:04) Continuous glucose monitors are considered medical devices, so patients need a prescription. If you're not an insulin-dependent diabetic, most likely, your doctor won't write you a prescription. (18:48) NutriSense is trying to reduce the barrier to access continuous glucose monitors. You receive two CGM devices per month and access to one-on-one dietician coaching. The coach can see all your data and help you interpret it. (19:57) The human body is very complicated and Kara doesn't want users to misinterpret the data.  (20:46) In the NutriSense app you can log your meals, stress, and exercise. You have access to analytics, charts, and graphs that break down the information. There is also education in the app. (21:10) NutriSense is currently testing out working with clinics. NutriSense gives clinics access to the software and they can use NutriSense's dieticians if they want. (22:13) Dave's experience on the ketogenic diet and using the continuous glucose monitor. He had a lot of success early on and was able to keep himself within his target glucose range. (24:07) Roughly 40% of NutriSense's customers are relatively healthy. The other 60% have a health condition they're working on. These conditions include hypertension, PCOS, Hashimoto’s disease, fatty liver, and chronic fatigue syndrome. (25:42) Why Dave and Kara don't like the word bio-hacker.  (26:11) Continuous glucose monitors made Kara's experimentation with ketosis much easier. The reduced burden of the process with CGM makes it easier to motivate yourself and form a habit.  (27:41) Continuous glucose monitors give you immediate feedback. They show you the positive and negative effects of what you're doing in real-time. (28:40) Continuous glucose monitors allow practitioners to engage clients with positive reinforcement. (29:25) Dave enjoys using the CGM with the breath acetone meter so that he can monitor his blood pressure and ketone levels. (30:20) How data from continuous glucose monitors gives people the power to master their metabolism. (31:02) Healthy aging is one of the largest components of longevity. Once you make sure your blood sugar is in check every day, everything starts working better. You start sleeping better, regulating your appetite better, your hormonal systems work better, and your energy levels improve. (32:00) Maximizing the number of healthy years is one of the driving motivations of NutriSense. Being insulin sensitive and having good metabolic health is the core of living a long, healthy life. (33:44) Personalized nutrition and health are going to keep growing. Using continuous glucose monitors allows you to have an enhanced Mind-Body connection where you notice what meals make you feel worse. Connecting subjective experiences to objective data helps people to understand what is going on in their bodies. (36:02) Continuous glucose monitors, NutriSense, medical devices, and digital health devices help people build a mind-body awareness. (37:29) Metabolic disorders are everywhere. Most of the food people put in their bodies is terrible for blood sugar. Food companies use fMRI machines in a lab to see what reward centers are activated in the brain with different foods. (39:11) Dave and Kara talk about how to make CGM more accessible and affordable. People in the healthcare and regulatory systems need to understand the benefits of continuous glucose monitoring. The more there is a demand for these devices, the more there will be a push for the FDA to allow these devices. (41:14) NutriSense writes prescriptions for individuals to use continuous glucose monitors. (42:19) Some common foods that surprisingly spike glucose include Costco rotisserie chicken, smart sweets, and oat milk. A lot of people mean well and are trying to be healthy, but something you eat every day might be having a detrimental effect on your body. You need to know how your most common foods are affecting your ability to live that long, healthy health span. (46:25) The top takeaway from NutriSense clients was that they left the program with more flexibility in their diet than they thought there would be. (47:26) Going on a 20-minute walk and adding MCT Oil can help to burn off some of the excess sugar or blunt the spike.  References NutriSense Freestyle Libre CGM The post Ep. 56 – How Continuous Glucose Monitoring Can Lead to Health-Conscious Behavioral Change appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Curious how continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) can lead to significant behavioral change? Kara Collier of NutriSense discusses how this happens with Heads Up founder Dave Korsunsky. Constantly being exposed to how your lifestyle affects your blood glucose increases your personal health awareness and motivation for making change. Kara covers how NutriSense came together, how the […] The post Ep. 56 – How Continuous Glucose Monitoring Can Lead to Health-Conscious Behavioral Change appeared first on Heads Up Health.

This episode's Community Champion Sponsor is Catalyst. To virtually tour Catalyst and claim your space on campus, or host an upcoming event: https://www.catalysthealthtech.com/ (CLICK HERE) --- Driven by the passion to achieve peak performance, our next guest shares how he broke past the limitations of a-then growing health data industry to help make data more accessible and optimized for the masses by bringing it right to our fingertips and devices with personalized analytics and insights.  Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, joins us to discuss how his background in data analytics led to the creation of his company and its aim to aid everyone- from health enthusiasts to everyday Americans- on how to make better sense of our health by quantifying it in more intuitive and meaningful ways. Join us to hear from one of the industry's most passionate and dedicated entrepreneurs as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let's go! Episode Highlights: How Dave's experience in data analytics brought him into the healthcare industry The limitations he observed in the industry recording health data and how to meaningfully apply it The creation of Heads Up Health as a consolidate for personalized health data and community provider's reception The sustainability of Heads Up Health in the long-term and post-COVID The future he aims to achieve for his company and the healthcare industry as a whole About our Guest:  David has fifteen years of experience working for industry leading technology firms and most recently served as Director of Technical Alliances at VMware (NYSE: VMW), Inc. where he led strategic partnerships with global EHR companies including EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, GE, Allscripts, and many more. David went on to lead sales engineering at CloudPhysics, a big data firm collecting and analyzing over 80B data points per day. As an avid health enthusiast, he recognized an opportunity to build a software solution that makes it easier for anyone to take control over their health through better use of their data. Links Supporting This Episode: Heads Up Health website: https://headsuphealth.com/ (CLICK HERE) Dave Korsunsky LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkorsunsky/ (CLICK HERE) Heads Up Health Twitter page: https://twitter.com/headsuphealth (CLICK HERE) Clubhouse handle: @mikebiselli Mike Biselli LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikebiselli (CLICK HERE) Mike Biselli Twitter page: https://twitter.com/mikebiselli (CLICK HERE) Visit our website: https://www.passionatepioneers.com/ (CLICK HERE) Subscribe to newsletter: https://forms.gle/PLdcj7ujAGEtunsj6 (CLICK HERE) Guest nomination form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqk_H_a79gCRsBLynkGp7JbdtFRWynTvPVV9ntOdEpExjQIQ/viewform (CLICK HERE) Support this podcast

Join Heads Up Founder, Dave Korsunsky, as he talks to Dr. Cheng Ruan about remote patient monitoring, chronic care management, and how practitioners can re-engage the payer system. Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Music Dr. Cheng Ruan Dr. Cheng Ruan, MD, is the founder of the Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine. The medical center focuses on using lifestyle modifications to prevent, reverse, and improve chronic diseases. Dr. Ruan's primary focus is to bring evidence-based lifestyle and personalized medicine to the medical community. Dr. Cheng Ruan is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a Physician Member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and The Institute for Functional Medicine.  Dr. Cheng Ruan also hosts his own podcast, Dr. Ruan MD. Remote Patient Monitoring Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is the practice of using technology to monitor patients outside of a medical setting. Patients can continue with their daily lives while wearables such as Apple Watches, Fitbits, or Oura Rings report select vital signs to their medical professional. About Heads Up This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web app designed to help both individuals and health practitioners centrally track the vital health data that matters. Instantly synchronize your (or your clients') medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps, and use the data to optimize your health (and that of your clients). You can follow Heads Up Health on Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Click here to start your free 30-day trial or read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! “Who’s that one person that you want to serve? And you might think, ‘I want to serve everyone. I want to serve people who need help.' But who’s that one demographic that you want to serve and focus on what that demographic needs.” – Dr. Cheng Ruan In this podcast you'll learn: 2:04 Dr. Cheng Ruan's background and focus on proving that integrative health can be practiced with an insurance model to serve the general public. 2:57 Having a false mindset when starting the Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine. Why Dr. Cheng Ruan uses emerging technology to reduce the burden of administrative tasks 5:48 How Dr. Cheng Ruan’s family of Eastern and Western medicine practitioners influenced him to bring Eastern medicine to the United States. 7:34 Western medical schools don’t train doctors to help patients get off of their medications. 8:08 The rise of functional, plant-based, and lifestyle medicine around 2017. 9:17 Dr. Cheng Ruan’s entrepreneurial ventures taught him that your audience will give you the answer if you are willing to listen. 12:31 Why health professionals shouldn't be shy when it comes to talking about money. Generating money helps professionals serve their patients better. 14:12 Dr. Cheng Ruan on the importance of delivering value to patients and making your deliverables clear, particularly when it comes to remote monitoring. 15:53 Dr. Cheng Ruan’s issue with some doctors who use remote patient monitoring and why patients need to understand what practitioners are looking for. 16:53 Remote patient monitoring reimbursement code updates and how practitioners can get reimbursed. 18:02 How remote patient monitoring is the business of delivering safety and why the technology you use needs to be efficient. 22:10 A few types of remote monitoring devices. 23:09 The purpose of remote monitoring codes and why integrating all of your data into one place is so important. Practitioners can use continuous monitoring data from their patients to better understand the underlying issues (ex. Studying sleep patterns in relation to mold toxicity). 28:02 Why remote patient monitoring is better than concierge practices. RPM or chronic care management are better because they are predictive recurrent subscriptive revenue. RPM facilities have patients automatically assigned to them through insurance companies. 30:37 Why Dr. Cheng Ruan optimizes processes in his office and the hurdles that he faced while building his practice. Issues typically arose when the technology failed. 32:33 How COVID-19 forced elderly patients to learn how to use technology. 34:15 How some practitioners struggled to adopt technology during COVID, but most of Dr. Cheng Ruan’s patients did not. His most common way of communicating with patients used to be phone calls, but is now text message. And he can make money by answering texts. 36:27 How Dr. Cheng Ruan’s practice became so successful because they were early adopters of technology. They used text messaging, phone calls, 5-minute check-ins and more. 38:29 How Dr. Cheng Ruan’s digital platform allows him to show Medicare that his practice provides value. 39:27 Dr. Cheng Ruan predicts technology adoption rates may be even higher in 2022. The 2021 coding changes were the biggest since 1993.  40:20 Dave talks about a webinar that focused on reengaging the payer system. The recent changes in payment for extra time and reduction in documentation has made it easier for practitioners to work remotely. 41:33 Dr. Cheng Ruan’s advice for practices that are thinking about reengaging the payer system: Who is your avatar? Who is the one person you want to serve? Hyperfocus on that one demographic. What value do you want to bring to the world or that person? Create the actual business plan based on what you're able to do. Build the structure on paper first before you execute. 45:30 Dr. Cheng Ruan learned to focus on one type of patient during his time as a consultant. Practices should do the same and then bring in other patients as they grow. 46:16 Dave and Dr. Cheng Ruan reflect on lessons learned through entrepreneurship. Keep building, continue learning from your mistakes, and pick yourself up when you get knocked down. References Dr. Cheng Ruan’s Social Media: Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Pinterest | Website Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine Dr. Ruan MD podcast Withings Blood Pressure Monitor 2021 Medicare Remote Patient Monitoring Codes  American Medical Association CPT Codes DrSummits The post Ep. 55 – Integrative Practices Thriving in the Payer System with Digital Interactions, Remote Patient Monitoring, and Chronic Care Management appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Dave Korsunsky is the founder of Heads Up. They've engineered an entirely new approach to health by integrating clinical lifestyle, nutritional and self-collected data with personalized analytics and insights. By empowering the individuals to self manage more effectively heads-up health aims to improve individual outcomes while increasing efficiency and reducing costs of health care systems worldwide. This episode is brought to you by Vanessa Severiano, LLC specializing in business development for fitness & wellness brands. For more info on The Business Side of Fitness visit: www.vanessaseveriano.com/podcast Connect with Vanessa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessaseveriano/ Want to be a guest or have a question about your business? Drop us a line hello@vanessaseveriano.com

Join us as we launch a brand new series on Uninvisible Pod — INNOVATORS! In this series, we will periodically release episodes including short-form interviews with founders whose work is creating waves of change in chronic and invisible illness and disability. First up, as we dive in to the end of the year and look forward into 2021: Yale graduate Celine Tien, founder and CEO of Flowly, a mobile platform for chronic pain and anxiety management; Yael Elish, formerly co-founder and head of product at Waze and now founder of StuffThatWorks, an AI-based crowdsourcing platform where people share information in a structured way about their experiences with a chronic condition, aimed at learning which treatments work best and for whom; and finally, Dave Korsunsky, healthcare entrepreneur and founder of Heads Up Health, a mobile app and web portal that integrates all of a patient’s health records and syncs with pharmacies, clinics, and a wide range of popular health and fitness apps. Like me, you might be reading this and saying, WHOA! I was so blown away by all these individuals and what their services offer the Spoonie community, I wanted to give them an opportunity to share their stories and the importance of their work with you. So: merry happy everything, from me, Celine, Yael, and Dave…to you! Tune in as Celine, Yael, and Dave share: how Flowly offers interactive experiences that teach users to control their nervous system through mobile VR and biofeedback for relaxation training that biofeedback is traditionally difficult to access; and now, it’s fully accessible through Flowly that Flowly is affiliated with University of Pittsburgh and USC to make sure their app is truly efficacious that the work of biofeedback — and Flowly — is in creating new neural pathways how Celine’s upbringing influenced her to create Flowly the goal of StuffThatWorks: to empower patients and medical professionals through the creation of knowledge bases that are automatically analyzed and personalized how the information shared through StuffThatWorks is helping build the world’s largest and most up-to-date database of patient reported outcomes for every chronic condition that within each community on the StuffThatWorks platform, members can see insights about anything from age of onset, to most reported and most indicative symptoms, early symptoms, indicative comorbidities, aggravating factors, treatments, and more how AI crowdsourcing has the potential to fill the gaps in our understanding of medicine that so many clinical guidelines were written decades ago — and StuffThatWorks creates the opportunity to recreate the knowledge base for various chronic conditions en masse why Yael started StuffThatWorks: because her daughter had a chronic condition at a young age how technology has the potential to eliminate bias how Dave was inspired to create his company after his own battle with maladaptive stress syndrome and gut health issues about the potentially life-saving importance of managing and monitoring our own health records that as the doctor/patient relationship becomes increasingly depersonalized and decentralized, it’s vital we track our own medical records to present a full picture to caregivers why data access is empowerment; and that in enabling people to bring their health records together in one place, patients can prevent a misdiagnosis when medical emergencies arise the founding principle of Heads Up Health: that well-organized data holds the key to optimal health

Dr Jessica Drummond, MPT, CCN, CHC, is the founder and CEO of Integrative Women’s Health Institute (IWHI). An expert on chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis, Dr Jessica Drummond is also an evidenced based practitioner who understands heart rate variability (HRV), lifestyle parameters, and how to apply this information with her patients for better health outcomes. If you're a practitioner listening to this, you'll learn how Dr Jessica Drummond transitioned her practice from in-person to, now with Covid, 100% virtual. She is one of the rare practitioners utilizing HRV and wearables such as Oura and Garmin in a clinical setting to measure her patients' baselines to watch it improve over time. With her team of health coaches, she uses a “nervous system out approach” to help her patients calm their nervous systems and balance stress, while optimizing their functional nutrition, deep sleep, exercise, and more. Learn how Dr. Drummond and her team are using Heads Up's practitioner's portal to track their clients' lifestyle and health metrics. If you're struggling with chronic pelvic pain or other issues related to women's health, you'll be inspired and motivated to reduce your stress, and learn why tracking any progress to celebrate may help your own health. And if you're considering becoming a board certified health coach, especially for women's health, you'll learn how Dr. Jessica Drummond's unique program is the first of its kind, the only Women’s Health Coach Certification in the world with over 1500 people enrolled from over 60 countries! Join Heads Up Founder, Dave Korsunsky, as he talks to Dr. Jessica Drummond about her unique approach to women’s health, her health coaching program, and even advice for those health practitioners new to transitioning into a virtual model.  Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web app designed to help both individuals and health practitioners centrally track the vital health data that matters. Instantly synchronize your (or your clients’) medical records, connect favorite health devices and apps, and use the data to optimize your health (and that of your clients). Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://app.headsuphealth.com/users/sign_up” ] “Calming the nervous system is so important to optimizing digestion function. Because you certainly can’t absorb nutrients and calm digestion and inflammation if someone is in chronic fight or flight, which is why I’ve gotten so interested in heart rate variability [HRV] over the years. Because it’s the only way we can objectively measure that.” – Dr. Jessica Drummond In this podcast you'll learn: How Dr. Jessica Drummond, Founder and CEO of Integrative Women’s Health Institute, first connected with Dave via their mutual friend, Aypril Porter, which led to a partnership between Dr Jessica using Heads Up with her own patients and program. [1:06] About Dr. Jessica Drummond’s body of work, how she started the Integrative Women’s Health Institute over 11 years ago, and how from the very beginning, it was about training her colleagues in functional nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and the communication skillset of health coaching. [1:36] How Dr. Jessica Drummond started her career, more than 20 years ago. First as a physical therapist, originally intending to focus on sports medicine in orthopedics because of her background as an athletic kid, but really quickly began to specialize in women's health. [2:20] How her focus on women's health is from a physical standpoint. Basically, the muscular skeletal joints, muscles and nerves related to women's health conditions. For example, shoulder injuries that happen after breast cancer surgery or rib pain, back pain, and pelvic pain associated with pregnancy, urinary incontinence, prolapse, etc. [2:40] She did this for many years in a hospital based clinical setting, as well as outpatient practice [3:15] How Dr Jessica Drummond discovered that the one population in women's health that was particularly challenging was complex pelvic pain, sexual pain, or pelvic floor pain, pain in hips, back, radiation down the legs, organ structures, etc. [3:30] Why anytime there is pain signaling, the nervous system is involved [4:00] How she got sick in her early 30s and used the tools of functional nutrition to regain her own hormonal health. How pelvic pain can sometimes have a cyclical expression, and how to apply some things from a nutritional perspective to help her most challenging pelvic pain clients, using her own research around this [4:06] What motivated Dr. Jessica Drummond to start building her own school. While working at a women's specialty hospital in Houston, she began to teach her colleagues, offer courses, from the moment she began learning this information. [4:54] That the Integrative Women's Health Institute now has about 17 different courses and offers health coach certification that's board-approved, with many certified health coaches come out of the program, focusing on women's health. Not just in Dr. Drummond's specialty, pelvic pain, but also fertility, perimenopause, period pain, and all kinds of women's health issues. [5:14] How Dr. Jessica Drummond has successfully shifted from a more in-person to 100% virtual now. [6:34] Why she was ahead of her time, way before Zoom even existed, focusing on virtual appointments, telehealth, out of necessity. How she initially built a huge place in Houston, but switched to phone appointments, completely client-driven, eliminating unnecessary commutes to the doctor's office. This also allowed her to fit in life as a parent raising young kids, as well as multiple moves (11 times in 13 years!). [7:00] Advice for practitioners from Dr. Drummond if new to moving towards a digital model: why you should maintain your own office, even if it's just a separate room in your home. [8:54] Why is nutritional therapy so vital to health issues? How blood sugar dysregulation can be inflammatory? What does a functional nutrition template look like and how can it start the healing process? [9:28] Dr. Jessica Drummond's approach to functional nutrition: “It's about optimizing systems. Instead of chasing the symptoms, we always say, optimize physiological systems.” [10:19] Why Dr. Jessica Drummond is so interested in her patients' heart rate variability (HRV). And why she takes a “nervous system out approach” instead of what she used to do, which is to start with digestion. That although digestion is used early in the process, she is realizing more and more that “calming the nervous system is so important to optimizing digestion function. Because you can't absorb nutrients, calm digestion and general inflammation if someone is in chronic fight or flight.” HRV is the only way she “can objectively measure that.” [11:11] On endometriosis, and how symptoms often begin for girls as young as 8 and 12 years old. How girls and women begin to learn to push that pain down and show up anyway.  [11:27] Why the number one reason girls miss school is due to period pain [12:09] How many people learn how to push through the pain, to suppress it, and no longer can even recognize when they are physiologically stressed, which is again why HRV can be so valuable, whether looking at a Garmin, Biostrap, or Oura. “Now you've got an objective measurement that you can then start to make changes, which will allow you to use the nutrition therapy to calm the nervous system.” [12:16] How using HRV can help you as a practitioner to spot those who have a sympathetic overload, then begin to use other strategies such as mindful eating, chewing. [13:40] Why an anti-inflammatory diet is important, yet how to create flexibility in that plan as there is no one-size-fits-all endometriosis diet. Or pain diet. [14:00] What she does with the majority of clients who have bloating digestive issues, starting with blended soups, cooked vegetables, etc. [14:42] Why a lot of times, women are lacking absorbable protein, and struggle with low neurotransmitters. Not only do they have pain signaling because of inflammation, but they may have low serotonin, low tryptophan, L-theanine, and GABA support, not actually absorbing the protein they are eating. Why healthy beneficial fats are important, etc. [14:53] Using the urinary organic acids testing to make sure that people are absorbing nutrients. [15:44] Why Dr. Jessica Drummond starts with what people CAN eat, because if you have a lot of digestive issues, and you've been afraid of food since you were a ten-year-old girl (there are a lot of eating disorders), this is important. Eventually we'll move away from inflammatory foods like sugar and dairy. But we focus on EXPANDING what they can eat, so they don't feel like it's a restrictive diet.[15:53] On how the auto-immune paleo diet is kind of a backbone for most people, but it varies: some plant-based, some leaning towards keto. [16:53] Why endometriosis has auto-immune properties, often co-morbid with lots of other auto-immune diseases. After endometriosis surgery, auto-immune markers tend to drop, which is important for fertility and overall health, and how Dr. Jessica Drummond tries to support that both pre-op and post-op to improve the immune system. On Dr. Jessica Drummond's published research around vulvodynia, her focus on gut healing, immune healing, restoring the small intestinal barriers, taking out those inflammatory and processed foods, how the vulvodynia never came back. What auto-immune markers she looks for. And why you usually see co-morbid things like Hashimotos, thyroiditis, celiac disease, or elevated ANA. Sometimes associated with psoriasis or lupus. Or elevated thyroid antibodies. [18:50] How with her virtual clinic, she does a personalized nutrition plan, potentially looking at the gut microbiome, using urinary organic acids testing, sometimes hormone tests, depending on the client's needs. Why clients have twelve sessions of health coaching to help them implement behavior changes that can be challenging, disordered eating issues, anxiety. [20:22] Another reason why tracking can be so helpful: “Because not only is it motivating, but for most women in our programs, they never feel like they've done it well enough. So being able to see good progress, to kind of look back and celebrate ANY progress, makes a difference.” [21:18] When you're someone who has had chronic pain for a long time, there's always a focus on pain (i.e., when, how much, how often, what's causing it). Instead she has her clients journal and track those times when they feel better. “That's how we shift it by using the tracking to demonstrate more objectively how things are starting to improve.” [21:53] How Dr. Jessica Drummond personally uses HRV and interprets it in a clinical setting with her clients, a basic explanation of HRV for those practitioners listening, and how some clients are already using wearables such as the Oura ring, Biostrap, Garmin, and already have access to their data. [22:25] How she's looking for that number (HRV) to increase over time. Why the Oura ring is a great option for those wanting to track their raw data. What during the day happened for that person to have a higher HRV during the night? And over time, from Day 1 of their program to Week 12, is that raising the baseline. Why they use in their clinic the Garmin, which gives biofeedback during the day, looking at the “Body Battery.” (But it doesn't give the raw HRV data, unfortunately, right now.). [24:15] How looking at HRV helps people to build associations themselves, which may not have been there before, a huge part of the process, empowering people to reconnecting to signals in their own bodies that they may otherwise not notice. [25:42] Why it's also important to teach people to get comfortable with being in some stress, knowing they're going to recover. How she looks at HRV, exercise, but also Deep Sleep. [25:54] The biggest things Dr. Jessica Drummond looks for. Over time, is that baseline HRV increasing? And if there's a great night of sleep, what contributed to that so we can replicate it more? How much time in Deep Sleep, especially between 10pm and 2am, when your brain is recovering. During the day, is someone recovering from exercise? What may they be stressing them out that they're surprised about? And what can we dial-in when it comes to nutrition, personalized to that particular client (example about client who thought she was eating healthy by choosing organic sugar but was still pushing her “into the orange,” which prompted them to look more into that). [26:40] Alcohol and its impact on HRV (hint: it can be disastrous). And how it can be an important KPI to notice. [28:37] About how work and general life stress impacts many of their clients who are women, especially right now with many simultaneously working from home and home-schooling their kids, how that is all being reflected in their numbers while in quasi-lockdown related to the Covid pandemic. [28:37] Why tracking can be helpful during stressful times. “The good news is that when you start to track, people are motivated to do the recovery.” Example of her assistant who wasn't able to change everything about her busy week, but found her own outlet to recover, restore and rejuvenate. For her, taking a hike helped her, in less than 3 days, go from a ‘8' to a ‘100' (body battery from her Garmin). How Dr. Jessica's mode of recovery is clocking out at 5pm every day and meditating with her paddle board. How important it is for people to find what recovery looks like for them. [29:09] Use cases of HRV in the clinical setting, how it's mostly used in health and wellness high performance, yet how Dr. Jessica Drummond is using HRV in her clinical practice related to inflammatory issues is important, helping to encourage clients and reinforce positive behaviors, watching the baseline increase, a win for everybody. [30:30] How a lot of her women clients are high achieving. And when they see their numbers not looking so great, they don't like to accept it. So she and her team of health coaches will coach them through that. It's also validating. We remind them that they are doing great, are talented and smart, yet whether it's postpartum, post-op surgery, that their bodies need recovery for longevity. “Using these numbers are helpful for showing us what our body has to go through to really recover.” [31:45] How Dr Jessica Drummond is starting to use Heads Up to get some data on her clients remotely.  Dave and his team at Heads Up have started building customized dashboards for her and team of health coaches to collect those peripheral metrics. [33:17] Why when it comes to chronic pelvic pain, it's really important to collaborate with a skilled pelvic physical therapist as well. How important it is for people to really tune into the messages of their own bodies, to know when they're physically relaxed, activated and strong, taking a holistic team approach, both conventional and integrative. [33:45] How the Integrative Women's Health Institute offers the only board certified health coaching program focused on women's health. The program starts with the skillset of health coaching, helping people to have immediate buy-in, become excited about their plan to get healthy. Why this communication skill is new to most clinical professionals who are taught in their training to fix people as though they are mechanics. [34:27] Why behavioral change is important; Dave mentioned other past podcast guests utilizing similar services in their clinics or programs, such as Brandy Wiltermuth of Three Health with medically supervised weight-loss and Dr. Sandi Scheinbaum who trains her health coaches to operate in that support role when it comes to lifestyle changes. [36:06] How important it is for someone to want to take ownership of behavioral lifestyle changes and ask for help. While the nutrition and sleep plan is important, it won't be executed without lot of support to making those lifestyle changes. Such as taking things off their plate and off their calendar. [38:05] Ways to get in touch with Dr. Jessica Drummond and the Integrative Women's Health Institute [40:30] References Integrative Women’s Health Institute (IWHI) Where to contact Dr. Jessica Drummond on Instagram Outsmartendo.com (If you struggle, or have patients who struggle, with endometriosis or other pelvic pain issues, this is a great place to get information) Outsmart Endometriosis: Relieve Your Symptoms and Get Your Career Back On Track by Dr. Jessica Drummond  Organic Acids Test (OATS)  Dr. Jessica Drummond’s published study on vulvodynia (“Functional Nutrition Treatment of Vulvodynia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and Depression: A Case Report”) About Heads Up  Heads Up is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health AND we offer health professionals a way to centralize their clients’ health data and optimize their outcomes. Want sustainable weight loss and better metabolic health for your clients? Take a page out of ThreeHealth’s playbook and learn how to start optimizing health outcomes now. Join the data-driven health movement and see why functional doctors, nutritionists and health coaches love to use our health data analytics and remote-monitoring platform to save time, attract more clients, and optimize their outcomes with ease. Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://app.headsuphealth.com/users/sign_up” ] The post Ep. 54 – How Dr. Jessica Drummond of Integrative Women's Health Institute is Using HRV, Functional Nutrition and Health Coaching for Better Health Outcomes appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Whether you're a seasoned pro in the healthcare field or looking for a career change, if you have a passion for helping people with their health, and/or are interested in becoming a Certified Health Coach, you'll want to listen in on this episode with Dr. Sandi Sheinbaum, Founder & CEO of Functional Medicine Coaching Academy. Have you ever thought about becoming a Certified Health Coach but wondered if you have what it takes to become one? Or maybe you're curious about adding Certified Health Coaching credentials to your existing career path? Have you had your own health crises and now want to help others after learning how to help yourself? Dr. Sandi Scheinbaum, Founder & CEO of Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, talks with Dave Korsunsky, CEO & Founder of Heads Up about the benefits, and what it takes, to becoming a Certified Health Coach. Learn about her unique coaching program that focuses on what is going right and how to help your client tell a more empowering health story. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] “Have you worked through your own health issues and now feel the calling to serve others?” – Dr. Sandi Scheinbaum In this podcast you'll learn: About Dr. Sandi Scheinbaum's journey. From teaching children with learning disabilities and getting her doctorate in clinical psychology to where she is today [2:20]That as she began focusing on what was right with individuals, rather than what was wrong with them, she saw that they could control things with their own mindset, seeing just how the mind and body were connected. (Note: Dr. Sandi was doing this back in the 1970s!) [4:00]How her own experience in training with IFM led her to approach integrating what she already knew about psychology and the mind-body connection to create a health coaching program at the age of 65 (after practicing for 40-years in private practice) [5:00]How Dr. Sandi Scheinbaum has utilized her own experiences (around food, education and teaching those with learning disabilities) in creating the coaching program [7:30]The importance of starting before you feel like you're ready [10:45]How you can use your own personal experience, that may have felt like a setback in your own life, to help others [11:50]Who is a good fit for this program? And what can students expect? [12:30]Dr. Scheinbaum talks about the students that come to the program. How they've had their own health crises and now want to help others after helping themselves [13:05]Why health coaches are intuitive and have a calling to bring hope, compassion, and passion to support their clients. And why you don't need a formal education or background in healthcare to become a coach [14:30]“Your value is your story. Nobody has your own story.” [16:50]About Functional Medicine and the IFM and the difference between the Coaching program and the IFM programs for medical providers [19:00]How the coaching program emphasizes the behavior change process and how to help people hold themselves accountable [21:50]Why the coaching program is 100% online, extending their reach to support the functional medicine model, which can be more affordable [23:00]The different ways IFM coaches are connected to IFM healthcare providers and how they can run their own businesses or work under medical providers in clinics [23:50]The scope of practice for certified health coaches vs. licensed medical providers [24:40]About the role of technology in health coaching and how it can provide a deeper correlation for clients and coaches, helping to support clients towards their best health [25:45]About the future of remote client coaching [28:40]A real-life example of how health coaching can support a client [29:30]How this coaching program approaches the whole person to support the person’s whole health — their lifetime events, exposures, traumas, triggers, etc.[31:55]About the unique layer that IFM Coaches are trained to overlay onto the timeline of how the person got to where they are. How that includes what went right along the way, to retell their stories with a new interpretation of their life events, showcasing their strengths [34:35]Dr. Sandi Scheinbaum walks us through the twelve-month online program – what it entails, as well as who the demographic is that signs up for coaching classes [37:35]About becoming a nationally certified health coach and what certification means. Also: eligibility for insurance reimbursement [40:00]About the role of health coaches and how they are so needed right now, and moving forward in the world we now live in [41:00]About the current and future landscape of reimbursement for certified health coaches [44:15]Dr. Sandi Scheinbaum on how to turn adversity to advantage by retraining to be a certified health coach [46:00] References Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, Inc. (FMCA) National Board for Health and Wellness Coaches (NBHWC) Dr. Sandi Scheinbaum – Instagram Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, Inc. (FMCA) Facebook About Heads Up Heads Up 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Ep 51 – Becoming a Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach with Dr. Sandi Scheinbaum of Functional Medicine Coaching Academy appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Do you want to help your clients with sustainable weight loss and optimized outcomes using technology and telehealth? Then you’re in for a treat! ThreeHealth, a unique medical group, offers a weight loss solution like you've never experienced before. Rather than focusing on just the number on the scale, prepackaged food or an emphasis on dropping pounds quickly, ThreeHealth offers their clients sustainable weight loss with well-rounded support. Both in-person and/or via telehealth. Recognizing that metabolic and emotional issues go hand in hand, ThreeHealth combines behavioral and medical support along with advanced technologies to help modify behaviors and make sustainable weight loss changes. All without judgement and with utmost compassion. Brad Butterfield, LMHCA, Brandy Wiltermuth, ARNP and Marlene Sexton, LMFT, all licensed medical professionals, make up the foundation of the ThreeHealth team. What makes ThreeHealth stand out is how they utilize advanced technology such as the Oura ring and Biosense breath testing, helping their clients track relevant biometrics and monitor progress, including medical records. All of this is tracked through Heads Up’s practitioner portal, creating customization within their patients' protocols for healthy and sustainable weight loss. Join Heads Up Founder, Dave Korsunsky, and (NEW) Co-host, TJ Anderson, as they discuss ThreeHealth's unique approach to sustainable weight loss with Brad and Brandy in this episode. You'll learn more about the history and evolution of their weight loss approach, as well as what metrics they track, how they run their insurance-friendly cash-based practice, and why health coaches and practitioners also need to remember to use a bit of patience when helping clients with weight loss. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web app designed to help both individuals and health practitioners centrally track the vital health data that matters. Instantly synchronize your (or your clients’) medical records, connect favorite health devices and apps, and use the data to optimize your health (and that of your clients). Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://app.headsuphealth.com/users/sign_up” ] “By the time they get to me, they’re ready to talk about the numbers and be curious about the data. And that’s what I love about Heads Up, the ability to show them trends that they can’t see. It’s been extremely helpful!” – Brandy Wiltermuth In this podcast you'll learn: About Brandy Wiltermuth's history working in a weight loss clinic 6-7 years ago getting great weight loss results, and frustration with the missing piece of the behavioral health aspect of dietary change [3:30] How ThreeHealth’s program evolved, and the way telehealth is used due to the ability to track many different metrics that integrate into Heads Up where they can easily monitor their patient's data remotely through their practitioner portal [6:00] Brad Butterfield's career path to the health industry after retiring in 2006 from an architectural firm to study behavioral health [7:25] In 2018 Brandy Wiltermuth, Brad Butterfield and Marlene Sexton left the weight loss surgery practice they worked in and went to build their own weight loss practice [9:30] More about the ThreeHealth program and how it works, including behavioral and medical health, tracking, and why they require patients to use them all in tandem [10:45] In the program they built, the first three months they just work on three things: time, planning and tracking. Because it takes time to build a system for change, rather than just giving their clients weight loss advice right away [12:30] Why Brandy's focus throughout the entire program is on lean muscle mass while losing fat, which is more unique to their program, reminding people that they need to eat to lose weight [13:20] More about the lean body mass that Brandy tracks and why she doesn't just focus on the weight loss number alone [14:10] That they do blood labs every 3 months and they've had patients come off of medications due to the significant improvements with their program [16:15] How they offer both in-person and telehealth to support patient compliance [18:35] Why Brad doesn't believe in willpower to lose weight and why he utilizes strategies to help patients have sustainable weight loss and stay on track [19:30] How 80-85% of patients they see are significantly addicted to sugar and there is a grieving process when it's gone [20:20] Why this method is not a diet. There is no start or end; its a lifestyle [22:55] When it comes to sustainable weight loss, we have to go through, and not around, the issues that are holding people back physically and emotionally [24:55] How ThreeHealth uses a cash/insurance/HSA hybrid approach and about their very low no-show rate with this business model [25:30] About the integration of Oura and Biosense into their program and how and why sleep tracking helps with sustainable weight loss [30:55] About the HRV that Oura tracks and how Brandy helps patients to see how their diet and lifestyle choices affect their overall wellness [34:40] How seeing the data motivates patients to change and how patients are more compliant with the tracking because they know it helps their practitioner navigate what strategies to use to help them reach their goals [35:45] Why treating tracking as a science project helps clients feel more empowered, rather than feeling oppressed by it (“It's not judgmental, it's curiosity.”) [37:15] How ThreeHealth’s patients are navigating the on-boarding process of utilizing the tracking devices and Heads Up’s dashboard [39:35] How they navigate the tracking for people who are too focused on scale numbers etc., and how they emphasize they just need to gather the data and their practitioners will interpret it, giving them the feedback they can understand [40:40] Top tips for other coaches or doctors who want to support their patients with tracking from Brad and Brandy [42:10] How Brandy used Heads Up to figure out why one patient’s weight loss was stalling, even though activity had gone up. Because she was able to remote-monitor, she could see that her protein consumption had decreased. “When in doubt, eat more protein” was how she as able to get her  patient’s weight loss moving again [42:35] Brad's advice to health coaches: “Don't be filled with anxiety about the number and results…the weight loss will come. Take your time if you want good sustainable weight loss, as they didn't gain it overnight. It takes time, but with education, behavioral habit work, and tracking, the patients really start to see how effective it is, several months in. Rapid weight loss is not sustainable.” [45:21] References ThreeHealth Website: www.three.health ThreeHealth Email: contactus@three.health About Heads Up  Heads Up is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health AND we offer health professionals a way to centralize their clients’ health data and optimize their outcomes. Want sustainable weight loss and better metabolic health for your clients? Take a page out of ThreeHealth’s playbook and learn how to start optimizing health outcomes now. Join the data-driven health movement and see why functional doctors, nutritionists and health coaches love to use our health data analytics and remote-monitoring platform to save time, attract more clients, and optimize their outcomes with ease. Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://app.headsuphealth.com/users/sign_up” ] The post Ep. 50 – How ThreeHealth is Helping Their Clients with Sustainable Weight Loss Using Telehealth and Technology appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Biosense releases an at-home breath ketone testing device for both consumers and clinical settings after three years of extensive lab development and clinical trial. This device allows clients to self monitor their breath ketones at home, which in conjunction with food journaling, or other metrics can provide invaluable insight into what is contributing to weight gain, high blood sugar, metabolic syndrome, and more while utilizing a ketogenic diet. The Biosense testing device is non-invasive allowing clients to test without poking their fingers for a blood sample, increasing testing compliance. Increased compliance provides your client and you with better data to evaluate and customize a plan for their goals. It's also incredibly small so that you can take it with you anywhere, and requires no calibration before use. Measuring deep lung air and eliminates contamination from ambient air, providing the user with highly accurate, dependable results, requiring no testing strips to purchase or worry about running out of. Join Heads Up founder Dave Korsunsky as he discusses the Biosense meter with Jim Howard, and how it's use can revolutionize your keto compliance and results with your clients, especially when combined with other data tracking through Heads Up. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, 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! Start free trial! In this podcast you’ll learn: About the consistency of measurement with Biosense, which provides a 24-hour graph in-app to see your progression throughout the day [8:00] How the Biosense device is providing agency to allow people to decide for themselves by seeing feedback throughout the day to know what the consequences of their actions are and act accordingly for their goals [8:25] Jim Howard educates how Biosense technology testing differs from acetone testing due to Biosense using a deep lung air sample with a closed flow cell so it's not sampling ambient air [9:18] This device can fit in your pocket and only weighs a couple of ounces so it can be utilized anywhere and is the only device out there backed by a clinical trial [10:15] Biosense can be purchased as a consumer or clinic use and is involved in 4 upcoming trials as a non-invasive testing device [11:00] How much higher compliance is for use due to the non-invasive testing [12:20] How clinics and coaches can see the data from their patients throughout the day and correlate it with the food, insulin and other metrics they have to see how compliant patients are and how effective their protocol is [12:30] That testing can show more visibility of how compliant a client is throughout the day, rather than just once a day testing [13:10] About a clinic in Washington State that was able to adapt to virtual visits early and roll out the program seamlessly while having patients track their breath ketones at home easily as well as other metrics that is using Biosense technology [14:13] Looking at adherence to the program as the patients are able to give feedback, knowing that they are going to test throughout the day [15:25] About the coach-client compliance and improved results as clients can start to make their own connections between diet, sleep, exercise and ketones [17:00] About the effects of being home due to COVID-19 and how rebuilding your immune system and metabolic health will be key to returning to the world and how to utilize Heads Up and Biosense as a strategy[18:20] How COVID is shifting health responsibility back to the patient or client and that can be empowering if they choose [19:10] That half of the population will be obese in the US by 2030 if we do not course correct with our diets and metabolic health [21:30] How we may see more health plans and other organizations utilize these tools [24:50] Biosense works with clinics for Alzheimer's, diabetes, obesity, and oncology that are utilizing their device for ketogenic diet support [25:50] How the device can easily be utilized while out running errands or at home increasing compliance [26:50] The device is firmware updatable [27:20] The device is available in the USA currently, just released in Canada, and coming to Europe estimated by the end of the year. [28:10] The Biosense device gives you feedback that the test was performed correctly, with consistent accurate readings, and does not require calibration. [28:25] Biosense offers a much more accurate reading as it's measuring deep lung air, rather than just providing a red yellow green reading for example. [29:30] Biosense is targeted to the consumer to use on a regular basis and expected to last at least 2 years before estimating that it will need to be recalibrated or tuned up. [30:30] About Heads Up Heads Up 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! TRY HEADS UP FOR FREE! 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Dr. Dave Rabin of Apollo Neuro is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist specializing in disorders of chronic stress, who has utilized MDMA and ketamine in the treatment of PTSD and depression to calm the nervous systems stress response.  After running clinical trials at the University of Pittsburgh and finding that the fight or flight system could also be calmed through the use of a wearable device, he set out to bring a device to the market that helps towards improving HRV. This allows individuals suffering from PTSD, ADD, anxiety, and even high-level executives and elite athletes with high stress response, to use the sensation of touch to recreate a feeling of safety, changing the response the body creates to a stimulus.  Measuring HRV can give a quantifiable measure of how effective the device is in altering the stress response and allows individuals to improve conditions they've been told they must just live with. Dr. Dave Rabin gives a great explanation of HRV and how it differs from Heart Rate and why HRV is an important indicator of recovery and the ability to slow down the nervous system from stimuli. Listen in as Heads Up Founder Dave Korsunsky talks with Dr. Dave Rabin of Apollo Neuroscience on his own experience with the Apollo wearable device and how it actually feels to use it. It is Dr. Dave Rabin’s belief that as recovery is enhanced, improving HRV, people will begin to understand and reach their fullest potentials. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: How stress makes chronic disease and mental health worse, especially chronic stress that happens multiple times a day [3:05]Dr. Dave Rabin works with high-level executives with high stress, as well as people with PTSD, chronic depression/anxiety and substance abuse disorders and notices that commonality between these disorders [3:55]That Apollo Neuro came out of his work at the University of Pittsburgh, where they were trying to develop new strategies to help improve recovery and balance in the nervous system [6:00]How Dr. Dave Rabin looks at stress holistically, as a clinical psychotherapist and psychiatric neuroscientist, to help modulate the central nervous system from high-performance athletes to people with mental health disorders [6:15]That Dr. Dave Rabin is trained to use MDMA for PTSD which is in phase 3 trials with the FDA and ketamine for the treatment of depression which can induce dramatic radical change within a single session that is likely to be measurable with things like HRV [7:20]That metrics that can be tracked while utilizing alternative therapies such as MDMA and ketamine, as people with these chronic conditions of stress have chronically low HRV [8:40]That those with PTSD will have some of the lowest HRV as they are always in a state of hypervigilance – high fight or flight, low recovery state, but when they are shown compassion or touch from loved ones, meditation, etc, they feel better and HRV goes up [10:03]Apollo was created to allow people to recreate the feeling of safety allowing the body to come out of the fight or flight pattern and into a recovery pattern at home and not just while in therapy [11:30]Apollo is not a substitution for meditation, but it can be used more as a tool to guide people through the stressors and understand that you can do it on your own and people seem to be able to train to it over time [14:10]What is Heart Rate Variability (HRV) vs Heart Rate (HR) [15:35]About how the Apollo wrist or ankle worn device brings awareness to the body when the heart rate changes to allow the brain to evaluate if the perceived stress is useful or not [19:10]Apollo was tested in double-blind randomized placebo clinical trial studies at the University of Pittsburgh and found that Apollo was improving HRV within 3 minutes under stress [20:15]Dave describes the sensation of what it feels like to wear the Apollo device [21:00]Why Dr. Dave Rabin started Apollo Neuro to bring the technology to the market himself [24:16]Dave Korsunsky's seal of approval on the Apollo device and where you can find and purchase the device [28:40] References www.apolloneuro.com Follow Dr. Dave Rabin on Twitter Follow Apollo Neuro on Instagram Apollo Blog Post Together All The Time, How to Make it Work Apollo Blog Post Strengthening Your Immune System Apollo Neuro Blog About Heads Up Heads Up 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Improving HRV, the Stress Response and PTSD with Apollo Neuro – Dr. Dave Rabin appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Ep# 211 - Dave Korsunsky, a fifteen year veteran in the technology space and former Director of Technical Alliances for VMWare, Inc., joins the show this week to talk about how he's leveraged his tech background and merged it with his passion for health. In Dave's corporate career, he led strategic partnerships with global EHR companies including EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, GE, Allscripts and many more. As an avid health enthusiast, he recognized a gap in the market for a software solution that makes it easy to monitor health data and allow people to take control of their health. This led to launching Heads Up Health, a premium app and software solution that is changing the way everyday people are tracking their health and staying healthy. Learn More About Dave Korsunsky and Heads Up Health: Visit the Heads Up Health Website and Start a Free 30 Day Trial of the Premium Service with No CC Required: https://headsuphealth.com/ Follow Dave Korsunsky and Heads Up Health on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/headsuphealth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heads_up_health/ Whether you are new to The Driven Entrepreneur Podcast or are a fan, please don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to the show. Your support and your reviews help this show to attract prolific guests and to provide the best listening experience possible. Also, I love to hear from the fans and listeners. Please share your feedback, guest suggestions, or ideas for show topics with me on social media. Follow Matt Brauning on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattbrauning Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattbrauning/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattbrauning Visit Matt Brauning's Websites: www.mattbrauningpodcast.com www.fireboxbook.com

Ep# 211 - Dave Korsunsky, a fifteen year veteran in the technology space and former Director of Technical Alliances for VMWare, Inc., joins the show this week to talk about how he's leveraged his tech background and merged it with his passion for health. In Dave's corporate career, he led strategic partnerships with global EHR companies including EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, GE, Allscripts and many more. As an avid health enthusiast, he recognized a gap in the market for a software solution that makes it easy to monitor health data and allow people to take control of their health. This led to launching Heads Up Health, a premium app and software solution that is changing the way everyday people are tracking their health and staying healthy. Learn More About Dave Korsunsky and Heads Up Health: Visit the Heads Up Health Website and Start a Free 30 Day Trial of the Premium Service with No CC Required: https://headsuphealth.com/ Follow Dave Korsunsky and Heads Up Health on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/headsuphealth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heads_up_health/ Whether you are new to The Driven Entrepreneur Podcast or are a fan, please don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to the show. Your support and your reviews help this show to attract prolific guests and to provide the best listening experience possible. Also, I love to hear from the fans and listeners. Please share your feedback, guest suggestions, or ideas for show topics with me on social media. Follow Matt Brauning on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattbrauning Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattbrauning/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattbrauning Visit Matt Brauning's Websites: www.mattbrauningpodcast.com www.fireboxbook.com Get a copy of my brand new book, "The Firebox Principle," on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Firebox-Principle-Drives-Every-Entrepreneur-ebook/dp/B07FDKK9QW

David has fifteen years of experience working for industry leading technology firms and most recently served as Director of Technical Alliances at VMware (NYSE: VMW), Inc. where he led strategic partnerships with global EHR companies including EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, GE, Allscripts and many more. David went on to lead sales engineering at CloudPhysics, a big data firm collecting and analyzing over 80B data points per day. As an avid health enthusiast, he recognized an opportunity to build a software solution that makes it easier for anyone to take control over their health through better use of their data.

In this episode of Your Adrenal Fix, I talk to Dave Korsunsky, the CEO of Heads Up Health, why it’s so important as to why you must become a biohacker. Becoming a health detective: Like many of my guests, Dave Korsunksy has a personal story of burnout.  Being in the tech industry, and into engineering … Why You Must Become A Biohacker, with Dave Korsunsky: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 39 Read More » The post Why You Must Become A Biohacker, with Dave Korsunsky: Your Adrenal Fix Podcast 39 appeared first on The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue.

Growing up, Dr. Mona Ezzat Velinov knew that she wanted to help people. After working in conventional medicine, she had her own health crisis, and this began her research into other ways of healing and supporting her body. She trained to become a functional medicine doctor and now works with individuals to improve their health, as well as with corporate wellness programs. Having a bigger vision, after working at both Apple and Facebook as an onsite doctor, Dr Mona decided to bring functional medicine to corporate health and is now creating onsite programs to improve employee health and outlook. Listen as Dave Korsunsky talks with Mona Ezzat Velinov about her life's work and vision for the future. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, 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! Start Tracking! In this podcast you’ll learn:  About Dr. Mona Ezzat Velinov's background as a locum tenens doctor that exposed her to a lot of different types of practices and cultures all over the world [2:20] What is psychoneuroimmunology? [6:45] About the in-depth intake that functional medicine practitioners utilize when starting work with a new patient [8:10] Why understanding your family history helps to understand epigenetic changes [9:45] About Dr. Mona Ezzat Velinov's transition from traditional to functional medicine [10:45] How Dr. Mona's experience with thyroid cancer led her to functional medicine [11:15] The effects of chemotherapy/radiation's effects on the microbiome [12:05] About Dr. Mona Ezzat Velinov's private practice and specialty in thyroid health, gut health, menopausal transitions, and autoimmune disease [13:45] How Dr. Mona uses techniques like monitoring breathwork, meditation, HRV tracking to support her patients [14:40] Elite HRV, Oura, Biostrap and their tracking of HRV and other biometrics and how they connect to environment and biology [16:40] About the environmental toxins and thyroid/endocrine disruption that can lead to Hashimoto's [17:55] EWG – tapwater reports and the Cosmetic Database [18:45] About microbiome disruptors such as infections like traveler's diarrhea, parasites, and how important tracking your bowel movements are [19:45] Why you need to look in the toilet bowl daily and an interesting idea about Smart Toilets [22:40] That Dr. Mona Ezzat Velinov worked at Apple and Facebook as a doctor and saw how helpful it was to have a doctor on-site. Why she wants to bring functional medicine to the workplace for preventative health support [23:00] Why group support in the workplace from functional medicine can support creating a healthier work environment [24:10] References Dr. Mona Ezzat Velinov  Bristol Stool Chart Environmental Working Group EWG – National Tapwater Database EWG – Cosmetic Database A4M Conference About Heads Up  Heads Up 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! Start Tracking! The post Functional Medicine for Corporate Wellness with Dr. Mona Ezzat Velinov appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Carl Hardwick has spent his life dedicated to athletics, served his country, and opened up several OPEX gyms of his own before stepping into the role of COO at OPEX.  Currently, Carl oversees the Coach Certification Program at OPEX where he trains coaches to work with clients in bio-individual fitness and nutrition coaching.  OPEX Fitness has several program offerings including coaching for individuals wanting to improve their strength and health, Big Dawgs Athlete training programs and a Coach Certification Program teaching coaches how to utilize their signature program of fitness, meeting their clients where they are.  Learn more about OPEX training and what it can offer you as Dave Korsunsky sits down with Carl Hardwick to learn more about the metrics that OPEX uses with clients, including how they customize protocols for their clients and athletes. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: What OPEX is/does and their history of coaching education with fitness coaches and gym licensing [2:00] Why OPEX has a natural connection with CrossFit. However, they are not CrossFit, but based on human function [6:31] The health continuum that they utilize to show clients where they are and where they want to go with their fitness and health [7:20] OPEX  has a very holistic approach to training and nutrition but utilizes a bio-individual coaching approach for each client and their needs/desires [8:30] “We're known as the energy system coaches, but we're way more than that.” [9:45] About cortisol junkies and how overtraining can be harmful when we don't recognize the stresses on the body [11:08] “We have to respect biology and we have to respect exercise principles that are out there. There is a way to get your fix, in a way that you can still get that fix in 10 years. We see far too often in this market that we call fitness, that people fiend that fix so bad, day after day, and they get it in the same way and we see it a lot in unsustainable activities.” What numbers Carl Hardwick tracks for an individual as core metrics in the OPEX program – The initial assessment history, OPEX BODY composition analysis (BMR, Bodyweight, Body Fat Percentage, lean mass), OPEX MOVE – a movement screen to see what they are capable of doing, OPEX Work – a 10 minute Assault bike test, and program design [13:40] Every client goes through the OPEX Assessment and is given a weekly program with a monthly check-in [18:45] About genetic profiling and how epigenetic changes can be more important than just having a gene. But genes can still be useful to know if someone is highly unlikely to tolerate dairy, for example, or if they just can't train well in a certain way. And the flip side of that about how they can utilize it to help them train better, but it's still in its infancy in terms of how we use the data [19:20] About HRV and the coefficient variation and how it relates to resilience with tracking trends in different training phases [26:30] How tracking trends can be important for the coach to look at, but it's important to not be assessing it if you're not understanding the metric and focusing too much on it, attached to the number while not listening to your body [30:45] Why Carl Hardwick has clients self-assess before looking at the data [33:35] Nutrition prescriptions with OPEX are broken into three section: LIFE – i.e. Bristol chart tracking, water intake, nightly waking to urinate related to hormones, FUEL – i.e. food quality, quantity, macros if it applies, PERSON – i.e. cleanses, protein de-loading [34:00] OPEX Coaching is about meeting clients where they are [41:20] References Become an OPEX Coach online OPEX Coaching Big Dawgs Athlete Coaching Follow OPEX Fitness on Instagram Follow Carl Hardwick on Instagram Follow OPEX founder James FitzGerald on Instagram About Heads Up  Heads Up 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Bio-individual Coaching with Carl Hardwick of OPEX appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Alex Fergus is an Australian National Natural Bodybuilding Champion, health and fitness coach, researcher and author. After finding his health declining at the age of 23 and feeling a lack of support from his doctors, who dismissed his concerns, he took his health into his own hands. By being his own health advocate in researching, testing, and biohacking, he found his way back to optimal health and found a new passion for helping others to improve their life and health from a foundational perspective. In this episode of Data-Driven Health Radio, Dave Korsunsky interviews Alex Fergus about his personal and professional journey of turning his own health, as well as his clients,' around from struggling to thriving. Listen as Alex Fergus sheds some positivity on empowering your own health. By creating optimal health through foundational supports, your body will be in a much stronger and resilient state. You can find Alex Fergus on his website and blog at www.alexfergus.com Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: Alex Fergus's story of finding his health struggling as a bodybuilding athlete at the age of 23, and having doctors tell him he must just have a virus or need testosterone to feel better leaving him feeling dismissed [1:40]After doing his own research and asking for lab testing he wanted to explore, he was dismissed by his doctor which lead him to find a doctor that would look deeper. [3:50]Always playing by the rules in bodybuilding and sports, he was disappointed when his doctor alluded to the fact that she thought it was all the supplements he was taking that was causing his health issues [4:45]About the differences between lab testing options for your health in Australia vs. the USA [7:10]Why you shouldn't consult Dr. Google and why getting feedback through health markers is important in navigating your health by having a trusted provider to consult with the results of your specialized testing [8:50]The role of HRV in the everyday person and how they can utilize that to see how their diet and lifestyle is working for them [14:30]What biomarkers Alex Fergus monitors for himself and how the amount of feedback needed varies as your health progresses [15:25]How people can use medicinal cannabis or think they sleep better after a few drinks. However, tracking with the Oura ring or other device can help you to see the real effects on your body that you may not have noticed otherwise [20:50]Lab testing that Alex Fergus tracks now and why [23:16]How to monitor your thyroid and stress response with basal body temperature [25:15]How to use basal body temperature to change your macros [27:50]About Alex Fergus's protocol, he developed for clients focusing on the fundamentals of health – gut health, resetting baseline hormonal markers, dietary changes, meal timing, education, etc.[29:05]The benefits of reducing and over-adding in training, etc. to be able to move forward in a healthier way [34:00]The importance of slowing down your exercise, which can show you a much more accurate reaction of what your body is ready to do – energetically and otherwise. [35:00]How to know when you're ready to go back to exercising after taking a break to allow your body to recover [39:45[About blue light – how it affects health and how to navigate it in the modern world [41:45]How to hack our way back to optimal health in a modern world [42:55] References www.alexfergus.com About Heads Up Heads Up 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Alex Fergus – Bodybuilding and being your own health advocate appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

If you've been around the health and wellness world for a minute, then surely you've heard of Paleo f(x) and its co-founder, Keith Norris. Paleo f(x) is the premier health and wellness event in Austin, Texas every year, gathering health and wellness industry leaders, as well as companies creating biohacking products, to bring the paleo lifestyle to the 21st century. Interestingly, there is also a beautiful overlap with the Burning Man community.  We think you'll enjoy this engaging interview with Keith Norris and Dave Korsunsky about Paleo f(x), holistic entrepreneurship, MDMA and psilocybin therapies, biohacking, Burning Man and more. It’s also about finding yourself at a place in life where you feel you have nothing to lose and building a dream to change the world.  Whether you're someone who just enjoys biohacking your own health, or you're a practitioner working to help people change their health and their lives, there is something in here for all of you.  This year, the Paleo f(x) event will be held on July 14-16, 2020. The Health Entrepreneur f(x) event will take place on July 13, 2020. And it sounds like there are some after-parties that you won't want to miss! Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: About the interesting connection that Keith Norris made when Paleo f(x) partnered with the Health Optimisation Summit in the UK last year, which revealed a greater desire there for biohacking to optimize health. Is this focus higher due to their healthcare system vs. the U.S. where we are more focused on just regaining our health? [1:50] That having achieved the “American dream” and feeling hollow inside, Keith Norris left the pharmaceutical job he'd worked his way up the ladder to, and along with his wife Michelle — and co-founder of Paleo f(x) — they shifted gears to create something that helps contribute toward healing the world [6:25] More about the exact moment Keith knew he was done working for a pharmaceutical company [8:30] After losing their daughter in 2009 and most of their money in the Great Recession of 2008, Michelle and Keith Norris felt they had nothing to lose and dreamt big [10:25] About Keith and Michelle's start in the paleo world running gyms and a paleo catering business in Austin, TX [11:22] That Paleo f(x) was born sitting on the tarmac at LAX on the flight back to Austin. By the time they were back home, they had a business plan and 6 months later, the first Paleo F(x) show took place in 2012 [11:50] About bankruptcy and the side of entrepreneurship that you don't see [13:30] About the contrast of what Paleo f(x) began as and what it is now with paleo principles layered with technology [14:10] In the 2020 Paleo f(x) show, a whole section of the hall will be dedicated to biohacking [17:30] How the only way to know if changes are working is to use a platform like Heads Up to layer the metrics and see what is causing the changes – good or bad [18:25] Why tracking the effects of sleep, alcohol, and inflammatory foods, etc. and the impact on your recovery ability and overall wellness helps you to learn what specific inputs are most important to your wellness [20:05] The top two lifestyle/dietary choices that have the biggest effect on Keith Norris personally [22:00] “Paleo is much more than diet and exercise. It's 7 pillars. It's mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, financial, relational and tribal. That is paleo.” [23:30] In 2016 Michelle and Keith Norris were massive proponents of plant medicine for use in PTSD, depression and other conditions, and utilized a shaman to roll it out on stage at Paleo F(x), uncertain if it would be well received. It turned out to be the most highly attended panel with the highest ratings to date and has been a huge part of the event since then. [28:25] Discussion around the use of psilocybin, cannabis, and microdosing and more vs. socially acceptable forms of mind-altering substances like alcohol [30:24] Mental health and pharmaceuticals vs diet, nutrition, and nutrient depletion as well as the effect of MDMA on PTSD [32:40] About plant based ceremonies for healing like Ayahuasca and Huachuma that works and is cheap relative to pharmaceuticals [34:00] The Millennial generation is getting hammered financially – struggling with an average of 40k in student debt (which can't be wiped clean with bankruptcy) and can affect overall health. The paleo lifestyle and biohacking can help to support them as they navigate the working world [35:50] The Health Entrepreneur f(x) came about because they saw a need to provide motivated health driven business owners that were lacking the business tools for successful holistic entrepreneurship [37:50] Paleo f(x) is the wrecking ball to challenge the old paradigm. Keith Norris wants an army of heart-driven entrepreneurs to fill that void after breaking the old paradigm [38:25] The beautiful overlap between Paleo f(x) and Burning Man communities [40:05] “The healthier a person is, the harder they party because that is a natural expression of joy.” [40:55] References Health Entrepreneur F(x) Paleo f(x)FDA Grants Psilocybin Second Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Resistant DepressionThe Health Optimisation Summit 2020Burn for a Cause EventMAPS About Heads Up  Heads Up 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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In episode 376, I chat with Dave Korsunsky, who believes we should all try everything at least twice.  Listen as he talks about his own personal fitness journey and how he started his company Heads Up Health.  Plus, why he believes change comes from tracking data and understanding what your body needs to be healthy and his journey into entrepreneurship. 

Dr. Kevin Sprouse is trained in both emergency and sports medicine, making him one of the most sought after physicians working with some of the top athletes around the world. His patients have included many elite, Olympic and professional endurance athletes, including Tour de France cyclists. Utilizing cutting-edge and routine tests, he is able to help tailor protocols to his patients, which now also include recreational athletes. His focus is to help them to optimize, not only their physical endurance and strength, but their recovery as well. In this episode, Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up, talks with Dr. Kevin Sprouse about exercise medicine for top athletes. You’ll learn how these principles and techniques can apply to recreational athletes and anyone interested in health optimization and performance as a goal. Tracking health metrics such as blood tests, lactate, HRV, HRV-CV, sleep and more, and pairing it with the Heads Up app, his patients can see for themselves how the metrics they are tracking are affected by the choices they make in training, recovery, sleep, diet and more. If health optimization and performance is your goal, you’ll want to hear how Dr. Kevin Sprouse, who has worked with people who are at the pinnacle of performance in athletics, to learn what really allows them to perform at their best and how that information can trickle down to the rest of us. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: How we have a lot of access to data tracking, but not a lot of good ways to correlate it to see what's actionable data. This is why Dr. Kevin Sprouse is excited to work with Dave and Heads Up to help him holistically manage and interpret his patients’ measurements. “Tools like yours helps us to distill those metrics and helps us to see which ones are useful…without that, it’s a lot of shooting in the dark, a lot of guess and check.” [3:00]This is Dr. Kevin Sprouse's 7th year at the Tour de France and that he spends 60-100 days a year at professional races with his patients. However, the emergency component (not just the crashes) along with other stuff that comes up (the asthma attacks, stomach pains, etc.) allows him to stay in both sides of the medicine he's trained in [7:45]How Dr. Sprouse has always enjoyed being in sports – baseball, tennis, basketball, soccer, running, Triathalons, mountain biking, cycling. Yet what made him look deeper into exercise medicine was that it's a missing piece in most of the medicine in preventative care [8:35]Although he is fascinated by the musculoskeletal injury healing, he's also interested in using the supportive nutrition and performance promotion to heal his athlete patients. The goal is for them to be resilient and to perform their best [9:35]How metric tracking can help those who have been into sports, yet not seeing their physical body change as they would have expected, can help them identify the areas to tweak to get where they want to be [11:00]Metrics Dr. Kevin Sprouse checks for top elite athletes – physiological levels [12:50]Endurance athletes – physiological markers in a sports lab – VO2 max, lactate (testing with a device that works similarly to a blood glucometer), metabolism, etc.How non-athletes can use the same metrics such as lactate to learn more about their health and their metabolic status (e.g., diet, insulin resistance, etc.) [18:55]Advice for people who work out and eat great, but can't lose the weight. How doing high-intensity exercise can be making them metabolically deficient. How the solution may be to drop the intensity way down (e.g., from CrossFit to brisk walking) to get them to finally lose the weight [20:20]Discussion on fat-adaptation and when it's best utilized. And how at the high-level, athletes end up fat-adapted just due to their training schedule. [22:15]How you can go too far with seeking a fat-burning state at the expense of hormones, etc. [24:00]Why fat-adaptation, ketosis, etc is not the goal and that there is no shortcut to get you there super fast [26:20]How you can use tracking to help you figure out what your inputs are that help keep you resilient [27:40]A more in-depth discussion on lactate in high-level athletes [28:40]About the KRAFT insulin test that helps to find undiagnosed diabetes [30:00]That sports are a series of surges and recoveries. Recovery is as important as the performance [31:20]Dave and Dr. Kevin Sprouse discuss mouth breathing vs. nose breathing and strategies to simulate altitude training [33:45]Top labs Dr. Kevin Sprouse likes to run and what he's looking at with them [36:40]Hemoglobin and hematocritFerritin and what anemia of an athlete is defined asTestosterone-to-cortisol ratiosFasting glucose, fasting insulin, cholesterolThyroid status for hormonesCreatinine kinase, ALT, AST, and LDH as acute muscle damage markersTools that Dr. Kevin Sprouse uses to track data with his patients including Garmin, Training Peaks, Strava, Oura ring, Whoop — all based on the athlete and their tolerances to see their recovery [44:30]How Dr. Kevin Sprouse uses a 3-day vs 45-day HRV, including HRV-CV, with his patients [46:00]More discussion about health metric tracking and how Heads Up can be a great central hub for putting all the pieces you're tracking together [49:30] References Podium Sports Medicine – Dr. SprouseThe FASTER studyKRAFT Insulin Testing About Heads Up Heads Up 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Dr. Kevin Sprouse – Tracking Health Metrics for Elite and Recreational Athletes appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Joel Sprechman is an engineer-turned-health-crusader on a mission to help those struggling with IBD, Crohn’s, and Ulcerative Colitis. Suffering from his own health crisis (after simply eating a homemade oatmeal cookie from his mom), Joel realized that conventional medicine wasn’t the answer to the questions he had. This began his quest to discover his own answers. After being sent to a gastroenterologist and being diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis, and later Crohn's, Joel Sprechman was given limited options for treatment from mainstream medicine. With an outlook that allowed him the opportunity to think differently, he found his own path. That mission would guide him to start One Great Gut, a foundation to help others see that there are other options available to them, outside of medication and surgery. If you're living with Irritable Bowel Disease, Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, or other chronic digestive issues, you'll want to hear Joel's journey back to health. Joel keeps it real and recognizes that while there are times for medication, the majority of the improvements over the long term come from diet and lifestyle changes. Learn how alternative therapies, meditation, stress management, and functional testing can help to gain a better insight as to what imbalances are contributing to the symptoms. You can find Joel Sprechman and his work at his website www.onegreatgut.com. There is a whole resource section available for you to see just what the options are, as well as a Mastermind group you can apply to join. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: About the community Joel Sprechman has built around people living with Crohn’s that are not using pharmaceuticals to control their symptoms [3:30]How the One Great Gut Health Collection was launched in October 2019 [4:20]Joel's history of issues since childhood that came to a head in 2001 when he was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis [8:45] Why Joel now sees his diagnosis as a gift, using it to see when his body is under too much stress [12:25]Joel defines colitis and what can contribute to it [13:30] Just how much stress affects digestion [14:40]That about 10 million are living with Crohns or colitis and is considered autoimmune [14:50]How inflammation with a gut health condition like Colitis or Crohn’s affects other parts of the body, more than just the colon [15:20]Joel Sprechman and Dave Korsunsky talk more about contributors to developing a disease like Crohns or UC. How root causes can be different for each person [17:15]How Joel is managing his “gift” through natural approaches. Also how Joel believes that conventional medical care is a big reason so many are living with chronic illnesses [20:50]How chronic illness is becoming more and more prevalent. Conventional doctors are working from the “prescribe and perform surgery,” without any emphasis or training on prevention, diet and lifestyle mitigation [22:00]About how ozone therapy and hyperbaric treatment can be really helpful for optimizing health with IBD [23:45]Why slowing down and paying attention to our bodies can help to understand what is happening. This can possibly prevent you from going into a full-blown attack, before realizing you need to course-correct [26:10]How we tend to default to wanting to mask pain through the use of NSAIDs, TV, caffeine, etc. We use this to power through and live in our heads instead of our bodies. This can lead us further down the path to disease, one day waking up to a full-blown autoimmune illness [27:20]Why getting the right type of healthcare provider can help you ask the right questions. This can help you to find out how to properly support your body. [28:30]How do you get started with a functional medicine practitioner for Irritable Bowel Disease or other gut health ailments? [30:00]Joel's recommendations on where to go to find functional medicine doctors, and how most of them work remotely as well [31:25]What kind of diagnostic testing is helpful that Joel recommends. As well as the at-home tests he recommends utilizing and monitoring [33:15]About Joel's personal experience with utilizing some of the functional tests before going on a new medication [35:50]How hyperbaric and ozone therapy helps with gut health; rectal ozone therapy can be helpful to someone with a compromised colon; and ozone topicals can be helpful for use in the mouth or even used with fistulas [37:45]There are topical, rectal and IV ozone therapies available for fighting pathogens and invaders to the bodyHyperbaric therapy can boost the immune systemThat CBD and cannabis can be helpful to offset symptoms and get off of pharmaceuticals. Though medical marijuana seems to have a stronger medicinal effect for stress mitigation for most. How a topical marijuana salve can help keep things moving in the gut that can be shut down due to stress [42:50]Regarding hyperbaric therapy – when using just the chamber you have 25% more absorption than without, and if you add a concentrator or mask you can get up to 35-45% high-quality oxygen [45:30]What Joel Sprechman finds to be supportive as a starting point for someone trying to heal. And how you can use personal belief and your intuition to guide you as you experiment with your health [47:05]Fasting and/or elemental or elimination diets can halt things really fast if you're trying to make a big change quickly; however fasting should be done under the guidance of a physician [47:25]How the elemental diet helps to arrest the progression of symptoms of IBD. And why SCD, paleo, and GAPS can also be great for people who like to cook as well [49:00]More about the summit and interviews Joel Sprechman has conducted that have been very well received with audiences. And how mindset and medication can help to go deeper with the healing capacity [53:10]How Google is censoring information and about the type of information you will find. How to decipher what is helpful and what is not [56:44]More about One Great Gut 2.0 is forthcoming with a lot more great information [58:10]How Joel uses the Heads Up app for tracking his own health and labs after years of using just a spreadsheet [59:10] References Institute for Functional Medicine A4M.com One Great Gut Mastermind Diagnostic Solutions CytoDx Thryve stool testing Great Plains Laboratory Crohn's and Colitis Summit About Heads Up Heads Up 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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Dave Korsunsky has fifteen years’ experience working for industry-leading technology firms. As an avid health enthusiast, and navigating a health crisis of his own, he recognized an opportunity to build a software solution called Heads Up Health that makes it easier for anyone to take control of their health through centralized, easy to understand data. The software integrates with more than 20,000 hospitals and healthcare systems across the country like The Mayo Clinic, Stanford Health System, and the Cleveland Clinic. It provides full data integration with labs and pharmacies. In this episode: Why Dave saw the need to create Heads Up Why has pulling all of our health records into one place been so difficult in the past? How does it work? How does it pull all of this information together into one place? What does this do for the patient? Fast forward five years into the future. What does access look like? The importance of seeing lifestyle modifications (diet, sleep, exercise, stress, etc.) affect clinical markers of health and weight loss. https://headsuphealth.com/   Karen Martel is a transformational nutrition coach who specializes in women's hormone health, weight loss and primal based diets.   She is the founder of the OnTrack program for women. OnTrack helps women optimize their weight loss results and balance their hormones. Get started at https://karenmartel.com/ontrack In the OnTrack Program You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing!   Order your own hormone kit today! No need for a doctor you can test from the comforts of your own home! 

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Have you ever tried medicinal cannabis for your anxiety, pain, achy joints or other condition, experienced cannabis side effects and written it off as a natural medicine that won't work for you?  Were you aware that cannabis works on the endocannabinoid system within the body, and with some personalization, through genome testing, you can have help finding cannabis that works for you? EndoCanna Health uses your genes to determine ways in which your system interacts with cannabis. Personalized genomics in the context of medicinal cannabis can help you to understand which cannabis is right for you. We know that certain strains or terpenes are better for particular ailments, however, if you're a slow metabolizer, or if you have a predisposition to anxiety, for example, you may have a different experience than your friend or even family member using the same amount/strain of medicinal cannabis. Listen to Dave Korsunsky of Heads Up Health interview Len May, Co-Founder of EndoCanna Health about genetic testing for cannabis. Learn more about the endocannabinoid system and how your genetics can help you to find the right cannabis for you, to help with things like anxiety, mood, sleep, pain, and more. EndoCanna takes its privacy very seriously, so if you're not happy running a 23 and Me for genetic information, you can order a kit directly from EndoCanna Health who can run your results on their own secure system(no sharing of genetic data and they are HIPAA compliant). Click here to learn more about testing with EndoCanna Health. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: About Len May’s history of involvement in the medical cannabis regulations and acceptance as a medical treatment since the early 1990s [4:10] About Elvy Musikka who is legally blind due to glaucoma – a participant in the NIDA program that allowed the federal government to cultivate cannabis in the University of Mississippi and send to a location to roll into cigarettes that even comes in a tin with a USDA label. She could light up in front of Federal rangers…in the 1990s! [4:25] Len started in California in a dispensary where patients were using medical cannabis for various reasons and his experience was that while they recommended certain strains for certain conditions, he began to see that within those ailments people would have wildly different experiences of the same strain/profile [7:20] Your DNA dictates your personal experience.  Len and his team spent 2 years to evaluate every gene that has a direct or indirect connection with the endocannabinoid system, knowing that it's an ongoing thing due to emerging science – they continue to study genetic info as it comes out in relation to how it affects the endocannabinoid system [8:55] EndoCanna Health has developed a direct to consumer kit ($199) similar to a 23 and Me, with a simple mouth swab that they genetically sequence that to find out which cannabis would work best for you and help regulate the entire endocannabinoid system. You can also bring your own raw data over to run through their system for $49 [10:00] Genetic conditions that are affected by a gene expression help them learn what the optimal ratio of cannabinoids and terpenes for their particular genetic expression of symptoms [12:20] The 8 genetic expression symptoms that are affected by which are: Anxiety Pain Metabolism Psychosis Sleep Cognition Dependence Depression While they can use 23 and Me or other data that you have already their interpretation is only as good as the array that the original test included. (23 and Me provided more genetic data prior to August 2017, so older tests may offer more info) The more genes tested will give a better interpretation to give better suggestions based on your genes. They do not make recommendations but instead provide suggestions of what may be beneficial to you [13:50] That the endocannabinoid system is a regulatory system that supports digestion, immune, hormones, and more.  We are all born with this system and the ability to produce our own endogenous endocannabinoids within our bodies, and it regulates based on our body needs. Lifestyle, stress, lack of sleep, poor nutrition can create deficiencies in our own endocannabinoid system and our immune system responds because we don't have enough of our own endocannabinoids to support everything it needs to, which is how cannabis can support the endocannabinoid system [15:10] There are receptor cites built into our bodies which turn on in response to the cannabis plant. CB1 effects the central nervous system and THC.  CB2 is activated by enzymes through CBD and has a lot to do with immune and digestive systems [16:55] Info about how to look for a cannabis medicine from a dispensary- from state to state it can be different in what information they publish on terpenes. EndoCanna Health gives you the profile that you'll want to look for, and then you'll need to locate the product within your state. You can also take the profile to your local dispensary and ask them to help you find what you're looking for [17:55] About why some people have a great experience, while others taking the same amount and strain of cannabis can have completely different experiences [21:20] Have you ever tried medicinal cannabis and gotten anxiety?  If you have a predisposition of anxiety due to your genes (FAAH), then you are more likely to experience anxiety in a threatening situation.  Because anandamide is lower and cortisol higher, giving that fight or flight feeling, THC exacerbates that. There are terpene profiles like limonene that are dominant in Savita hybrids that can trigger that gene to express itself. If you know this ahead of time, lower your THC, increase your CBD and modify your terpene profile to decrease chances of having an issue with anxiety, for example, include linalool instead of limonene for a more calming effect [22:16] People call up or go to the ER, and think they're dying, but you cannot have a toxic overdose of cannabis. What often happens with edibles that rely on the liver to convert the THC is that it actually becomes more potent, and due to the delayed impact, people often eat more and then end up with way more than they need. They could use less or take it sublingually and have a much better experience [25:15] Len talks about how individuals can empower themselves with these reports and take them to their doctors to support them with this wealth of info. He mentions that if you have a doctor who doesn't support the use of cannabis for treatment, there are other doctors out there with this cutting edge information that will [28:30] EndoCanna Health takes its security and how they handle it very seriously.  Their DNA is in one server and the reports are in another server, and an encoded keycode associated with each.  They are HIPAA compliant so they can't show a sample report due to their high level of security [29:30] Using Heads Up Health with a service like EndoCanna Health reports can help you track to see whether your inflammation is coming down or other markers you may be interested in following [31:00] EndoCanna Health is in a partnership with a company in Australia called WARD Management and is in 6 clinical trials to track data markers that show the effectiveness of your treatment with cannabis [31:40] About drug to drug interaction with cannabis, and how things like CBD can be an uptake inhibitor which can reduce the effectiveness of your prescription depression medications. It's important to know how one affects the other [32:50] How using their service is like GPS in guiding you to know where you want to go and how you're going to get there using cannabis [34:00] Dave mentions research that's coming out on how cannabis can be used with opioid addiction because it can bind to some of those opioid receptors and help you titrate off of medications. Make sure you understand interactions if you're on meds [35:20] Opioids bind to those CB1 receptors for pain as an analgesic and their test can tell you if you have a predisposed dependence to opioids and if you're likely to have more unfavorable results to opioids than most people SUPER USEFUL to know beforehand [35:45] How understanding how your genes work with opioids and cannabis can affect how you live your life and even potentially prevent you from traveling down a road you never want to go down with addiction as well [38:00] References EndoCanna Health How to download your 23 and Me raw data to upload to EndoCanna Health 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 32 – EndoCanna Health – Personalizing Medicinal Cannabis with DNA testing appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Dr. Justin Marchegiani is a licensed Chiropractor in the state of Texas, with postgraduate studies in the area of clinical nutrition, rehabilitative exercise, and functional medicine. With a holistic approach, Dr. Justin Marchegiani offers testing options such as the urine heavy metals test to help his patients improve their health, and prevent future issues by taking a proactive approach. This is the first in a series of interviews with Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, where they’ll dive into the specific lab testing used in functional medicine: ex. the testing of heavy metals, organic acids and/or IgG antibodies. In this episode, Dr. Justin Marchegiani reviews Dave's heavy metals test (watch the forthcoming YouTube video) and talks about the dangers of mercury in our environment and how it can have detrimental effects when it builds up in our bodies. Though each person will need a customized approach to safely remove the heavy metals from the body, which can take some time, it is well worth the investment in your healthy future. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: Dr. Justin Marchegiani's introduction of why and how he uses functional tests to evaluate symptoms, systems and underlying stressors [1:50] How Dr. Marchegiani helped inspire Dave to develop the Heads Up Health app [4:30] About some of the tests that are very useful but not offered as standard labs by most doctors [6:00] About the Doctors Data test for heavy metals, which is used to tell the tissue burden of heavy metals.This test uses DMPS to pull metals into the urine for testing, showing a better representation of what is stored in the body's tissues, rather than a blood metals test that shows only for acute exposure to metals. The reason for running this for Dave was lowered WBC and lowered platelet counts, which could mean either an underlying viral infection or mercury being burdensome on the immune system [6:40] Hear what Dr. Marchegiani recommended for Dave to address the things that came up on his Doctors Data heavy metals test [8:15] How people get exposed to heavy metals, like bomb-making for example…or, more realistically dental amalgam fillings, thermometers, barometers, batteries, some Ayurvedic herbs (the cheap ones), fluoride, pesticides, fungicides, old coal burning methods that have gotten into fish, flu vaccines that are high in Thimerosal [8:56] That Dr. Marchegiani doesn't recommend heavy metal testing until the gut has really been cleaned up and supported because a large part of detox happens in the hepatobiliary system (liver-gallbladder), and GI tract. You don't want to re-toxify yourself [11:05] Why binders are important with heavy metal detox [11:45] Why Dr. Marchegiani recommends doing the heavy metal testing for monitoring annually, especially if you're on municipal water supply, and why you shouldn't trust the water supply [11:55] Top three things to help prevent heavy metal issues #1 – “The solution to pollution is dilution!” [12:45] #2 – Good access to an infrared sauna [13:06] #3 – Really good access to, and digestion of, sulfur amino acids — animal proteins are the richest source, whey protein, organic green vegetables Don't expose yourself to the heavier sprayed pesticide-laden crops, and avoid mercury fillings and Thimerosal in the flu vaccine [13:25] That having low glutathione levels makes it harder to excrete mercury, which can be tested for in an RBC glutathione test or an organic acids test, and can also inactivate lymphocytes or be immunosuppressive (Dave's low WBC could be from this) [14:05] How proactive Dr. Marchegiani is in running tests that might be helpful in uncovering potential issues [15:15] That we want to look at the levels of mercury in the test, but also we have to look for the exposure or source of where it came from. We don't always find an answer, but it could be from inorganic foods, for example [16:15] Tips to reduce accumulation of mercury: [16:20] Sweat a lot Drink plenty of filtered, healthy, mineral-rich water Eat organic foods Consider lead-based paints as a factor in homes built before 1976 [16:55] What symptoms people might see or diseases that might occur over years of exposure or burden in the body that haven't actively been trying to reduce it [17:10] An increased stimulator in autoimmune conditions Neurological issues Lack of physical endurance (mitochondrial suppressor) Activation of the sympathetic nervous system – overtaxing the adrenals Thyroid issues and other system dysfunction The lethal dose of one for mercury, or the lethal dose of one for lead is the amount of that metal that is required to kill the first rat out of 100 fed the metal. If you combine the lethal dose for one of mercury with the lethal dose of one for lead, ZERO rats will survive. Metals have synergistic effects making them even more toxic when combined [18:30] How to get this heavy metal test, which is around $150 with the DMPS, which Dr. Marchegiani recommends annually. If you know you're exposed to these metals, then test more frequently or if you have a high level on your first test you'd want to test more frequently to monitor the progress of the protocol. You can order a test at www.justinhealth.com [19:45] You can schedule a consult via Dr. Justin Marchegiani on his website from anywhere in the world. Or ask your own doctor about the functional tests [20:40] IgG antibodies, and organic acids functional tests coming soon on the Heads Up Health podcast with Dr. Justin Marchegiani and Dave [21:00] References Topo Chico water Heavy Metal test with DMPS Dr. Justin Marchegiani 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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Dave is the founder and CEO of Heads Up Health. Heads Up Health was founded by a team of health-conscious technology experts on the simple concept that being healthy doesn't have to be complicated. We saw a world of disjointed medical records, underutilized health tracking technologies and abundant, but poorly managed, health data. We felt that intelligent software could provide the perfect solution. Based on our belief that well-organized data holds the key to optimal health, we have created a central space where you can manage and explore your own. --Topics listed below. The NEW CorSense HRV sensor: https://elitehrv.com/corsense Leave a quick review for the podcast: https://elitehrv.com/review-ep-27 (Thanks in advance!) Learn about Heart Rate Variability at HRVcourse.com: https://hrvcourse.com/ep-27 TOPICS: * Intros and the idea behind Dave's product * Dave's new idea is live - how to try it out * What are the key markers to monitor metabolic health? * Are you in ketosis? The "ketone index" can tell you beyond ketones and glucose * Why did Dave start his health venture? * Jason's own experience with ketosis * Understanding how your lifestyle changes show up in your Medical Records * Why you need full access to your Medical Records * Where to find Dave Guest: Dave Korsunsky https://www.headsuphealth.com/ Host: Jason Moore https://elitehrv.com Show notes: https://elitehrv.com/podcast Leave a quick review for the podcast: https://elitehrv.com/review-ep-27 (Thanks in advance!) Learn about Heart Rate Variability at HRVcourse.com: https://hrvcourse.com/ep-26 The NEW CorSense HRV sensor: https://elitehrv.com/corsense --

Peter Bowes is a reporter for the BBC and the host of the podcast LLAMA (Live Long And Master Aging). Through his podcast, he has interviewed both professionals studying human longevity as well as everyday people, including centenarians, to find out what drives them and keeps them living to a ripe old age. What does your health span have to do with your quality of life? What’s the difference between health span and life span when it comes to human longevity?  What is a long life worth if you're riddled with disease by the time you achieve it? These are the questions Peter asks. In this podcast, you'll hear Peter Bowes share with Dave Korsunsky the top 10 longevity lessons he has compiled through his research and podcast interviews so that you, too, can get to live your best and healthiest life — and master aging! Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: How metrics tracked over time allow you to see trends for longevity [5:11] Peter discusses ten items that are important to track for longevity [6:25] Lesson One – Simplicity is Good. What you feel from clutter surrounding you physically to how you organize your life alters how you make other decisions. Chaos in your life can lead you to overeat or distract yourself with other things. (Think twice before clicking buy online: “Do I really need it?”)  [7:05] Lesson Two – Be Precise. Precision in the things that we’re doing such as keeping focus with Intermittent Fasting – ex. do you do it daily, weekly, monthly? [13:00] Lesson Three – Fasting is Good for Us. (Disclaimer: you should check with your provider to see if it's right for you right now.) [15:45] How the different types of fasting affect you and how only through tracking your data can you see which way is best for you right now. [17:13] Lesson Four – Stop Eating at 6 pm. Peter talks about Satchin Panda's work regarding the circadian rhythm. [20:00] How rising with the sun and winding down with the sun setting, and eating your last meal at 6 pm can help you get to sleep and stay asleep better. [21:00] About how the Oura ring can track when you reach your lowest resting heart rate in the night to help you figure out what is working for you regarding the last meal of the day and more [22:00] About N=1 Experiments and how they are really beneficial; as you share with your friends who are doing the same things, you'll start to see patterns that are more universal [23:20] Lesson Five – Never Stop Having a Project. Keep doing what you love whether you get paid for it or not. (Ex. Megastar Herb Albert is still working well into his early 80’s as a sculptor, artist, painter, and musician.)[24:25] Lesson Six – Keep Moving Every Day, Every Hour. There is no reason why you can't do that in any job. Just get up every hour and walk around for a few minutes [27:57] To get moving, park further away from the place you're going and take the stairs if you're able to. Walk around the building before going into it and you'll get your steps in every day. Take the long way there! [31:45] How Dave noticed that being in a metropolitan area he got more exercise when everything was within a 6 block radius, versus living somewhere where things were further apart and more driving was required [33:15] That being active isn't about weight loss per se, but about the movement that benefits your muscles, cardiovascular system, mood and more.  You don't need a device to achieve that, but tracking it can motivate you to keep consistent [34:00] Lesson Seven – Moderation is Not Everything. But what does moderation actually mean? “Moderation is that word you use when you don't want to push yourself to the limit” – Joe De Sena. It doesn't really mean anything. Do it precisely, not wishy-washy. Go all in! [35:40] Play the game of life full out. Some days are good, some days aren't. [37:00] Lesson Eight – Enduring Discomfort is Good for You. Take a cold shower instead of a hot shower, and you'll feel great coming out of it. Everything is appreciated more when it's infrequent [37:45] The good will feel so much better after you've endured some discomfort regularly like a cold shower vs hot or really healthy food vs. a very occasional treat. It will be so much better than if you had access to that treat every day [40:30] Lesson Nine – Eat Clean, Eat Simply. Choose clean vegetables; homegrown is great! The appreciation of freshly harvested food is so beneficial. Appreciate food and eat simply. You don't need gourmet food to lead a good life. [41:45] Lesson Ten – Simplicity is Good. – How you run your life/day/mind and environment (decluttering). About the reward circuits of hyper-palatable foods of modern culture [44:00] The number one reason that people want to be able to live to a long age? They want to do it for their children and their grandchildren. Family and connectivity and sharing wisdom is the main reason for wanting to live to an old age with a high quality of life. What's yours? [46:09] Extending life is important to share the wisdom that is gained in a life well lived [49:45] References Valter Longo  The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda Dr. Felice Gersh on fasting Joe De Sena Cold water immersion video of Dr. Limansky and Dave Korsunsky Wired to Eat by Robb Wolf 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 27 – 10 Longevity Lessons to Extend Your Health Span | Peter Bowes appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

David Korsunsky comes on the Decoding Superhuman podcast to explain the value of dashboarding quantified self-data with his product, Heads Up Health. Well, I think the future is now starting to provide more automated insights for people. So without you even having to log in, the system should be smart enough to say we found an extremely strong correlation between your carbohydrate intake and your resting heart rate. David Korsunsky, CEO Heads Up Health Who is Dave Korsunsky? Dave is the CEO and Founder of Heads Up Health. David has fifteen years of experience working for industry leading technology firms and most recently served as Director of Technical Alliances at VMware, Inc. where he led strategic partnerships with global EHR companies including EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, GE, Allscripts and many more. As an avid health enthusiast, he recognized an opportunity to build a software solution that makes it easier for anyone to take control over their health through better use of their data. Key Highlights from the Podcast [5:00] What led to Dave starting Heads Up Health?  [6:00] Our mutual love of the now-defunct Zeo  [8:00] Combining lifestyle data with medical records [12:09] The Electronic Health Record system in the United States [17:00] Using the Oura Ring for behavior modification [24:00] Heads Up Health and Data Privacy [26:00] What about people who do not enjoy knowing all of this data about themselves?  [28:00] What data to expect to be available on Heads Up Health soon?  [33:00] Establishing correlation between two different types of data [36:47] Dave answers the final 4 questions Resources Mentioned Heads Up Health Website Sleep Tracking Startup Zeo Says Goodnight Nootropics with Mansal Denton (an interview to get the basics on nootropics) Freestyle Libre – Continuous Glucose Measurement Whoop  Oura Ring (use code BOOMER for a USD 50 discount) Epi-Paleo Rx by Jack Kruse The Bulletproof Diet by David Asprey How does Dave Define Health? Balance Dave’s Top Trick for Enhancing Focus?  Optimal sleep and Modafinil  Dave Korsunsky’s Favorite Book on High Performance?  Epi-Paleo Rx by Jack Kruse The Bulletproof Diet by David Asprey Continue Your Journey with Heads Up Health Website Heads Up Health Facebook Heads Up Health Instagram Email Dave – dave@headsuphealth.com Sponsor Our sponsor today is Neurohacker Collective. Chairman, Jordan Greenhall has been on the show discussing Sovereignty and Medical Director, Dr. Daniel Stickler joined me to discuss unleashing your human potential through Epigenetics. I enjoy the products so much that I use them 5 out of 7 days. Whether it’s Qualia, Qualia Mind, or one of their new formulas, I find them to be completely revolutionary in the supplement world. It upgrades me as a person. If you wanna try Qualia, Qualia Mind, or any of their other products, go over to neurohacker.com, plug in the discount code ‘BOOMER’ and you’ll get 10% off your first order or 15% off any order if you subscribe. Get their free Foundational Guide to Neurohacking at Neurohacker.com Disclaimer This information is being provided to you for educational and informational purposes only. This is being provided as a self-help tool to help you understand your genetics, biodata and other information to enhance your performance. It is not medical or psychological advice. Virtuosity LLC is not a doctor. Virtuosity LLC is not treating, preventing, healing, or diagnosing disease. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment. For the full Disclaimer, please go to (Decodingsuperhuman.com/disclaimer). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Korsunsky spent 15 years working for industry-leading technology firms, and in 2015 founded Heads Up Health, a San Francisco-based startup helping people to aggregate and learn from their own health information. The company can retrieve lab work from over 30,000 providers across the US, building a single health history and a timeline that can help to make sense of your current challenges. In this podcast, I’m talking with David about his mission to help 100 million people take control of their health. We talk about the Heads Up Health platform, which integrates with apps and devices and eliminates that dusty old pile of lab reports you weren’t sure what to do with.  David also shares his own story as a case study, demonstrating the value of having easy, mobile, shareable access to all of your health information. Here’s the outline of this interview with David Korsunsky: [00:01:09] Heads Up Health. [00:01:24] Robb Wolf's Podcast featuring Dave Korsunsky. [00:02:08] The story behind Heads up Health. [00:05:48] WellnessFx. [00:06:18] Applying engineering mindset to health. [00:11:36] Devices; Oura ring. [00:11:53] Elite HRV; CorSense device; Jason Moore. [00:13:30] MyFitnessPal, My Macros+, Cronometer; Keto-Mojo. [00:13:56] LEVL, Ketonix. [00:16:51] requestatest.com; Grace Liu; Ulta Labs. [00:17:17] Blood Chemistry Calculator. [00:18:20] DUTCH, OAT, Genova, Doctor's Data, BioHealth Labs. [00:22:50] Reference Ranges. [00:26:14] Dave Feldman; Podcast: How to Drop Your Cholesterol. [00:28:52] Tracking symptoms; seizures. [00:29:51] Potential applications of machine learning. [00:32:28] Elimination diet. [00:33:30] Video: Bryan's H. Pylori case study. [00:35:28] 23andme DNA testing. [00:36:49] Data-Driven Health Radio: Episode 20 - Carrie Brown. [00:37:26] Care team access. [00:39:18] Dexcom 5; Quantified Self; Freestyle Libre, Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM). [00:41:14] Dr. Simon Marshall, PhD. Podcasts: 1, 2, 3, 4. [00:42:40] Challenges to progress; Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) movement. [00:43:12] Podcast: How to Teach Machines That Can Learn, with Pedro Domingos, PhD. [00:44:15] mint.com. [00:46:21] Amazon AWS for data storage. [00:47:53] Data-Driven Health Radio podcast. [00:49:44] How to get started on Heads up Health. [00:52:41] dave@headsuphealth.com.

Steve Ottersberg is driven to change the way the world sees cannabis. He’s hoping to destigmatize the cannabis industry to allow more individuals to benefit from the use of CBD and cannabis for everything from anxiety and sleep to depression and cancer. Steve believes that consumers should understand and be armed with information on which terpenes are beneficial for their medical condition and whether or not they are contained in the product they are purchasing. In this podcast, Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, interviews Steve Ottersberg, who is a wealth of information on all things CBD oil, cannabis, interpreting genetic data, and more! (In fact, when recommending  a cannibus product for use in a condition-specific treatment such as cancer, he first starts by looking at the genes that influence neurotransmitter metabolism.) Have you ever wondered why some strains of CBD or THC make you feel either high or low?  Ready to go beast mode, or ready to hibernate for winter? Steve shares what makes the effects of the different strains more or less beneficial for different conditions and why he doesn't believe in the classification of Indica or Sativa anymore. This is one episode you won't want to miss! Steve Ottersberg graduated from Fort Lewis College with a B.S. in biochemistry and has an M.S. in Bio-organic chemistry from Arizona State University, where he also taught both organic chemistry and nutritional-biochemistry. He also held a faculty position teaching chemistry at Fort Lewis College. Currently, Steve is Owner and Supervisory Analyst of Green Lab Solutions, living in Colorado with his wife, cancer survivor and thriver Dr. Nasha Winters, whose work (she is also the author of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer) complements one another.  Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: About his work doing genetic coaching with clients in wife Dr. Nasha Winters' practice bringing in the biochemistry of CBD into her practice and their work with Alex Swanson of Nutrition Genome [4:30] Hear what gene markers Steve looks at when recommending a cannabis product [8:35] How you may be functioning well on the surface, but biochemically you may be struggling, creating a higher burden on the body which can lead to cancer and other ailments [10:05] About the terpenes in the plants and how Steve recommends CBD strains based on them for different ailments and conditions [12:20] That hemp and marijuana are both cannabis Sativa but the difference between the two is marijuana has been bred to selectively produce THC [13:25] How myrcene binds to opioid receptors [14:00] A study in Japan showed smelling limonene was as effective as anti-depressants in an institutional setting [17:35] How his lab is calibrated for 21 terpenoids, but it only seeing 5-10 at levels that are significant in a typical marijuana plant in Colorado [20:30] Why Steve doesn't believe in the Indica and Sativa classification anymore [21:0] How beta-pinene and limonene counteract the sedative effect of THC to make them more uplifting [21:45] What one of the most powerful antidotes to THC is [22:20] How to reverse the effects of too many edibles that have snuck up on you [23:00] Why we need to start with terpenoids and end with cannabinoids in our description and high THC needs to come to an end except in extreme cases [23:50] Where most people go wrong with edibles [25:00] What Steve wants to see in a dispensary, and how you should start with CBD vs CBD/THC strains [26:25] How high myrcene strains can provide high pain relief rather than opioids [27:00] About how some of the labeling laws differ in different states and what to look for [29:50] Recommendation to consumers to ask for lab testing data from your dispensary, even if it’s not labeled [34:00] Cannabinoids and cannabinoid receptors tune our neurotransmitters, and THC and CBD allow us to fine-tune our normal neurotransmitter function. The terpenoids are the way we as consumers can fine-tune CBD and THC for desired effects [36:25] Steve’s plea to the growers [39:00] Top terpenes and what they're good for [40:00] Steve's work to publish a website and a book as a resource for patients seeking condition-specific support [51:45] How in the future, Heads Up will be able to crunch all that data — genetic SNPS, terpene profiles, blood test data, blood sugar values and more — to help both patients and clinicians track data more efficiently. [52:25] References “Taming THC” by Dr. Ethan Russo (neurologist) Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center – d-limonene Cannabinoids and Terpenoids: Pharmacology, Pharmacogenomics, and the Complex Interactions of the Endocannabinoid System with Terpenoids and Phytocannabinoids, Implications in Oncology Dr. Nasha Winters’ Optimal Terrain link to Best Answer for Cancer conference “Cancer, Cannabis, & Keto” Aunt Zelda's United Patients Group 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 25 – How Terpinoids Can Help Patients Fine-Tune CBD & THC for Condition-Specific Treatments Like Cancer | Steve Ottersberg appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

How can you use biohacking technology to upgrade your mind and body, your cognitive and physical performance? And how did a poker game, along with an interest in biohacking and meditation, lead to Martin Tobias becoming the CEO of both Bulletproof Labs and Upgrade Labs? Find out the answers to these questions, and more, in this podcast episode with Dave Korsunsky of Heads Up Health as he talks to Martin Tobias about Bulletproof and Upgrade Labs and what they offer to the biohacking community. Listen in to see how your health and life can improve by tracking and having accountability for your own health, even if you’re not anywhere near one of these state-of-the-art biohacking facilities. And whether you want to improve your workouts, lower inflammation, heal from injury, or just improve brain health, Bulletproof Labs and Upgrade Labs are leading the way. Having a professional background and mind for data, Martin realized that there had to be a way to connect quantifiable health data to different inputs and find what works for individuals who want to make big gains in shorter amounts of time, a path that led him to Dave Asprey, Founder of Bulletproof Labs.   Find out more about Martin Tobias on his blog, Instagram, and Twitter. Follow Upgrade Labs on Instagram here. 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 like the Oura ring, Elite HRV, and Cronometer 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: How Martin Tobias found Dave Asprey's 40 years of Zen but didn't have $15k to do it; however, he won exactly $15k that night at a poker game, changing his life and leading to him running Bulletproof Labs [4:05] Dave Korsunsky's first N=1 experiment was doing a Bulletproof diet using DEXA scan and blood tests as biomarkers [8:30] Why people need to know their data and learn what it means as the first step in any health journey [10:25] “The medical system is set up for acute care, fixing people after they're broken, not actually keeping them healthy” [11:25] How Dave Asprey was using a spreadsheet and Martin thinking there had to be a better way which led to him learning about Heads Up Health at a conference [12:35] Learn about the type of sessions and data they track and use at Upgrade Labs [13:35] Dave talks about touring a Bulletproof facility, and what biohacking technology they use [14:25] Martin's favorite labs and how he's quantified them [15:20] Cold HIIT machine which increased Martins' testosterone from 468 to 1098 in 2 weeks with just 2 total hours of exercise [15:55] How blood testing is available onsite [18:45] Breath EZ water machine to reduce oxidative stress, enabling you to have more power in your cells to use for exercise more intensely [20:05] CVAC to give your cellular energy system a workout, which can increase your aerobic capacity [24:30] Why hacking and stacking can benefit you [26:30] Why meditating in a virtual float tank can put you into a theta state much faster [27:15] Full body nitrogen based cryotherapy to -240º [30:15] About infrared light beds and how they're more effective than infrared saunas due to the distance from the body [32:00] Why PEMF is great for recovery, discharging electrical energy like grounding but does it in just 12 minutes for a full electrical reset, speeding up healing time for injuries [33:15] Learn what Dave at Bulletproof is doing to improve mitochondrial function [37:35] How tracking with the Oura ring can show how poorly you sleep after a couple of drinks, even though you think you're sleeping well [39:00] About cold immersion therapy and how it can improve your REM sleep [39:45] How quality of sleep is more important than quantity and how tracking can help you biohack your way to better sleep [40:30] Dave Korsunsky found that using the Oura ring to track heart rate and varying last meal times affected heart rate and therefore sleep [41:45] Where you can find Bulletproof Labs (Santa Monica) and the new company Upgrade Labs and how every new location from here on out will be called Upgrade Labs. (They have a pop-up at Nike in Hollywood currently, and the third location will be in Beverly Hills opening in September. Four more locations in LA and one in San Jose coming soon! [43:50] References Bulletproof Labs Upgrade Labs by Bulletproof 40 years to Zen Brain Check 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 24 – Using Biohacking Technology to Upgrade Your Mind and Body | Martin Tobias of Bulletproof Labs & Upgrade Labs appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

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. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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. Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 22 – Using Nutrigenomics to Achieve Optimal Health | Alex Swanson of Nutrition Genome appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

This week Jimmy and John are joined by Dave Korsunsky, founder of  Heads Up Health as he talks about the importance of tracking your biohacking in Episode 27.   FREE N=1 TRACKING TOOL AT HEADS UP HEALTH Each week we take a deep look at a particular biohack as we look at different ways to supercharge the keto lifestyle, but what about tracking your biohacking and quantifying your results? That's where Heads Up Health comes in. Heads Up Health was founded by a team of health-conscious technology experts on the simple concept that being healthy doesn't have to be complicated. Seeing the state of disjointed medical records, underutilized health tracking technologies and abundant, but poorly managed, health data, they felt that intelligent software could provide the perfect solution.   David Korunsky, the founder, is an avid health enthusiast, recognized an opportunity to build a software solution that makes it easier for anyone to take control over their health through better use of their data. He joins us today to talk about quantifying and tracking the benefits you get from biohacking your keto lifestyle. COUPON CODE LLVLC FOR 10% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER NOTICE OF DISCLOSURE: Paid sponsorship LINKS FOR EPISODE 27: – SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Keto without the keto flu. (FREE TWO DAY SHIPPING FOR AMAZON PRIME MEMBERS) – KetoWhiteBoard.info – SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Complete nutrition for nutritional ketosis (COUPON CODE LLVLC FOR 10% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER) – Jimmy Moore from “Livin' La Vida Low-Carb”– JohnLimanskyMD.com – Start tracking your health markers for FREE at HeadsUpHealth.com FREE TWO DAY SHIPPING FOR AMAZON PRIME MEMBERSNOTICE OF DISCLOSURE: Paid sponsorship  

For episode 406 of The Paleo Solution Podcast we have guest Dave Korsunsky. Dave is the founder and CEO of Heads Up Health, a place where you can manage and explore all of your own health data. 1:48 – Summary/Pre-Intro 3:08 – Introducing Dave Korsunsky, How Robb and Dave met 4:54 – Heads Up Health 11:36 – Disconnected health information 13:46 – Quantified self and useful information 15:28 – HRV 16:45 – Individualized data and nuance 21:00 – API access and direct download access to reports 24:49 – Walkthrough of using Heads Up Health 27:06 – Data security 29:23 – Typical Heads Up Health user 31:44 – Heads Up Health trial and subscription 33:50 – Where to find Dave Websites: Data Driven Health Radio podcast HeadsUpHealth.com Post on Heads Up Health on our blog: https://robbwolf.com/2016/11/03/taking-control-of-your-health-records/

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 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, labs, or connect your favorite health devices like the Oura ring or Keto Mojo and apps like My Fitness Pal 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ ] 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. Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now! 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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. Listen to our podcast 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 like MyFitnessPal, the Oura Ring, and other 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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. Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 19 – The Case for Regenerative Farming & Nutrient Dense Food | Tyler Boggs of Heart2Heart Farms appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

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! Listen in iTunes! 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. 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 like the Oura ring as well as other 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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. Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 18: The Keto Doctor's Intro to the Health Benefits of Cold Water Therapy – Quick Hits with Dr. John Limansky appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

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. 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 like the Oura Ring 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 16 – The Terrain Ten Approach with Cancer Survivor and Thriver: Dr. Nasha Winters appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

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 Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health. a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ ] 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: 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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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 […] The post Episode 15 – How to Control Your Appetite: Understanding the Psychology of Eating with Keto Carole appeared first on Heads Up Health.

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 Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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. 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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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 […] The post Episode 14 – Hacking Performance and Health with Shawn Wells: On Smart Drugs, Microdosing, Nootropics and More appeared first on Heads Up Health.

The Human Longevity Project is not just a film series. It's a wake-up call to those suffering from chronic illness and those who believe the eventual onset of chronic disease is unavoidable. By studying other cultures, and the elders in the communities of remote villages, this film sheds light on what is really important to establishing and maintaining health and how to live longer healthier lives. This film series interviews not only the communities and their elders in over 50 different countries, but also professionals working in the various areas of medicine who are teaching the principles of what is necessary to maintain or regain health in our culture. The western world is filled with convenience and ingenuity, but at what cost? Can we have the comfort of modern society but balance our innate desire to connect with the earth and one another to promote better health? Listen in as Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, talks with Jason Prall, creator of The Human Longevity Project, about the film series on how we can adopt more simplicity, better quality food, and connection to our communities into our lives for better health. Jason Prall is a Longevity and Optimal Health Practitioner in Southern California who worked as a mechanical engineer and struggled with his own health before finding his way to health and wellness. He helps people around the globe as an entrepreneur, filmmaker, and Health Optimization Practitioner. Learn more about how tracking with Heads Up Health can help you to quantify and track the impact your lifestyle changes have on your health. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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. Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now! 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Fix your gut, fix your health. That is the sentiment that Dr. Stephen Barrie espouses in his work as a founding pioneer in the gut microbiome field for the last 35 years. His most recent work in developing Viome provides personalized nutrition recommendations based on your gut microbiome to support your health. Dr. Barrie is a physician, entrepreneur, scientist, teacher, keynote speaker, and author. He founded Genova Diagnostics in 1986 and developed the first clinical intestinal permeability lab test, SIBO breath test, and comprehensive stool analysis. Dr. Barrie has also spent seven years assisting the Chinese Central Government in incorporating Functional Medicine into their healthcare system. As the Chief Business Development Officer at Viome, Dr. Stephen Barrie has contributed to a system that takes microbiome testing to a new dimension. Viome offers home testing with results accessed through a phone app. Results show gut, metabolic and body scores, as well as what you can do to support keeping your gut microbiome, and therefore you, healthy. Viome helps you understand how the bacteria in your gut affects your health, what bacteria you have and how to feed it with foods that are optimal for you. It can even help you support proper blood sugar regulation by recommending foods that help balance your gut microbiome. Listen in as Dave Korsunsky, Founder of Heads Up Health, talks to Dr. Stephen Barrie about how both of their companies help people quantify elements of their health — sometimes a puzzle! –and how this health data empowers users to take control of their health so they can make their own decisions. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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. Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial now! 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Ginny Shelby is now a retired long-haul truck driver who experienced a complete health transformation after teaching herself to eat keto on the road, from the cab of her semi-truck! Listen as Dave Korsunsky talks with Ginny about how she was able to manage keto on the road and track her statistics with Heads Up Health while she lost 85 pounds and reversed her symptoms of pre-diabetes, diabetic neuropathy and plantar fibromatosis in the process! Starting the keto diet in Feb of 2016 she has been able to attain and maintain her goal of lowering her A1C, and daily blood glucose readings in addition to her incredible weight loss. Initially motivated by a genetic predisposition to diabetes and heart disease, her health transformation extends further than just disease avoidance. Now, both she and her husband are retired from driving and living on the Oregon coast. They continue to eat a ketogenic diet and track their health status with the Heads Up Health tracking app.   If you've considered trying a ketogenic diet and felt like you just couldn't manage it with your busy life, then you need to hear Ginny's story about how she had a Keto Lifestyle Transformation while on the road. Ginny is a great example of the saying “when there is a will, there is a way”. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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 [maxbutton id=”7″ ] 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 11 – Keto on the Road: Long Haul Driver Ginny Shelby’s Health Transformation appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

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 […] The post Episode 11 – Keto on the Road: Long Haul Driver Ginny Shelby’s Health Transformation appeared first on Heads Up Health.

Have you considered tracking heart rate variability to improve your health, or to train smarter?  In this podcast, Dave Korsunsky sits down with Jason Moore, Founder of Elite HRV to talk about the basics of heart rate variability training on how anyone can apply this technology toward optimizing their health. Jason Moore, CEO of Elite HRV, combined his education in Information Systems and Operations from Texas A&M University with his love of health and fitness as a health coach and personal trainer when founding Elite HRV.   Working with doctors, researchers, athletes and more, they have compiled data to make supporting your health with heart rate variability training as easy as downloading an app and using a monitor for as little as 2 minutes a day. Elite HRV training helps individuals access information about their own health that was previously unavailable to them without very expensive equipment and a team of scientists to interpret it. Learn more about Jason Moore and how he became involved in heart rate variability training and how his company is providing data to individuals empowering their own health. Are you including HRV training in your health tracking metrics?   Listen to learn how to identify stress patterns with heart rate variability training, to see how effective your meditation practices are, as well as which days are best for you to train harder. Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 10 – Heart Rate Variability Training Basics with Jason Moore from Elite HRV appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

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 […] The post Episode 10 – Heart Rate Variability Training Basics with Jason Moore from Elite HRV appeared first on Heads Up Health.

Are vegetable oils bad for your health? Does the quality of fats in your diet really matter? Absolutely! Listen in iTunes! 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! 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 MyFitnessPal or MyMacros+ 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! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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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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! Click on the button below to start your free 30-day trial. Or, read on for more information about our latest podcast episode! [maxbutton id=”5″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] 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! [maxbutton id=”4″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] The post Episode 6 – Test for Ketosis with a Simple Breath: The LEVL Ketone Breath Meter with Dr. Joe Anderson appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Looking Deeper at Your Blood Tests - Dr. J Live Podcast #168 Get Show Updates Here: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/newsletter You-tube Podcast Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=justinhealth Show Transcription: https://justinhealth.com/looking-deeper-at-your-blood-tests-dr-j-live-podcast-168 Dr. Justin Marchegiani welcomes Dave Korsunsky, founder and Chief Executive Officer ofheadsuphealth.com, which is a website about tracking health data. Join them as they discuss about blood sugar levels, ketone levels, blood test and other health-related data that can be integrated with smart devices and the website as a means of analyzing your health. Know about preprandial and postprandial blood sugar readings and glucose functional ranges. Also, find out more about the Carb Tolerance Test and learn how it can provide value and insight to how your body responds to sugar from different food sources. In this episode, we talk about:  05:08   Functional Glucose Tolerance 13:45   Body Composition and Postprandial response 18:16   Quick walk through on Headsuphealth 31:51   Heart Rate Variability 35:54   Stress and its associated markers Link to the products mentioned in the video: Adjustable Kettlebells: http://amzn.to/2DpAEIu TRX suspension trainer: http://amzn.to/2DlXUmq Push up bar: http://amzn.to/2EVyRqI Subscribe on I-Tunes: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/itunes Review us at: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/itunes Visit us at: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com Have a question: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/question

Dave Korsunksy is awesome, but you probably know that already. He gave a fantastic presentation at KetoCon, and I asked him to return to the show to talk about health markers and what people should be looking for in their personal data. He delivered the goods. You can definitely find out more about Dave and […] The post Episode 132 – Dave Korsunsky returns to talk about health markers appeared first on Ketovangelist.

Richard Morris and Carl Franklin talk to Dave Korsunsky, author of Heads Up Health, a web app that brings together your health data from your apps, your fitness devices, AND your doctors, letting you see hidden correlations in the data.

Testing and tracking your thyroid health - Podcast #111 Get Show Updates Here: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/newsletter You-tube Podcast Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=justinhealth Show Transcription: See https://justinhealth.com/testing-and-tracking-your-thyroid-health-podcast-111 Dr. Justin Marchegiani welcomes Dave Korsunsky of Heads Up Health back to the show to talk about assessing the thyroid. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the complete thyroid panel and how you can organize your lab test data.  Find out exactly what you can do about all the information that you get from your thyroid tests in terms of keeping track and charting your own data to look at patterns. Learn how these can be very useful when compared to other variables such as sleep, blood sugar or even the steps you've done in a day. Discover why you should get a full thyroid panel and how or where you can get it. In this episode, topics include: 02:29 The role of the thyroid and hormones 05:26 Components of a full thyroid panel 09:48 Supplementing the thyroid 21:22 Thyroid antibodies 26:10 How or where to get full thyroid panel Subscribe on I-Tunes: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/itunes Review us at: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/itunes Visit us at: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com Have a question: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/question

Using lab-work and common health markers to help transition to a healthy diet – Podcast #82 Get Show Updates Here: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/newsletter You-tube Podcast Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=justinhealth Dr. Justin Marchegiani interviews Dave Korsunsky back on the show and introduces Heads Up Health, a new technology that allows people to input their lab data and other health information so they can better keep track of everything and all in one place. Discover how empowering yourself with your own medical records work and why it's effective for tracking success. heads_up_healthWith Heads Up Health, you can track things like weight, blood pressure and blood sugar, and really see what's happening biochemically. Learn how you can collect data or at-home markers without lab tests as well as understand what clinical markers you need to keep an eye out when you listen to this podcast. In this episode, topics include: 4:06 Tools for bettert health and lifestyle 9:05 At-home markers 22:51 Clinical markers 24:50 Dr. J's spreadsheet on functional medicine ranges 33:37 Case study and Heads Up Health software 47:00 Complete lab panel Subscribe on I-Tunes: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/itunes Review us at: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/itunes Visit us at: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com Have a question: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/question

Dave Korsunsky Heads Up Health- Lab and bio-marker tracking technology - Podcast #48 Get Show Updates Here: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/newsletter Dr. Justin interviewed Dave Korsunsky, the founder of “Heads Up Health” which has developed an innovative and yet very user-friendly software to help centralize all of your health, fitness and medical data in one place.  Most people have their medical records scattered across different doctors' offices and medical facilities.   Using new advancements in electronic health record technology, Heads Up Health can help you gather scattered records into one location so you have a complete view of your medical history right at your fingertips. Find out how you can be empowered with this tool to manage your health. In this episode we cover: 01:24   The need to manage one's health data 04:45   Standard lab and functional lab ranges 06:33   Color coding system for lab works 07:06   Lifestyle and clinical data integration 09:56   Automated and manual entry of data support 19:15   Collaborate information with healthcare team      Show Notes: -http://headsuphealth.com/ Subscribe on I-Tunes: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/itunes Review us at: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/itunes Visit us at: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com  Have a question: http://www.beyondwellnessradio.com/question