Podcasts about my macros

I cannot believe I'm saying this, but welcome to the 100th episode of the Mindin' My Wellness Podcast! Whether you've been here since day one or just stumbled in, this episode is different. It's not packed with tips or expert interviews, it's me, pulling back the curtain on my journey from burnt-out corporate employee to full-time women's macros coach and mom and how I built a business and life that finally feels aligned.I'm sharing the behind-the-scenes of how Mindin' My Macros started as a private Instagram account I was too nervous to share, even with my husband and how I slowly broke free from the “good girl” expectations and burnout that were quietly wrecking my health. If you've ever felt stuck on autopilot or wondered if you're meant for more but don't know what that looks like yet, this episode is going to hit home.And while I'm celebrating this 100th milestone, I'm also standing at the edge of something new. I'll give you a little sneak peek into what's next because just like in 2020, I'm feeling that gut pull again. If you're a woman who's always evolving, always growing, and always chasing the best version of yourself, hit play. This might be the spark you didn't know you needed.

We are so excited to have Dani Marenburg from Mindin' My Macros to talk about moderation, eating for your homones, and diet culture. You can find her on instagram at @mindinmymacros and listen to her podcast Mindin' My Wellness. 

EPISODE 67 The truth is, eating healthy is not the same as eating for fat loss. Protein, carbs, and fat each play an important role in helping you reach your health goals. You MUST maintain the correct balance to get the results you want. In this episode, I explain what macros are and why they matter more than just eating healthy, the common mistakes that keep women stuck, and how to track and adjust macros for fat loss.This week, I challenge you to download a macro tracking app like My Macros+ or MacrosFirst and start tracking your macros. Just track what you are already eating. Enter each and every bite! You may be surprised by how off you are when it comes to estimating your protein, carbs, and fat. Then, focus on 0.8-1 gram per pound of body weight of protein per day. Your JGFG membership includes macro coaching, so message me if you have any questions or want to join JGFG and would like my help!This episode is for you if:You are frustrated with your results after “eating healthy”You want to better understand the importance of macrosYou want to start tracking your macros, but don't know where to startYou are strong. You are powerful. You are worthy.Connect with Jen:On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jens.get.fit.group/On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jens.get.fit.group/Check out or join Jen's Get Fit Group - http://jensgetfitgroup.comSubscribe to my newsletter “Behind the Weights” - https://jensgetfitgroup.com/subscribe-to-behind-the-weightsSHOW NOTES: https://jensgetfitgroup.com/episode67

A lot of expert-based online businesses and coaches start with 1:1 client services, myself included. But what happens when you've reached your capacity and want to transition from a one-to-one to one-to many business model? Dani Marenburg of Mindin' My Macros successfully restructured her 1:1 service into a scalable offer suite that 2Xed her revenue in just one year! In today's case study, we go through Dani's process of shifting her individual client work into scalable programs, which halved her working hours from 60 to 30 hours a week. View the transcript for this episode at: https://otter.ai/u/GjnaJOA4DNT5yl2CXcQHsK0itlQ?utm_source=copy_url Thank you to our sponsor! Get 20% off your entire Soursop Nutrition order with code 'CEO'! Uplevel your health and wellness journey at https://soursopnutrition.com Connect with Dani: IG: @mindinmymacros Mindin' My Wellness Podcast: https://mindinmymacros.com/podcast Free Macros Training: https://mindinmymacros.com/masterclass Iconic business leaders all have their own unique genius. Take this quick 10 question quiz to uncover your specific CEO style advantage: https://ellenyin.com/quiz If you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so we can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating at www.ratethispodcast.com/cubicletoceo Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Join our C-Suite membership to get bonus episodes! Check out everything our members get at https://ellenyin.com/csuite

Social media seems to be flooded with the new fad diet of “counting macros”...or is it a fad? And is it even a diet? Dani Patton, nutritionist, macro coach, and face of Mindin' My Macros on Instagram, is on the podcast today to discuss this phenomenon. Dani wants all of you to know that macros are a tool, not a restricting fad diet, used to help you achieve your health goals and enjoy a well lived life. The idea is to fuel your body with the macronutrients it needs, not restrict it!After graduating college, Dani was looking for something that wasn't another yo-yo diet to help her find a sustainable lifestyle to help her look and feel her best.  Dani researched and concluded that macros were the answer! Macros are the simple makeup of the food we all eat; protein, carbs, and fat. Manipulating these three main macro categories is the key to sustainable eating habits that will help you reach your health goals. Through her work with over 1,000 women, Dani has found that protein is the macro the majority are lacking the most. Logging your daily macros in a free macro counting app is a great way to check in on your current eating habits. If macro counting seems daunting for you, Dani suggests focusing on simply upping your daily protein intake. Currently pregnant or soon to be? Dani is pregnant currently too and knows it can be difficult when morning sickness kicks in. Her suggestion is to find what food works for you while sick and try to focus on that protein intake! If you loved today's episode, don't forget to share it and tag @mindinmymacros and @expectingandempowered. As we like to say, knowledge is power, and we just really want to give more people the information that they may need on their motherhood journey!Follow Dani on InstagramDani's Podcast, Mindin' My WellnessDownload MyFitnessPal on AppStore and GooglePlay StoreExpecting and Empowered App - Enter code 'PODCAST25' at checkoutExpecting and Empowered WebsiteExpecting and Empowered Instagram

I'm excited for our guest today! Dani Marenburg is a double certified nutrition coach and founder of Mindin' My Macros and podcast host of the Mindin' My Wellness Podcast. Dani specializes in optimizing macronutrients and lifestyle habits to help women reach their ultimate body transformation goals, all while enjoying a life well-lived.  As a past yo-yo dieting cardio junkie, Dani transformed not only her health, but her entire life (literally), by ditching past diet-culture mentalities and learning how to eat FOR her body. Now, she shares the same education and knowledge with her audience of over 100,000 followers. She's coached over 1,000 women through her coaching programs and courses to achieve weight loss and body recomposition, while learning how to build a balanced relationship with food and lifestyle habits. In this episode Dani covers: How she gained confidence to start her business and the opportunity to quit her corporate career Specific numbers on her business growth, audience, and timeline of her business  How consistency of posting and speaking to her audience goes through different phases Her three steps to creating a scalable business: Asking for help Diversify offerings Systems and automations Resources & Links: IG University Kajabi 30 day free trial + 20 free story templates Around the Clock Masterclass List Building 101 100 Hook Ideas - FREE GUIDE Connect up with Dani: Follow on Instagram Follow on Tiktok Check out her website Listen to her podcast Join her live webinar  Snag her free guide to start your own coaching business Connect with Mya: Follow on Instagram @myanichol Join my email list Check out my website Now on YouTube Make sure to hit subscribe/follow so you never miss an episode!

Today, I am blessed to have here with me Robert Sikes. He is a natural ketogenic bodybuilder, author and entrepreneur as well as the CEO and founder of Keto Savage, a health and fitness company that offers coaching, training and nutrition for athletes and bodybuilders. He is also CEO and founder of Keto Brick, a company that produces ketogenic meal replacement bars for efficient nutrition with the highest quality ingredients. Sikes holds first-in-class titles from his bodybuilding competitions within the OCB and WNBF federations and lives in Northwest Arkansas with his wife Crystal. Ketogenic Bodybuilding is the culmination of all he has learned through his bodybuilding endeavors and client coaching practice. In this episode, Robert talks about how he thinks positively and has an optimistic outlook on life. Then, Robert dives into why he wrote Ketogenic Bodybuilding: A Natural Athlete's Guide to Competitive Savagery. It's an excellent resource for someone who wants to improve their composition while following a ketogenic lifestyle. Plus, Robert talks about increasing your protein and why he prefers to eat animal-based proteins over plant-based proteins. Tune in as we chat about being a bodybuilder without eating any carbs, the inspiration behind Robert's Keto Bricks, and the different ways to track your health.  Purchase Keto Brick meal replacement bars here: https://glnk.io/1l3/thebenazadi Order Keto Flex: http://www.ketoflexbook.com -------------------------------------------------------- / / E P I S O D E   S P ON S O R S  PureForm Omega Plant Based Oils (Best Alternative to Fish Oil): http://www.purelifescience.com Use ben4 for $4.00 off. Good Idea Functional Sparkling Water Drinks. Visit http://www.goodidea.us and use the coupon code BEN at checkout. EveryDay Dose Everything you love about coffee, none of what you don't — say goodbye to jitters, anxiety, crash, and digestive issues. https://everydaydose.superfiliate.com/KETOKAMP  (5 FREE Travel Packs + Free Frother applied) Text me the words "Podcast" +1 (786) 364-5002 to be added to my contacts list.  [00:55] How Robert Has Become A Positive Human Being Robert tries to stay positive actively. He lets people see him in a positive light and be positive to others because not doing so is not conducive to growth for anybody. Eating healthy has helped Robert stay positive. At the end of the day, it's easy for Robert to stay positive because he's grateful. [03:20] Why Robert Wrote Ketogenic Bodybuilding: A Natural Athlete's Guide to Competitive Savagery Get Ketogenic Bodybuilding: A Natural Athlete's Guide to Competitive Savagery: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09QZ68MJ7/benazadi-20 This book took Robert two years to write. It's all the lessons Robert has learned from the last seven years. Overall, it's a great resource for people who want to improve their composition. [07:20] How To Increase Your Protein During Mealtime If you're trying to build more muscle, you may not benefit from doing an OMAD approach. In a building phase, Robert will eat two or three meals a day. Currently, Robert eats 3,000 calories a day and 220 grams of protein. If Robert had to eat all of that in one meal, he would be miserable. Robert uses My Macros+: https://www.getmymacros.com/ [09:45] What's The Difference Between Animal-Based and Plant-Based Proteins? Animal-base is just going to be more bioavailable, and it has a better amino acid profile. You can succeed on a plant-based diet. However, you are going to have more supplements. Robert eats a lot of meat and doesn't have any issues with it. Meat helps Robert streamline and simplify his meal prep. [16:30] How Can You Be A Body Builder Without Any Carbs?  Most people didn't think it was possible to lift hard and heavy on a low-carb diet. Plus, people told Robert that he wasn't going to have any energy. Well, keto helped Robert improve his relationship with food. Haters will talk smack all day long; Robert doesn't listen to it. Read Metabolic Characteristics of Keto-Adapted Ultra-Endurance Runners: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026049515003340 [19:10] Will Eating High Protein Knock You Out of Ketosis?   When it comes to bodybuilding and body composition, Robert is not really worried about people having a lot of protein. If you're eating minimal carbs and you feel great, then you're obviously functioning on fat and ketones. If your calories are very low, you may want to leave fat higher and decrease protein because fat is great for energy. Don't leave protein low indefinitely. [21:50] Should You Throw Away Your Scale? How To Track Your Health   Robert says, “don't throw away your scale!” He likes to look at his weight as a data point. Weight doesn't show the whole picture, but it does show one piece of data. Instead, your composition should be what you measure. Also, take pictures and measurements. [25:50] Why Robert Decided To Develop The Keto Brick   Purchase Keto Brick meal replacement bars here: https://glnk.io/1l3/thebenazadi Keto Bricks help Robert hit his macros more efficiently, take the guesswork out of meal prep, and it is just super convenient. It's a 1,000 calorie meal replacement bar. Overall, it makes hitting your fat macros much easier. A lot of people have a hard time getting enough dietary fat, so it helps streamline that process. [29:10] Why You Should Consider Buying The Keto Brick    There are seven full-time flavors. The top flavor is a chocolate peanut butter cup. In the future, there will be a keto brick that only has eight total grams of carbs. For 1,000 calories, eight grams of carbs is unreal! Most keto products are absolute crap, and they are not worth your time. [33:50] How To Get Started With Fitness If you're doing nothing, getting up off of the couch and moving is progress in the right direction. If you haven't trained before, start with a push-pull leg routine. Anything is going to be better than nothing! If you are already in a legitimate regimen, then increase weight, increase time under tension, increase density, and increase frequency. [36:15] What Should You Do If You Feel Sore The Next Day?   Don't do the same muscle group again. If you just started training, you will have a week or two of muscle soreness. To get through muscle soreness, you should train through it. If you're a seasoned lifter, you may benefit from a week where you decrease the intensity. [41:20] Should You Work Out Fasted or Have a Meal Before Exercise?   It comes down to preference. Robert prefers fasted workouts. Fats take a long time to absorb; you won't make use of those calories. Robert eats his evening meal as his “pre-workout meal” for the next day. AND MUCH MORE! Resources from this episode: Check out Keto Savage: https://ketosavage.com/ Purchase Keto Brick meal replacement bars here: https://glnk.io/1l3/thebenazadi Follow Robert Sikes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketosavage/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1819935928291944/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Kruzu5RooRBcsqNw4dTXg Keto Savage Robert Sikes | This is how you build muscle on the keto diet KKP 227: https://ketokamp.libsyn.com/keto-savage-robert-sikes-this-is-how-you-build-muscle-on-the-keto-diet-kkp-227 Read Ketogenic Bodybuilding: A Natural Athlete's Guide to Competitive Savagery: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09QZ68MJ7/benazadi-20 My Macros+: https://www.getmymacros.com/ Metabolic Characteristics of Keto-Adapted Ultra-Endurance Runners: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026049515003340 Join theKeto Kamp Academy: https://ketokampacademy.com/7-day-trial-a WatchKeto Kamp on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUh_MOM621MvpW_HLtfkLyQ Order Keto Flex: http://www.ketoflexbook.com -------------------------------------------------------- / / E P I S O D E   S P ON S O R S  PureForm Omega Plant Based Oils (Best Alternative to Fish Oil): http://www.purelifescience.com Use ben4 for $4.00 off. 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Here is Everything You Need To Know About Nutrition And Weight Loss. This is gonna be a doozy... but you need to know it. I have written about this a bit before... but this is the expanded version. Here we go.. Concept 1: Food is energy and nutrients. All the food and drinks you consume contain two main things: Calories and nutrients. Calories are the energy found in the food. That energy is what keeps you alive and why we have to eat. That energy is what lets your heart beat and your lungs breathe and your legs move. The nutrients in your food are what allow your body to perform specific functions. Those nutrients are what allow your body to make energy and the material you need to make new cells. Concept 2: You need enough, but not too much. Your body is like everything else in the universe, meaning it is governed by the laws of physics.That means your body needs energy coming in to keep it functioning (energy going out). If you have too much energy going in your body gains mass (weight). This can be good or bad depending on the context. If you have too little energy going in your body loses mass (weight). This can be good or bad depending on the context. To gain or lose weight you need to find the right net negative or net positive. Concept 3: The best way to change your weight is to make an educated guess and track your energy intake. Look… here is the deal. If you live outside of a scientific laboratory the best way to change your weight is to do the following 3 steps: 1) Make the best guess you can about what your body expends in a day. This is what our calculator does 2) Track your energy intake (calories) very closely for a few weeks, preferably 4-6 weeks and see if your body weight changes in the direction you want to go. 3) If it is going in the right direction, keep doing that. If it isn't, adjust your calorie intake up or down a few hundred calories and keep going. Repeat this exercise. Concept 4: Energy is priority but nutrients matter. Remember how food has energy (calories) and nutrients? Well there are two main kind of nutrients and they are divided based on two criteria: whether they provide energy or not and how large of quantities we consume them in. Macronutrients is the first type. These contain calories and are consumed in the order of magnitude of ~10 grams to 1000 grams. Protein and carbs are 4 calories per gram. Fat is 9 calories per gram. Micronutrients is the second type. These do not contain calories and are consumed in quantities 30 grams in one meal and it doesn't all go to waste. That's pure balderdash (great game btw, you should play it).  CARBOHYDRATES Carbohydrates apart from fiber don't seem to impact weight loss any differently than dietary fat, thus once protein targets are met, carb and fat ratios can vary considerably with little to no difference.Assuming you have enough carbs to fuel your training and performance, consuming more doesn't help you set more PRs or burn more calories.Fiber, as a carbohydrate, does play some role in weight loss, but it is centered mostly around it's ability to provide satiety with very minimal (or zero) calories.Low calorie and higher calorie fibrous carbs like broccoli, spinach, zucchini, beans, berries, and potatoes are some of the most filling foods you can include in your diet. Practically speaking, it's quite difficult to be full and satiated on a low calorie diet without eating fibrous carbohydrates.We recommend you eat 5 servings of them a day. A good rule of thumb is to have at least 1-2 fruits and/or vegetables at every meal. When possible reduce added sugars but you don't have to eliminate them. Fructose is FINEEEEE. Under 100 grams a day and no major health issues noted.FATS Fat is similar in importance to carbohydrates. Having higher fat and lower carb may cause more additional water loss, but this is merely short term. This happens because lower carb diets can cause some glycogen loss from your muscles thus withdrawing water. Some people like this for initial motivation as the scale drops a little faster initially.But I can't emphasize the word initially enough as long term higher fat vs higher carb diets level out.Eating more or less in relation to carbs makes no difference in long term weight loss in all lines of research assuming calories and protein are matched.Thus for most standard diets, once protein is met and fat is set at a healthy level for hormone production, your remaining calories can be any macro, so if you enjoy higher fat foods, feel free to eat more fat. If you prefer more carbs, that's fine too. Either way, there is no long term difference.Now, there is the exception with the trendy ketogenic diet which is high fat and very low carb diet. While the ketogenic diet is not always adherable for everyone and possesses no physiological advantage, it does have an appetite suppressing effect.Indeed, we see in research, by taking fat higher and dropping net carbs (non-fiber carbs) to low extremes, the state of ketosis can suppress appetite quite well making weight loss simple and easier for some people (2).But unless you're ok with giving up sugary/starchy carbs for a long consistent period of time, we recommend for most people they simply eat a reasonable amount of both carbs and fat. With enough protein and fiber, you can still greatly suppress your appetite. Concept 11: Artificial Sweeteners Require Some Nuance This is gonna ruffle some jimmies but here is what we know about artificial sweeteners. They definitely do not cause weight gain... we know that with like 99% certainty (nothing in 'science' is 100%). They have not been shown to cause any real health issues. HOWEVER... some people report GI distress or headaches after consuming certain ones... if that is you, just skip it. Sort of like most people are fine with peanuts but if you have an allergy... you don't have to eat peanut butter. There is some evidence that certain ones have different effects on blood sugar depending on your microbiome... but that really doesn't tell us that much about outcomes. Again... if you find certain ones don't agree with you... Don't consume them. Concept 12: Alcohol In Moderation Is Probably Ok... But It Isn't Helping. Alcohol is empty calories, changes your decision making around food, and sort of puts the brakes on fat metabolism while it deals with the alcohol so be mindful of your intake. If you choose to drink here is how you limit its effect on your progress. MAKE SURE YOU ACCOUNT FOR IT IN YOUR CALORIES.Weight loss is fundamentally about energy balance. If you want to lose weight or gain weight, you have to ensure that you take energy balance into account, which includes alcohol consumption.Tracking your alcohol intake is a great way to account for your alcohol intake and ensuring that you are hitting your caloric needs.From a calorie perspective, there are a few ways to track your intake.The first is to simply utilize entries in tracking programs like My Macros+ or the actual labels on the drinks (store-bought drinks such as beer or seltzers are required to have calorie information on them).Secondly, you can track each individual ingredient in a mixed drink and assign 7 calories per gram of alcohol (a standard shot contains ~14 grams).DON'T LET ALCOHOL INFLUENCE YOUR FOOD CHOICES.I am as guilty of this as anyone.I have a few drinks and all of a sudden that plate of nachos I wasn't planning on touching has now vanished.Consuming alcohol lowers your inhibitions and your ability to control food intake. Most research shows that as alcohol consumption goes up, so does your calorie intake.KEEP YOUR DRINKS SIMPLE.Simply put, the more complicated and more ingredients in your drink, the more calories it probably has.For example, the average Pina Colada has around ~300 calories in a single drink while a Long Island Iced Tea has ~800 calories.Conversely, a vodka-soda or rum and Diet Coke has

Ever wonder if there's another option to lowering blood glucose than the ever-popular keto diet? Then you'll definitely want to stick around to the end of this episode. Dr. Casey Means, co-founder of Levels Health, drops some truth bombs about metabolic health, carbohydrates, and the insulin response and how you can make your own meal program to optimize your metabolic health using continuous glucose monitoring. Dr. Casey Means completed her medical degree at Stanford Medical School, became a Head and Neck Surgeon, and then transitioned to functional medicine after finding the underlying causes of illness was not being supported in her patients through the use of surgery and medicine only. She is also one of the founders of Levels Health – a company making direct-to-consumer continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices and putting patients back in the driver’s seat of their metabolic health. Join Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up as he gets nerdy with Dr. Casey Means about Levels Health, continuous glucose monitoring, and all things metabolic health. Even learn some great tips on how to lower glucose spikes, whether you are using continuous glucose monitoring or not! Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web app designed to help you centrally track 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/” ] “The fact that changing our thoughts, changing the way we perceive stress, the food and molecular information we put in our mouths, the composition of our microbiome, how much sleep we get, exposure to different traumas (low-grade and high-grade). All these things actually change the expression of our genome. This is radically empowering. When you know this information, you realize there are actually levers to change the outcome. Health is not deterministic.”– Dr. Casey Means In this podcast you'll learn: About Dr Casey Mean's journey to founding Levels Health [2:30]Epigenetics and how even thoughts can affect our genes [3:50]How modern medicine is about pattern matching of signs and symptoms to diagnose and prescribe, and how bio-individuality is much less a part of things [5:45]About her experience as an ENT doc and how she noticed the connection of inflammatory conditions that were being treated with surgery, rather than investigating the underlying contributors [7:00]How Dr. Casey Means shifted her practice from surgery based to a longevity and metabolic practice [10:00]Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) and how it could help course-correct metabolic issues [12:16]How Dr. Casey Means saw symptoms greatly decline after a lot of upfront support in her appointments as her patients began buying into the changes and doing what was suggested [16:44]Blood sugar dysregulation statistics [17:02]74% of American's are overweight or obese128 million American's pre-diabetic or diabetic88% of American's are metabolically unhealthy – recent study out of UNCAbout the connection between COVID-19 and metabolic health and how it appeared in April 2020 in over 100 publications that obesity, diabetes and metabolic health were the key driving factors in COVID-19 mortality [17:50How Virta Health in 10 weeks, can get a patient from a diabetic HbA1c to a non-diabetic HbA1c in a program that only involves diet and exercise [18:30]Diabetes is a driver in Alzheimer's dementia which is now being called Type 3 diabetes as the brain becomes insulin resistant [20:10]The effects of hyperglycemia include things such as PCOS, Peripheral Vascular Disease, gout, acne, mental health – depression and anxiety which is twice as high in people with metabolic disease, circadian rhythm disruption, and even NAFLD in children [21:23]Sleep, stress, movement, and food are the four contributors to metabolic disease and about Dr. Casey Means's shift to make her process scalable for metabolic improvements [22:30]About how people have to close the loop between their actions and what is happening. Nutrition is an open-loop system and if you don't have any direct 1:1 reaction to what's happening, it's really difficult to take ownership of which food(s) caused a problem for you [23:50]How continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) works, what it is. It works by reading the interstitial fluid between cells and taking readings every 15 minutes automatically and sending the information to your phone [25:45]Levels is an FDA approved device for type 1 and type 2 diabetes continuous glucose monitoring [26:45]That insulin has a second action – to block cells from burning fat which signals the body to burn glucose, never allowing the body to dip into the fat stores for energy [29:30]Most weight loss studies show failure at the 2-year mark because they're not approaching it from a metabolic standpoint and the fact that you cannot burn fat without having a low insulin state [30:00]Glucose spikes can be lowered through reduction of carbs in a meal, timing of carbs (eat them last). Use cinnamon, apple cider vinegar, or berberine as insulin sensitizers. Deep breathing can also affect it, keeping the glucose low by reducing the stress response in the body. Walking for 20 minutes after meals or even 2 minutes every 30 minutes throughout the day can also lower glucose response [31:03]How to get a CGM through Levels Health – about the process and the device [33:50]Dr. Casey Means describes what it's like to wear the device and how it feels like having a superpower to be able to get immediate feedback on whether she's feeling a particular way due to blood sugar fluctuations or a food she ate [36:16]How interoception (similar to somatic awareness) helps people connect how they are feeling to what's happening in their body [36:55]About the hyper-palatability of food products and how the Levels Health CGM can help you make better decisions when the brain is hijacked by food chemicals [38:40]How you can train your body to recognize blood sugar signs and signals to be able to tell what your blood sugar is by utilizing tech while you're learning the signs from your body [40:20]About the study out of Israel where they gave 800 people CGMs and provided the same meals for them all and found vastly different responses in blood sugar [41:20]With the keto movement we can tap more into the fat burning because the substrates aren't even there for burning glucose for fuel. But with CGM monitoring, you can monitor how specific carbs affect you personally. You can have a higher carb quantity in your diet and not significantly raise your blood glucose to bring a more balanced way of eating back into your life [43:40]Discussion around food: how combining fats and proteins with carbs can help lower the metabolic response [46:00]How long does it take to reverse metabolic issues? And how to achieve metabolic fitness [47:40]About the importance of metabolic flexibility for athletes [52:15] References Levels Health WebsiteLevels Blog Levels – Twitter Levels – InstagramDr. Casey Means Instagram Dr. Casey Means TwitterVirta Health ClinicIsrael CGM StudyWired to Eat – Robb Wolf 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. 53 – Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) To Optimize Your Diet and Lifestyle – Dr. Casey Means from Levels Health appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Megan Ramos is the co-founder of The Fasting Method Program based out of Toronto, Canada, developed with Dr. Jason Fung, author of books such as The Obesity Code and their latest book: Life in the Fasting Lane. Together, Megan Ramos and Dr. Jason Fung have helped thousands of patients get their lives back through the use of intermittent fasting and data tracking. Join Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up and his co-host, TJ Anderson, as they talk all things intermittent and long-term fasting with Megan Ramos for both practitioners and patients. Practitioners go through the Fasting Method Program for their own health to learn how to utilize fasting for their own patients. If you're unsure of how to go about fasting, wonder if and when it's safe, or how to implement it with your patients, then listen in to this episode that is jam-packed with all kinds of useful and exciting information. Megan Ramos shares a wealth of information and how you can find out more about joining in on this hot topic in health and wellness to be on the cutting edge with your patients. Learn how Megan Ramos and Dr. Jason Fung are using their unique fasting approach, powered by Heads Up, to deliver remote monitoring, support, education, tracking and behaviorial coaching to help their patients obtain greater health outcomes. 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/” ] “People who track their own data make sustainable changes to their lifestyle. They modify their habits.” – Megan Ramos In this podcast you'll learn: Megan Ramos talks about how easy it is to get started and how it's simple because there is only one rule: Don't eat. You're asking your patients not to do more, but to do less [5:30]Why patients with brain fog can really benefit from fasting because it takes less, not more – supplements, special foods, rules, etc. [7:50]Fasting is like a muscle – the more you do it the easier it gets [8:40]Examples of different types of intermittent fasting [9:50]Megan Ramos talks about ways to quantify success and results with tests; i.e fasting insulin, C-peptides, ALT, GGT, HDL, ferritin, and more [11:50]The importance of changes in body composition versus weight on the scale, etc. [14:30]How to know if a patient is eligible for fasting and when they wouldn't be a good candidate for fasting due to nutrient deficiencies or specific functional issues [16:40]About fasting during pregnancy and breastfeeding [19:15]Not to discount other disease processes that could be happening by writing off that the patient is just not eating enough [20:00]How people with chronic conditions can fast too if they're in a stable state [20:30]Tracking fasting lab results – be mindful of uric acid levels – what to look for and how to navigate if they elevate while fasting [23:13]About fasting, thyroid health and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and the swing that can happen from hypothyroid to hyperthyroid [26:00]How Megan Ramos empowers her patients with laboratory data that they can overlay with other metrics in Heads Up to see that their diet and lifestyle changes are that are working or not working for them [27:50]The top measurements that Megan Ramos uses – waist to hip ratio, why BMI is bullshit, why and when/when not to use DEXA scans and how organ fat affects the results [28:45]TJ asks Megan Ramos about longer-term fasts and autophagy and learns how it has helped patients lose up to 160 pounds and not require loose skin tissue removal due to autophagy [35:30]Considerations for a 3, 5, or 7-day fast right out of the gate – who benefits, who shouldn't do it [38:00]Long term fasts, diabetics and their meds, hypertensives and their meds and more [39:20]In a long-term fast, you need to be mindful of electrolytes early on, and not wait until later in the fast [40:20]Autophagy peaks around the 72-hour mark and stays relatively active for the first 5 days of a fast [42:00]How Megan Ramos and Dr. Jason Fung have systemized their process of intermittent fasting by remotely monitoring fasting patients with the use of data and teaching their patients to understand the data [44:15]Their new program allows Dr. Jason Fung and Megan Ramos to help patients track their data and customize their approach all over the world through remote work [49:20]That 28% of people in the program are healthcare professionals [55:39] References The Fasting Method – You can enroll with FSA or HSA The Fasting Method Blog Diet Doctor – Dr. Jason Fung 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. 52 – How Megan Ramos of The Fasting Method is Using Intermittent Fasting and Heads Up’s Remote Monitoring Technology to Help Patients Worldwide Reach Their Health Goals 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.

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.

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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Have you tried every diet under the sun yet still have trouble losing stubborn body fat? Even when you fit in regular exercise? Meet Karen Martel, a Transformational Nutrition Coach and Hormone Imbalance and Weight Loss expert from Canada. Despite following mainstream dietary strategies, including plenty of exercise, Karen wasn’t able to lose weight after her pregnancy. She soon figured out the connection to hormone health and quickly rebounded to lose the stubborn weight. Using strategic testing methods and tracking, Karen Martel now helps her clients to achieve weight loss and lose stubborn body fat when all other methods and diets have failed. With a focus on hormone imbalance, she includes not only the sex hormones — estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone — but also cortisol, as a major indicator of stress intolerance and why the body won't release excess weight. If you're struggling with losing stubborn body fat and need some help or inspiration, listen to this cutting-edge interview with Karen Martel. Learn the most common reasons you might have hormone imbalances and what you can do about it. Become empowered to learn just how to take back your hormone health and get the answers and body you desire! You can find Karen Martel at www.karenmartel.com where you can book a complimentary 15-minute call, book a session, enroll in group coaching, live coaching, online courses – hormone healthy keto, or order a hormone kit and receive a complimentary 20-minute session with Karen. Be sure to check out her free hormone quiz on her website too! 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 to tell if you have a hormone imbalance is happening to you. If you eat well, exercise, and do all the right things but the stubborn body fat won't budge you likely have a hormone imbalance [8:45]If you're doing keto, low carb, low calorie, and/or fasting and you're already experiencing some hormonal imbalance, you're adding fuel to the fire by going too low carb for too long. It's too much of a stressor when cortisol is already dysregulated to restrict food intake [9:10]About Dave's experience with taking a step back from the day-to-day stress, giving his body time to heal so he could come back and train to regain his strength [10:00]Why while running her own business as a single mom, Karen Martel, had to quit Bootcamp and do yoga to allow her body time to heal [11:45]Go to www.karenmartel.com to take the screening quiz to see if hormone testing would be warranted for you [13:00]How doctors only test blood hormones which only reveal bound hormones that are not what is available for the body to be used. Unbound hormones can only be tested through saliva or urine for metabolite testing. If you can test all three, that would be optimal [14:50]If you can only pick one form of testing, choose this one [16:00]More about cortisol regulation and testing [16:30]Why disrupted cortisol rhythm can lead to insomnia and add to weight gain through dysregulation of ghrelin and other hormones [17:45]About the ZRT saliva testing – the Female Comprehensive 3 panel tests estradiol, estrogen, progesterone, the ratio of estrogen and progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, and 4-point cortisol test [19:00]How suspected thyroid hormone imbalances can be tested at home with a blood spot kit [21:35]Even if you can't afford to do the specialized tests, go to your doctor and have them run these blood tests for screening [23:00]Most common reasons you might have a hormone imbalance and what you can do about it. (Environmental exposures and dietary sources of hormonal imbalance contributors.) [23:45]Diet – check this first Check estrogens – look for xenoestrogens, in our food, pesticides, plastics, grains, etc.Remove scented products from laundry detergent to aftershave and shampooCheck water sourcesOpt for at least hormone-free meatsRemove as many processed foods as possibleHow you can clean your home with natural products very inexpensively [27:45]About the quarterly cleanse that Karen Martel runs with her women to support the liver and gallbladder and other detox organs [28:50]How fat cells produce estrogen, so the more extra stubborn body fat you carry on your body, the more estrogen you will produce [30:00]Why lifting heavy things (strength training) can help you become more healthy and strong, create healthy bones and lower blood sugar [30:45]Reasons why regularly doing Crossfit and marathon running can be more stressful on your body. Also, how yoga and lifting weights can be much more beneficial to your hormonal health and weight balance [32:05]As women age, we need to work on balancing the body's stress and bringing our system down like yoga, meditation, tai chi, massage, etc. rather than adding stimulation [33:40]As we age, the ovaries begin to shut down production of estrogen and the adrenals take over that task. However, if the adrenals are having to make lots of cortisol, it will favor that task over other hormones. Perimenopausal symptoms will become worse [34:40]Hormones go in a 3-month cycle – it's not a quick fix. Recheck hormones every 3-6 months at least with yourself and your symptoms if you're unable to do testing [35:10]How tracking with Heads Up while working with bioidentical hormones or lifestyle changes can help you keep track of how things are working [36:05]HRV and sleep metric tracking can be one of the best metrics to monitor for stress markers – Biostrap, Oura ring, FitBit, etc [36:40]How tracking fasting blood sugar is an affordable way to help you lose stubborn body fat. High cortisol will raise blood sugar, especially when it’s high in the morning and comes down later in the day. Even when you’re eating well. This can be an indicator of too much stress on the body [38:00]How to use an affordable Gera Thermometer to determine where your metabolism is at. And also to find out if you have indicators for hypothyroidism. Take your temperature for 10 minutes before you get out of bed in the morning (98.6 in AM) and again in the afternoon (98 or 97.9 in the PM). [39:10]Track your basal body temperature as mentioned above with the Gera thermometer in Heads Up. An indicator of thyroid issues, as well as adrenal issues depending on the pattern, this can be revealed through tracking [40:32]How it’s possible to eat like a normal person again. Once you have in check your blood sugar, hormone imbalances and exercise levels you can enjoy life with occasional indulgences [30:50] References https://karenmartel.com/https://www.zrtlab.com/www.ewg.orghttps://www.ewg.org/tapwater/https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/Geratherm Thermometer 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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Bill Hanks is a former engineer who left his career three years ago to open Cryo Recovery in Houston, TX. After suffering from a workout injury that refused to heal, Bill turned to cryotherapy and immediately felt the benefits. Before cryotherapy, the options presented to him were limited to surgery, injections or long-term anti-inflammatory medications. Within just a couple of cryotherapy sessions, he realized the possibilities. His own personal experience motivated him to provide those in his own community access to drug-free healing opportunities. Bill Hanks and his wife now own and operate their clinic, which offers more than just cryotherapy. They’re both passionate about helping others recover and improve their well-being, whether it’s working with athletes or with individuals who have chronic illnesses that can benefit from mitochondrial support. Listen in to learn more about what cryotherapy is, how it's used and who is using it. Hint: It's not just athletes. And it’s becoming more affordable. Heads Up will soon be releasing a tracking feature for cryotherapy so you can see how your cryotherapy sessions affect your HRV, inflammation markers like Hs-CRP, deep sleep and more. Check out Cryo Recovery when you're in the Houston area, and make sure to follow Bill Hanks on social media: @billhanks and @cryorecovery on Instagram, Cryo Recovery on Facebook. 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: Bill Hank's story with tendonitis from Crossfit not being helped with traditional therapies. After deciding against surgery and cortisone shots, he began to research alternative therapies [2:00]About cryotherapy as an alternative to anti-inflammatories [6:35]How repetition and consistency with cryotherapy is where you see the real benefits, and what that means [7:45]How tracking health while using cryotherapy can help with recovery. Why tracking can help quantify just how much it's supporting your health [9:00]What is cryotherapy, and how it's different from a cold bath [11:45]The Hunting [response] effect and how it's replicated in cryotherapy, boosting norepinephrine which helps with focus, clarity, and mood and prevents TNF alpha which can be measured in a C-Reactive Protein test [12:55]Bill Hanks had a client whose RA marker disappeared on testing after a couple of months of cryotherapy [16:30]How cryotherapy is good for reducing inflammation and reduces the effects of aging [17:10]Cryotherapy upregulates the PGC-1 alpha gene, which creates mitochondria biogenesis, which activates more energy – useful for high-performance athletes [17:20]Why high-performance athletes get double the benefits by upregulating energy and also improving their recovery from cryotherapy [17:55]How overtraining and injury prevention is supported by keeping inflammation low and recovering well with cryotherapy [18:10]What metrics could be tracked with cryotherapy Hs-CRPHRVInflammatory markersHow cryotherapy can be useful for chronic health issues as well as high-performance training [20:50]About the air temperature in the cryotherapy tank and the differences in the types of chambers. And how they can have different therapeutic effects as well as why monitoring skin temperature is most important [21:04]Why Cryo Recovery uses electric instead of nitrogen-cooled tanks and why you should ask about the method used at your center of choice [23:25]Why a skin temp to drop about 30 degrees is important and why where you measure skin temperature matters [24:15]The differences between men and women's body temperature variances [25:15]Some of the best practices for anyone looking to start adding this practice to their health or training protocol [26:15]Some top questions for individuals to ask before shelling out money on this treatment (e.g., Is there privacy? What's the long term plan? What kind of cost savings are available? What is the environment?) [28:25]What biohacking health-tracking can be correlated to recovery with cryotherapy? [32:45]Increase in deep sleepIncrease HRV the day afterLowered heart rate over timeBalancing of the nervous system creating more resilienceHeads Up will be rolling out a tracking metric for cryotherapy [38:20]Weighing the cost of cryotherapy now vs. long term inflammation and the costs associated with that vs. cold plunges [38:40]If you have a less than optimal experience, try another center as they are all run independently and have their own styles of operation [39:50] References www.everlywell.com Cryotherapy study of athletes and sleep and hormone balance Cryo Recovery 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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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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Shawn Bean is a Clinical Nutritionist who has a mind for putting the puzzles pieces of complex cases, like mold and Lyme, together. His unique ability to see the big picture and link symptoms to genetic expression is forward-thinking. Moving away from a specialist mentality to offer more generalist type care, says Shawn Bean, is the way we’ll begin to repair our health. Using specialized tests like the Organic Acids Test, he dives into each one for connections that can't be made with a typical glance of “normal”/”not normal” lab results. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Clinical Nutrition from West Chester University, Shawn Bean continues to further his own education through PubMed articles, genetic studies and more to help clients, practitioners and doctors to put the pieces of these complex puzzles like mold or Lyme exposure together to begin the healing for their bodies.  Together with Michael McEvoy, Shawn Bean runs a mentorship — Metabolic Healing –where they teach other practitioners how to utilize these tools, like the Organic Acids Test, to take their clients and patients toward health and healing. He also sees clients in his private practice at Matrix Health. Shawn believes that AI and self-tracking can open up insights for individuals that would never have been able to access these insights. He also offers support for those who need help understanding what will take them the 60-100% of the way that tracking alone and self-investigation may not be able to take you. 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 Shawn Bean’s role models: Arnold Schwartzenegger and Frank Zane. How he learned to change his body from a pretty in-shape guy to a pre-contest guy in 16 weeks, doing it with a healthy mindset [4:10]That Shawn Bean's health journey really began after his last bodybuilding show. After years of exposure to mold, it was a gradual decline. He found himself with an out-of-sync circadian rhythm which led to weight gain [6:07]How he used to train in a basement that would flood with water in the 1980s where he was initially exposed to mold. Later, exposed to black mold, everything went down from there [8:02] How he lost 100 lbs lean muscle tissue in 9 months and got depressed. Then after a GI test, discovered he had infections in his gut. This led to hormone replacement therapy, including testosterone and thyroid hormones [9:00]After looking online for answers, he found himself in PubMed articles where he realized he could put patterns together fast [10:20]What looked to be a curse turned into a blessing. Diagnosed around age 40 with Aspergers, Shawn has been able to bring his body back to a better balance through genetic support and other supports [12:50]“There are too many specialists out there and not enough generalists.” [15:15]How Shawn Bean doesn't ask his clients to fill out questionnaires. He knows it's hard to fill out paperwork when you’re chronically ill. Instead, he asks them to use a timeline and describe what they think is wrong with them [17:02]He breaks health issues down into three pillars: environmental, emotional and pathogens [18:00]What trans-generational issues encompass and how they can show up in children and their parents based on family experiences including autism [18:40]Why focusing on the parent’s preconception risks will reduce genetic expression in future generations by addressing nutrient deficiencies, emotional traumas, and toxicities, gene expression, etc. [20:04]The Organic Acids Test (OAT) has markers that can help tell if you have stored or active mold in your system through a marker for cell permeability off of the phosphatidylcholine pathway. If you're heterozygous or homozygous for MTHFD1 or PEMT the cell will lock up and go into a danger response and will hold onto that material and not let it go. You store toxins in the tissues, as the body is trying to protect you from the damage [21:15]Trans-generational stress can go back 16 generations according to some studies. For example, if Shawn tracks a person's heritage back and finds that they're Native American they are going to have a higher rate of PTSD, as well as descendants of Holocaust survivors [22:30]How quantum healing allows one person to do the spiritual/emotional/energetic work and affect multiple generations positively [24:05]Shawn and Dave discuss Ayahuasca, mushrooms and other plant-based modalities to help heal trans-generational traumas [24:45]Shawn utilizes the Organic Acid Test by Great Plains, DUTCH Complete hormone test, and general bloodwork to narrow down if clients are dealing with pathogens, toxins, gut dysbiosis, fungal, mold, yeast, candida, h. pylori, etc. The Organic Acid Test helps to show genetic expression, rather than to test genes specifically which he finds most useful over standard genetic testing like 23 and Me [28:02]The problem with functional medicine is that it’s still not looking at the whole big picture, but focusing instead on a specialty. “Mast cell activation is becoming the new MTHFR” [32:15]“The issue I'm seeing with these complex cases is that they fall into what is called protocols or Standards of Care.” Hear more about why these are important, but also how they are also limiting in the complex cases [34:25]AI is phenomenal but there has to be human interaction to take you the last 60-100% [36:50]How Shawn can find Lyme with a probability of 70%, for less than $16 [40:42]How Michael McEvoy and Shawn Bean run a mentoring group for practitioners where they teach these concepts [46:10]The testosterone-estrogen ratios and how they have affected Shawn Bean for years and how he works to support it, and why the sub-ratio patterns matter [48:50]One of the first things you can do is to look at your water source. Are you drinking good water? Visit www.scorecard.org to find out more about your water supply and what toxins are in it [54:00]Having a gene doesn't necessarily set you on a certain fate like mold toxicity or Lyme disease, but looking at the gene expression and the presenting symptoms is where you heal [54:30]Why Facebook groups for chronic illness can either be a blessing or a curse [57:00]“The more we move away from nature, the sicker we become.” [58:30]Those with NAT gene expression are more EMF sensitive as it fuels the adrenal pathway [58:50] References Metabolic Healing Institute – Metabolic Healing Practitioner Mentoring  matrixhealthwell@gmail.com www.scorecard.org 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. They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways. Thank you to our partners! 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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Having grown up an athlete, Thomas DeLauer quickly found that without the intense exercise, his then-current way of eating lead him to gain 100 pounds. Deciding that he wanted a different life, he was introduced to the keto diet though forward-thinking physicians and decided to try it for himself.   He lost the weight, got super fit using bodybuilding and the keto diet, and has even been featured on the covers of several health and wellness magazines! Not only that, he started a whole new business helping other people to reduce their inflammation, lose weight and reclaim their health.  Thomas DeLauer describes keto as a “gateway drug” to other fitness and wellness tracking and biohacking strategies, such as intermittent fasting, tracking HRV, heart rate, sleep, temperature and more. If you're interested in bodybuilding without trashing your health, this episode is for you! Listen in iTunes! This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up, a web and mobile 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 Thomas DeLauer and what brought him to where he is now – from teen athlete to 100 lbs overweight and back down again to transform into a bodybuilding keto influencer, fitness model, and nutrition and business performance coach [2:55]As a physician recruiter right out of school, Thomas developed a lot of physician relationships with concierge docs who were really progressive thinking. In fact, this is where he first learned of the keto diet [3:50]Merging his business background with his experience as an athlete and a drive for self-transformation led him to create his current business [6:50]As an analytical thinker looking for something different, he discovered how much keto appeals to that because it's more black and white and easier to control than overly simplistic “calories in calories out” approaches [9:15]He views keto as a gateway drug to the Oura ring and sleep tracking, HRV, nutrition genome data, mouth taping, etc. to improving health and becoming a biohacker [12:10]That for blood sugar support, keto can give you an opportunity and sense of hope of how to control what you're doing regarding weight loss, etc [13:00]How Thomas DeLauer tracks HRV with Oura and Whoop to see the big picture as another piece for overtraining or being under-recovered. Rather than believing overtraining to be the problem, he puts more emphasis on proper recovery as the key to improving health and fitness [14:45]That heart rate variability takes it all into consideration, and assesses where you're at now, and whether your under-recovered or not. It takes all the data and computes it, and it takes all the hard black and white part of trying to compute it in your head out of the equation of wondering if you worked out too hard today or didn't recover enough. Thomas describes how HRV and proper recovery can support you in your training, and also how not being recovered can feel and affect you [17:00]How alcohol and late meals can trash your HRV [18:20]“Bodybuilders are pushing their bodies to the limits and they need to have these periods of taxation, but then follow it up with enough recovery time but bodybuilding culture teaches us that we need to be constantly pushing ourselves.  If we were tracking the data on it we would probably be having very poor HRV all the time. They think it's the training that's taking the weight off of them, but it's the diet and the recovery time that ‘s taking the weight off of them. A bodybuilding cutting cycle could be cut in 3-4 weeks if you apply these principles” (of keto diet and recovery) [21:03]“Only a small percentage of the bodybuilding community is tracking, but their outcome could be much different if tracking became more popular in this area.  Bodybuilders like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Franco Columbu, Frank Zane was much more in tune with their bodies and there was much more respect for the body, whereas today we are much more disconnected. We are out of touch, and it's so difficult to get in touch with your body…it's a meditative thing” [21:50]Thomas talks about how out of touch we are with our bodies and how we can use the technology, which is ironically keeping us from being in touch with our bodies to our advantage. Using it, we can  get biofeedback on how we are recovering from our exercise routine and what our food is doing to our bodies [23:05]Direct to consumer testing allows individuals to learn more about their own bodies.  Keto tends to open the door, and then intermittent fasting usually follows as it's a natural step that easily flows from burning fat for fuel.  Following that usually is mitochondrial support like cryotherapy, HRV, photobiomodulation, redlight therapy, sun exposure, cold therapies, high sympathetic nervous system exposure in a controlled way [25:35]How safe sun exposure has benefits and yet wearing sunscreen all the time blocks the benefits of vitamin D from the sun.  Covering up and limiting time in the sun is a more effective way to manage sun exposure safely than chemical sunscreens for average sun exposure [28:34] Why cryotherapy is great, but getting in cold water regularly can be really effective without the high cost of cryotherapy, and why regular exposure is better [32:15]Breathwork and how it can be incorporated into meditation to master the mind-body connection [35:04]Working with breath for performance, using breathing through your nose. Using box breathing, as a way to get out of the sympathetic response before doing a cold shower, and utilizing the breathing during a cold shower can really affect the changes in the autonomic nervous system [39:18]Practicing belly breathing helps to reduce hiccoughs by strengthening the diaphragm [41:24]Learn about the top metrics that Thomas DeLauer currently tracks [47:30] References Thomas DeLauer YouTube Channel Thomas DeLauer website Purathrive.com PuraTHRIVE Curcumin Gold PuraTHRIVE Turmeric Extract PuraTHRIVE Keto Balance Whoop Oura Ring Dry Farm Wines The Oxygen Advantage 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. They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways. Thank you to our partners! About Heads Up Health Heads Up is a web and mobile app 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 Keto diet, HRV, and tracking bodybuilding recovery with Thomas DeLauer appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

After losing 80 pounds in two years, Sameer Sontakey of Biostrap refound health and sparked his interest in bringing a product to the market that allows the everyday user as well as sports athletes to track their rest and recovery metrics allowing them to biohack their way to better health. With a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Sameer Sontakey combined over a decade of experience in the software engineering industry with an interest in health and fitness to develop Biostrap from the ground up. Biostrap has reinvented data health tracking for the everyday user by creating an affordable, easy to use device that offers tracking of heart rate variability, sleep, heart rate, respiration rate, activity, steps, calories burned, SPO2, and pulse oximetry, and personalized insights. “Respiratory rate is a really interesting metric that we should be paying more attention to more often. The lower the better —somewhere around 12 when sleeping. People with above 20 often have heart conditions.”Sameer Sontakey Using infrared technology to track rather than greenlight technology, it allows a deeper analysis than most products on the market. Rather than focusing on how hard you've been going, Biostrap changes the focus to how well you rest and recover so you can keep improving your health. 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 how the product was built from the ground up starting with how to move the data from the device to the servers and then built the tracking device. The secret sauce is the software that they own and created [3:07]That the wrist-worn tracking device is similar to other wrist-worn devices, but it collects more data than other devices [4:20]That Sameer Sontakey wanted to give everyone the same feeling of success he had through tracking to keep motivated [8:55]How these tools have existed for a long time, but they are now being brought to healthcare to help you take charge of your health [10:40]Exciting News! Heads Up are integrating Biostrap into the Heads Up API integration [11:05]About the device and the types of sensors used. The clinical grade pulse oximeter uses a different wave-length IR spectrum which penetrates the skin a bit deeper in the arteries and provides more biometric data. Greenlight gets absorbed by your body but doesn't penetrate deep enough to give the same data. Biostrap monitors the body when it's at rest, which they believe says more about your body that it does when you’re active. This shows how your body is going to perform under stress [12:30]Biostrap provides baselining, taking a 5-day baseline to figure out where your normals are and then they monitor Sp02, HRV, resting HR and respiratory rate [14:30] “Respiratory rate is a really interesting metric that we should be paying more attention to more often. The lower the better, somewhere around 12 when sleeping. People with above 20 often have heart conditions.” — Sameer Sontakey [15:00]How tracking your heart rate and respiratory rate through your sleep cycle can provide more data to your doctor or cardiologist that may be more useful than some blood tests that are standard. This could mean the difference between getting a diagnosis and missing one that could be critical [16:05]How IR wavelength is different than green which is what is used in most commercial off the shelf devices. The photosensor captures what is reflected through IR but not with green, so we can get actual arterial information. [17:15]Why other companies don't use IR in their sensors. Greenlight will get you in the ballpark for activity, however, Biostrap can track the resting and recovery data which can be more helpful to understand what added stressors may do to your body [18:30]How you’re recovered and how you sleep is the main focus of the Biostrap device as they really want to focus on how you rest and recover to indicate your resilience [19:28]That a FitBit will give you a sleep score, but it won't give you data from the entire night on your HRV or heart rate and sleep [20:15]Why HRV is a primary focus for optimal health whether you're a stay at home mom, entrepreneur, or a busy CEO [21:45]How behavior change can be made harder by lack of sleep or low HRV, and how tracking these metrics and improving them can help you with things like avoiding sugar and making better decisions [22:40]Why tracking HRV and understanding how to utilize it and even diving into 7-day HRV CV tracking [24:30]Metrics tracked are pulse oximetry, SPO2, HRV, HR, steps, calories burned, with great data visualization and insights that are unique [25:30]Screenshare of Dave's data from his Biostrap tracking device [26:15]Updated the dashboard recently and what you should focus on and maximize [26:40]Activity – hourly movement, which is based on all movement and your goalsSleep – Sleep and recovery can be correlated, but a great night of sleep doesn't always equal great recovery and vice versaResting heart rate – The lowest heart rate through the nocturnal cycle, so you can compare what your lowest point is every night. They measure every 2, 5, or 10 minutes based on your settingsNocturnal HRV that is based on a linear fit model by figuring out what your wake up and sleep time HRV are and that gives you a slope, which provides a different reading that other devices, which also means it won't match other devices exactlyBreathing rate – There are tools to improve your breathing rate, like breathwork, meditation, massage, hot tub, yin yoga, etc.SPO2 – Looking at your nighttime SPO2. You don't want to be below 95 on this oneYou can compare your readings to other users to see where you stand and can use it to motivate making changes [34:45]There are manual recording options [36:30]Remote monitoring with authorization is useful for coaches, or family members that live in another area and you want to help them improve their health [36:55]Creating an add on of self-experiments that you can do and monitor for two weeks to see how those habits change your metrics and body response. Taking biohacking and bringing it to everyone to make better behavioral decisions [39:00]Why Sameer Santakey quit drinking all alcohol after seeing how even a half a beer affects his recovery [42:05]How you make different changes based on your stage of life and your priorities and tracking your rest and recovery data with Biostrap can help you achieve what is happening in your body [42:30] References Biostrap Chili Pad Blackout curtains Ambient white noise machines Air purifier 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. They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways. Thank you to our partners! About Heads Up Health 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 Biostrap – Tracking Rest and Recovery appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

If you've been diagnosed with a chronic disease and have come up short on getting to the root cause with conventional medicine, then perhaps you're looking in the wrong place.  Conventional medicine is great for acute injuries and infections, however, we must not overlook the aspect of nutritional healing through diet and targeted supplementation guided by functional testing as Dr. Darren Schmidt of The Nutritional Healing Center of Ann Arbor, MI offers in his practice. Dr. Darren Schmidt has been a practicing chiropractor since 1997, who shifted his practice in 2005 to stop taking insurance to be able to help his patients more. Ironic, right? By letting go of the insurance restrictions and hoops to jump through, he was able to spend more time researching and better understand why his patients with chronic disease were not healing. He now spends time daily studying new information and links that are passed on through his patients. In addition to running a full-time nutritional healing practice, he also runs The Good Fat Company and producing The Good Fat Bar and publishing a magazine Good Fat Life with Terry Duperon and Sherri Richards 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 Dr. Darren Schmidt's initial visits include a diet assessment and a muscle testing biofeedback method to do a quick assessment of what is going on in the body [5:35] That the muscle testing he uses to gives a quick assessment in about 5 minutes and then he uses conventional labs to explore more of what is going on in the body [6:20] How a VLDL >19 can indicate too many carbs or too many carbs + fat in the diet [7:00] That triglycerides drop down first in ketosis, and that LDL is like a bus shuttling the fat. In ketosis, the body is using fats for fuel and so you can lower a very high triglyceride level to really good levels with dietary changes like a low-carb/high-fat diet. The LDL might go up in ketosis but it doesn't matter the same way it does on a Standard American Diet [8:15] About the Minnesota Coronary Experiment involving 9000 people in a controlled institution in the 70s who lowered their fat intake and the LDL went down over the course of years but it did not change their rate of heart attacks or heart disease. It did, however, raise all rate mortality and cancer [8:50] How Dr. Darren Schmidt takes the average person and gets them into ketosis using Cronometer with macro adjusting and weekly support, in the beginning, to help them navigate things like the “keto flu” [9:40] Men will lose their belly fat and gain muscle but their body weight will remain the same on keto [13:03] How you can calculate your own VLDL if it's not included with your results by taking total cholesterol minus LDL minus HDL = VLDL [13:55] How he uses functional testing like the GI MAP and Genova stool test with DNA testing, and how diet can affect microbiome diversity [15:50] How people can have a virus, fungus and a parasite in the body at the same time, and that he takes a whole body approach looking at your whole “bio-burden” and then coming up with a plan to address them all for whole body healing [17:00] How you have to be your own detective, and why it’s only through tracking that you can see where things are going wrong and you have an opportunity to course correct before developing chronic disease [19:55] That he wants patients to test ketones and glucose at the end of the day and see that glucose is coming down and ketones are going up using a Keto Mojo meter daily [23:15] That 75% of kids between 14-19 have high insulin! [23:40] How home testing for insulin would be the Holy Grail of at home testing, but we're just not there yet in terms of technology to get that to market yet [23:50] That functional testing on your own for glucose and insulin can empower you to make changes long before you're actually given a chronic disease or diabetes diagnosis and put you in control of your health [25:00] How Dr. Darren Schmidt also helps his patients support their bodies to function better through digestive support so that they can do a ketogenic diet and not have trouble digesting fats, etc. [26:10] About how bad canola and other seed oils are for your health [27:15] How Twitter poster Tucker Goodrich started improving his health by stopping seed oils, and how he talks about how China and India eat 70% of their calories from carbs which have stayed the same for decades. The big change for them over time was the introduction of seed oils which have skyrocketed diabesity, and heart disease rates, by getting rid of lard and coconut oil and replacing it with seed oils [28:00] How eating a high-fat, low-carb diet can be great for your health but the quality of the fats can play a huge part in whether or not you're actually promoting health [29:10] How Nutrition Coalition Nina Teicholz is trying to get really good scientist on the panel to update food guidelines in 2020 [30:30] About his company, The Good Fat Company created with a friend in the grocery industry. They created a bar that was high in fat and protein and low in carbs, and now they make the Good Fat Life Bar and publish Good Fat Life Magazine with Terry Duperon and Sherri Richards [30:55] Clinical Pearl #1 from Dr. Darren Schmidt – After he was diagnosed with black mold poisoning 3 years ago, he found the mechanism of chronic disease which was studied extensively from the 1840s to after WWII and it was forgotten after 1960, which he talks about extensively in his YouTube channel, but include:[32:42] Pathogens Toxins Excess sugar consumption Then address the mechanism of chronic disease and the symptoms that come from organ dysfunction. In his case the black mold caused heart pain, so he treated the heart and fed it and the muscles to get rid of the pain. Clinical Pearl #2 – The importance of eating glands like liver, which you can take in pill form if you don't like the idea of eating organ meats such as Heritage Glandulars or Ancestral Health Glandulars can't be taken every day for the rest of your life but must be cycled due to the hormonal component of the glands [35:55] Toxins-heavy metal urine tests, Quicksilver Scientific has a test, chemical toxicity testing and then using something like Systemic Formulas detox box kits, or Cellcore Biosciences kits and retesting to make sure it's cleared [36:30] That it can take 2-5 years to get metals out and in some cases, he's seen parasites  take a year and a half to clear [38:15] Why biofeedback helps you develop an awareness of what is working and what is not by listening to your body more to optimize your health [39:12] Clinical Pearl #3 – Fitness nutrition is human nutrition. The largest organ in the body is the muscles so you need to feed them properly. If your muscles are achy or cramping too much that means your whole physiology is off [40:45] Clinical Pearl #4 – If your body is not taking in a particular nutrient, you can't blame the food all the time, you have to look at your own physiology and what is not being supported [42:30] References Minnesota Coronary Experiment The Nutritional Healing Center of Ann Arbor Good Fat Life Magazine 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 Dr. Darren Schmidt – Optimizing Your Health with Nutritional Healing appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

After realizing he was suffering from adrenal fatigue and finding a serious lack of practical, understandable, and legitimate information out there, Dr. Joel Rosen found his way to recovery and decided to help others who were suffering the same fate. In today’s show, he shares how a dysregulated circadian rhythm can contribute to so many of the symptoms most everyone is suffering from today from fatigue to brain fog, insomnia, impatience, stress, and more, with the root cause being adrenal fatigue. Taking direction on an ailment from someone who has been there, especially with something like adrenal fatigue can be so supportive. Considering that mainstream medicine doesn't even recognize it as a legitimate diagnosis, makes it harder to find practitioners who can support you in this little known, but very common energy problem known as adrenal fatigue. Dr. Joel Rosen runs a private practice in Florida focused around adrenal fatigue recovery, and is known not only as a functional medicine and health expert, but he's also a data tracker as well.  He knows the importance of tracking the data to see what is working, and using that data to course correct when things are ‘off'.  You can find Dr. Joel Rosen on Instagram, YouTube, his Podcast The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue, and his website. Join Dave Korsunsky, Founder of Heads Up Health as he sits down with Dr. Joel Rosen and talks all things adrenal fatigue related in today's episode. 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 Dr. Joel Rosen's own experience with adrenal fatigue and how he was introduced to the term adrenal fatigue that would change the course of his professional career [3:40] How saliva testing can reveal how your cortisol rhythm can get backward affecting sleep and energy production [5:10] About the HPA – Axis and what it is [6:35] That adrenal fatigue is not accepted by mainstream medicine as a legitimate diagnosis, which is why you may not have heard of it before [7:00] What the ACTH Test shows and how its not useful in diagnosing adrenal fatigue which is different than adrenal failure [7:40] The difference between a broken adrenal system vs. a broken energy production system [9:00] How the body's system of priorities change as the adrenal response lessens [10:30] The HPA Axis is the brain’s perception of the stress which is actually called the A-HPA Axis. The Amygdala -> Hypothalamus -> pituitary -> Adrenals and the negative feedback loop which tells the system to turn on and off as needed, and how with repeated stress, the system breaks down in it's functioning [11:00] About the thermostat analogy of the adrenals negative feedback loop functioning [12:02] How finding the underlying issues that are stressing your body are key to recoveries, such as gut imbalances, and underlying infections, lifestyle changes, blood sugar regulation, spiritual support, nutrition [13:15] Hans Selye in the 1960s identified the initial triad of things that happen to the adrenals as [15:00] The adrenals hypertrophy or get bigger Thymus gland gets smaller Erosive ulcers/linings How supporting spirituality can be a limiting factor when you've addressed the other pieces, and prevent healing. Healing adrenal fatigue is not a quick fix [16:00] That it comes down to perception and you need awareness of that. “I am in control of that most important voice at the highest level” has to be your mindset to overcome it [18:10] That high levels of cortisol for long periods of time messes up your front part of your brain affecting focus, concentration, sequential planning, moral behaviors, etc.[20:02] A simple thing to help lower stress is starting a gratitude list daily [21:10] Some of the simple things you can do to help a broken stress system are to reset your circadian rhythm by living with nature by waking with the sun and limit light exposure after dark [21:40] About Dave's routine for winding down at the end of the day to lower his own cortisol levels and maintaining the natural circadian rhythms that he starts an hour before bed [22:30] How to reset your sleep by eating within a 12-hour window, finishing meals well before bedtime, meditating, getting light during the day, limiting light after dark, use your technology to track and make tweaks that are specific to you to find out what works for you [24:20] What tests Dr. Joel Rosen suggests testing for gut problems to support adrenal fatigue, and how the Secretory IgA test can be an indicator for more testing in a saliva panel [27:50] That low cholesterol is a red flag for an absorption issue. Low protein, albumin, globulin, BUN, chloride, enzymes, are all indications of protein absorption issues secondary to microbes [29:00] GI MAP for DNA mapping can show more than some of the older GI tests, which may miss imbalances picked up in the GI MAP [30:00] Start testing your blood sugar surrounding your meals to see if that could be affecting your adrenals [31:20] Sleep tracking can also help you to realize what is actually happening in your body, and you can make changes in your lifestyle and get feedback on how well changes are working for you [31:47] HRV measures your sympathetic response system.  The higher the heart rate variability the better your ability to adapt to stress [32:20] Regarding meditation and why the goal is not just for your mind to go blank, but to shift into a rest and digest state [34:30] That if you focus too hard on the data tracking it can be counteractive, so track but don't obsess [36:30] How your readiness score with the Oura ring or other tracking devices is really relative to you and your normal, and understanding how to interpret the data is really important to keep cortisol levels normal [37:50] References Your Adrenal Fix YouTube Channel Adrenal Fatigue Society The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue Podcast FB Private Group Dr. Joel Rosen Mastering the Art of Adrenal Fatigue Insta dr_joel_rosen 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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Bob Troia, aka Quantified Bob, is the ultimate biohacker, tracking everything from weight, blood pressure – the usual things to glucose, hormones, HRV, effects of light therapy, and electric stimulation and more. On his blog, you'll find his most popular post Mimicking the Fasting Mimicking Diet – My 5-day experiment which explains how he tricks his body into reproducing the effects of fasting while still eating!  How does one go about figuring out how this works? By testing, tracking, and understanding how to become the ultimate biohacker. Bob describes himself as entrepreneur, biohacker, and self-quantification geek focused on the intersection of data-driven citizen science, health and wellness, human performance, longevity, and personal optimization. He offers consulting as well as coaching which you can learn more about through his website. You can also follow him on  Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or Linkedin. For those of you already tracking your health metrics through various devices, connect them easily to Heads Up Health to help you understand how to biohack your way to health in an increasingly unhealthy world. 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 Bob started by documenting on his site about 6 years ago what his own data was showing, and people began wanting to replicate his experiments (n=1) [4:55] About his epic fails. Bob does a lot of research before doing any of his experiences but has ended up in the hospital just based on a lack of knowledge so use caution when doing your own experiments and research [10:00] How he used light therapy- infrared ordered from China and shined lights (120 watts) on his head for 20 min (too long) and went to work. 30 minutes later and he blinked while reading an email and looked up to a completely garbled screen. Something was stimulated, up or down-regulated, but still not sure what exactly happened [11:03] Can have minor burns etc. from some experiments with biohacking fails. One lesson learned the hard way – too much MCT oil = running to the bathroom [13:00] He learned nootropics don't work for him, but they can be highly effective for others. This is why tracking can be beneficial to figure out what works for you [13:45] About the PoV device and how it works to stimulate the muscles to override what your body is doing from an injury pattern [14:15] How photobiomodulation can be used for mitochondrial upcharge before a workout or as a recovery tool. There are lots of variation between devices and what the effects can be [15:45] How things that stimulate mitochondrial health are top of mind right now. There currently is no test that you can easily order to check these levels; however, there are some energy tests that you can use as a proxy to check the cellular energy of the body [17:45] How you can use biohacking tools to optimize energy production and health in a toxic world to thrive [19:00] Why it's important to show up and meet the world where it is to elevate your health to the best possible [19:45] Top blog post on Quantified Bob's website [20:25] Fasting Mimicking Diet which walks people through the diet, including nutrient guidelines, calculations, and diet plan, as well as the results of a 5-day experiment. He tracked glucose, blood pressure, sleep, HRV, and figured out which ones were worth tracking. Benefits – shifting sympathetic to parasympathetic Checked immune and growth markers Had a dramatic uptick in testosterone Saw elevated cortisol due to the stress on the body, but overall things were still better He had vivid dreams, running on ketones in therapeutic ketosis rather than nutritional ketosis How water fasting for 2-3 days produces a similar effect, but it’s not enough to get to the crazy dreams The top metric Quantified Bob thinks is vital for tracking-GLUCOSE! [29:40] Elite HRV CorSense's ease of use and how it's useful to track in addition to glucose [31:05] Continuous glucose monitors and how they can provide so much information, but the technology is still a ways off for non-invasive technology for the general public to utilize. They show what's happening at night for example, that you can't easily monitor when you're sleeping.  The pluses and minuses of what's currently available on the market [32:43] Quantified Bob talks about some of the devices and companies he has created and launched into the world [38:00 ] References Dr. Justin Marchegiani PoV Device Quantified Bob – Fasting Mimicking Diet Blog post HRV4Training DexCom Awesome Meal Tracking App Hackd Fitness 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 Adventures in Biohacking with Quantified Bob (aka Bob Troia) appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

Have you tried the keto diet and struggled with getting your ketones high enough? Did you feel terrible eating a lot of fats, or tired and sluggish? Did you suffer from hypoglycemia, while trying to fix your high blood sugar problems?  Or just feel like your body needed more vegetables? These are all common issues that can be avoided by understanding nutrigenomics and how your body responds to different foods. Grab your Nutrition Genome (or another genetic SNP test) results and follow along as Sarah Morgan takes you through the top 11 SNPs you’ll want to know about for personalizing the keto diet based on your genes. Pairing Nutrition Genome testing with functional lab bio-marker testing and tracking it all within Heads Up Health, can help you monitor your health and see how your diet is working for you or against you. It's true, your genes don't change, but don’t assume there’s nothing you can do to avoid disease. How you live your life and what you eat is directly responsible for switching your genes for a disease on or off.  Dave Korsunsky, Founder of Heads Up Health interviews Sarah Morgan, aka “The Gene Queen”, on the top 11 genetic SNP's that affect how you may react to a ketogenic diet, and what to do if you do have those SNP's. This episode is packed full of useful information, especially for those of you who have not achieved the results you wanted with a ketogenic diet.  It may just need a bit more personalization for you, which is where genome testing for nutrition comes in. Make sure to check out our podcast with Alex Swanson of Nutrition Genome on how to obtain your own test kit and what information you'll find within the results. Sarah Morgan, aka “The Gene Queen” has worked in the field of genetics for the last 13 years, connecting the dots on how your genes interact with your diet and lifestyle. She has a Bachelor's degree in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. She holds a Master of Science in Functional Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport. Currently, she runs several companies after taking a step back from her clinical practice. Her new company Even Health (coming soon) creates supplements to help replenish the nutritional cost of the medications you may have to take, such as birth control pills, and even statins. She has also written a children's book Buddies in My Belly to help kids understand the importance of a healthy gut microbiome. 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: When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003 we thought we'd find at least 50,000 genes but we found only 20,000-25,000 [2:40] That the microbiome has genes also and can impact our human genome expression [3:10] SNP's (single nucleotide polymorphisms) sometimes don't do anything, but other times they affect things like detox, how we handle inflammation and what types of diets we tolerate best. These are not inborn errors that children are sometimes born with [4:30] Your genes and genome are always going to be the same, but your genetic expression is changing all the time based on the inputs you give your body – diet, stress, water, sleep etc. [6:25] How tracking your data through HUH you can figure out what inputs (diet, stress, sleep) are connected to health for you [8:20] Order Your Nutrition Genome Kit! #1 – PEMT gene (located in the methylation section) allows you to make choline which is crucial for liver function. The liver converts your fats to ketones, so this is important for a ketogenic diet [12:40] Normal- usual presentation, heterozygous – one copy of the gene, homozygous – two copies of the gene [14:50] Choline is really important for gallbladder function which helps break down fats for our body to use them [15:20 ] # 2 – FADS-2 (located in the digestion section) [20:35] Has to do with metabolic or neurologic issues on a keto diet. These are omega 3 status indicators. This gene has to do with taking shorter chain omega 3 fatty acids (alpha-linolenic acid) like flaxseed and walnuts and converting it to the longer chain fatty acids like EPA and DHA which are found in higher amounts in fish. You can check your blood levels of EPA and DHA levels and cross-reference how these genes are working for you in your body [23:15] # 3 – FUT2 (located in the digestion section) How well you feed your microbiome [23:35] The microbiome plays a part in how well you absorb your fats based on the type of bacteria living in your small intestines. The more dysbiosis (bad bugs) bacteria you have living in your gut, you can have more of an inflammatory response to an increase in fats. If you have heterozygous or homozygous, you should emphasize your prebiotics (food for gut bugs) because if you have changes in this gene you're not actually feeding your microbiome as well and can have more issues with lower levels of bifidobacteria (anti-inflammatory bacteria that also makes B vitamins like B12 and folate). Needs a good variety of diverse plant fibers in the diet. 25 different plant species per week (this can be hard in a traditional keto diet -carnivore would not be a good option for someone with this gene). CAUTION- very extreme restricted diets can be detrimental so use caution if you don't have all of the information on how it will affect you before beginning a very restricted diet if you don't know what you're doing. Test, don't guess.  #4 – ACAT (located in the digestion section) How your body converts protein and fat to cellular energy [30:04] We make our body weight in ATP (cellular energy) every day! We want to make sure someone has the ability to get good energy from protein and fat and has to do with cholesterol balance in the cell if eating a high fat/protein diet. Example of symptoms: Someone who is homozygous may go on a higher fat diet and consume more protein and have their cholesterol go up. Eating more fat and you feel exhausted. You never feel good, because it's lowering your ability to make energy due to your lack of ability to properly use fat and protein for fuel Watch your cholesterol and liver enzymes when doing a high-fat diet as they can go up if your liver can't handle all the fat processing (see PEMT gene info). #5 -ADIPOQ The Red Meat Gene – Adiponectin (located in the digestion section) [33:50] This is a hormone released in the intestinal tract when we eat foods and it has to do with how much insulin is secreted- affecting blood sugar, type 2 diabetes, etc. These are people that are predisposed to metabolic disease. Things that help this function better Exercise Intermittent Fasting Omega 3's to increase adiponectin secretion Turmeric Berries Ginger People that are low secreters are at a higher risk for insulin resistance, heart disease, and colon cancer – especially important to know before doing a high meat keto diet with a lot of red meats Homozygous- make sure you exercise and check body composition. Insulin resistance starts in the muscle -so get your muscles moving and lift some heavy stuff!   #6 – SLC22A5 Fat Taxi Cab Gene – (located in the digestion section) [40:20] Picks up our fats and shuttles them to mitochondria to be burned as an energy source. Fat goes through the digestive tract and is absorbed across the gut barrier and then L-carnitine shuttles to the mitochondria. Low levels of L-carnitine could compromise your ability to shuttle fat to your mitochondria and contribute to lowered energy in your mitochondria which can have neurological implications. You can consume L-carnitine in red meat, but your body also makes it. Vitamin C is very helpful and making sure you're methylating well as L-carnitine is a byproduct of methylation. #7 PPAR Alpha – Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Alpha (located in the digestion section) [42:20] This is the “ketone gene” – especially if homozygous this can make it difficult to get into ketosis. This plays a role in fatty acid metabolism – how our fats are actually utilized in ketosis. Symptoms: Changes in cholesterol panel like triglycerides, HDL, LDL in people that are poor responders. May not feel as well when trying to go into ketosis and feel poorly on a keto diet. They could potentially have ketogenic hypoglycemia because their ketone production is low and they're not bringing in enough carbs to keep blood sugar normal – they essentially have no fuel to run on.   Needs exogenous ketones to stay keto since your body can't make them well. If you're homozygous and taking exogenous ketones, you need to really watch your cholesterol well. #8 – ACSL1– How well you metabolize saturated fats from animals – bacon, fat bombs from dairy, etc. (located in the digestion section) [44:25] These people will have higher issues with higher fasting glucose and insulin resistance. If homozygous or even heterozygous -focus from getting your fats from plant sources rather than animal sources. More Mediterranean keto diet. Coconut is okay. #9 – APOA2– Eat fat, get fat gene (located in the digestion section) [44:25] An enzyme that regulates appetite. People who eat more fat tend to be more hungry and tend to consume more calories in a day. You can mitigate this through movement. Don't have a desk job where you sit 8 hours a day, especially if you eat a lot of fat. #10 FTO – The Hangry Gene (newly added to report in last 6 months or so -located in the digestion section) [47:00] Has to do with the hunger hormone ghrelin. People who have this, especially homozygous, are the people that are just hungry all the time. Balance blood sugars.  Don’t consume high glycemic foods (you're already doing that if on keto). Pay attention to hunger signals as well even if not eating high glycemic foods regularly. # 11 TCF7L2 – The carb Gene (located in the digestion section) [49:40] Incretin hormone that has to do with insulin sensitivity.   The biggest indicator of type 2 diabetes, across the board in terms of studies. If heterozygous – be careful with your carbs, homozygous be REALLY careful with your carbs.   Symptoms: weight gain dysregulated insulin carb cravings Wild type can have more metabolic flexibility of being able to use carbohydrates and not have negative consequences. Beta cells in pancreas very sensitive for these people. Ancestrally they probably ate more carbs and are more efficient at it.   References EVEN Health Supplement Company Buddies In My Belly Gene Queen 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 Personalizing the Keto Diet Based on Your Genetics | Sarah Morgan “The Gene Queen” appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

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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Tired of your everyday keto recipes?  Kelly Tan Peterson is lighting the low carb keto world on fire with her new book KETO EAST, co-written with her husband Dr. Dan Peterson. Kelly shares low carb keto Asian recipes that “turn Asian classics into ketogenic favorites,” as Maria Emmerich noted in the blurb of Kelly’s cookbook. Give your taste buds a kick in the pants with all the flavor that Kelly brings to the table with low carb keto Asian food recipes that are not just delicious, but healthy too! Originally from Singapore, Kelly Tan Peterson moved to the United States after meeting her husband Dr. Dan Peterson. She began eating a keto diet after seeing how he ate. She watched her own metabolic and weight issues resolve, quickly rebalancing her body and maintaining it while eating keto. What she missed, though, was her traditional diet from back home. Deciding that she did not have to choose one type of food over the other, she found a way to bring her Asian culture into the keto world. This was a challenge she wanted to take on, not only to be able to eat her favorite meals, but also to bring the benefits of ketogenic eating to her friends and family back in Singapore. This began her journey into low-carb advocacy in the spirit of love to inspire those metabolically damaged in Asia to improve their health eating familiar food they loved.  What began as a blog and recipe sharing has become a series of books – KETO EAST (already published) and two more to follow: KETO BAKED and KETO WEST. Keep your eye out for Kelly Tan Peterson — she's spreading low carb keto awareness and delicious recipes — to Asia and beyond! 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 Kelly Tan Peterson struggled with cholesterol, acidic stomach, and blood glucose before meeting her husband [3:15] Why Kelly wondered how her husband, a doctor, could be eating such a high fat and low carb diet, let alone recommending it to his patients [3:30] As she began eating a LCHF diet along with her husband, she realized that just by changing the way she eats, her symptoms improved. Now she has no weight issues at all as long as she avoids starch and sugar [4:05] Why certain foods in her culture were problematic for her and how awareness is slowly growing in Singapore [5:15] How she used social media to post what she ate and her new lifestyle, drawing curiosity from her friends [6:45] Why it’s easy to eat out in Singapore, even if you’re eating low carb keto Asian food, simply by making swaps for carbs/starches [7:45] How food in the Asian culture, like roast duck, crispy pork belly, roast chicken and plenty of vegetables, can fit within a low carb keto diet, just watch for hidden carbs like a glaze on meat [9:30] Why it's not hard to eat anywhere in the world and find something that would qualify as low carb/high fat [11:00] How after spending the last six weeks traveling throughout Asia she realized that there was much less obesity when she was a child. Now, on yearly visits to Singapore, her observation is that even children are getting bigger, requiring larger uniforms [11:30] How food in Singapore is getting sweeter now, seeing with each visit, more fast food and western food chains in Asian countries [13:10] Why eating all of the typical popular foods can hijack your brain, perpetuating the problem of cravings, leading to food addictions [14:20] Kelly realizes now that the longer she is off of carbs and sweets, she tastes so much more flavor in natural foods, while friends who eat a Standard American Diet cannot taste [16:00] Why even after 9 years of eating keto, if hidden carbs are eaten, she’ll notice cravings for snacks and other foods due to the brain changes that occur [16:45] About Kelly's approach to keto Asian recipes and her cookbooks which are written in both English and Mandarin [18:20] Kelly talks about how she's adapted the low carb keto diet to her ethnic diet of noodles and rice dishes with shirataki noodles or cauliflower rice but using the same traditional methods of cooking those dishes to retain their flavor and depth [19:30] Kelly gives an example of how she adapts Young Chow fried rice to keto while keeping the flavor people don't want to lose [22:20] Her book contains her personal story of her cultural background and how she was able to bring that into keto and adapt it, rather than give up all the foods she loves [24:30] How she tests all the recipes with her blood glucose to make sure it doesn't spike [25:30] Why Kelly still occasionally tests her ketones and glucose. She tested more frequently when she first began the keto diet. Now she does it so she could relate how she feels to what her glucose levels are (e.g., water retention in her ankles)  [26:15] How KETO BAKED will be her next book to release, which was born from watching her mom go through cancer while navigating a culture that is rich in higher carbs and how socializing always involves sharing foods [28:10] How Kelly hopes that if she can interest people with a keto baking book, they can cut their carbs in half while still eating tasty food/treats, making the transition easier later if they want to do keto [30:15] How her third book will be called KETO WEST: bringing in American and French meals with a touch of Asian flavor [32:00] About the response she's getting in Asia by sharing her story of how she feeds herself and her family [33:40] References KETO EAST Cookbook by Kelly Tan Peterson Kelly Tan Peterson website: Cooking Inspired By Love Kelly Tan Peterson YouTube Channel Keto East West Facebook group Keto BAKED Facebook group Keto MARKET Facebook 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! 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If you're trying to accomplish anything significant with your diet, using a nutrient tracker app is definitely helpful. But what’s the point of doing all that tracking if you're not even sure if the info is accurate? Aaron Davidson, founder of Cronometer, the best nutrient tracker app out there for accuracy, has taken a part-time hobby and turned it into a full-time business. Now he’s transforming the health of those using his app, regardless of what diet they’re following. Not only does this nutrient tracker app track macros, but it also tracks micronutrients — all of those trace nutrients that can set you up for illness if not met long term! Tracking with Cronometer can help you meet your dietary goals. Whether you're a new keto dieter trying to make sure your carbs are low enough, or a vegetarian wanting to prove to your family that you're getting enough protein in your diet. What makes Cronometer stand out as a nutrient tracker app from all the others is that Aaron Davidson and his team spend a lot of time, money and effort on making sure their database is accurate. They do this by having professionals enter data to check for accuracy rather than relying on users to populate data. They also enter all of the data for the micronutrients for those of you on a therapeutic diet needing more specific details like zinc, vitamin B12, selenium, and 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 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: That the trick to caloric restriction over the long term, while still getting good nutrients, is to track what you're eating with a nutrient tracker app [6:20] How what Aaron Davidson started as an offline standalone product (built in a weekend out of personal necessity, and initially given away for years) turned into the Cronometer so many love and use today [7:00] Where the name Cronometer came from. (CRONometer = Caloric Restriction with Optimal Nutrition + meter to indicate nutrient density in your diet!)  [8:10] More on the origin of Cronometer and Aaron Davidson’s story from Ireland to Canada. When the free use version of Cronometer started feeling like a job (people were emailing daily with questions), Aaron turned it into a full-time business, making his nutrient tracker app web-based and mobile [8:30] The parallels between Dave Korsunksy's story of building Heads Up Health and Aaron Davidson's build of Cronometer [10:15] How Dave had a difficult time getting his ketones above 0.5 mmol/L without tracking his data, and the reasons why he built Heads Up Health for others to track their health — to see what inputs made a difference for them [12:15] If you want to build something for a unique audience like Dave and Aaron have done with their health apps, DO IT!  There are other weirdos out there like you that will want it too! (Find your weirdos!) [12:55] Though Cronometer has grown a lot in the last couple of years, initially Aaron still had to take another day job [15:30] In 2016 Aaron hired his first employees; by 2017 he went full time himself. Now he has about 17 employees and 11 in the office (who have chair lift meetings in their ski town of Revelstoke!) [17:30] Why Cronometer is considered a best nutrient tracker app above others. Their high standards and commitment to making sure their nutrient database is the best, keeping up on the nutrition data, having larger amounts of micronutrients than any other nutrient tracker app. [19:50] How the Cronometer database is put together by experts, not entered by users. (This means it may get entered a little slower, but it's going to be more accurate and reliable. In fact, there’s a whole team around data curation staying on top of the database.) [20:40] A little about micronutrients and reasons why you would want to track them to transform your health: [23:00] You’re taking supplements and want to know if you're getting enough in your diet. Or maybe you don’t need a supplement anymore? You're a cancer patient (or caring for one) wanting to know you’re getting what you need at therapeutic levels Mental health Keto dieters tracking electrolytes Vegans making sure they're getting their protein Vegetarians making sure they're getting their B12 Genetic mutations that cause you to not absorb typical micronutrients and you need to take in more And many more reasons… How Cronometer and Heads Up Health have integrated and now synchronize between the two apps [26:00] Learn how a two-way sync with blood sugar and ketones may be in the future between Heads Up Health and Cronometer! [26:50] How you can input blood test info in Cronometer, which is useful to see how your nutrient intake is affecting your lab values over time [27:30] Why even though the biggest users of Cronometer are those following a keto, vegan, or raw food diet, as well those using it for weight loss, any dietary approach works with this nutrient tracker app  [30:00] How researchers are utilizing Cronometer for diet research [31:10] Why Dr. Mercola prefers Cronometer as a nutrient tracker app and how the Cronometer team customized it for him [32:45] References Cronometer The Methuselah Foundation 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 29 – More Than a Calorie Counter: How Cronometer is Transforming Health appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

The creator of “The Healing Foods Method,” Vivica Menegaz of The Nourished Caveman is a keto paleo nutritionist, cookbook author, and blogger. Originally a native of Italy, she grew up eating a nutrient-dense and local diet full of wonderful healing foods like organ meats in her keto or carnivore diet.  After spending years as a food photographer for magazines such as Bon Appetit and Vanity Fair, Vivica was given an opportunity to train with Dr. Deborah Penner from Chico, California in nutrition clinical practice.  After working with Dr. Penner, Vivica branched out on her own and was eating a paleo type diet until she suddenly began gaining extra weight that seemed unusual. Upon further investigation, she realized she was pre-diabetic. This led her to blending the paleo diet with a ketogenic approach that brought about great results in her weight, blood sugar and more. Vivica now works with women to help them reverse their own metabolic issues, lose weight and balance their hormones with her program: “The Healing Foods Method.” As Vivica provides custom instruction and one-on-one attention, only five women are accepted per month, where they can begin learning how to test their blood sugar and ketones, and more, to see their progress. You can find Vivica on her website The Nourished Caveman and blog which combines ancestral diets with the wisdom of nutrition pioneers: Weston A Price, Dr. Royal Lee, Dr. Pottenger and more. She can also be found on Facebook, Instagram and on her YouTube Channel. 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 Vivica's past work in photography after attending The Center for Design in Pasadena and how she got into food photography [4:10] That she grew up in Italy, eating locally, and later traveled to Japan just to enjoy the food [5:40] That she never had a metabolic issue until recently and was never drawn to the starchy carbs or sweets, but rather preferred meats, veggies and organ meats like fried brains and liver [6:30] How she views nutrient-dense organ meats like fried brains — the taste of childhood! [7:15] That she started cooking at age 7 [8:00] Born and raised in Italy, she moved to the United States at age 23 and has been here for more than 25 years [8:30] About her transition to working with individuals in clinical practice, starting with raw food [9.10] How she had major gallbladder attacks at age 27 but didn't have it removed. She was having attacks 1-2 times a week and both her mom and grandma had theirs removed, but she refused to let them take hers [9:45] How her chiropractor helped her with food and nutrition, supplements and adjustments to overcome the gallbladder issues [10:05] How Vivica began working for Dr. Deborah Penner, her chiropractor in Chico, who later became her friend and mentor, pushing her to begin studying nutrition, working together for four years in clinical practice [10:35] How she branched out on her own and now takes a keto paleo approach, blending the two diets together. Although the paleo diet supported her gallbladder, the discovery of pre-diabetes and sudden 30 lb weight gain led her to finding keto. [12:10] About how monitoring your blood glucose can prevent a diagnosis of diabetes by just being aware of how foods are affecting your blood sugar [14:15] That graphing your blood sugar readings show you a whole different perspective than a single fasting blood draw [16:45] That she asks her clients to test 7 times a day and keep a food journal to see real-time feedback on their food and what it's doing in their bodies as they learn how to test blood sugar [17:00] That testing and macros are training wheels for understanding how to eat, but you will eventually understand when you're in ketosis by how you feel [21:00] About keto-adaptation, testing for ketosis with both blood sugar and ketones to keep you on track, and why avoiding cheat days is important for becoming really keto-adapted [22:30] Are they food sensitivities or are they just foods that aren't paleo? [26:30] Dave compares white bread to cocaine in its addictiveness [27:00] That carbs ups aren't necessarily bad, but you don't have to eat a donut to do one or stop eating the high-quality foods either! [30:00] About food shaming and peer pressure and how we navigate it [31:40]  About the layers and steps to healing based on where you are and what you want to do. This can be based on your family situation, psychology etc. [35:10] About her experiment with going carnivore for a week and how she was in the highest ketosis she's ever been in [36:23] How she had cravings for some things come up while doing carnivore and attributes it to another layer of keto-adaptation and gut microbiome recalibration [41:00] That she gained weight and then when she started working out she lost 5 lbs without trying [44:40] “If you don't take time for your health today, you'll have to take time for your illness tomorrow.” — Dr. Bruce Bond [48:00] References Dr. Deborah Penner Zsófia Clemens, PhD Food Shaming Blog Post by Vivica Menegaz 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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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.

If you haven’t heard about Beth Zupec-Kania, then you’re in for a treat! Beth spent the last 27 years as a Registered Dietician helping many parents implement a keto diet for seizures. Through the Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies, Beth worked primarily with children using ketogenic therapy for epilepsy. Also the designer of the KetoDietCalculator, which has been around for 20+ years, Beth has been using keto long before it was a popular dietary approach.  A pioneer in ketogenic therapy’s resurgence, Beth Zupec-Kania has been instrumental in spreading knowledge about the keto diet through the Charlie Foundation. She educates hospital staff and parents on how to implement ketogenic therapy all over the world, giving many families hope. So far, Beth and the Charlie Foundation have trained over 200 hospitals in ten countries!  Founded in 1994 by Jim Abrahams, The Charlie Foundation came into existence because of Jim’s son Charlie, who found success with a keto diet for seizures. In 1993, when Charlie, a baby then, failed to respond to epilepsy medications, Jim wasn’t willing to take ‘good enough’ as an answer. Digging into the textbooks, he found a possibility in the ketogenic diet. Within a month, Charlie became seizure and drug free. Most important, now an adult, Charlie has never had a seizure again!  Now in its 25th year, the Charlie Foundation is a non-profit organization. It provides information about ketogenic therapy for those with epilepsy, neurological disorders, and certain cancers. All donations are not only used directly for education but are matched by Jim Abrams. You can contact Beth through the Charlie Foundation Contact page for educational training. This is also a great resource for finding practitioners trained in the ketogenic diet for therapeutic use. Note: Charlie Foundation’s Keto Ambassador series highlights stories of people who have found success using a ketogenic therapy for epilepsy. Gillian Szollos (featured on episode 23 of our podcast), is also a Keto Ambassador for the Charlie Foundation. She shares her story and favorite keto diet for seizures recipe here: http://bit.ly/GilliansStory 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 Beth got started with the keto diet for seizures at the Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee. Also how she came to learn about Jim Abrahams from The Charlie Foundation, becoming their lead nutritionist [5:00] Jim Abrahams’ story as a Hollywood writer, movie producer, and father. How his youngest son Charlie developed epilepsy around age one [7:45] How available drugs fail 30% of those with epilepsy [9:42] Why ketogenic therapy is really effective for those that have been on two anti-seizure medications, yet are still having seizures [11:00] That the diet works in at least 50% of those who try it with medical supervision when the meds don't work or surgery isn't an option [11:05] How after Charlie started the keto diet all of his seizures went away [12:15] How Jim found information on the ketogenic therapy for epilepsy buried in textbooks [13:50] Why First Do No Harm, the movie Jim created about a boy's story with epilepsy, is still a large reason that people hear about the keto diet. Hence, showing how underutilized the keto diet for seizures is still used today [17:41] That trials in children and several in adults show repeatedly the same statistic, no matter what type of seizure. (At least 50% have at least 50% or more reduction in seizures. About 15 up to 25% get complete seizure freedom, depending on the unique circumstances.) [20:50] About the prep that has to happen before implementing a keto diet for seizures. Also learn about the resources Beth has created for the transition [23:00] How just removing gluten or sugar can provide relief for a lot of patients before going full keto [26:00] Why knowing your biomarkers can help you to identify things that are triggering your seizures [29:45] About the Charlie Foundation and how people can get started using the keto diet. (Used for everything from autism and brain cancer to Parkinson’s and migraines, plus more.) [38:00] The education Beth has done, conducting trainings in 250 hospitals across the globe with patients/staff. How she teaches others how to implement the keto diet for seizures [40:45] References Charlie Foundation Resources Store Make a tax-deductible donation to the Charlie Foundation What is the KetoDietCalculator (video) 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 26 – Ketogenic Therapy for Epilepsy & Beyond | Beth Zupec-Kania (Charlie Foundation) appeared first on HeadsUp Health.

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.

Gillian Szollos had forgotten about her epilepsy. It had been 30 years since she’d been seizure free, and those memories had faded so much that her husband didn't even know about them. But when the seizures returned suddenly — full force — she began medications to suppress them. However, it wasn't effective this time around so Gillian was left to find another way. She credits her husband for seeking support online, discovering and beginning the keto diet for epilepsy on October 2014. Two weeks later, Gillian had her very last seizure, and her own diligence in tracking keto has kept her seizure free ever since! After tracking her basal body temp, ketones, blood sugar, menstrual cycle, and other metrics, she was able to take her data to her doctor who then was able to see a pattern and diagnose her with catamenial seizures, which are hormone triggered.   Had Gillian accepted what she was told without question, she may not be here today. As it turns out, she also has an MTHFR gene variance that causes her to not metabolize medications in a typical way. Her medications left her in such anguish that at one point she was willing to risk death from seizure rather than the side effects of the medications. Join Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health as he talks with Gillian Szollos about her experience with epilepsy and her choice to treat it with a keto diet for epilepsy. Through daily keto tracking, she lost over 90 pounds, lowered her A1C from 6.2 to 4.2 in just a few months, as well as eliminated her seizures by knowing her triggers. You can follow Gillian on Instagram as @ketoalldayeverday and @keto.for.life you can also check out her website Ketoalldayeveryday.com or email her at ketoalldayeveryday@gmail.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″ url=”https://headsuphealth.com/” ] In this podcast you'll learn: About Gillian Szollos’ pleading message to physicians to please read the drug insert and know that side effects do happen [14:00] Using the app, Seizure Tracker, she was able to further categorize the type of seizure she was having. (catamenial seizures-hormone related); otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to target her therapy [17:20] Why doing your own research and taking it to your doctor can empower you, helping you get the results you desire for your health. [18:30] How although her hormone levels were “normal,” they were actually at the opposites ends of normal (indicating an imbalance providing her one more piece of the puzzle) [20:30] The difference between optimal functional ranges vs “normal” lab ranges [19:30] How keto came into Gillian's life when she had hit a point where she'd rather take the chance of dying from a seizure than to continue on with the medications that caused her suicidal ideations [23:25] How her husband joined Facebook and found a seizure support group that led to the idea of utilizing a ketogenic diet for seizure suppression [24:30] About her search for sources in implementing a therapeutic ketogenic diet, which was scarce at the time, so she went straight to the source – Dr. Eric Kossoff at Johns Hopkins [24:50] After starting the keto for epilepsy diet in October 2014, Gillian had her last (30 minute) seizure two weeks later. Even though her doctor wanted her to go back to Tegretol, she never had to take it again! [27:05] How eating and tracking keto helped Gillian remain seizure free. Also the benefits of reducing estrogenic foods and upping nutrients to protect her body and managing her sleep. [28:50] How the side effects of the meds nearly killed her, but the side effects of keto saved her life. [31:00] Why she overcame her fear of lifting free weights in the gym and how she went from a bone density score of 1.1 to a 2.2 which is unheard of for a 49-year-old woman [38:45] How ovulation causes high ketones and low blood sugar. Right before menstruation, you’ll see low ketones and high blood sugar, regardless of what you’re eating. She wouldn’t have noticed without tracking, as this provides more markers to watch for in catamenial seizures. [45:00] Why you should master your own body by tracking and testing to know your triggers [47:00] Learn about the Charlie Foundation and why a community is so beneficial [47:45] About the use of cannabis and CBD oil for seizures [50:20] Importance of asking for your lab results, not just the summary of findings, to uncover things like thyroid swings from one end of normal to the other [52.45] Carrie Brown and MTHFR support for mental health [58:55] How to work with doctors that are uncooperative in a way that is not antagonistic [1:00:00] How Gillian pays it forward by sharing others' success stories with keto and epilepsy [106:00:00] How she ditched over $3000 of monthly meds switching to keto [108.00.00] Why it's important to spread the message that this is an effective treatment plan [108.00.00] References Dr. Eric Kossoff Charlie Foundation Video training with Danny Vega and Robert Sikes MTHFR testing with 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 manage 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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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! 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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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Is biohacking mental illness even possible? In this podcast episode, learn how Carrie Brown became her own detective to heal her mind and body using her “seek the tweak” approach and how she used keto for bipolar to optimize her health and live her best life. Listen to Carrie talk about her experience with Bipolar II Disorder and how she has biohacked mental illness through tracking health data, a keto for bipolar diet, MTHFR support, supplements and lifestyle changes. Now completely medicine-free, she maintains a healthy mental outlook by understanding what her body needs and how to support it. If you’ve ever felt even a little bit of that darkness, you know that it isn’t something you can talk or will your way out of. Your body is literally starving for what it needs, and while a pharmaceutical may be necessary to help you while finding your root causes, you do not have a medication deficiency. After years of being crippled by overwhelming thoughts of killing herself, Carrie hit a point where she was nearly committed to an institution but was able to pull herself out into the light enough that she had an opportunity to find another way. Carrie wants you to know that there is another way and if you’re willing to do the detective work and seek the right avenues for support, you too, have an opportunity to heal unmedicated. Although she emphasizes that everyone with bipolar disorder has their own path, she is a firm believer that you need to listen to your body and remember the importance of collecting and monitoring data. “Even data such as: How do I feel when I eat X? Or I eat Y?” It is Carrie’s hope that her story inspires you to take control of your own health, to be your own detective, in the knowledge that she believes there is a fix for you, to know there IS light at the end of the tunnel. Carrie Brown is a former-professional-pastry-chef-turned-keto-cookbook-author, recipe developer, keto advocate, motivational speaker, and podcast co-host of Ketovangelist Kitchen. She is also part of Ketovangelist Unlimited (a membership for people who are serious about keto, who want to take it to the next level).  You can find her here: Carrie Brown-Life in the Sane Lane, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Flickr, and Instagram. Listen to her inspiring story and know that you are not alone.  Suicide is a very real subject and anyone having suicidal thoughts should call the National Suicide Helpline at 1-800-273-8255.  Ask for the help that you need. If you know someone struggling, reach out to them.  You may be the lifeline that they need. 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: Carrie Brown's history and background; how she was born depressed and did all the conventional meds and therapies [5:45] While working at Microsoft and in the corporate world with a high profile career, she learned very early to fake it (happiness) to be able to make it [8:50] How exhausting it is keeping up the front that everything is normal while inside your thoughts are obsessive and all-encompassing, and everything in your brain is telling you to die [10:00] How she talked herself out of being committed at the hospital in the middle of the night, by agreeing to meds and therapy [13:45] Why she was frustrated at the lack of critical thinking in conventional treatment (i.e., being a deep thinker, started asking about things she could try and her therapist was just agreeing with what she was suggesting). They just wanted to medicate her to the point where she didn't want to kill herself but was socially acceptable, not asking the question of why she was bipolar [17:30] Why she fired everyone except her psychotherapist [18:15] How “you can't talk your way out of clinical depression or bipolar any more than you can talk yourself out of a broken leg or diabetes” [18:30] She started her detective work with her DNA (23andMe) and uploaded her data into a website to help her unpack the info into something useful (like Genetic Genie) [19:30] She's found out she's heterozygous for MTHFR and learned that it has the ability to cause a lot of issues including anxiety, depression and bipolar [23:55] That it's super important to live in a non-toxic environment from the cleaners she uses to the furniture she buys due to her impaired detox abilities, and how uncovering this information through 23andMe testing gave her a place to start [26:00] How she was on Lamotrigine which was originally an anti-seizure med and via Dr. Ted Naiman’s help, made the connection that the ketogenic diet was originally prescribed for seizure prevention in children; there might be a strong enough connection to work on the same mechanism to help her bipolar [28:15] That more ketones do not mean more weight loss, but it can be helpful when working with the brain to have higher ketones, which she refers to “peetones” for urine testing to figure out which foods were working for her [32:55] That she was terrified to come off of her Lamotrigine, but she was able to in a week or two (under a doctors care) and has been completely off of meds with no bipolar symptoms in the 2.5 years while being on a ketogenic diet [35:30] How she wants everyone to know that their experience will be different and their needs will be unique to them, even if they are doing a ketogenic diet or if they have methylation issues…you need a healthcare provider who will support you in finding your combination for your unique body [37:35] How your needs change over time, so it's important to review your supplements and diet, etc. to continue supporting you (or “seek the tweak,” as Carrie calls it) by tracking your data [41:40] Why it's super important to find an ND and/or a functional doc to work with that understands all of these tests and the ketogenic diet [50:00] More about Carrie Brown's current work with writing cookbooks, working on the Ketovangelist podcast team developing recipes for keto and teaching individuals how to cook and make delicious food, as well as speaking at conferences such as KetoCon [53:40] About her gratitude for what she went through to be able to be given the opportunity to give back [1:00:20] References 23andMe Genetic Genie MTHFR.net Strategene report by Dr. Ben Lynch on methylation Dr. Ben Lynch’s book: Dirty Genes Promethease Plant Paradox by Dr. Stephen Gundry Bristol Stool Chart and tracking Ketovangelist Unlimited Ketovangelist Kitchen Kickass Keto: Your 28-Day Quick Start Guide to Health, Fat-burning, and Weight-loss by: Carrie Brown The KETO Ice Cream Scoop: 52 amazingly delicious ice creams and frozen treats for your low-carb high-fat life by: Carrie Brown 101 KETO Beverages: Amazingly delicious, health-boosting, sugar-free lattes, teas, hot chocolates, frozen drinks, yogurt drinks, sodas, mocktails, and infused waters by: Carrie Brown The KETO Crockpot: 40 scrumptious, simple, fat-burning, health-boosting recipes that cook themselves while you're on the go! by: Carrie Brown KETO for the Holidays: 53 scrumptious, fat-burning recipes so you can thrive on delicious KETO food through the Holidays by: Carrie Brown The KETO Soup Bowl: 50 delicious fat-burning, health-boosting bowls of soup, chowder, hodgepodge, gumbo, stew, and gazpacho by: Carrie Brown Dr. Ted Naiman Dr. Georgia Ede Brain on Fire Perfect Keto Ketone Testing Strips for Ketosis VIDEO: KetoCon2018 – Carrie Brown: Mental Health on Keto – From Surviving to Thriving VIDEO: KetoCon2018 Stories Panel with Carrie Brown with Shawn Mynar, Gillian Szollos, Jade Nelson, Vanessa Spina, Allison Gannett Nutrition Genome Our Partners: Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL. You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura. Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo. All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health. They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways. Thank you to our partners! About Heads Up Health Heads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health. 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.

Most people know the ketogenic diet can help with weight loss, but did you know you can actually build muscle too?  Is keto bodybuilding legit? Let us introduce you to Robert Sikes, AKA Keto Savage, a lifetime natural competitive keto bodybuilder. Using the ketogenic diet, he has seen consistent gains in building lean muscle mass, finding it to be much less stressful on the body than bulking and cutting the traditional way with carbs. Robert Sikes went from a 115-pound kid in high school to 230 pounds in college and started competing in 2010.  A few years ago he began transitioning to a keto bodybuilding approach and found that his body recovered faster after competitions and that the ketogenic diet provided a much more sustainable and healthier way to building lean muscle. When not training, you can find Robert providing online coaching through his company Keto Savage. He and the love of his life, also a phenomenal keto competitive bodybuilder, Crystal Love (and also a keto coach), founded Keto Brick, a 1,000-calorie meal replacement bar that meets all the keto macros for anyone actively training, running, hunting, mountain biking, backpacking, and more. (Be sure to sign up on their list as these keto bars sell out like hot cakes!) Robert believes that anyone can achieve the same physical success that he has if they are willing to invest the time, effort, and dedication in their diet and fitness.   Take the next step and learn more about his new 90-day comprehensive program with KetoConnect’s Matt and Megha: Deeper State Keto. You can also catch the awesome Keto Savage podcasts here.  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: Robert Sikes’ (AKA Keto Savage) history of keto bodybuilding [3:40] Why there is not one perfect approach to the ketogenic diet, and how tracking can help you decide what is working for you based on trackable measurements [4:45] How you can apply keto with bodybuilding for mass building [5:45] About the bulking/cutting phase, and how that affects body composition with carbs vs. fat [6:50] Why keto is more sustainable for putting on mass at a steady pace without taxing the body during “cutting” [8:15] How you can increase calories without gaining a lot of fat [9:00] How keto can be used for endurance performance like long-distance running or adapted for building muscle [10:20] Why you can you put on the same amount of lean mass with the ketogenic diet  [11:20] How building muscle with keto is more sustainable because you don't lose as much in the cutting season [11:35] Why building with keto is more enjoyable than cutting on carbs [12:00] How to do the cutting phase with the ketogenic diet [12:20] How Robert gets down to 65g of protein in cutting and doesn't lose muscle because he's using a ketogenic diet [13:30] How to set up macros for someone wanting to lose fat vs. someone wanting to put on muscle [14:15] Why the one area you have 100% control over is your macros and how to work with them for muscle building vs. fat loss [14:40] Why women usually have to increase their calories when building muscle [16:15] How adjusting inputs (macros, training, HRV, etc.) can be like a game and tracking is the only way to see how what you're doing is affecting your goals [16:55] Which biomarkers Keto Savage tracks for optimal performance [19:20] How his performance was better on higher fat than higher protein [21:50] More about Robert Sike’s Deeper State 90-day comprehensive program with Matt and Megha of Keto Connect and how Matt lost 20lbs and Megha lost fat and gained muscle tracking metrics for meeting their goals [23:20] About the details of the Deeper State Program and its practical application to anyone who wants to build muscle [26:25] References The Art and Science of Low Carb Performance by Jeff S. Volek, and Stephen D. Phinney Deeper States Program with Robert Sikes, Matt, and Megha InBody Test Body composition test analyzer Skulpt to measure body fat percentage and measure muscle quality Our Partners: 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 17 – A Keto Bodybuilder’s Guide to Tracking Health and Performance: Interview with Robert Sikes of Keto Savage 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 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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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.