by Dave Korsunsky | Jun 25, 2018 | Podcast
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Most people know the ketogenic diet can help with weight loss, but did you know you can actually build muscle too? Is keto bodybuilding legit? Let us introduce you to Robert Sikes, AKA Keto Savage, a lifetime natural competitive keto bodybuilder. Using the ketogenic diet, he has seen consistent gains in building lean muscle mass, finding it to be much less stressful on the body than bulking and cutting the traditional way with carbs.
Robert Sikes went from a 115-pound kid in high school to 230 pounds in college and started competing in 2010. A few years ago he began transitioning to a keto bodybuilding approach and found that his body recovered faster after competitions and that the ketogenic diet provided a much more sustainable and healthier way to building lean muscle.
When not training, you can find Robert providing online coaching through his company Keto Savage. He and the love of his life, also a phenomenal keto competitive bodybuilder, Crystal Love (and also a keto coach), founded Keto Brick, a 1,000-calorie meal replacement bar that meets all the keto macros for anyone actively training, running, hunting, mountain biking, backpacking, and more. (Be sure to sign up on their list as these keto bars sell out like hot cakes!) Robert believes that anyone can achieve the same physical success that he has if they are willing to invest the time, effort, and dedication in their diet and fitness.
Take the next step and learn more about his new 90-day comprehensive program with KetoConnect’s Matt and Megha: Deeper State Keto. You can also catch the awesome Keto Savage podcasts here.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
- Robert Sikes’ (AKA Keto Savage) history of keto bodybuilding [3:40]
- Why there is not one perfect approach to the ketogenic diet, and how tracking can help you decide what is working for you based on trackable measurements [4:45]
- How you can apply keto with bodybuilding for mass building [5:45]
- About the bulking/cutting phase, and how that affects body composition with carbs vs. fat [6:50]
- Why keto is more sustainable for putting on mass at a steady pace without taxing the body during “cutting” [8:15]
- How you can increase calories without gaining a lot of fat [9:00]
- How keto can be used for endurance performance like long-distance running or adapted for building muscle [10:20]
- Why you can you put on the same amount of lean mass with the ketogenic diet [11:20]
- How building muscle with keto is more sustainable because you don’t lose as much in the cutting season [11:35]
- Why building with keto is more enjoyable than cutting on carbs [12:00]
- How to do the cutting phase with the ketogenic diet [12:20]
- How Robert gets down to 65g of protein in cutting and doesn’t lose muscle because he’s using a ketogenic diet [13:30]
- How to set up macros for someone wanting to lose fat vs. someone wanting to put on muscle [14:15]
- Why the one area you have 100% control over is your macros and how to work with them for muscle building vs. fat loss [14:40]
- Why women usually have to increase their calories when building muscle [16:15]
- How adjusting inputs (macros, training, HRV, etc.) can be like a game and tracking is the only way to see how what you’re doing is affecting your goals [16:55]
- Which biomarkers Keto Savage tracks for optimal performance [19:20]
- How his performance was better on higher fat than higher protein [21:50]
- More about Robert Sike’s Deeper State 90-day comprehensive program with Matt and Megha of Keto Connect and how Matt lost 20lbs and Megha lost fat and gained muscle tracking metrics for meeting their goals [23:20]
- About the details of the Deeper State Program and its practical application to anyone who wants to build muscle [26:25]
References
The Art and Science of Low Carb Performance by Jeff S. Volek, and Stephen D. Phinney
Deeper States Program with Robert Sikes, Matt, and Megha
InBody Test Body composition test analyzer
Skulpt to measure body fat percentage and measure muscle quality
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by Dave Korsunsky | Jun 17, 2018 | Podcast
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Listen to Dr. Nasha Winters, a cancer survivor — and thriver! — talk about her work with cancer treatment and her program: The Terrain Ten. Dr. Nasha Winters’ holistic approach emphasizes that a person is more than the sum of their diagnosis. It honors that how we find ourselves with a cancer (or other chronic illness) diagnosis does not happen in a vacuum. All of our life experiences, as well as our childhood traumas, affect how our genes are expressed, and in fact, can make a more significant impact than any one-specific dietary, supplemental or prescription treatment! To be a cancer thriver, Dr. Nasha Winters believes we must take a whole body, mind, spirit approach.
Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, talks with Dr. Winters about psychoneuroimmunology and how the whole body, mind, and spirit are interlinked, and how optimal health cannot be achieved without addressing them all. Dr. Winters also talks about the top five labs that she monitors monthly in all of her patients with active disease processes, and why you should be checking these at least a couple of times a year to maintain your own health.
Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO, L.Ac, Dipl.OM, has over 25 years experience with direct patient care. She is a best selling co-author, a speaker, and an educator. She is the Founder of Optimal Terrain Consulting, offering integrative oncology, philosophy, and methodologies.
You can follow Dr. Nasha Winters and her work on Facebook, LinkedIn, and her website Optimal Terrain Consulting.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
- Dr. Nasha Winters’ own experience with a terminal cancer diagnosis — 27 years ago! — and how it fueled her to make this her life’s work. [05:20]
- How our ability to access any information at any time of day can cloud our connection with what our bodies need as individuals to heal. [10:30]
- Why a large part of your survivability of cancer has nothing to do with your treatment team. [11:20]
- Learn about The Terrain Ten, Dr. Winters’s cancer program for achieving optimal health, and how it’s an adaptable framework based on the individual and not a particular protocol. [15:55]
- The difference between carcinogenic emotions vs. carcinogenic environmental toxins and how they both affect cancer. [19:15]
- Why your immune system gets suppressed for a minimum of 7 hours after getting into a fight with a loved one. [22:45]
- How trauma locks people into a rut so they can’t see other options or possibilities, thus driving physiological changes. [23:15]
- About The ACE score for adverse childhood events, and how it can affect disease development. [27:00]
- A discussion of Michael Pollan’s new book and how microdosing psychedelics can help to heal traumas. [30:25]
- Learn which quantifiable measurements Dr. Winters recommends and what they mean. [33:10]
- What the LDH test is and why you should be watching it. [46:00]
- How you don’t have to be a medical expert to track your health and make significant changes. [57:00]
- How genetic SNPs can affect the ability to get into ketosis, and why being in ketosis is not the same as metabolic flexibility. [59:00]
- About glucose-ketone index tracking and reasons why it can be difficult to achieve this in a real-life scenario, but you can still have amazing results with a ketogenic diet. [1:01:35]
- Why tracking your sleep with the Oura Ring is super useful. [1:03:45]
- Learn more about her book and her husband’s work with CBD oil. [1:04:45]
References
The Metabolic Approach to Cancer, by Dr. Nasha Winters, ND, L.Ac., FABNO and Jess Higgins Kelley, MNT
Radical Remission, by Dr. Kelly Turner
The Healing Platform, by Annie Brandt
Molecules of Emotion, by Candace Pert, Ph.D.
The Biology of Belief, by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
The ACE Score
How to Change Your Mind; What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan
KETO for CANCER by Miriam Kalamian
Best Answer for Cancer Conference
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Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
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Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
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by Dave Korsunsky | Jun 3, 2018 | Podcast
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In this podcast, Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health talks with Carole Freeman (also known in the ketogenic world as “Keto Carole”) about understanding how to control your appetite better. Carole is a Certified Nutritionist with a dual Masters of Science in Nutrition and Clinical Health Psychology, as well as a licensed Hypnotherapist. Understanding the psychology of eating gives Carole a unique perspective on creating a personalized keto diet while bringing in a whole body approach to her work with clients.
Carole’s journey into the ketogenic diet world began after suffering a traumatic brain injury in 2014 where she was in debilitating chronic pain from a motor vehicle accident. She used her educational background to dig deeper into the research on ketogenic diets and how they can support brain health, and began modifying her own diet. As she began this therapeutic ketogenic diet to heal her brain, she also began to see a whole body transformation and knew she had to help others with this lifestyle.
Now, Carole runs a nine-week online coaching course to help individuals with metabolic issues to be successful in lowering their blood sugar, insulin, and other inflammatory markers through dietary changes.
What makes Carole’s program so successful — she has a weeks-long waiting list — is that she understands the psychology of what can sabotage a healing diet. She can anticipate the areas where clients may struggle and help to prevent them from having to go through the frustration that can sometimes occur.
Helping clients understand “their WHY” for staying motivated, as well as understanding why they feel like they can’t avoid some of the most sabotaging foods, empowers them to have the success that they haven’t been able to achieve on their own.
You can find Keto Carole on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and her website www.ketocarole.com
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
- How you must address the psychology of eating and addiction to be able to be successful with any diet
- About reward circuitry in the brain and the biology of cravings
- Why Carole is passionate about wanting people to feel really great about themselves
- How Carole sticks with keto
- How dopamine is like a “Scooby snack”, rewarding us for doing something that keeps us alive like eating, sex, etc
- How dopamine can increase just by being in a familiar place, or with a particular person whom you’ve done certain things with, like eating sweets
- How habits that are deeply ingrained have moved into the part of the brain that is reflexive and becomes automatic, which is why situations can trigger cravings
- Why awareness of the dopamine response can keep you from sabotaging your diet, and how in the moment it’s almost impossible to resist it
- How changing behaviors may be necessary (e.g., taking a different way home to avoid seeing fast food triggers)
- Why avoiding things that affect all of the five senses is important in retraining your brain and habits
- Why connecting how people are feeling to what they are eating is important
- How food addiction is like any other addiction, and that situations as much as exposure to certain foods can sabotage even the most strong-willed person
- That stress is the biggest catalyst to fall back into old habits
- How she uses stress relief techniques to keep people on track with the keto diet
- How food manufacturers employ scientist to create the most addictive foods and influence consumers’ diets and health
- About the Dorito challenge that Carole used to use in her private practice
- Why it’s important to remember “your WHY” and to keep it front and center in your mind to stay on track
- Why you should make your keto lifestyle public and let it become part of your identity
- How community — being around others doing the same thing — keeps you on track
- About Carole’s intake process for new clients, and how she works with clients
- How you can use Heads Up Health to track your own journey and metrics to take your health into your own hands
References
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Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up Health
Heads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
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by Dave Korsunsky | May 26, 2018 | Podcast
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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
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
- What is microdosing and how to use it to get in a creative space for performance or cognitive enhancement
- How microdosing can reduce hyper-distractibility and increase creativity
- Why mouth taping at night can improve nasal breathing
- How you can meditate anywhere, even in the middle of traffic
- Why you need to turn off your notifications on your phone and your email to stop the dopamine rush that perpetuates the cycle
- The importance of slowing down, increasing meditation and appreciation for the little things in life
- Shawn’s favorite supplement brands and supplements as well as forms and doses
- Why creatine is for brain health, methylation, ATP production, and protection of cells from damage and not just building muscles in the gym
- Why you need a balance of nutrients for optimal nootropic stacking (a layering of 2 or more supplements to support brain health)
- CBD oil’s role in a cognitive stack
- What crystallized intelligence is and how it can open the door to more fluid intelligence
- How mitochondrial dysfunction is at the heart of all chronic illnesses
- Shawn’s opinion on the two most important labs that you should test twice a year
- How berberine is just as effective as metformin in lowering blood glucose
- How a brain injury (even minimal without concussion) can create insufficient cellular energy (ICE) so we have to provide it with cellular energy like exogenous ketones, the ketogenic diet, berberine and reducing neuroinflammation with CBD and other compounds
- How berberine is anti-aging and improves insulin sensitivity, allowing for better body recomposition
- Why it’s not good to graze on protein all day, and it’s better to have 1-2 larger protein meals
- How ketones bypass mitochondrial dysfunction to provide cellular energy and help repair the brain
- How fasting sharpens your senses as ketones increase, and why you’ll never be “ketone-resistant”
- About resistant starches, and how different food was before we’ve hybridized it to be bigger, sweeter and more plentiful.
- Why keto is not the norm now since the introduction of the foods of commerce in our food supply
- Why it’s normal to be fat-adapted, able to burn both glucose or ketones easily
- About narrowing focus and not trying to multi-task all the time to get more done
- Myths about LSD that have been perpetuated
- How we can hold emotional traumas in our physical bodies and how to utilize microdosing to release physical pains
- Why you should practice daily gratitude journaling with your health data tracking for a deeper understanding of what’s affecting you and the importance of using a paper journal
References
Oura Ring
Headspace Meditation
Zone Halo
BioTRUST Supplements
Ben Greenfield podcast on Psilocybin
Sleep Strips
“Your brain on FaceBook” by David Rock
Own the Day, Own Your Life by Aubrey Marcus
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday
MAPS research on MDMA
CIIS school in San Francisco
Our Partners:
Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up Health
Heads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
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by Dave Korsunsky | May 18, 2018 | Podcast
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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.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
- Advice on how to live longer; the Human Longevity Project interviewed 9 countries of experts and elder populations to understand what life was like for them including birthing practices, childrearing, work, social aspects, and more
- Why the aging we see in our Western world is not seen in other parts of the world
- More about what can we do from a lifestyle perspective to manage health
- About the difference between managing chronic disease and health
- How societal influences affect what is accepted for health
- That one of the biggest things Jason Prall learned was that “time wasn’t money” in the cultures with the best longevity, rather time was something to be cherished
- How we can engineer our way back to simplicity through the use of biohacking devices because they offer trackable data to see what works for our unique bodies.
- How finding your purpose helps increase longevity, but finding balance is important
- About getting more of a calm, serene aspect into your life
- Why technology we’ve created can is beneficial and not necessarily bad; we just need to find a way to balance it
- How we have to take responsibility for all of our actions and be proactive to move forward with our health
- Revolutions start with just 3% of the population changing
- How EMF’s are impacting our health and how 5G will be a disaster if implemented on a wide scale, for our health
- How Eastern traditions help balance our technologically intense society
- Why we are losing the community aspect to our meals, and will have to recreate this in the future for human longevity
- Why community trumps all the aspects of bio-hacking sleep, HRV, glucose, ketones, etc.
- How lifestyle changes are quantifiable and thus changeable with Heads Up Health, Oura ring, and Elite HRV with tracking and other devices
- How technology can help us connect to our innate intelligence of what we are feeling and what is going on in our body, so we understand what health actually feels like
- Why we can’t go backward with technology so we have to learn to use it to our advantage in understanding how to live longer and healthier
- How we see the world affects our health and if we are grateful for the opportunities that we have, we can overcome more of the health challenges
References
The Human Longevity Project
Oura Ring
Elite HRV (heart rate variability)
Our Partners:
Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade ketone breath meter, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up Health
Heads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
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by Dave Korsunsky | May 14, 2018 | Podcast
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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.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
- How we can understand the activity of the microbiome with Viome and gain practical info on how to implement the findings
- What a microbiome is and how it’s bigger than just your gut
- That the metabolic genetic activity of the gut is 1000 times more than all our other human cells
- How there are 8000+ different species and the more species you have, the better your health
- How a dysbiotic gut means that your health is affected due to the diversity getting narrower, creating an unstable environment
- Why the cause of virtually every chronic disease is the microbiome, including Alzheimer’s and Autism
- How to get started with Viome and the user-friendly app
- Results provided are implementable, as the data is interpreted with algorithms that are beyond human interpretation
- How based on your gut microbiome, you can react positively or negatively to a food no matter how healthy it is
- Why Dr. Barrie believes there is no one universal healthy diet, that it depends on what is going in your gut microbiome
- That you can restore your gut health and open up your diet to many more healthy foods
- How we can look at the gut to provide insight into glycemic reactions of foods without having to test blood sugar
- Due to gut microbiome differences, two people can eat the same thing and have different blood sugar reactions
- That the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy and the gut microbiome are linked
- How you can combine the personalized nutrition suggestions from Viome with any dietary restrictions you already follow for deeper healing
- That the gut can up- or down- regulate the inflammatory pathways in the body
- Staying on a restricting healing diet, too long, can be detrimental to long-term results, so retesting can give you new personalized nutrition suggestions every few months
- You can reduce flares of autoimmune diseases by supporting your gut health
- How HRV can be linked to gut microbiome activity and health with tracking
- Most brain activity is not independent but following what the gut is telling it
- Improving your HRV will also help improve your microbiome and vice versa as your microbiome sends messages out and is also listening to incoming input
- What a PREbiotic is and how it supports the gut microbiome
- How you can narrow in on what probiotic strains you need and what foods benefit their colonization based on Viome results
- How in the future Viome and Heads Up Health can be linked to provide greater data integration for you to implement
- A YouTube (coming soon) screen share of what the Viome app looks like
- Learn about specific probiotic strains identified in your sample
References
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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.
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All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up Health
Heads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
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