by Dave Korsunsky | May 7, 2018 | Podcast
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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”.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
- How she successfully lost 85 pounds and kept it off after years of yo-yo dieting
- That she improved her A1C from 6.2-5.4 without drugs
- Why she isn’t someone who can let up on strict keto due to carb cravings to be successful
- About her Facebook group LongHaulKeto Cooks
- How while eating keto food on the go she eliminated food thought and cravings
- Why she realized that eating keto is different for each person and tracking is the best way to find out what works for you
- Why she had to find a new doctor after implementing the keto diet
- How she saw foot pain resolve that she had been suffering with for years in just two weeks on the keto diet
- Why Ginny thinks continuing to listen to podcasts and info on keto is helpful in the long-term
- What items she kept in the truck to prepare food
- How she was able to shop and prepare when at home for a week on the road
- The health metrics she chose to track were blood glucose, fasting, blood ketones, breath ketones, glucose-ketone index, weight and blood pressure
- Why she chose to avoid statins and other meds and change her diet instead
- How she incorporates daily fasting now
- Why podcasts and current books can keep you more informed on new science than your medical doctor
- That walking into your doctor’s office with your data in the Heads Up Health app can help you to prove to them that diet modification works
References
Ginny’s Facebook group LongHaulKeto Cooks
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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 1, 2018 | Podcast
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Have you considered tracking heart rate variability to improve your health, or to train smarter? In this podcast, Dave Korsunsky sits down with Jason Moore, Founder of Elite HRV to talk about the basics of heart rate variability training on how anyone can apply this technology toward optimizing their health.
Jason Moore, CEO of Elite HRV, combined his education in Information Systems and Operations from Texas A&M University with his love of health and fitness as a health coach and personal trainer when founding Elite HRV.
Working with doctors, researchers, athletes and more, they have compiled data to make supporting your health with heart rate variability training as easy as downloading an app and using a monitor for as little as 2 minutes a day.
Elite HRV training helps individuals access information about their own health that was previously unavailable to them without very expensive equipment and a team of scientists to interpret it.
Learn more about Jason Moore and how he became involved in heart rate variability training and how his company is providing data to individuals empowering their own health.
Are you including HRV training in your health tracking metrics?
Listen to learn how to identify stress patterns with heart rate variability training, to see how effective your meditation practices are, as well as which days are best for you to train harder.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
- How Jason merged his background of data analysis tools with HRV in 2014 to establish Elite HRV
- How the free app on iOS and Google Play is the same one Olympians use
- Learn what HRV training is and how it applies to chronic illnesses, stress management and strength training
- Why it’s an inexpensive way to get a lot of valuable health information quickly and easily
- Learn what HRV monitoring is and how it differs from using a wrist-worn device to monitor heart rate
- How to understand when your HRV indicates that you’ll be more prone to cravings and use it to keep you on track with your goals
- That it only takes 2 minutes a day to track to get a good baseline
- Having a good HRV trumps chronological age
- How you can use heart rate variability training to uncover things that are not supporting your body and how to see what is working for you
- How to use heart rate variability training to know when you can train harder
- When you’re doing all the right things–diet, exercise, meditation–and you’re not getting the results you want, HRV training can help
- How to use HRV training to create a bio-individually healthy lifestyle
- That in the future you may be able to use HRV to uncover food sensitivities
References
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 | Apr 22, 2018 | Podcast
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Cavin Balaster’s story is an inspiration to all that know and follow him. After falling off a two-story building in 2011 and nearly dying, Cavin used functional medicine to aid his recovery from his resulting traumatic brain injury. In this podcast learn how Cavin connects the ketogenic diet and traumatic brain injury to aid in brain recovery.
While emergency medicine saved Cavin’s life after his injury, he gives more credit to functional medicine and the ketogenic diet for improving his quality of life in his recovery.
Ketogenic diet and traumatic brain injury are gaining more attention and Cavin Balaster is a big reason for the connection between the two.
Cavin is a speaker, educator, musician, author of How to Feed a Brain: Nutrition for Optimal Brain Function and Repair, and host of the adventuresinbraininjury.com Brain Injury Podcast. You can find him on YouTube LinkedIn Facebook and Twitter as @feedabrain
His work to spread awareness and change the way we support those recovering from traumatic brain injury is changing the quality of life for those suffering from brain injuries.
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In this podcast you’ll learn:
- Hear about Cavin’s life both before his traumatic brain injury accident and after
- About his Diffuse Axonal Injury
- How he used a ketogenic diet to aid his recovery from a traumatic brain injury
- The appalling food sources hospitals feed traumatic brain injury patients
- What it takes to really feed a brain to heal
- How he grew up in a health-conscious town but never bought into it until his health depended on it
- Why a ketogenic diet and traumatic brain injury is the best way to feed a recovering brain
- About the serendipitous events that lead him to the right specialists at the right time to guide his healing
- How the window for healing a brain is bigger than we’ve previously thought
- How the gut and the brain are so linked that you can’t heal one without addressing the other
- That the gut-brain connection is bi-directional
- How he considered himself a ‘foodie’ before realizing what real food was really about
- How nutrition wasn’t initially on his radar for healing and how it became a critical foundational to his recovery
- Why mindset can make all the difference in healing from a traumatic brain injury
- How he has been able to bring music back into his life to continue doing what he loves
- About his work with Dr. Alex Vasquez and functional neurology
- About his interview series – Feed A Brain with functional medicine and ketogenic leader such as Dr. Perlmutter, Dr. Kharrazian, Dr. Wahls, Nora Gedgaudas, and more
References
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 | Apr 12, 2018 | Podcast
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Join Dave Korsunsky as he interviews Amy Berger of Tuit Nutrition on how to read blood test results as part of your low-carb ketogenic lifestyle. Amy breaks down all the important facts on how to read blood test results, which ones to keep an eye on and how to interpret your own test results through a low-carb/ketogenic lens. This podcast is a continuation of Amy’s in-depth blood chemistry master class on the Heads Up Health blog.
Check out Amy Berger’s full series of “Low-carb Lab Testing” blog posts here.
Amy Berger is a USAF veteran, who holds a master’s degree in human nutrition, is a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) and certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP). She is a low carb/keto/paleo nutritionist, author of The Alzheimer’s Antidote, and blogger at Tuit Nutrition. She can also be found on Twitter.
If you’re new to, or considering a low carb lifestyle, this podcast will help you understand which labs to ask your doctor for and how to read blood test results to empower your health.
If you’ve been at this for a while, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of what your blood sugar test results mean. You’ll learn which labs you should be paying attention to, as well as what to do when your doctor or insurance won’t get you the labs you need.
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This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps and use your data to optimize your health!
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In this episode you’ll learn how to read blood test results on low-carb/keto:
- About blood sugar patterns after intense exercise
- How Heads Up Health brings metrics from all your tracking apps together including blood test results.
- The differences between fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1c (HgA1c), fructosamine, fasting insulin and how some measurements are more accurate than others
- When to use fasting glucose vs. post-prandial (after meal) blood sugar test results
- What you need to know about how to read blood test results and be your own advocate for getting what you need for your health
- About at home testing as well as how to obtain your own labs when your doctor or insurance won’t order them
- Why fasting insulin is “the most important test your doctor isn’t ordering”
- What the Hemoglobin A1c (HgA1c) test is and why it’s not always as accurate as you’d expect
- Why you can have normal blood sugar test results with elevated insulin, indicating serious metabolic issues, despite having labs that ‘look great’ to your doctor
- The reasons why hyperinsulinemia can indicate a system out of balance and how the body is overcompensating for elevated blood sugar levels.
- What the HOMA-IR is and what it tells you regarding risk of metabolic disease
- Why fasting blood glucose is the last thing to rise and is not a reliable indicator for early metabolic issues
- The two best blood sugar tests for early stage indicators of metabolic issues
- Why most thyroid tests doctors run are incomplete
- How without a full thyroid panel diagnosis can be missed leaving those suffering with symptoms of subclinical thyroid disorders and no support
- What The Kraft test is and when it’s most useful
- The reason why TSH isn’t the most important thyroid lab and why it alone is not enough
- About myths surrounding low carb and hypothyroidism, and how the numbers can sometimes fluctuate but not be a reason to abandon low carb eating
- Why high insulin in the presence of normal blood sugar test results, is the leading cause of any major illness including; gout, high blood pressure, obesity, PCOS, cardiovascular disease, erectile dysfunction, and more
- What the Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Score is and why it can help you discern when you actually have an atherosclerosis problem
- Why cholesterol numbers do not always mean as much as we’ve been taught regarding heart health
- Amy Berger’s advice to anyone adopting a low carb lifestyle
Low-Carb Lab Testing – The Series
Check out the ongoing series on our blog that gives you all the information you need to read blood test results as part of your low-carb ketogenic lifestyle:
References:
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 | Apr 5, 2018 | Podcast
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Are vegetable oils bad for your health? Does the quality of fats in your diet really matter? Absolutely!
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Welcome to the first of our new Quick Hits feature episodes, delivering the quick and dirty details on topics that are important to you and your health. In 15 minutes or less we’ll deliver important health info to you to keep your mind active whether you’re waiting in the carpool lane, on your morning commute, or fitting in a quick workout!
Why are industrial seed and vegetable oils bad for your health? In this Quick Hits episode, Dave Korsunsky sits down with Dr. John Limansky, MD board-certified physician of Internal Medicine to ‘chew the fat’ on this important topic.
We’re diving in quick to get you the big ideas and then we’ll provide you some resources at the bottom of the page for further reading if you want to learn more. You’ll get a quick intro into why vegetable oils are bad and why you should take measures to avoid them in your diet for optimal health.
While ketogenic dieting has gained a lot of popularity, it is important to note that the quality of fats is just as, if not more important, than the quantity you consume.
You literally build your body with every bite you take, so take a few minutes to learn just why are vegetable oils bad and why you should avoid them.
Are you still unclear on which fats are good, and which are associated with increased health risks?
Take a listen and see how your diet rates!
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In this Quick Hits episode, you’ll learn:
- The importance of eating healthy fats, especially while doing a ketogenic diet
- Why are seed and vegetable oils bad for your health?
- What specific vegetable and seed oils are detrimental
- How we got to the point of thinking these were “heart healthy” fats
- Why these vegetable oils are so prevalent in our food supply
- How trans fats are created through the processing of vegetable oils
- How canola oil is derived, and how it was not even initially allowed for human consumption
- How a man converted his car to run on vegetable oils for fuel
- How these bad vegetable oils get stuck in your body and cause damage
- How these vegetable oils lead to overproduction of free radicals and other health risks
- Why you need a 1:1 ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 fats in your diet
- Why these bad vegetable oils are pro-inflammatory
- How there can still be trans-fats in foods labeled “no trans fats”
- How these vegetable oils can damage cells and become plastic-like, decreasing function in your brain and liver
- What you can do about improving your omega 3-6 ratio
- What foods are healthy fat sources
- How fasting can help get rid of these damaging vegetable oils
References:
Our partners
You can learn more about the Oura ring, a state of the art ring that can track sleep cycle analysis, activity, and recovery at HeadsUpHealth.com/Oura.
Learn more about Keto-Mojo, a highly accurate and affordable device for testing blood sugar and blood ketones. Check it out at HeadsUpHealth.com/Ketomojo.
Learn more about LEVL, a clinical-grade breath ketone analyzer, which measures your level of fat-burning and ketosis through a simple breath. Find out more at HeadsUpHealth.com/LEVL.
All of these amazing products are integrated with Heads Up Health.
They all allow you to quantify your health in novel and powerful ways.
Thank you to our partners!
About Heads Up Health
Heads Up Health is a website designed to empower individuals who want to take a self-directed approach to managing their health. Instantly centralize your medical records, connect your favorite devices and apps (e.g., Oura, MyFitnessPal, Keto-Mojo, FitBit, Apple Health, MyMacros+, Withings and many more) and use your data to optimize your health.
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by Dave Korsunsky | Mar 30, 2018 | Podcast
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New to low carb or ketogenic eating and unsure if you’re in ketosis? Or eating low carb but not achieving the results you were hoping for? Measuring breath ketones with the LEVL ketone breath meter is an accurate and non-invasive method to measuring and tracking.
No more poking your finger multiple times a day to get feedback on whether or not what you’re doing is working. Find out more about how this device works and how to easily track this data along with other metrics using Heads Up Health.
In this podcast episode, Dave Korsunsky, sits down with Joe Anderson, Ph.D. of LEVL. Together they share how tracking breath ketones with the LEVL ketone breath meter and integrating it into your Heads Up Health account can help you optimize your approach to fat burning and metabolic health.
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This podcast is brought to you by Heads Up Health, a web app designed to help you centrally track all of your vital health data. Instantly synchronize your medical records, connect your favorite health devices and apps like LEVL and use your data to optimize your health!
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In this episode, you’ll learn about the LEVL ketone breath meter and much more:
- The correlation between breath acetone to fat loss
- Importance of using an FDA approved medical device for testing
- What makes the LEVL ketone breath meter accurate
- How the LEVL ketone breath meter doesn’t allow you to test inaccurately
- Learn how the LEVL ketone breath meter offers a user-friendly app and integrates seamlessly with your Heads Up Health account
- The difference between testing urine, blood and breath ketones
- Why the LEVL ketone breath meter provides superior accuracy for breath ketone testing
- Why the LEVL ketone breath meter is easier than testing blood ketones
- How you can save money by using the LEVL ketone breath meter when testing multiple times per day
- How easy it is to use and calibrate the LEVL ketone breath meter
- How ketones correlate to what you’re eating/level of exercise, etc.
- How to see the cause and effect of input (carbs, exercise) to output (ketones) through testing
- The difference between the glucose-ketone index (measured with blood ketone testing) and the glucose-acetone index (measured with breath)
- How nutritional ketosis is beneficial for disease state reversal–brain health, cancer, diabetes, etc.
- How Heads Up Health helps you correlate your own metrics to find a customized dietary, exercise plan for yourself
- How Heads Up Health integrates with other apps like MyFitness Pal, wearables like Oura ring, and devices like LEVL and Keto Mojo, your blood lab results (learn how to connect to Quest or LabCorp), and more to provide a treasure trove of data for optimizing your health
- What info is tracked in the LEVL app
- See a screen share of the LEVL mobile app (forthcoming YouTube video)
- A screen share of Dave’s Heads Up Health App integrated with the LEVL device.
References:
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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