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Keto for Cancer – Resource Page
Welcome to our 'Keto for Cancer' resource page! This page is a compilation of resources related to keto for cancer. We hope this is helpful to you as you search for information about this topic. Please keep in mind that this page is a work in-progress and we will be...
3 Keto-Mojo Pro Tips
Once you’ve got the basics of using the Keto-Mojo covered, it’s time to start looking at the bigger picture of how your keto lifestyle is affecting your overall health and performance. 1. Ditch the scaleScales don’t always tell the full story (and they can drive you...
The Science of Saunas: 10 Proven Clinical Health Benefits
Heat therapies have long been used for healing and wellness, dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Mayans. The sauna is simply a small or large room designed specifically to help you sweat, and the science is in: modern medicine has proven the clinical health benefits. Ready to get your sweat on?
18 Extraordinary Health Benefits of Cryotherapy
Cold therapies, whether in an air chamber or a submersion tank, use the application of extreme cold to activate the body’s natural healing powers. Cold water submersion (or cold plunge) is the practice of entering an ice bath, typically for 15 to 20 minutes at 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
11 Remarkable Health Benefits of Fasting
Fasting vs. Starvation Many people mistake the practice of fasting with starvation, especially in the United States where food abundance and the idea of being hungry is perceived as a negative state (or altogether inhumane, something only happening to the ‘less...
Top 11 Genes for Keto Diet Success
Setting Yourself up for Success Whether you're ready to dive into the ketogenic diet for the first time, or you've tried it in the past and didn't achieve the results you'd hoped, this article is for you! Using your genes for your methylation status, digestion and to...
Which Keto Tracker App is Right for You?
The ketogenic diet has gone mainstream, and with it, so have the number of apps available to efficiently track your progress. But finding the right keto tracker app can get complicated and confusing quickly. There are big differences between free tracking apps with...
3 Ways to Simplify Your Dieting with a Keto Food Tracker
If your goal for beginning the keto diet is to lose weight, trying to learn the ins and outs of your new diet can be a struggle. Add in all the numbers and ratios, and it can be a bit overwhelming at first. Fortunately, there’s good news – you can simplify the process...
Whittling Down Waist Size Using the Glucose Ketone Index with Keto-Mojo and Heads Up Health
The real power in using Heads Up Health with Keto-Mojo is being able to track and correlate biomarkers you care about, such as the GKI (Glucose Ketone Index) with other major health metrics, like body measurements. The leader in consumer software for personal health...
Tracking the Oura HRV Coefficient of Variation (HRV CV)
Written by Andrew Flatt, Dave Korsunsky and Chuck Hazzard Overview We’ve released an experimental feature in Heads Up Health which automatically calculates the HRV coefficient of variation (CV) based on the data from your Oura ring. Why track HRV CV? Looking at daily...
Product updates
Oura Temperature Deviation (3/16/18): We've added support for tracking core temperature deviation from the Oura ring. You can now add this metric to your dashboard and see how it correlates with other biomarkers:
Five Steps to Jump Start the Keto Diet
In this post we will take a look at how Heads Up Health can help you successfully navigate the challenges of implementing and maintaining a ketogenic diet. In particular, we will introduce tools that can help you track your...
Ketogenic Ratio Tracking
While a ketogenic diet may have gained a lot of popularity recently, it’s origin dates back to 1923, when Dr. Russell Wilder started using it at the Mayo Clinic for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy. At the time, pharmaceuticals were not available to treat epilepsy,...
Low-carb Lab Testing — Part 8: The Coronary Artery Calcium Test – A Better Way to Evaluate Cardiovascular Health
What is the CAC test and why should you care? If you’ve been following a low-carb or ketogenic diet for a while, there’s a chance your cholesterol has gone up. And not just your HDL, but also your LDL—the so-called “bad cholesterol” (even though that’s a total...
Measuring Ketones: The Difference Between Testing Breath and Blood
The ketogenic diet has been demonstrated to have a wide variety of benefits spanning multiple populations including the treatment of epilepsy, type-2 diabetes, neurological disorders, weight loss, endurance performance and even certain types of cancer treatments...
Low-carb Lab Testing — Part 8: The CAC Test – A Better Way to Evaluate Cardiovascular Health
What is the CAC test and why should you care? If you’ve been following a low-carb or ketogenic diet for a while, there’s a chance your cholesterol has gone up. And not just your HDL, but also your LDL—the so-called “bad cholesterol” (even though that’s a total...
Low-carb Lab Testing — Part 7 — The Kraft Test (Hyperinsulinemia)
In many people, high insulin (hyperinsulinemia) is the primary driver of chronic metabolic illness, even when blood glucose is normal. For people concerned with achieving and maintaining optimal health, few things are more important than healthy gluco-regulation—that...
Take the Carb Tolerance Test
d The Carb Tolerance Test is a powerful tool from Heads Up Health that anyone can use to optimize their health. By helping you test and identify foods that are optimal for your own body’s blood sugar levels, the Carb Tolerance Test can help you fine tune and customize...
Basal Body Temperature Tracking – Part One – Thyroid
Tracking basal body temperature can be a useful tool that can help you to uncover hypothyroid and even hyperthyroid patterns, just by taking your temperature at the same time every morning for five consecutive days. Heads Up Health makes it easy to track, trend and...
Tracking the Feldman Protocol with Heads Up
The Feldman protocol...picture this scenario.... You’ve been following a low carb or ketogenic diet. You’ve lost weight, your acid reflux is gone, your blood pressure’s normal for the first time in years, your blood sugar’s better, you’ve been able to ditch some of...
Cancer Diet: How Keto and the Glucose Ketone Index Helped Us
How a cancer diet of eating ketogenic plus tracking the glucose ketone index helped my husband gain back control of his body and health. Our lives were turned upside down when my husband was diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2014. The future looked bleak and we...
Bristol Stool Chart – What Your Poop is Telling You…
Heads Up Health allows you to track the Bristol Stool Chart to help you identify problematic foods, supplements, digestive health and other lifestyle stressors. While it may seem foreign or unusual to examine what comes out of your body, it's pretty important for...
Low-carb Lab Testing — Part 6 — Thyroid Panel
Thyroid function is a hotly debated topic in the low-carb world. While most people typically experience fat loss, better energy levels, and improved overall vitality on a low-carb diet, in some individuals, measurements of thyroid-related hormones suggest that a low...
Low-carb Lab Testing – Part 5 – A Case Study
We’ve covered a lot in our low-carb lab testing series so far. At this point, we felt it was time for a real-world case study to tie everything together. In this post we will take a look at my own experience ordering fasting glucose and fasting insulin tests,...
Breast Cancer Screening
Breast cancer occurs when the normal cells in the breast start growing rapidly and spreading locally. If left untreated, these cells can travel to other parts of the body and continue to grow. Besides skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common type of cancer and...
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