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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...
Low-carb Lab Testing – Part 4 – Do-it-yourself Testing – Don’t Wait to Measure
Let’s face it: if you’re concerned about your health, you’ve got to take matters into your own hands. Between battling your insurance company, working with an uncooperative doctor, and going up against outdated dietary advice that’s dying far too slow a death, if you...
Low-carb Lab Testing – Part 3 – HOMA-IR
This is the third installment in a series of articles exploring lab tests for people following low-carb diets, and how this way of eating requires a slightly different perspective for interpreting the results compared to results from people eating more carbohydrates....
Low-carb Lab Testing – Part 2 – Fasting Insulin Test
This is the second installment in a series of articles exploring pertinent lab tests for people following low-carb diets, and how a slightly different perspective is needed when interpreting the results compared to results from people following high-carb diets. In the...
Tracking Body Tape Measurements
For many people, using periodic tape measurements is much more effective than a typical scale for tracking changes in body composition. We will cover the best practices for effectively using body tape measurements in this post. You can track your body tape...
Low-carb Lab Testing – Part 1 – Blood Sugar Tests
Welcome to part 1 of our series on low-carb lab testing. In this first post, we look at three tests that can be used to monitor your blood glucose levels. In subsequent posts, we’ll shift focus to insulin, lipids, thyroid and other markers that are important for...
Fasting Timer – Track Your Fasts
The fasting timer feature was designed specifically to help you monitor your fasting intervals and collect relevant data along the way so you can optimize your results. Fasting is an ancient and powerful therapy that is seeing renewed interest for its numerous health...
Keto Lifestyle Transformation – In for the Long Haul
With the start of the new year, or with any new health goal, many of you will start out strong and ambitious. But, unfortunately, often times, a few months into a new program, many may burn out, stop and regress. Instead, think of your health transformation as a...
Insulin Load – Beyond “Counting Carbs”
This is a guest post on insulin load by Michael Alward Insulin Load - An Introduction When I first adopted a low carb eating plan, I remember countless questions on low carb support groups as to how to count the carbs / net carbs of various processed food products (on...
Tracking the Glucose Ketone Index
In this post we will examine the "glucose ketone index" as a biomarker for tracking metabolic health. We will also explore some of the primary use cases for tracking the glucose ketone index including cancer treatment, weight loss, metabolic disease management and...
Stories of Transformation – Hobie Simons & The Ketogenic Ratio
This week I had the opportunity to speak with Hobie Simons, a Heads Up Health user who happens to be doing some really cool self-tracking with the ketogenic diet. What really caught my attention was the way Hobie correlates the ketogenic ratio of his meals with his...
Blood Sugar Testing – The Basics
Blood sugar testing is a relatively simple process that can reveal a wealth of valuable information about your health. From early detection of diabetes (and pre-diabetes) to healthy weight loss and stable energy levels, we recommend that all Heads Up Health users...
Eight Great Ketogenic Diet Benefits
As research and public awareness into the ketogenic diet continues to expand, we are learning more about the incredibly powerful benefits of a ketogenic diet for health, wellness and treating disease. That said, many questions remain, especially for those who are new...
Top PaleoFX Products From The 2016 Conference
In this post I present a list of my favorite PaleoFX products from the 2016 conference. Going paleo is not always easy, especially when you are already sick and using the diet to try and get healthy. What impressed me most about this year's event was the number of...
Customizing Lab Ranges in Your Heads Up Profile
Customizing lab ranges is a unique feature that allows you to tailor your Heads Up profile to meet your specific needs (skip to the end of this post for a link to the video tutorial). If you’ve been tracking lab values in your Heads Up profile, you’ve noticed that we...
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