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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 Between battling your insurance company, working with an uncooperative doctor, and going up against outdated dietary advice that’s dying far too slow a death, if you...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...
Tracking Breath Ketones in Heads Up Health
For those who are looking to reap the benefits of a ketogenic diet, tracking breath ketone levels can be a very helpful part of the process. Breath ketones are a real-time indicator of your level of ketosis which is a big advantage compared to other testing methods...
5 Reasons to Hunt Down Your Health Records
Of all the information out there in our digital lives, from photos to tweets to text messages, it's our health records that contain the most vital information of all. The information that could mean life or death in an emergency. The historical information that can...
Making the Switch to a High Fat Diet
In this post we will explore the high fat diet and how you can start testing if for yourself. We propose that rather than focusing on “reducing fat” and “cutting calories,” you should consider a focus on eating foods that promote stable blood sugar. Healthy and stable...
Ketogenic Diet – The First 30 Days
At the start of 2016, I decided to resume my own n=1 experiment on the ketogenic diet. I'd tested this diet briefly back in October 2015 and had some encouraging results. Most notably, I lost weight, my fasting blood sugar came down, I had incredible amounts of energy...
Going Paleo? Here’s How to Track Your Progress
Adopting a paleo-based diet and lifestyle can have tremendous benefits on your health. Improved body composition, increased energy levels, improved blood pressure and blood sugar, improved digestion and a diet that can be highly effective for managing chronic...
Blood Type – The Basics
Can you name a famous football player? What about a Real Housewife? Now, can you name your blood type? If you answered "no," you have a problem. Knowing your blood type can come in handy -- to say the least -- in a variety of situations. The Benefits of Knowing Your...
Eye Exam – The Basics
Eyes are the windows to the soul. Pretty important, right? Then why is it that an estimated 61 million Americans are at risk for vision loss, and yet only half have visited an eye doctor in the last year? Eye exams can be easy to forget. Unless you have a problem...
Dental Exam – The Basics
Dental decay happens to just about everyone eventually. It’s just a part of getting older, with a whopping 91 percent of adults between ages 20 and 64 experiencing some sort of tooth breakdown, from tooth decay to cavities. The scary part is that studies have shown up...
Three Reasons Why We Love the Misfit Shine Activity + Sleep Tracker
At Heads Up Health, we’re always on the lookout for new technology that can help us better manage our health. When it comes to activity trackers, there’s a ton of them on the market these days. Choices run the gamut from wrist-worn devices like FitBit and Jawbone to...
Using the Personal Challenge Feature
The personal challenge feature lets you structure a block of time within the Heads Up Health software to track changes in your body over the course of a specific health experiment. Examples of how this feature can be used include: Giving yourself a challenge to quit a...
Meditation 101
What’s the first thing you think about when you hear “mediation”? Is it the Dalai Lama? A surfer on a beautiful, exotic beach, far far away? Is it a monk or priest reaching deep to a quiet, peaceful place that regular people just can’t get to? If you answered, “yes,”...
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