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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,”...
Stories of Transformation: Todd Smith
People all over the U.S. are digging for solutions to the countless problems in the healthcare system. Heads Up Health is part of the healthcare solution, providing technology that allows you to centralize all of your health, fitness and medical data in one place....
5 Ways Nutrition Tracking Can Improve Your Health
Here’s a life hack: track your nutrition and see results. Sounds easy, right? Well, anyone who’s tried nutrition tracking knows that it’s a hard habit to incorporate into a busy schedule. Back in the day if you wanted to do this you’d have to write it down in a...
Encrypted Document Sharing
At Heads Up Health, we're always finding new ways for you to transform your health. Here’s the latest Heads Up Health feature: Encrypted Document Sharing - At Heads Up Health we want to make it as easy as possible for you to securely share your important health...
Here’s the Skinny on Body Composition
At this point in life you probably know that body mass index (BMI) is used as one indicator of whether or not you’re “healthy.” There’s always controversy around it. Is body mass index truly a good indicator for health? What if I have a lot of muscle? What if I’m...
Technology Helps Us Manage Our Health
We're entering an era where the patient has more data on his or her health than the physician. Thanks to incredible advances in consumer health technology, we can now easily track everything from how much we exercise to what we eat, how well we sleep or how stressed...
Stories of Transformation: Bill Schueller
At Heads Up Health, we’re looking to transform healthcare for our users; to make the disjointed health care continuum seem a little less daunting and a little more manageable by creating one place where someone can store their medical records, integrate all the data...
Track Your Steps, Improve Your Health.
There’s an estimated 100,000 apps for health out there. Think about that. 100,000 ways to track your weight, nutrition, training progress, blood sugar, blood pressure — you name it, it’s probably available. So, whether you’re an iPhone or Android user, you likely have...
Centralizing Your Medical Records Is Good for Your Health!
When I was working to improve my own health a few years ago, I realized how difficult it was to access my healthcare history. Over the course of ten years I had compiled valuable medical data in three different patient portals within the San Francisco Bay Area...
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