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Dr. Casey Means

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Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

And so that's another thing that...

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

standard stuff would never tell you.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

So those are kind of some of the looking at early predictors of metabolic dysfunction.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

More of the fun stuff is like actually just figuring out like how is food affecting your body?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

And this is where people really enjoy it and like figure out like, oh my God, this food that I thought was healthy is actually

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

not, you know, serving me.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

And actually a lot of people, I think who are trying to make healthy choices, my boyfriend, like he, when we started dating, he started using levels, his healthy snack.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

He worked in Venice would be to go to moon juice and get, oh gosh, I don't want to throw moon juice under the bus here, but

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

They have some tasty stuff there.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

But he would get this green juice that was sweetened with dates, and it was like $9, and this was like the healthy choice.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

And he saw the second he put on levels that it was causing a huge spike, like 50, 60, 70 points, and then he was crashing.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

he was actually trying to make a good decision.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

So now he's, he's swapped his snacks out for more like, you know, grass fed cheese and some flax crackers and maybe like a venison stick or something like grab and go stuff that isn't spiking his glucose.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

But I think it can help people figure out like which foods are doing what I want them to do and which may be

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

And same thing happened for so many of our members with oatmeal.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

Unfortunately, instant oatmeal is one of the biggest spikers in our data set for breakfast.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

And a lot of people are making that choice because they think it's heart healthy and healthy.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

In many people, it's actually causing a big glucose excursion and crash.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

And then in some other people, it's not.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation

And so it's really helping with what are the sneaky spikers?