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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
And so that's another thing that...
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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
standard stuff would never tell you.
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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.
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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?
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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
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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
not, you know, serving me.
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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.
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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
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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
They have some tasty stuff there.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
he was actually trying to make a good decision.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
And then in some other people, it's not.
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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?