
The Dr. Hyman Show
Encore: The Worst And Best Foods For Your Blood Sugar with Dr. Casey Means
18 Dec 2024
What if you had a tool that helped you not only make better health decisions in the grocery store and restaurants but also gave you real-time feedback on how your body uniquely reacts to any kind of food? That is the beauty of wearable technology, and thanks to continuous glucose monitors this is something we’ll all be able to take advantage of in the near future. Levels is one company that’s been spearheading this field, providing an incredible amount of information on blood sugar responses and metabolic individuality. Today on “The Dr. Hyman Show,” I talk to Dr. Casey Means about what we can learn from the 51 million data points Levels has already gathered on blood glucose reactions, and so much more. View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Pendulum, Thrive Market, and Pique. Streamline your lab orders with Rupa Health. Access more than 3,500 specialty lab tests and register for a FREE live demo at RupaHealth.com. Pendulum is offering listeners 20% off their first membership order at pendulumlife.com/farmacy Discount applied at checkout. Head over to ThriveMarket.com/Hyman today to receive 30% off your first order and a free gift up to $60. Head over to PiqueLife.com/Hyman20 and get up to 20% off + a complimentary beaker and rechargeable frother.
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Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark Hyman. Thank you so much for being a loyal listener to The Doctor's Pharmacy. For the holidays, I've decided to give my team a little break to rest up and prepare for more content and the new year ahead. So The Doctor's Pharmacy will be replaying some older episodes for the next two weeks.
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The worst food in our entire data set of 51 million glucose data points is.
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hi i'm dr mark hyman a practicing physician and proponent of systems medicine a framework to help you understand the why or the root cause of your symptoms welcome to the doctor's pharmacy every week i bring on interesting guests to discuss the latest topics in the field of functional medicine and do a deep dive on how these topics pertain to your health in today's episode i have some interesting discussions with other experts in the field so let's just trump right in the reason
we are dying like flies in America, more than any other country, probably three or four times the death rates per capita, is because we are so frigging unhealthy. And that poor health is related to poor metabolic health. And essentially what that means when we say metabolic health is imbalances in your blood sugar, which causes high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and abnormal blood sugar.
Those are the hallmarks of this poor metabolic health that now affect almost nine out of 10 Americans. And they're the things that are getting worse and worse and worse. So we're seeing obesity, heart disease, cancer go up. I mean, dementia rising. We're not winning the battle. We are seeing more and more chronic disease every day, more and more obesity.
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