309. How to Monitor & Manage Blood Sugar Levels For Better Metabolic Health with Josh Clemente
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
I’m so excited to have today’s guest, Josh Clemente, the founder of Levels Health. In today’s episode, we dive into why real-time blood glucose monitoring is so impactful for your health. We explore how managing your blood sugar in real time gives you a clearer picture than traditional annual tests, empowering you to make informed decisions about your health. Josh also touches on how non-food related factors like stress and poor sleep can impact glucose levels and what simple tweaks can help mitigate those effects. Plus, you’ll learn how using a CGM can lead to more food freedom and even weight loss through awareness and behavior changes! By understanding how our bodies respond to daily choices and using tools like Levels, we can take control of our health in real-time, allowing us to truly live our best lives.
We also cover:
(00:00:10) The Power of Biometrics & Real-Time Health Data
(00:14:42) Managing Blood Glucose: The Impact of Stress, Sleep, & Movement
(00:24:26) How to Optimize Your Blood Sugar Curve for Metabolic Flexibility
(00:37:09) Solutions for Managing the Dawn Effect & Light Exposure for Blood Sugar Balance
(00:48:14) Finding Food Freedom with CGMs The Future of Personalized Health
Resources:
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• Website: levels.link/kelly
• Instagram: @levels
• Instagram: @josh.f.clemente
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone. I'm so excited today. I have Josh Clemente. He is the |
| 0:15.4 | founder of Levels and as you guys know I've had Casey Means and other levels |
| 0:20.0 | members on the podcast to talk all about CGM's because I just love blood sugar |
| 0:25.4 | balance and the minute people put a level CGM on they get it. So more |
| 0:30.8 | opportunity to bring people back and today we have the founder and the |
| 0:35.3 | brain behind it all Josh welcome to the show. Thanks very much Kelly |
| 0:40.2 | super excited to have a conversation. Oh, I feel like, you know, a brainiac coming from SpaceX and starting a health biometrics company. |
| 0:50.4 | I mean, like, I'm probably the most curious about how you made that leap in transition. |
| 0:55.8 | So for people who don't know who you are aren't as obsessed with levels in CGM's as I am, |
| 1:01.6 | can you give me a little background about yourself and what got you into |
| 1:05.2 | tech and why make the jump over to biometrics? |
| 1:09.8 | Totally, yeah. So it's kind of a crazy story. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, I was never really into the sort of holistic healthy lifestyle that obviously I am today. And so it's been a complete life transformation for me to go from a mechanical engineer working on aerospace systems. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm kind of a gearhead. I just I love building things and always did when I was growing up. |
| 1:31.0 | I was the person you know welding together insane machines and |
| 1:35.1 | riding them went too fast through the woods and that sort of thing and so I was |
| 1:37.7 | always into vehicles I wanted to work on either cars or fight their jets or you know |
| 1:41.7 | I never really thought I'd be able to work on |
| 1:43.4 | spacecraft I just didn't think I had the grades for it but there was a little company |
| 1:47.7 | called SpaceX in 2010 that at the time was not getting the top candidates |
| 1:51.9 | from all the aerospace schools so they were hiring |
| 1:53.6 | sort of the second tier engineers which I put myself in that category they of course had amazing people |
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