52: Dr. Casey Means on Sugar Highs, Naked Carbs, and Glucose Monitoring for Every Body

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tune in as Morgan chats with Stanford-trained physician Dr. Casey Means about her transition from simply treating symptoms to empowering people to make smart diet and lifestyle choices. Casey is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Levels, a metabolic health company providing tech-enabled tools that continuously monitor glucose levels. In this episode, she dives into the negative effects of glucose spikes, the perils of eating “naked carbs,” and how mental health can influence your physical well-being. Casey also teams up with Morgan, an avid Levels user, to demonstrate how the tool helps track the ongoing effects that glucose has on your body. Visit levels.link/primalkitchen for a special offer for our podcast listeners!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	How would I actually try and keep patients out of the operating room? How would we prevent this in the first place?
0:07.6	Hello, everyone. I'm Morgan co-founder of Primal Kitchen and hosts of the Primal Kitchen podcast.
0:12.7	Today, I'm super excited to be chatting with Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford trained physician and the chief medical officer and co-founder of one of my favorite
0:21.4	products ever levels. Casey's mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the
0:26.4	epidemic of preventable chronic disease with tech-enabled tools that can inform personalized
0:31.7	and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Today she'll be discussing metabolic health,
0:36.9	food systems, and more.
0:38.4	Before we get started, a brief reminder that any and all opinions and views shared by hosts and guests
0:42.1	on this podcast are the speaker's own and do not represent the view of Primal Kitchen or its
0:46.0	affiliates or Parrot Company. Hello, Dr. Casey, how are you? Oh, Morgan, I am so excited to be here.
0:52.8	I'm such a fan of Primal Kitchen and I can't wait to chat.
0:56.1	Yeah, me as well. I've been levels obsessed for a few years. So I am just thrilled to chat with you, learn how you started this company and what's going on at levels. And maybe we can do a little, you know, a little blood sugar 101 for folks listening. So give me the lowdown.
1:12.8	How did you get involved? I want to hear the founder's story of levels, a quick founder story.
1:17.1	Sure. Yeah. I mean, it's a circuitous route. I trained as a head and neck surgeon. So very far from
1:22.8	metabolic health. But the journey, you know, really unfolded throughout my 20s. So I've always been interested
1:29.2	in nutrition. I've always been interested in prevention since I was a teen. I always loved cooking.
1:34.4	Really, I studied nutrigenomics in college and thinking about how food compounds change our gene
1:40.8	expression. It's so empowering to think about like what you put in your body,
1:44.4	changes your outcomes and this interaction between diet, lifestyle, and health. Then I go to the
1:49.8	surgical world and it's really like devoid of those concepts. You're really not thinking about
1:55.1	food, nutrition, lifestyle, prevention, empowerment. If you think about surgery, it's like,
2:00.7	it really is, it's like end of
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -597 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.