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Recently Levels advisor Casey Means, MD, was a guest on the PLANTSTRONG podcast with Rip Esselstyn to share how food is medicine.
🩺 Dr. Means went from being an ear, nose, and throat doctor to being a food-is-medicine evangelist.
🥅 Her goal is to help turn the tide away from ultra-processed foods to whole foods that nourish the body and help prevent illness and deadly chronic diseases.
🍽️ “We eat almost 70 metric tons of food in our lifetime,” Dr. Means says, “and you can imagine if 70% are these artificial, totally altered substances that our bodies never really evolved to eat, of course that’s going to be a huge threat signal for the body.”
🥦 She adds, “So how do we get back to the foods our body is expecting, that it wants, that allow it to be in a safer situation and ultimately reduce some of that chronic inflammation that’s leading to not only ear, nose, and throat issues but to so many other chronic diseases that are killing Americans today?”
✅ The answer: “If we can fix our diet, we reduce that threat signal in the body,” she says. Here are some basic tips.
- Avoid ultra-processed foods as much as possible.
- Reduce reliance on refined carbohydrates as much as possible.
- Shop for whole foods as much as possible.
- Eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables for optimal fiber and micronutrient intake.
- Eat optimal amounts of healthy fats and protein.
- Pair carbohydrates with fats, protein, and fiber to slow how quickly glucose enters the bloodstream.
- Remember that the same foods can affect people differently.
- Tracking glucose response with a continuous glucose monitor can help you learn how different foods affect your body and which foods support your metabolic health rather than degrade it.
Check out the full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/casey-means-md-improve-your-metabolic-health-with-a/id1458774193?i=1000637012945
#metabolichealth #foodismedicine #inflammation #chronicillness #CGM
Recently Levels advisor Casey Means, MD, was a guest on the PLANTSTRONG podcast with Rip Esselstyn to share how food is medicine.
🩺 Dr. Means went from being an ear, nose, and throat doctor to being a food-is-medicine evangelist.
🥅 Her goal is to help turn the tide away from ultra-processed foods to whole foods that nourish the body and help prevent illness and deadly chronic diseases.
🍽️ “We eat almost 70 metric tons of food in our lifetime,” Dr. Means says, “and you can imagine if 70% are these artificial, totally altered substances that our bodies never really evolved to eat, of course that’s going to be a huge threat signal for the body.”
🥦 She adds, “So how do we get back to the foods our body is expecting, that it wants, that allow it to be in a safer situation and ultimately reduce some of that chronic inflammation that’s leading to not only ear, nose, and throat issues but to so many other chronic diseases that are killing Americans today?”
✅ The answer: “If we can fix our diet, we reduce that threat signal in the body,” she says. Here are some basic tips.
- Avoid ultra-processed foods as much as possible.
- Reduce reliance on refined carbohydrates as much as possible.
- Shop for whole foods as much as possible.
- Eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables for optimal fiber and micronutrient intake.
- Eat optimal amounts of healthy fats and protein.
- Pair carbohydrates with fats, protein, and fiber to slow how quickly glucose enters the bloodstream.
- Remember that the same foods can affect people differently.
- Tracking glucose response with a continuous glucose monitor can help you learn how different foods affect your body and which foods support your metabolic health rather than degrade it.
Check out the full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/casey-means-md-improve-your-metabolic-health-with-a/id1458774193?i=1000637012945
#metabolichealth #foodismedicine #inflammation #chronicillness #CGM
