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The Sonya Looney Show


Hey everybody! My name is Sonya Looney and welcome to my podcast. For those of you who don’t have any context on me, I’m a plant-based World Champion ultra endurance mountain biker. I travel the world and have met some incredible people with world class attitudes and ways of living that motivate me daily, and I want to share their paths of mastery with you. This is a podcast interviewing inspiring leaders across the categories of wellness, endurance fitness, plant-based nutrition, mindset, and entrepreneurship to help you unlock the best and healthiest version of yourself.

Jan 8, 2021

Metabolic health might be something you've never considered.  Metabolic health is way more than just the number on the scale or your BMI.  It's considering things like having ideal levels of blood sugar, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, waist circumference and more without the use of medications. These factors directly relate to a person’s risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. Your metabolic health also affects sleep, energy levels, recovery, appetite, and more. A study with 8,721 adults from UNC Chapel Hill noted that only 1 in 8 people, aka 12% of the population have optimal metabolic health.  

I've mentioned how much I love InsideTracker on this podcast because you can order a very comprehensive blood test that teaches you about your metabolic health and so much more to optimize your health.  In today's podcast, I got to sit down with Stanford MD, Casey Means.  She is also the Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of pioneering digital health startup Levels. Dr. Casey is focused on using continuous glucose monitoring to solve the epidemic affecting the health and wellbeing of 88% of the US adult population: metabolic dysfunction.  She also promotes plant-based nutrition for optimal health.

Dr. Means has been featured in ForbesEntrepreneur MagazineBusiness InsiderEndocrine TodayStartupbeat, Healthy Human RevolutionWell + Good, and more, and her writing has been recently published in TheHill.com and Metabolism with articles about the strong relationship between chronic lifestyle-related diseases and COVID-19 mortality, and innovative healthcare and policy solutions to ameliorate this. She is an award-winning biomedical researcher, with past research positions at the National Institutes, Stanford School of Medicine, and NYU. Her clinical work focuses on Functional & Lifestyle Medicine, with an emphasis on whole foods plant-based (WFPB) nutrition, mind-body connection, and physical activity as foundations of metabolic and overall health.

An app that some friends of mine have recently released is called 80/20 plants that offers one-on-one coaching for changing your diet. There are daily lessons with videos + meal planning help + hundreds of recipes and a supportive community

Topics Discussed in the Podcast 

  • defining metabolic fitness and why you should care about your metabolic health
  • how she started integrating lifestyle medicine and nutrigenomics
  • covid comorbidities & glucose
  • how athletes can have glucose issues
  • how to optimize a whole-foods, plant-based diet
  • how lack of sleep affects glucose negatively

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