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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I speak with Josh Clemente, one of Levels a company that developed a smart tracker that monitors your blood glucose in real time, so you can maximize your diet, exercise, mental health and overall wellbeing. Josh and I discuss the importance of tracking your glucose levels, how to know what changes to make based on the data, techniques to balance glucose levels and increase metabolic flexibility, how sleep affects glucose levels, how to use a glucose monitor to improve mental health and decrease the risk for neurodegenerative diseases, and so much more! Plus, I share how I used a Neurocycle to lower a stress-induced glucose spike! 
Read the show blog: https://drleaf.com/blogs/news/how-to-optimize-mental-clarity-focus-memory-mood-by-monitoring-your-glucose-how-stress-affects-glucose-levels-how-the-neurocycle-can-improve-metabolic-flexibility
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Follow Levels on social media for more tips and info: @levels on Instagram & Twitter

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PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS:
7:53 What is Levels, and how can it help you?
11:00 Why it is important to prevent major health issues by monitoring our health BEFORE we get sick
17:00 How toxic stress impacts our glucose levels and health
23:11 How controlling your glucose levels can give you more energy
28:46 How our glucose levels can affect memory and brain health, and its relationship to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s
33:50 How sleep is affected by irregular glucose levels, and how sleep affects our blood sugar
40:00 How “diseases of abundance” have affected our health as a species, and why self-regulation is so important when it comes to our health
43:53 Mental health, mood and glucose monitoring
45:00 The relationship between mind management, stress and metabolism

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