#287 - Male Hormones and Men’s Health | Dr. Jesse Mills + Mike Haney

Levels CEO, Sam Corcos, sat down with Alex Lieberman, Executive Chairman of Morning Brew, to discuss the importance of mental health in the workplace, especially in a startup remote environment. They also cover common issues like burnout, imposter syndrome and how these can affect productivity. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (05:25) - Doing smart work (08:10) - The effect of shifting to remote work (21:47) - Three different types of learners (32:24) - Be productive on your own (35:22) - Why do people feel burnout? (38:35) - Other people can also do your work (46:54) - Giving feedback (51:06) - Tackling problems before they grow (54:07) - Knowing what’s the best content Transcripts & Show Notes

16 Dec 202155min

Levels Head of Growth, Ben Grynol, sat down with Head of Product, Scott Klein, to discuss our approach to the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) process here at Levels. Learn what a DRI is, what the process entails, and why it's crucial to have in a remote and async environment. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (3:06) - Ensuring projects get shipped (5:58) - DRIs can delegate (9:53) - Project management is a skill (13:08) - How much power should DRIs have? (15:34) - When projects snowball (18:45) - Budget extra time for projects (31:37) - When to break one project into multiple parts (45:17) - DRIs don't need to know everything (48:07) - Let DRIs shine Transcripts & Show Notes

13 Dec 202150min

Levels' Head of Content, Mike Haney, sat down down with Emily Hunter, Registered Dietitian, Co-Founder and Head of Product of Othership: Breathing App (formerly known as Inward Breathwork). The app allows you to explore the ins and outs of your breath with guiding breathwork sessions to connect the body, brain, self, and other. Emily discusses the health benefits of breathing exercises as well as Othership's approach to breathwork. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (4:56) - Emily's introduction to breathwork (9:49) - Breathwork vs. meditation (12:00) - The benefit of deep, guided breathing (15:30) - Upregulated breathwork (Wim Hof) (18:37) - The link between breathwork and anxiety (21:02) - Breathwork and insulin resistance (22:20) - The long-term impact of breathwork (27:20) - The Buteyko Method (28:16) - Downregulated breathwork (31:40) - Getting started with breathwork Transcripts & Show Notes

9 Dec 202140min

Levels' Head of Growth, Ben Grynol, sat down with Austen Allred, CEO of Bloom Institute of Technology, formerly Lambda School, to discuss his approach to career-focused and lower-risk education and how it leads to rewarding jobs. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (9:38) - The early days of Lambda School (11:27) - Democratizing the Silicon Valley experience (12:24) - The shortcomings of in-person bootcamps (13:55) - Why class size doesn't matter (15:07) - The value of adaptive education (21:15) - Customization at scale is the next frontier (24:19) - Adaptive education software (26:48) - The norm is suboptimal (33:36) - The value of scaled help (41:57) - The biggest challenge for Lambda (45:12) - Extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation Timestamps & Show Notes

6 Dec 202159min

Levels CEO, Sam Corcos, sat down with Head of Product, Scott Klein, and Head of Engineering, Andrew Conner, to discuss the complexities and best approaches to asynchronous communication. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (8:28) - Solving the puzzle of effective communication (11:31) - The need for instant communication is rare (12:58) - Setting guidelines for communication tools (16:28) - Fighting the pull of synchronicity (20:13) - Deprogramming new employees (21:56) - Battling compulsive behaviors (25:33) - Don't introduce friction (31:30) - Leave opportunity for time-sensitive updates (32:49) - The problem of channels and forums (49:20) - Employee bonding is important Transcripts & Show Notes

3 Dec 20211h

Levels Head of Partnerships, Tom Griffin, sat down with content creator, Austin McGuffie AKA Metabolism Mentor, to discuss his journey with metabolic health and how to communicate complex ideas. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (9:49) - An introduction to insulin resistance (16:15) - You can't have health without proper nutrition (17:46) - Skinny does not equal healthy (19:12) - Make content easy to understand (21:20) - A sense of humor always helps (24:31) - The pressure to be perfect (34:11) - The power of food modification (40:16) - Meet people where they are (44:56) - How to raise healthy kids (50:16) - Remove the ego from nutrition Transcripts & Show Notes

1 Dec 202153min

Many diseases traditionally associated with aging have a metabolic root cause, including seemingly-unrelated conditions like tinnitus and gallbladder stones. But with a metabolic origin (specifically with insulin resistance), there can be a metabolic solution. Blood glucose levels and insulin are tied to many more chronic diseases than just Type 2 Diabetes.   Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: ⁠https://levels.link/wnl Ben Bikman, PhD, the doctor at the forefront of research and thought leadership on insulin resistance, digs deep in this video with Levels’ Chief Medical Officer and co-founder Dr. Casey Means to uncover the connection between metabolic health and surprising disorders that surface as a result of insulin resistance. Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health. (8:49) - Declining health is not inevitable (10:15) - The link between insulin resistance and tinnitus (13:39) - We look at health through the lens of disease (22:53) - Insulin resistance and the gallbladder (28:32) - The appearance of fatty liver disease (31:34) - Ways to clear the liver of fat (35:00) - How fat tissue develops (36:51) - How fat cells become insulin resistant (46:21) - The power of a CGM (48:36) - What is a healthy glucose level? LINKS:   How hearing loss relates to metabolic health | Blog post: https://www.levelshealth.com/blog/how-hearing-loss-relates-to-metabolic-health Why too many focus on glucose, but not insulin | Blog post: https://www.levelshealth.com/blog/why-too-many-focus-on-glucose-but-not-insulin Transcripts & Show Notes Watch the Video – https://youtu.be/szGl8F1zl6I

29 Nov 202157min

Levels' Head of Growth, Ben Grynol, and Andy Schabelman, one of the first 30 employees at Airbnb who led their international expansion initiatives, sat down to discuss the nuances and complexities of scaling companies in new markets. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health. (3:11) - The grassroots growth of Airbnb (4:45) - Looking beyond transactional growth (10:08) - Tailing product to different cultures (11:59) - Go beyond localization (15:23) - Two methods of international growth (18:14) - Different countries need a unique order of operations (21:17) - Embrace a period of exploration (30:23) - Keep an open mind (32:07) - Learn from user behavior Transcripts & Show Notes

26 Nov 202135min