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#610: The Life-Extension Episode — Dr. Matt Kaeberlein on The Dog Aging Project, Rapamycin, Metformin, Spermidine, NAD+ Precursors, Urolithin A, Acarbose, and Much More

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This episode is brought to you by Levels. Very excited about this one. I wrote about the health benefits of using continuous glucose monitors. CGMs. More than ten years ago in the four hour body. And at that time, CGM's were horribly primitive and hard to use, super painful. Levels has now made this technology and the insights that come from it easy and

and available to everyone. Putting in the sensors, everything about it is smooth, easy. I found it completely painless. And I started tracking my glucose way back in the day to learn more about what I should and shouldn't be eating. Keeping my blood sugar stable. is critical to my daily and long term health and performance goals. With levels you can see how different foods affect your health with real-time feedback. Poor glucose control, which you don't want, is associated with a number of chronic conditions, not just diabetes, but also Alzheimer's and heart disease. It can impact your mood, certainly affects my mood, energy levels Right. That work in the afternoon, that dip that you feel, for instance, that's just one example, and weight management.

And we all respond differently, sometimes a little bit, sometimes vastly differently, even to the same foods. So one type of carbohydrate that my body might process well, let's say that's fruit or rice or sweet potato, your body might not. The Levels app interprets your glucose data and provides a simple score after you eat a meal. So you can see how different foods affect you and then develop a personalized diet that's right for you and your goals. Seeing this data in real time, at least for me and for so many others who use levels is a really powerful. behavioral change mechanism. And many of the guests on the podcast have talked about this. Marco Canora, famous chef Used levels. to determine that, say, walking for him, just a few hundred steps after a meal significantly affected his glucose levels. Levels is backed by a world class team and group of advisors, including names you've likely heard before, including repeat podcast guest, Dr. Dom DeAgostino, and many others.

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