Podcast Video: What HALF of Women Will DIE of, and How To Fix It - Dr. Casey Means and Dr. Sara Gottfried on A Whole New Level Podcast
This podcast episode was originally published on July 13, 2022.
Why do women have a higher risk of metabolic dysfunction and cardiovascular disease than men, and how do women move forward as empowered patients with their clinicians? In this deep dive on cardiometabolic health, Levels Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Casey Means and Levels Advisor, physician, and author of 4 New York Times bestsellers Dr. Sara Gottfried discuss:
- Why women’s metabolic health is more vulnerable than men
- What women can do to start measuring biomarkers to empower themselves
- How cardiovascular and metabolic health link together
- Lifestyle factors that contribute to higher risk of cardiometabolic disease
- How oral contraceptives/birth control pills increase cardiovascular risk
- The functional medicine approach
- The biological effects of traumas
What they discuss:
Why women should care about metabolic health?
Metabolism
A holistic take on metabolism
Blood pressure control
Effects of trauma
Becoming more metabolically unhealthy
Seven clinical imbalances
What you measure improves
Dealing with trauma
Food until the end
