hi i’m dr josh axe co-founder of ancient
nutrition founder of draxe.com and
author of best-selling books like
ancient remedies and you know one of the
most important things people can do to
take to their health the next level in
many categories is improve their
metabolic flexibility what that means is
your body can burn both fat and carbs
for energy here’s the truth and what i
learned in the many years that i
practice as a physician in my functional
medicine practice is that most people
are only burning carbs for energy what
happens then is your body’s not burning
fat and so you start to store more and
more body fat around your organs which
is one of the leading causes of obesity
diabetes heart disease inflammation and
numerous other health conditions so
here’s the key if you can start burning
fat from energy and become a fat burner
what you’ll start to do is balance your
blood sugar improve your mood burn body
fat lose weight have more energy and
overall just look and feel better and so
one of the things that i’ve personally
been using lately and i’ve been
recommending to people i’ve cared for
over the many years even my family’s
using it is i’ve started using a device
to actually measure what my
fat burning versus carb burning ability
is it actually measures your metabolic
flexibility it’s actually this really
incredible device it’s called a lumen
you can see here i press the button it
lights up here’s all you do you breathe
into it
for seven seconds and then you inhale as
well so you breathe in inhale for seven
seconds like this
you wait 10 seconds and you’ll blow back
in
and what it does it reads your ability
to burn body fat via carbon dioxide so
your carbon dioxide levels will actually
tell you if you’re burning fat or carbs
for energy now this is an incredible
medical advancement and breakthrough and
being able to read this now it used to
be
only high level professional athletes
and people that were very wealthy could
afford and be able to use something like
this today though
it’s available for everyone and so this
company lumen you can order one of these
you can breathe in breathe out and it’s
amazing on your phone there’s an app and
it will tell you are you a scale of one
two three four five and and you can
measure this and the other incredible
thing is so for instance i woke up this
morning
and i measured a three a few other
mornings i’ve measured a two and one
means you’re only burning fat five means
you’re only burning carbs for the most
part and then you have areas in between
and what you wanna be doing is you wanna
be burning both carbs and fat for energy
now when you wake up in the morning you
want to have burn mostly fat because
what happened is your body is actually
burning fat while you sleep so you wake
up leaner you have more energy and
overall you’re going to feel better
because again you’re losing body fat
which most people need to do today and
also on the app it’s pretty incredible
when you open this app on lumen it will
also give you recommendations on how
many fats carbs and proteins dietary
recommendations so you know what you
should be eating
to get your body into fat burning zone
again this is important burning fat is
not just important for vanity’s sake the
reason why it’s so important is think
about this is that even recent medical
studies are showing the number one cause
of immune issues today is obesity
and things like diabetes actually weaken
your immune system so another thing is
if you want to help strengthen even your
immune system
helping your body burn body fat is one
of the most important things you can do
and so that’s what i love is i love you
know this cutting edge technology
there’s not a lot of things i use
there’s a couple i use i got this aura
ring on i use that i use this lumen and
basically aura ring tells me how well i
sleep in some of my activity lumen tells
me if i’m burning fat for energy and so
these are great devices in order to be
able to tell
how metabolically flexible you are so
whether you’re an athlete or you’re a
person uh who just is saying hey i want
to burn more fat and again all of us can
do this and my body fat’s pretty low
already and that’s why i kind of try and
stay in the middle where some people
want to get more deeper into fat burning
zone but this app will tell you exactly
how to do it so check it out it’s called
lumen l-u-m-e-n
i’ve been using it and i’ve been blown
away
at uh and here’s the other thing that’s
surprising let me mention this
everybody’s different
different foods affect people
differently so you may realize wow when
i eat this certain fruit that’s get this
gets me out of fat burning zone but hey
when i eat this food like dark chocolate
actually my body does pretty well with
it so we’ll also kind of help guide you
in learning which foods your body
tolerates best what time of day your
body does the best with certain types of
food so that’s what’s so incredible
about this incredible device lumen so i
encourage you hey check it out i’ve been
personally using it blown away the
results i’ve been recommending it to the
people i’ve cared for who want to help
transform their health as well hey i
hope i hope you enjoy the cutting edge
benefits of using these incredible
devices like lumen
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