Up-level your health with Dr Lauren Kelley-Chew

This week’s guest is Dr Lauren Kelley-Chew, Head of Clinical Product at Levels -an organisation founded to increase awareness around the epidemic levels of metabolic dysfunction & give individuals the tools & knowledge to make tangible lifestyle changes. Lauren’s mission is to solve the metabolic health crisis & make good health accessible to everyone.

Metabolic dysfunction is the single largest health crisis facing the world

Over 120M Americans have prediabetes or diabetes and 9 or the 10 leading causes of death in the US are caused or worsened by metabolic dysfunction. Insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction don’t just underlie diabetes. 

There is virtually no symptom or disease that is not touched by insulin resistance, and it’s estimated that 88% of the country might have it.

Growing up Lauren undertook a career in finance (healthcare private equity) and then earned a scholarship to go to medical school. Seeing the way medicine is taught and practiced during her clinical training in medical school — she believed the entire system is broken and most of the way medicine is practiced doesn't make sense. 

At the same time her own health was plummeting 

She became very passionate about improving people's health and changing the U.S. healthcare system and got into Health Tech.

Rather than being a victim of the healthcare system, she decided to try to change it and to help people gain power over their own health rather than relying on the broken system; she founded a digital health startup focused on digestive disease.

She then went on to work for Levels who have built their technology to help people close the loop on their dietary and lifestyle choices with real-time data. They are looking to establish themselves as the thought leaders in metabolic health and pioneers of "biosensors" (consumer wearables that track deeper and more meaningful metrics). 

Thanks so much Dr Lauren for sharing how Levels is helping people track their own health so that they can hold themselves accountable to the changes they want to make. 

You can find out more about Dr Lauren’s work www.

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