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Why Measure Metabolic Health?
Most of us think we can outsmart our metabolism by simply exercising later or changing diet briefly to make up for years of poor dietary choices. However, science shows that consistent habits around diet and exercise are critical for long-term metabolic health. Consistently poor diet choices can affect your energy, blood sugar, and how well your body processes nutrients. Over time, poor lifestyle habits and behaviors can lead to chronic conditions like insulin resistance – but how do you know when enough is enough? This multi-day assessment allows you to better understand how your body is currently metabolizing sugars and whether your eating habits are working for you, helping you make sustainable, healthy lifestyle changes.
We all need different approaches to managing our metabolism, which is why comparing your habits to others isn’t effective. Instead of guessing how your body responds to food and exercise, you can use a science-based, multi-day assessment to understand your personal metabolic rhythm.
This healthy lifestyle check will answer key questions such as: how well is your body tracking with your lifestyle choices, and how can you optimize your eating and activity routines? The healthy metabolism check provides an more objective approach to developing a personalized strategy for managing insulin, promoting sustainable habits, and improving overall well-being.
Why Measure Insulin Levels?
The amount and timing of your body’s insulin production is crucial to your metabolic health. Fasting insulin levels are typically low at waking, then rise after eating, peak post-meal, and gradually taper off by nighttime. They should return to baseline close to bedtime, so that you are not actively metabolizing food when you’re trying to sleep. Consistently high or irregular insulin levels can indicate insulin resistance or other metabolic issues.
Chronic metabolic disruptions might show insulin spikes occurring too early or too late in relation to your meal times. Understanding your insulin production patterns will help you uncover potential contributors to metabolic imbalance, enabling you to take proactive steps toward improving your overall metabolic health.
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Comparing You-To-You: What Do My Results Mean?
Comparing you-to-you is much more meaningful than comparing you to others. You are not the average of a group, you are unique. That’s the power of this assessment. Its simplicity enables you to observe how your insulin levels change across a day, and over days, months, and years. Each time you repeat this assessment, the results add even more value to your understanding.
Within a basic assessment, you will establish where you are now, revealing how your insulin levels change across the day given your current eating and activity habits and behaviors.
Your job is to then think about aspects of your health behavior choices, lifestyle, or eating and exercise habits as they relate to your report. Do you have proper fasting insulin levels at waking? Do circumstances of your food choices or eating habits need to change to enable you to do so? Do you have high insulin when preparing to sleep? How long does it take for you to recover from a sugar spike?
As you experiment with changing these behaviors and or circumstances repeating the assessment will provide an objective metric as to whether what you changed worked. The information provided can help you determine next steps on your journey to better metabolic health.
If you need more help, our telehealth professionals are standing-by to also answer any questions you might have.
Review the sample results below for more information.
Overall HLC Index:
Our algorithm does all the number crunching for you to deliver an easy to understand Healthy Lifestyle Check Index or HLC Index. A good HLC Index in Metabolic health means your body appears to be managing your metabolism well and your test values were within a healthy level throughout the assessment sampling profile. Over time, you can track and compare results to determine when you might consider additional lifestyle choices to keep your metabolic levels in the green!
If you see a lower HLC Index, don’t fret! Lower scores include an approved list of science-based healthy lifestyle recommendations to help support your body in managing healthy metabolic activity. The major benefit of this assessment is that you can now pick a single recommendation that easily fits with your unique lifestyle. Then you can determine precisely how effective this behavior is in improving your overall Metabolic Index through routine testing.
Individual Insulin Scores:
On the flip-side you’ll gain access into each individual metric that is used to calculate your overall HLC Index. For metabolism, this involves calculating your fasting waking and bedtime insulin levels and determining the consistency of these levels over time. With these individual metrics, you can determine if there are any important areas that might be dragging down your overall metabolic index scores. This enables you to focus on specific timing or behaviors that target this particular area of improvement.
Contact: Salimetrics (USA)
