#199 - Wisdom is taking your own advice: Regaining metabolic flexibility | Commune’s Jeff Krasno & Sonja Manning
About this episode
Jeff Krasno, CEO and founder of Commune, experienced chronic fatigue and brain fog earlier this year and discovered he had prediabetes. He used Levels to learn more about his blood glucose and metabolic health and now enjoys metabolic flexibility. Sonja Manning chatted with Jeff about his health journey, his dietary changes, intermittent fasting, and his other learnings from the metabolic health world that he applied to his own wellbeing.
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Commune is an online course platform featuring world-renowned teachers in personal development, yoga, meditation, health, ecological regeneration, and social activism. Jeff Krasno is also the founder of Wanderlust; part of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100; and host of the Commune Podcast, which ranks in the top 1% of podcasts; amongst many other accolades.
Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health.
Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health.
🎙 What Jeff Krasno & Sonja Manning discuss:
(04:30) - Wisdom is taking your own advice
(07:05) - Learning the dietary patterns that work best
(14:30) - Adapting intermittent fasting to become more insulin sensitive
(18:41) - Burning stored fat through cold exposure
(24:05) - Philosophy behind fasting in order to gain control
(28:35) - A wandering mind is an unhappy mind
(44:06) - Rediscovering metabolic flexibility
(49:31) - Achieving the optimal rest and digest state through breathwork
(54:44) - The one theme that arises again and again: Coincidence of opposites
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