How using Levels can improve your health
Get a complete picture of your health through comprehensive testing and tracking, then make targeted changes based on personalized insights and expert guidance.
Your health is built on complex systems working together---metabolism, hormone balance, cardiovascular function, inflammation response, and more. When these systems aren't optimized, the effects are everywhere: fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, poor sleep, and increased disease risk.
The behaviors that lead to optimal health aren't a mystery, but they can be challenging to maintain without clear feedback. It's hard to stick to new habits when you don't know if they're actually helping your body. It's difficult to prioritize sleep when you can't see how poor rest affects your biomarkers. And it's frustrating to guess whether your dietary changes are making a difference.
That's why comprehensive health data---tying biomarkers to behavior over time---is so powerful. Once you see your inflammatory markers improve after reducing processed foods or recognize that your energy crashes are tied to specific meal patterns, the motivation to make changes becomes natural. You feel the positive effects, creating a feedback loop that builds sustainable habits.
Here are five concrete ways that using Levels to optimize your health can improve how you feel and function.
1. Levels gives you a complete picture of your health
Understanding your health starts with measuring what matters. Levels provides comprehensive blood testing across dozens of biomarkers that reveal how your body is actually functioning. Members can choose between a 28-marker panel covering essential health indicators, or dive deeper with 100+ marker panel.
Basic Panel 28-marker panel covering essential health indicators:
- Metabolic health: fasting insulin, glucose, HbA1c
- Cardiovascular health: ApoB, triglycerides, HDL, LDL
- Liver and kidney function: ALT, AST, creatinine, eGFR, BUN
- Inflammation: hs-CRP, homocysteine, uric acid
Comprehensive Panel 100+ marker panel including everything above plus:
- Hormones: testosterone, estrogen, SHBG, DHEA, TSH
- Micronutrients: vitamin D, magnesium, iron, B12, zinc, selenium
- Advanced markers: detailed insights into aging, inflammation, and metabolic function
Each test comes with optimal ranges based on the latest research, clear explanations of what your results mean, and personalized recommendations for improvement. You can schedule testing directly through the app and track your progress over time---many members see meaningful improvements in key biomarkers within 3-6 months of making targeted changes.
2. Levels helps you build healthy habits that stick
Most of us know the basics of good health: eat nutritious foods, exercise regularly, get quality sleep, and manage stress. The challenge is incorporating these practices into daily life in a way that lasts.
Levels makes this easier through comprehensive habit tracking and personalized feedback:
Daily habit monitoring helps you track behaviors across food, exercise, sleep, hydration, and stress---all in one place. The app connects these patterns to your biomarker data, revealing insights like "Your late-night meals correlate with elevated morning glucose" or "Your workout consistency is improving your inflammatory markers."
AI-powered meal analysis provides detailed macro breakdowns and personalized feedback on food quality and likely health impact. You can identify which meals support stable energy and which might contribute to afternoon crashes or poor sleep.
Long-term trend tracking shows your progress across 30, 60, and 90-day periods, helping you see how consistent changes translate to measurable health improvements. This creates the closed feedback loop that makes healthy habits sustainable.
3. Levels can help reduce your risk of chronic disease
Poor metabolic health plays a role in eight of the top 10 leading causes of death, including diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's, and cancer. The mechanisms vary, but at the cellular level, it comes down to how efficiently your body processes energy and manages inflammation.
Three primary processes drive many downstream health consequences:
- Oxidative stress occurs when harmful molecules build up and damage proteins, fats, and DNA, leading to cellular dysfunction and aging.
- Chronic inflammation happens when your body's defense systems stay activated long-term. As many as three out of every five deaths worldwide have chronic inflammation as a component.
- Advanced glycation is when sugar molecules bind to proteins and interfere with their function, contributing to everything from wrinkles to cardiovascular disease.
Levels helps you optimize the biomarkers that reflect these processes---like inflammatory markers (hs-CRP), metabolic markers (fasting insulin, HbA1c), and cardiovascular markers (ApoB, triglycerides). By tracking these over time and making targeted lifestyle changes, you can measurably reduce your risk factors for chronic disease.
4. Levels helps you feel better now
Beyond long-term disease prevention, optimizing your health has immediate benefits for how you feel and function daily.
Stable energy comes from balanced blood sugar and efficient metabolism. When your glucose is constantly spiking and crashing, you experience the rollercoaster of energy highs followed by crashes that leave you reaching for caffeine or sugar.
Mental clarity improves when your brain has steady fuel. Blood sugar instability can cause brain fog, difficulty concentrating, and mood swings that affect your work and relationships.
Better sleep results from improved metabolic health. Research shows that the quantity and quality of your sleep directly affect glucose stability and overall metabolic health. In one study, sleep-deprived participants cleared glucose out of their bloodstream 40% slower than their well-rested counterparts; and poor sleep has been linked to obesity, diabetes, and inflammation. Your blood work can reveal how factors like late-night eating, alcohol consumption, or nutrient deficiencies are affecting your sleep quality.
Reduced cravings happen naturally when your body gets consistent, quality nutrition. Research suggests that a high-carb meal leaves you more hungry for your next mea,l while cutting carbs reduces cravings in as little as two weeks. Members often find that optimizing their meal timing and composition based on their data reduces afternoon energy crashes and evening sugar cravings.
Levels members consistently report improvements in energy, mood, and overall vitality within weeks of making data-driven changes to their habits.
5. Levels helps you find the diet that works best for you
Diet is one of the biggest levers for improving how you feel day-to-day and moving key biomarkers in a positive direction. But with so much conflicting nutrition advice, it can be hard to know what actually works for your unique body and lifestyle.
Levels takes the guesswork out of nutrition by combining multiple tools to help you discover your optimal dietary approach:
AI-powered food tracking makes logging effortless through text, photos, or barcodes. You get detailed macro breakdowns (protein, fat, carbs, fiber, sugar) and personalized feedback on food quality and likely health impact. The system provides meal insights and recommendations based on your specific health profile and goals.
Comprehensive biomarker tracking shows you how dietary changes affect key health markers over time. You can see how reducing processed foods impacts your inflammatory markers (hs-CRP), how adjusting meal timing affects your fasting insulin, or how increasing fiber intake improves your lipid profile.
Levels Core and Complete members get a licensed clinician review of their biomarker results, along with their lifestyle and glucose data, to learn exactly where they should focus for the most return on their health.
One-on-one coaching with a licensed metabolic coach helps you implement those recommendations and stay accountable to the changes that will move your specific markers in the right direction.
Optional real-time glucose feedback lets you see immediately how different foods affect your blood sugar. You can compare meals to identify your personal "glucose-friendly" options, discover which foods give you stable energy versus crashes, and optimize your meal timing and composition.
This multi-layered approach helps you move beyond generic dietary advice to discover what truly works for your body. Whether you're trying to improve energy, optimize athletic performance, manage a health condition, or simply feel better, Levels helps you dial in the nutritional approach that supports your specific goals and responds well to your unique physiology.
The bigger picture: Long-term health optimization
While individual biomarkers and daily habits matter, Levels helps you focus on the trends that drive lasting health improvements. Your body is remarkably adaptable and resilient---what matters most is consistent, sustainable changes over time.
The Levels app tracks your progress across multiple health domains, showing up to 90-day trends in key markers. This helps you see the bigger picture: how your consistent efforts to improve sleep, nutrition, and activity translate to measurable improvements in your biomarkers and overall health.
Regular blood testing gives you objective data to confirm you're moving in the right direction, while expert guidance from registered dietitians helps you stay on track with personalized strategies that fit your lifestyle and goals.
Ultimately, Levels provides what most people lack in their health journey: clear feedback on what's working, what isn't, and what changes will most impact your unique situation. This combination of comprehensive data, intelligent insights, and expert support makes sustainable health improvement not just possible but inevitable.
Take control of your health with expert guidance
Levels pairs real-time glucose data and comprehensive lab testing with clinician analysis and personalized support—everything you need to turn insights into real health improvements. Click here to get started with Levels.
