in this video i’m going to be reviewing
lumen which is a new device that is
there to help you hack your metabolism
so if you’ve been wondering if the lumen
works then stick around because i’m
going to give you my experience in
review
welcome back i’m tammy from fit healthy
mama where we help you live a fit
healthy life
all right so i was recently introduced
to lumen and i had actually never heard
of this before but as soon as i
took a look and saw kind of what lumen
is and what it is
supposed to do i was very intrigued so
lumen is a small
breathalyzer type device that is meant
to help you hack your metabolism which
basically means it’s there to analyze
how your metabolism currently works
and that means how your body’s burning
fat and carbs and then help you try to
optimize it so that you’re burning the
proper fuel at the right time and you
get the most out of your body and your
metabolism so for those who have been
kind of on that weight loss train
struggling to lose weight you feel like
your body’s kind of working against you
a tool like lumen might be what you need
to really truly understand your body how
it works and how that you can how you
can optimize your diet and nutrition to
make it work for you and not against you
so real quickly i just want to show you
um what lumen is so it came in this nice
little box here um the brand was
actually founded by two uh they’re twin
sisters they have phds and some very
other impressive athletic stats
and they were just genuinely wanting to
create a product that helped people
understand their metabolisms without
having to go through a very expensive
very timely process to do it
so they created this prototype and came
up with this small pocket-sized device
that you can take with you on the go and
it makes it super easy and accessible to
be able to track and understand your
metabolism
so this is the lumen very simple
it is
there isn’t you know to look at it you
would think it almost looks like um just
some kind of like pocket-sized vape
honestly um you turn it on it lights up
everything is attached to their app so
they have a very intuitive very easy to
use app
and that’s one of the best parts about
lumen is they actually show you
how to do the entire process so you
don’t have to worry you’re not on your
own trying to figure it out they do
come with some information in this
packet i’ll be honest i never even
opened this and read the directions
because the app is so comprehensive it
literally tells you step by step what to
do how to track next steps it’s all
there inside the app for you
it also comes with a charging cable and
then this little charging stand so when
it’s time to charge it and it’ll
actually tell you you can get an alert
on your phone or every time you turn
this on and sync it with your app it’ll
tell you what uh your charge is and it
stays charged for a super long time so
this isn’t something you’re going to
have to plug in every day but it just
kind of sits in the sand you plug it in
easy to charge there’s also a handy
little case with it so you can pop it in
this case toss it in your purse throw it
in your pocket
easy to take with you on the go
is it super convenient to carry
something all the time probably not um
but this isn’t something you have to use
your whole lifetime i think once you
really truly start to understand your
body and how it’s supposed to work and
then you’re eating in a way that helps
you maintain that you probably don’t
need to use this forever but i find that
the data and the insights that you get
from it are incredibly insightful and
can be super helpful so if you’re
someone who really appreciates data and
numbers and really understanding your
body you’re gonna absolutely love the
so i’ll show you a little bit about the
app so this is the lumen app
so you open that up and uh
pair this to your phone just by turning
it on
and it’ll automatically pair with your
phone and the basic um
the general idea here without going into
too much depth is
um you’re going to take your lumen
measurement multiple times a day with
your morning measurement being the most
important so basically you want to wait
after
fasting all night and sleeping all night
you want to wake up and you want your
body to be in a mode where you’re
burning fat because you shouldn’t have
much left in your body
overnight during a fast so you should be
in fat burning mode so when you wake up
that’s the best time to make sure you’re
measuring on your lumen
from there it’ll take that data tell you
where you’re burning um there’s a whole
scale
whether you’re burning fat carbs or a
combo of both they give you kind of a
numbered scale so you can see where
you’re at and then based on that they
help you build your nutrition for the
day so each day might be a little bit
different and the more times throughout
the day that you take your lumen
measurement the better the insights and
the data will be so women will actually
create a whole nutrition plan for you
for that day um
like this is telling me how many carbs
fats and proteins i should be eating
today based on what my readings are
coming back as so i kind of like that
they break it down by macros i’m very
familiar with macros it’s something that
i already track so it’s been kind of
interesting to see what lumen’s telling
me as compared to what i’ve been
tracking
so that’s been really fun it also does
things like if you’re a female it tracks
your menstrual cycle which i think is
incredibly insightful again because
it’ll tell you what phase in your cycle
you’re at and then what to expect as far
as hormone changes and how you should be
eating to kind of
optimize your cycle and your body based
on that i love that
you do get to make a breath signature it
says it takes like two weeks for it to
become complete so again the more you
continue to do the measurements the more
you’re gonna get your breath signature
um and the better that you’re gonna be
able to optimize your lumen um so that’s
basically the gist of it there’s a lot
to say about lumen and i actually wrote
it all out in a full blog post so i will
link that just in the description box
for you but i will just show you real
quick what it looks like to take your
lumen measurement so you know what to
expect it’s super simple it just takes a
minute and the first couple times you
might um
you know need some practice and this
will guide you through the whole thing
but once you get the hang of it it’s
super simple only takes a second and you
get some really great insights so i will
go ahead and
uh click breathe now so it tells me to
sit relax and turn on my lumen
so we’re already on
i hit the let’s go button
now wants me to tag my breath because
this isn’t my uh first breath of the day
i already did one when i first woke up
so it’s asking me is this post a high
carb dinner post a medium or low carb
dinner or post a high carb lunch so i
did just eat i’m gonna choose uh post
high carb lunch
okay so sit back relax turn on your
lumen we’re all good to go so click
let’s go i’m gonna choose again the post
high carb lunch
breathe out in three
two
one
so as you can see you try to keep that
green ball in the middle of the circle
and then it comes back
with your reading so at this point i’m
burning mostly fat according to this on
my lumen level as you can see there’s a
scale this would be burning just fat and
then it goes um into
you’re burning mostly fat number three
is burning half fat half carbs this is
and then the four and five are more uh
burning carbs so i would expect that um
if i had truly just eaten a high carb
lunch i would expect that i would be
burning carbs however i didn’t just eat
a high carb lunch
it’s actually been a few hours since
breakfast and i’ll be eating lunch soon
so this actually makes a lot of sense
right now i’m burning mostly fat
so after that it kind of uh
gives you like here’s today’s
measurements here’s my morning
measurement
and my afternoon measurement
other great times to take your
measurements include after you have a
workout um before bed there’s various
times throughout the day there really is
no wrong time because all the data can
be incredibly useful
so overall i’m incredibly impressed with
lumen does it really work for hacking
your metabolism well that depends on how
much you are dedicated to using it and
then taking that nutritional advice and
that education
and putting in the work to actually
change your body change your meals and
change the way that
your body works so i’m a big fan of it
actually i do love data and numbers so
i’m going to continue using lumen it’s
super easy to use
i think it’s a really fun insightful
tool and i’m excited that they’re making
kind of getting more info into your
metabolism so accessible so that’s all i
have for this video i do have a discount
code for you so i’ll put that in the
description box and again be sure to
check my full blog post because i do
have so much more detail in there and
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