 Today I'm looking at how I can hack my metabolism with the lumen Hey guys Alex here from AlexFocus.com and today I'm looking at the lumen. Now this is a little device That you breathe through you both inhale and exhale through and it will show you the With your burning carbs or fats or a blend of both quite a neat concept And has quite a lot of potential for those who are you know trying to lose weight or get into ketosis or Maybe optimize sports or performance So I think which is really cool. It is going to be an interesting gadget to use I should mention while I'm going to be testing this. I'm also running CGM a continuous glucose monitor device, which I'm tracking through the levels health app so What's going to be interesting is as I test this in the coming weeks and months You know to see how certain foods shift me from being a fat burner to a carb burner and vice versa I'll be able to line that data up with what I'm seeing in here as well So yeah, it's a good way to sort of quantify it at all But first things first what I'm gonna do is in this video. I just want to Set it up unbox it. I get my first impressions test it out and then um Have a play with it and then in a few weeks time. I'll publish my thoughts and feedback after using it So first things first what's in the box? So as you see, it's quite a nice package Hack your metabolism on the the front of the box there open it up and you see the device which is a Good shape good size nice little magnetic lit on the top here charging port at the bottom underneath that we have a little booklet info pack and then underneath that we have a little Fabric carry case charging cable and a docking stand which is magnetic as well Clips in there rather nicely. Yeah quite a good setup all nice packaging and nicely designed When you power this on you will see that a colored ring at the top Appears there and it will glow and change colors I noticed that does sort of change colors as I sync it to my phone now speaking of using it Hit over to the app store And download the lumen app once you download that you go through a bit of a account sit up You know password name date of birth all that suggests, but then I ask them See me personal questions. You know, what are your goals from a health point of view? I'm have you eaten a low carb before how did you find it? How often you exercising all those sort of things right and then it sort of It allows you to choose your your track your past your goals is such You know, you're you may choose fat loss you may choose sports performance for me I just said I'm curious about my metabolic health and keen to get some insights on that So that was all good and then it goes through a bit of a video and it teaches you how to use this device now It was good that it did this because I just thought you just breathe through it like And how actually I didn't really think too much about it, but I didn't expect it to be difficult So when I watch the video and then you do a little bit of a demo on screen You've got to inhale to expand this ring to a certain size and then exhale to keep this little ball in the middle and it was actually rather difficult I have to redo it a few times and and Yes, you're taking a deep breath in and exhaling you got to keep it nice and steady So the on-screen feedback is really really useful for that because there's no way you could you could you know If it just in exhale for five seconds or something you wouldn't get the consistency without that visual on-screen visual So once you've done all that at the very end of that setup you do two breaths and that gives you your first reading Now my reading was somewhere in the middle has been a bit of fat and carbs Which sounds about right because it's about an hour or so ago. I had some lunch, which was a little bit of steak There was some tomato sauce some homemade pickles a little bit of rice Crackers as well so a bit of everything and I typically eat both carbs and fat and have been for many months now It's the first time I've been in here. So let's have a look around. So a great year old set I want to take the car challenge. I want to take the car challenge By in the high-carb snack. I don't really want to do that right now Build brilliant habits. So there's a lot of information in here So part of the pill is it can help you build a nutrition plan now personally That's not something that I'm interested in I mean, I've been in the nutrition health and fitness space for many years I've read way too many books and Experimented with too many diets me though. Like I said, I'm more curious about what my body is doing and You know how I can get more from my body and from the food or meeting whether that means Changing it a little bit, you know a little bit less fat or more fat or a little bit less starch or vice versa but also things like fasting, you know, whether I should be fasting more or Compressing my meal times or whatever, you know, that's sort of stuff. That's what I'm interested in So anyway back to the app. What else we got? We've got a lot of information on what you need to know about the app The tool there's a lot of videos in here. So how to take an accurate breath Accurate breath measurement. So yeah a bit about it. So obviously you meant to take it 30 minutes in the morning after you get up and Yes, one thing as well that's quite important they make quite a bit of They put a bit of a focus on this that you meant to sit comfortably relax with your feet on the floor So you shouldn't be lying down and you shouldn't be, you know, walking around and stuff So it's interesting. I don't know that science behind that. So, you know distractions as well relax When you're not fully at risk your heart rate increases, which raises your CO2 levels. There we go And this affects the accuracy of your result. So that is interesting and then follow instructions So yeah, that's cool. How to use your lumen daily. So personally what I do I get up every morning and I take my water ring off put it on the charger And then I brush my teeth and you know, start my morning routine with my son and Make breakfast and whatnot. So what I'll probably do is when I take my water ring off I will have my lumen on the charger and I'll do a lumen reading then It says you can drink water coffee or tea before making a measurement So that's good to know after the measurement you get a lumen level, which is on the scale of one to five So I think previously my my first ever reading was about four So, you know more in the carb side measure around work out So that's gonna be interesting, you know testing it before a workout after you know It is gonna be pretty exciting, but at the same time, I've also got this some CGM going on here Which is gonna show a lot of the starter as well So it's gonna be really neat having them both running at the same time the more you use your lumen more personalized Yeah, so it's saying if you're still using fats in the morning, then you haven't efficiently You don't have a flexible metabolism some stuff here about nutrition plans and this is what I'm not really gonna read into too much for myself I don't like tracking macros. I definitely don't like calorie tracking calories I've got a whole article on why I don't believe you should track color calories I'll put a link to that below. So now we're back in the app It's got the experiment here take the card cake take. I'm really twisting on my words here take the carb challenge I'm not gonna do that right now If I go into tools, what does that do nutrition plan? There's more info and Insights the practice breathing is pretty neat. So that shows you how to breathe So let me let me do a demonstration of how we take a breath with the lumen Okay, so first things first that's on you got a turn on the lumen So there's a power button down the bottom here. I simply press that and you will see Well, it's on now on screen has come up Alex's lumen 55% battery. Great All right, let's go. So it's warming up There's no sound I'm gonna take the cap off and how deeply through your lumen now This is quite surprising the first time first few times I did this high-fell short. You've got to take a tea long breath It's a big breath. All right here goes Hold your breath Exhale in three two one Okay, there was both the inhale and the exhale what I forgot to mention here There was after the inhale, which is a bit of a struggle towards the end You hold your breath for 10 seconds It tells you on screen and then you exhale and then when you exhale you got to keep that um Little dot the little ball in the middle, which is if she it's rather difficult Um, you know, you may have noticed it was going straight 20 and then it dropped back But hey, I'm sure with time I'll improve with this. All right, so that's um, that's a bit of insight How as to how you use it? All right, what else is in the app? Yes, we've got today. We've got tools. We've got me. I'll go on to me so my lumen flex which is women flex score is An understanding of your body's metabolic flexibility This unique score shows your body's ability to shift between fat and carbs for energy It will take a bit of time for us to know your unique metabolism once we do You'll get the first flex score from there on out. So um, that's You know, that's gonna be really neat to see what that score is take two weeks of monitoring of morning measurements to unlock your score So it's gonna take a while That's why I wanted to do this first impression setup video and then later on do a Full full review after I've got all this data and then the levels of course That's what we saw before at the scale between one and five Which is where you are in that instance. All right, so that's cool So I'm not too worried about the flex score yet my weight on the bottom not worry about that bottom right Okay, we've got that little Wind cursor button. So I'm gonna press that Measure your metabolism before exercise after before eating after eating after fasting before sleeping custom chicken. Let's do a custom chicken Okay, so we're gonna do all this again. We're gonna turn it on All right, here we go. I'm gonna do this again Chest all right, so I gotta do two ratings. All right Let's do the second one. Okay, so I'm up at five now which is interesting because before it was only four and I didn't have that many cards at lunchtime But I do wonder as well if I'm not in the proper relaxed position I'm actually sitting on the floor of my knees beans and I've been flopping around so Dory and put some pieces here on the floor floor as I'm filming this so maybe that was contributing to it I'm not too sure the morning readings are going to be really interesting. Um, I said it's cool So after you've done the reading you can tag some add some tags to your measurement I'm gonna skip that because there's nothing really special going on here Yeah, and well, I guess That's really everything I can do. I thought there might be some Some neat graphs or something in there, but no, no, there's nothing really interesting what I'll do later There was I'll do that carb challenge. I'll do before the carbs Eat a high-carb snack and then an hour later I will do the follow-up and I also see how it tracks with that With those little gizmo that's stuck on my arm. So, yeah, I mean, that's the lumen It's I know it doesn't I know I don't really have much to say about the device or anything like that because literally I've been playing with it for half an hour and Yeah, as you saw on the app, there's not too much data. I can get from it It's it's something I just need to use over time, right? So what I will do is I will be experimenting with this over the coming weeks probably two three weeks And then I'll do another review video share all my data share what interesting things I learned and see how it lines up against the Continuous glucose monitoring. I've got going on here And yeah, so be sure to subscribe for that other video If you have any other questions or if you want me to do something in particular like either certain food and see what happens You know, let me know as well. I'll do my best to do that and Yeah, be sure to keep an eye out for the video with this as well. So it's gonna be interesting All right, guys