Lumen anyagcsere tracker

The key to successful weight loss is understanding and optimizing your metabolism. The Lumen device is an innovative tool that helps monitor your metabolism.

What does the Lumen device measure?

Lumen measures the carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentration in your exhaled breath. Based on this level, it determines whether your body is burning carbohydrates or fats for energy. Higher CO₂ indicates carbohydrate burning, while lower levels indicate fat burning.

Why is this important?

Metabolic flexibility — the body's ability to efficiently switch between burning carbohydrates and fats — plays a crucial role in weight regulation and energy maintenance. Knowing your body's fuel source helps you understand how your diet and lifestyle affect your metabolism, supporting effective meal planning and successful weight loss while improving your health.

How can Lumen measurements help?

Lumen provides daily feedback on your metabolic state, enabling personalized dietary and lifestyle choices. For example:

• Meal planning: If Lumen shows your body primarily burns carbohydrates, reduce your carbohydrate intake to shift your metabolism toward fat burning. Eating carbohydrates constantly can prevent fat breakdown, even when consuming few calories (starving yourself).
• As an athlete: Measurements before exercise can indicate if you need carbohydrate replenishment to maximize performance, or if you want to enhance fat burning.
• Lifestyle adjustments: Track how sleep, stress, and other factors affect your metabolism using Lumen, helping you consciously shape your habits.

Overall, Lumen offers deeper insight into how your body works and helps you manage your weight loss consciously, increasing your chances of success.

Energy sources

Your body mainly uses carbohydrates and fats for energy, and preference depends on several factors:

1. Nutrition:

Carbohydrate intake: Eating high-carbohydrate foods raises blood sugar, triggering insulin release. Insulin promotes glucose uptake into cells, causing the body to burn carbohydrates first.

Low carbohydrate intake: When carbohydrates "run out," your body starts unlocking fat stores, burning fats for energy, thus reducing fat levels. High carbohydrate presence has the opposite effect—increasing stored fat.

2. Physical activity:

Low intensity exercise: Walking or light activity causes the body to use fat as primary energy.

High intensity exercise: Running or weight training requires quick energy, mainly from carbohydrates.

3. Metabolic state:

Fasted state: Prolonged fasting or low carbohydrate intake leads the body to break down fat for energy.

Post-meal state: After eating, especially carbohydrate-rich meals, the body prioritizes carbohydrate use.

4. Hormonal regulation:

Insulin: Supports glucose uptake and carbohydrate energy usage.

Glucagon: Raises blood glucose and stimulates fat breakdown, especially when blood sugar is low.

These factors together determine when and in what proportion your body burns carbohydrates or fats for energy.

Why choose the Lumen device?

• Personalized nutrition advice: Lumen analyzes your breath and offers daily diet recommendations considering your metabolism, activity, and health goals.
• Scientific accuracy: Lumen provides lab-grade metabolic measurement from the comfort of your home by tracking exhaled CO₂ and deriving metabolic data.
• Ease of use: Perform a daily baseline test with Lumen each morning. This 30-40 second breath test shows whether your body is burning fat or carbohydrates, guiding metabolism optimization.
• Unlimited repeats: Take extra measurements anytime during the day (before/after meals or exercise) to understand how your body adapts to diet and workouts.

How does Lumen work?

• Just one breath! The test is simple: inhale deeply through the device, hold your breath for 10 seconds, then exhale through it. The process takes about 30-40 seconds and instantly indicates your current metabolic state.
• Analysis: Lumen measures inhaled air volume and exhaled CO₂ with clinical precision to determine your energy source. High CO₂ indicates carbohydrate metabolism; lower signals fat metabolism.
• Recommendations: The Lumen app provides personalized diet and lifestyle advice based on results to help you meet your goals.

Recommended uses for Lumen

Personalized nutrition and meal planning

Lumen's most exciting application is in personalized nutrition. By understanding when your body burns fat or carbohydrates, you can tailor your diet to optimize energy levels, weight, and overall health.

For example, if Lumen shows you burn carbohydrates mainly in the morning, reduce evening carbohydrate intake (and increase proteins and fats). Conversely, if it indicates fat burning, you can choose balanced, complex carbohydrate meals.

Besides meal planning, Lumen adapts recommendations to your goals—weight loss, muscle growth, or energy maintenance—helping you make informed nutritional decisions and improve metabolic efficiency.

Training optimization

Athletes and fitness enthusiasts benefit from measuring metabolism before, during, and after workouts to optimize training plans.

By understanding your body's fuel sources, determine the ideal timing for intense cardio, strength training, or fat-burning exercises. For instance, carbohydrate metabolism supports effective high-intensity workouts, while fat burning suits longer low-intensity sessions.

Lumen also guides post-exercise nutrition, helping you decide whether you need carbohydrates to replenish glycogen or proteins and fats for recovery and muscle growth.

This approach makes training more efficient by aligning diet and exercise with your body's metabolic needs.

Weight loss and control

Weight loss remains a primary motivation for metabolism tracking. Lumen helps you understand daily shifts between carbohydrate and fat burning.

Because fat burning is essential for weight loss, you can adjust eating habits, macronutrient intake, and activity levels to sustain fat-burning states longer.

Daily feedback encourages regular monitoring and mindful eating, fundamental for sustainable weight management. Seeing how foods or habits affect metabolism increases the likelihood of adopting healthier, long-term habits instead of short-term dieting.

Chronic disease prevention and management

More people use metabolism tracking to prevent or manage chronic conditions like diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

Lumen provides real-time insights into how foods and lifestyle affect your metabolism, making it a valuable tool for blood sugar regulation challenges.

By avoiding blood sugar spikes and understanding your body's response to foods, you may reduce metabolic disease risks.

For those under treatment for chronic conditions, Lumen offers data to monitor states and implement necessary lifestyle changes.

For example, individuals with insulin resistance can learn how certain foods impact metabolism, helping choose healthier, low glycemic index foods to stabilize blood glucose.

Lumen's psychological impact is notable too.

As you better understand your body's workings, your health responsibility grows stronger. Daily feedback reinforces positive habits and provides satisfaction seeing tangible progress. This feedback promotes conscious, healthier behaviors forming the foundation for long-term health.

How to use it?

The Lumen device requires a mobile app for use, free for Android and iOS devices. The app is available only in English.

The device itself is easy to use with quick measurements, not necessarily needing language skills. However…

The app includes hundreds of videos, recipes, and abundant dietary advice with daily personalized recommendations for diet and physical activity. Food intake logging and composition calculation are provided. Moderate English knowledge is beneficial to maximize Lumen's assistance.

Monthly and yearly subscriptions are available, which are quite costly but worthwhile (for proficient English speakers) due to strong support.

If you are not proficient in English, we do not recommend purchasing subscriptions. Buying the device alone grants lifetime free measurements and access to the app's basic functions.

User reviews

• "Lumen helped me finally understand my metabolism and achieve my weight loss goals." – Anna K.
• "As an athlete, Lumen became an indispensable tool to optimize my training and nutrition." – Péter M.

Purchase information

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