30 Days of Lumen TRANSFORMATION Honest Review | #1 Metabolism Tracker & Breath Analyzer

Hey guys, Junaid from MelieFluence here, hope you look good, feel good and are ready to prosper because in this video I'd like to talk about a device which is apparently meant to help you to hack your metabolism. The device is called Lumen and I've been using it for over 30 days now and in this video I'd like to go over the product, the brand identity and then after that I'll go over how to use it and my results and honest opinion. But before I start, if you're someone that is new to this channel and would love to see more videos like this, please consider to hit the subscribe button and help your brother out because we're very close to 10k subscribers and therefore by you subscribing, you really help the channel out. Anyways, with that said, let's jump into the video. So initially you receive a black box where it says Lumen on it and on the bottom side it says hack your metabolism and once you open the box it says hello, I'm Lumen and the first thing that you can find in the box is the Lumen device and once you get rid of the first layer, you find yourself an envelope. It's purple and it says Lumen on it. On the back it says getting started. One of the things that you find in this booklet is one that helps you to get started with Lumen. It basically talks about how to download the app, connect it to the Lumen device, helps you to share it with Apple Health and Google Fit to get a more accurate picture of your health, a discover section where it goes over the Lumen levels, tailored recommendations and Lumen Flexcore. Finally, it talks about how to take care of your Lumen device. You receive a booklet with instructions for use. You receive two more things inside of the envelope. One says share your Lumen journey with us where it basically talks about that if you share your Lumen journey with them, you get a chance to win a Lumen swag bag full of goodies. And the last thing inside of the envelope says breathe with us where they show their gratitude for you choosing Lumen. Inside the box you find yourself a charging dock, travel case and USB-C cable. And now I would like to talk about the product. On the website, which I'll have linked down below, it starts off with the first device to hack your metabolism. Lumen knows if your body is using fats or carbs for fuel. It starts with a breath. Lumen is the world's first handheld portable device to accurately measure metabolism. They say that the science isn't new, but the technology is. Lumen uses a CO2 sensor and flow meter to determine the CO2 concentration in a single breath. This indicates the type of fuel your body is using to produce energy. The device is trusted by a lot of pros and it's like having your own personal nutritionist because the device allows you to know what and when to eat to fuel your workout, improve your metabolic flexibility and support fat burn. The device allows you to track your metabolism daily and see how your metabolism is affected by sleep, physical activity and nutrition. And at the time of recording this video is currently Ramadan and therefore I've been fasting and they've added a new feature for that and therefore I've been able to track my metabolic flexibility during this period. Another thing that they offer is to customize your nutrition, get daily personalized meal plans, know exactly what to eat and when. And every time that I use this device in the morning, after me measuring my breath, they provide a personalized nutrition plan according to my metabolic flexibility and the goals I want to reach. Another very interesting feature is the workout optimization. See if you have enough energy before a workout or if you need to fuel up and breathe afterwards to see the impact on your body. And I believe that this feature is especially very useful for those individuals that want to do high intensive exercises and therefore by knowing how much energy you've got left, you can allocate this to the intensity of your exercise to maximize your results. So far we've discovered that this device is your personal nutritionist. It allows you to track metabolism and optimizes your workouts. But we haven't discovered the last feature and this isn't particularly a feature that helps you in the short term, but in the long term it's the most beneficial. And this is that the Lumen device monitors and improves your metabolic health. Lumen tracks your metabolism, sleep, nutrition and fitness data to provide a Lumen Flex score, which reflects your success and helps sustain results. And the reason that I find this their key feature is that most people tend to always look for the short term results, but those who focus on the long term tend to have more sustainable and better results. And thus, by them monitoring and improving your metabolic health, I definitely feel like a feature like this helps a lot of individuals. Because here in the UK, after lockdown, the gyms have opened up in the last few weeks and therefore initially when they opened up, I went and checked my body composition and it said that my metabolic age is 31 years and I'm only 21 years old. And thus, when I saw those results, I was like, I definitely need to get it down. And since I've been using this device for 30 days, I've seen some interesting results. But obviously, I'll talk a little bit more about it later in the video. Because now I would like to go over the brand identity. The world's first device and app that tells you if you're burning carbs or fat in real-time through your breath in less than one minute. Once available only to top athletes in hospitals and clinics, metabolic testing is now available to everyone, anywhere. Twin Sisters Reimagine Personalized Nutrition Lumen began with Twin Sister Merav and Michel, two Ironman winners and PhDs in Physiology. As scientists and athletes, they were passionate about developing a way to provide personalized nutrition but knew the only way to measure metabolism was costly and time-consuming. After four years of hard work and hundreds of beta users, the Lumen team launched in Indiegogo. Lumen broke the 1 million threshold on Indiegogo in weeks and now Lumen is leading the way in bringing personalized nutrition to the entire world. Quite an interesting backstory in my opinion. Because the metabolic health benefits are built lean mass, better sleep, stronger immune system, feel energized and not sluggish, better weight maintenance, and consistent blood and glucose levels. One thing that I did appreciate about this brand is their validation study. This study shows the validity of Lumen to estimate metabolic fuel utilization in a comparable manner with the gold standard metabolic card, conveniently providing real-time metabolic information for users anywhere. So if you want to check this study out for yourself, the name is Validity of Lumen Handheld Metabolic Device to Measure Fuel Utilization in Healthy Young Adults. I will also have a link in the description, but be mindful that there's a lot of stats involved and if you're someone that isn't familiar with it, you probably won't understand it because I had a look at it myself in one of my modules in University's Econometrics and thus I'm able to analyze most key stats. Looking at it and analyzing the data looked fine in my opinion. But do keep in mind that it hasn't been certified by peer review. Anyways, now I would like to talk about how the device works and how you can use it. So how does it work? Lumen's proprietary technology uses a CO2 sensor and flow meter to determine CO2 concentration in a single breath, which is performed by inhaling a fixed volume of air through the device, dynamic to each individual, holding for 10 seconds and exhaling fully. The device is made out of a CO2 sensor, flow sensor, Li-poly battery, Lumen PCB, basically their motherboard, and a Bluetooth LE. So the way you use this device is that you get it out of the charger and get rid of the lid. Then you open up the Lumen app and press on take a breath to unlock your day. It will say sit, relax and turn on your Lumen. And thus all you have to do is to press on your Lumen device. The purple light will appear and it will say let's go. On the app you will see your complete yesterday's data and obviously when using it for the first time you won't see anything at all. Or you will see some instructions as to how to use the device. And on the screen it will say before you breathe in through your Lumen, exhale a tiny bit through your nose. And once you do that you breathe in through your Lumen. You breathe in until you reach the grey circle and the first couple of times I had to read through it because I wasn't breathing enough. Anyways, after you breathe, you hold your breath and remove your Lumen from your lips. When the countdown hits 2, prepare to exhale back into your Lumen. And thus when you're exhaling through your Lumen, keep the ball within the grey area and stop exhaling when the ring disappears. So the more intense you exhale, the more the ball will go to the right and the less intense you exhale, the more it will go to the left. And once you're finished with it, it will start to analyse your breath and then it will give you a metabolic flexibility where 1 is a lot of fat and 5 is a lot of carbs. It will show you your stats for the day, following by building your daily plan and then you get your nutrition plan. Next to that it also offers a lot of other key data. And now I would like to talk about my thoughts and opinion after using this device for more than 30 days. So when it comes to the Personal Nutritionist feature, I actually think it's great for those individuals that don't particularly know how much they should eat or what they want to eat. Because next to the amount that they recommend you to eat, they also provide you a lot of meal plans and thus this makes it very convenient for you. But unfortunately, I haven't been able to maximise this feature because I was fasting in Ramadan. Regardless, I'm still certain that it makes it a lot more convenient for a lot of individuals. And when it comes to tracking your metabolism daily, they've got a feature in this app which allows you to track your Ramadan for Sahur and Iftar, morning, before exercise, after exercise, before eating, after eating, after fasting, before sleeping and it also allows you to do custom check-ins. And this is something that I've used quite a lot over the 30 days because it allowed me to understand what my metabolic flexibility was and thus I could act according to it. Because in my opinion, it has been quite accurate and I will show you my results in a bit. But first, let me finish off by giving my opinion about every one of their features. Because another one of their features was their workout optimisation and this allows you to understand whether you've got enough energy or you need to fuel up. I always tended to have enough energy for the gym. The only time that I didn't have enough energy was in the beginning when I initially started to go back to the gym after the lockdown. But ever since then, it was alright. And the last thing I would like to talk about before actually going into my results, which will definitely impress you, is how Lumen monitors and improves your metabolic health. So the device basically gets a lot of key data and then makes your Lumen FlexScore and this allows you to track your health over time and see whether you're improving or you need to take different measurements to keep your health intact. And when it comes to the Lumen FlexScore, it takes two weeks for them to build it up and thus when it comes to using this device for 30 days, I can't really say a lot about this particular feature. But regardless, I've still seen some amazing results and this is because I measured my body composition over the last 30 days because I'm making a 60-day body transformation video and therefore I've gathered some key data. Because when the gyms initially opened and I measured my body composition, my metabolic age was 31 years old and now it has come down to 28 years old. And when it comes to my weight, I measured it on the 12th of April 2021 when the gyms opened again and prior to that, it was above 75 kg but then it went as low as 72.4 kg. And over the last 24 days, I've been able to gain 0.5 kg and this is since the 12th of April but I've been using this device since the beginning of April. And when it comes to my fat, due to the lockdown, it actually did increase quite a lot because on the 12th of April 2021, it was 13.37 kg and then after that, it started to increase a little bit more. But now on the 6th of May 2021, it's only 10.36 kg which is over 3 kg lost in this short period of time. And when it comes to my muscle, this is the part where it hit me the most. So because of the lockdown, I lost over 3.5 kg of muscle but due to tracking my metabolism, my health and just generally my diet, I've been able to gain a lot of that muscle back and that's over 3 kg in such a short period of time due to the muscle memory. So I've lost over 3 kg of fat and gained 3 kg of muscle in this short period of time and due to me using creatine, I've also gained some water weight. So overall, you might be asking, do I recommend the Lumen device? Well, when it comes to this device, in my experience, if you're someone that is dedicated and wants to take care of their health and metabolic age, I definitely feel like that this gives some great insights and key data to help you to achieve those goals. But please do keep in mind that this isn't some sort of magical tool that will give you some magical results. You still have to put in the work, you need to be disciplined and go for it because otherwise, you can have all of the key data and the key insight but you won't see any sort of results if you're not willing to put in the work. But regardless, for me, it was definitely worth it because without the key data and key insight, I don't think I would be able to track my metabolism and be able to get these amazing results in such a short period of time. So I will have the Lumen device linked down below if you would like to check it out for yourself. And that pretty much sums it up for this video. I hope you found the information useful. If you did, please consider to hit the subscribe button for the YouTube algorithm and if you're someone that is new to this channel and you really appreciated this content, please consider to hit the subscribe button and help your brother out. Anyways, thank you so much for watching, I hope you have a great day and I'll see you in my next video. Bye bye.