Dr. Casey Means: Good Energy, Mitochondrial Health, And How To Overcome Our Broken Medical System

Get ready for a powerful, informative, and passionate show with my good friend, Dr. Casey Means! It’s been four years since our first show, and Dr. Casey is back to talk about the culmination of her life’s work—her book Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health, which she wrote with her brother, Calley Means. In this show, Dr. Casey goes after the broken medical industrial complex, a subject that is of deep significance for her since (as she talked about in our first show) she used to be a dutiful doctor with the highest training possible who was just trying to do her best—until she realized how dysfunctional the whole system was. This was what sparked her decision to pursue a career in the alternative health world instead, and as you will hear, this issue has only become more important and personal to her since she experienced such deep frustration and pain while watching her mother die of a preventable disease. Listen to this episode if you want to learn about all the nuances of our profit-driven medical system, the science and details of how mitochondrial function essentially represents the essence of our health, why mitochondrial dysfunction represents the whole cause of all disease, the scary statistic about Americans and metabolic syndrome risk factors that shocked me, and more! Casey Means, MD is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tech-enabled tools that can inform smart, personalized, and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices.   TIMESTAMPS: Brad introduces Dr. Casey Means, a physician who discusses some of the problems in the medical system. [01:00] There is a sense of discomfort with the trajectory that we’re going on as Americans. Much of it has to do with our food culture.  [03:18] Casey uses the example of her 72-year-old mother who died even though she was considered a normal “healthy” person. [08:05] We are pointing the arrow at symptom management for what we think are all these different diseases and not looking inside the cell and treating there. [10:38] Every institution be it medical schools, pharmaceutical companies to hospitals to insurance companies makes more money when you are sick than if you are well. [15:13] “Everything in moderation” is such a common phrase.  Do you want artificial pesticides in your food in moderation? Toxic substances in moderation? [25:00] We have been systemically disempowered as individuals to feel competent in understanding our own health. [31:34] Will it always pay off to eliminate processed foods or can people get away with continuing to eat the regular American diet? [35:12] What happens to the mitochondria when you consume nutrient-deficient ultra-processed food? [42:04] Most packaged frozen processed fast food contains all three kinds of processed foods, grains, sugar, seed oils. [49:06] Try to keep your blood sugar very stable in the morning to set yourself up for a successful day. [50:53] There are five food components Casey recommends that you want to make sure you include. [56:31] If you straighten up your food choices, within a couple of months you should have a decrease in metabolic disease like diabetes or pre-diabetes. [01:04:00] Why isn’t the medical community up-to-date on this whole dietary adjustment premise? [01:10:15] How do genetics come into play? [01:16:33]   LINKS: Brad Kearns.com Brad’s Shopping page B.rad Whey Protein Isolate Superfuel - The Best Protein on The Planet! 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