Tips on How to Start Feeling Better with Dr. Casey Means | EP 584

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[Music] KY honey welcome back to the show I am so excited and so happy to have you here I am loving the poster of the book good energy and that is what we’re going to be talking about like one of my favorite mantras is like um you feeling good to feel good like and I feel good energy so when I first heard the title of your book I I literally got chills I was this is literally in my sphere of everything that I believe to be true I think good energy is the ultimate currency and so I just this is just one of the many ways I know we’re so aligned absolutely when I think of you I think of good energy and I’m so grateful to be having this conversation me too so the book is coming out and I want to just dive into some of the things you and I were just just really talking about in terms of how to show up today and how to serve and I just love that you just show up from such a heart-c centered place and that you you live and embody the work and the mission that you are here in the world for and so I want to just Just Jump Right In because I know that I think this is your fourth girl this is your fourth time on the show so I’m so excited I can’t believe it I’m so honored thank you I’d love for you to come on and share what is the good energy message like when you were thinking about this book when you were thinking about the mission that you are here on this Earth for what what is that and and how does that Translate in supporting so many people right now I love that question to me really on its surface good energy it’s a call to the Health Care system and to individuals to orient the arrow of all our energy towards Health to the real core of the issue of what’s keeping us back in our modern world and that is metabolic dysfunction it’s a problem in how our cells fundamentally power themselves it’s a problem in how we convert food energy to Cellular energy to power Our Lives we know this is affecting the vast majority of American adults 93% of American adults and now so many of our children and this is ultimately a problem with how our life force is generated from within our cells that is metabolic dysfunction and we are spending so much time time so much energy focusing on Health in this country4 trillion dollars of health care costs a huge amount of our per capita income goes towards you know Health uh Investments and unfortunately in the face of that Americans are actually getting sicker every year we’re getting sicker we’re getting more depressed our life expectancy is going down and we’re becoming more infertile our bodies are literally telling us there’s something so wrong with our environment that we cannot reproduce effectively and in the face of all of that the good energy vision is to point the arrow towards what I believe is the core issue which is metabolic dysfunction and figure out how to point that Arrow towards supporting energy production Pathways in the body creating good energy in our cells and that creating good energy within each of our cells and bodies is ultimately what is going to be necessary to actually also really help move our society and culture uh in the right direction and I think that there’s something that we all feel right now there’s there’s sort of a discontent and an anxiety and a sense of something not being quite right on our little corner of the the Universe on planet Earth right now and I think a big part of this is that we’ve we’ve really created an environment that is so toxic to the core fundamental Pathways of how we power ourselves that we are really in a bit of a dark moment and and I believe that if we reorient towards good energy we can actually shift that incredibly quickly not just for ourselves and our families and our children our parents but also for planetary health because to really embody ultimate human health and to really be able to generate good energy energy in ourselves it actually requires a deep respect and a deep interconnected perspective of our own human health with that of the natural world’s health because we are totally interdependent and we need so much from the environment to power ourselves that really a good energy framework for human health has the has the interconnected benefit of also healing our planetary health so that’s really the core message of this book I’m just sitting with that for a moment and thinking about not only our bodies you know the body that I’m living in you’re living in all the women who are listening right now and and how we’re feeling know how we’re dysfunctioning you know just and and doing the best we can with what we’ve got and I agree with you wholeheartedly you know I remember the were it was another interview where you were like our you how we think you know our microbiome you know our energy to show up all of this is encapsulated in our cellular energy like that is the epicenter like if we want to self-actualize if we want to show up for our family if we want our brain to work it it starts at a cellular level it starts with this cellular energy so everything and anything regarding your health and wellness and even the relationships that you have really began there and I that hit just so hard because I knew that was true I knew that was true and you I want to speak into really kind of kind of kind of going and and using that Arrow to go straight to how do we how do we get there I think about Kingston and I think about how much I look over what he’s eating and anything in his food and and how much we make from scratch these days because I know that I know that there are so many children who have type you know either pre-diabetes type two diabetes or some level of metabolic dysfunction doesn’t even have to be diagnosable yet I mean it’s a wide spectrum of inflammation that we’re talking about here and it feels like an impossible landmine to navigate when it comes to feeding him you know let alone feeding feeding the adults in my life as well and so I want to speak into what are some of the things that you talk about inside of the book that can really shift the way that we eat we that we that we fuel our metabolic Health that we can that we can begin to easily Implement well a a key point that I talk about in the book is that you know a lot of what we focus on in the healthcare conversation right now is strategies and it’s protocols and it’s hacks and it’s really going straight to like implementation and what I’ve really come to believe in my life is that that those things actually emerge out of a deeper foundational layer that I think is underneath the conversation and is really the core of good energy which is actually stepping back and just starting with a sense of like total awe like awe our bodies awe at the fact that we are living on a planet traveling through space that we came into this world through the portal of our mother’s bodies and Consciousness was sparked awe at the fact that every single day we are literally recreating our bodies like 3D printing new versions of our bodies every day as we eat and the ink for that printer of our bodies is literally food you know awe at the fact that our mitochondria are entirely inherited from our mothers awe at the fact that mitochondria are also like Remnant bacteria that live inside our cells and make energy like there’s just so much miraculousness to our bodies and my sense and my feeling is that in the mainstream Health conversation in the sort of mainstream Health Care culture it has just become it’s become joyless it’s become desanctified and in that know a lot of these strategies and sort of hacks that we Implement just feel hollow they feel hard to implement they’re not part of a bigger picture cohesive sense of sort of what we’re doing and and where we’re going so that’s just one thing I would say which is just that like finding ways to cultivate awe in the Journey of food of eating of nourishing ourselves nourishing our families I think is the thing that has made it so much easier for me to do these things day in and day out like really look at food and looking at it and thinking like this is going to be the me of next week like when I take the food home from the farmers market and I lay it on the counter and I sometimes will take a photo of it and I’ll show to my boyfriend and say you know this is us of next week like what we’re looking at what are the properties and qualities that you want to be next week and then seek out you know the food that’s going to help you get there so that’s really I mean a a a section of my book is called finding the awe in food and I think there’s really you know something to that and then you back up and you know you can you can get a lot more practical with it which is like truly like what do I need to put into my meals that’s going to help me cultivate good energy and to me it boils down to like five main components like true just molecular components that like we want to get in each of our meals and I lay these out in the book and it’s micronutrients it’s omega-3 fatty acids probiotics healthy protein and fiber and if you in every single meal ideally you know at least in the course of a day can get those five components what that’s doing is essentially meeting the needs of your cell to preate to be able to produce good energy so a strategy that I find really helpful is to really familiarize yourself with what are some of the best sources of each of those things so really high micronutrient sources omega-3 sources probiotic sources protein sources and fiber sources stock your kitchen with those and have those mental lists of your top three or four favorite of each of those and then cooking is really almost like a mixing and matching of those components it’s just an algorithm that’s kind of always in my head as I’m like if I’m making a breakfast it’s like how can I spr wrinkle on all five of those things and I think in the book I talk through why each of those components specifically facilitates essentially meeting our cell’s needs and then how to get them and I think an important orientation that we have to remember is that like food is the way we communicate it’s one of the key ways food is one of the key ways that we communicate with ourselves it’s the way that we talk to them and food is information that tells the cells like what we want them to become and what we want them to do and so if symptoms are arising in our body in large part it is often due to kind of unclear communication with ourselves through food or not meeting the needs of ourselves through food and so that’s where you know really understanding and tuning into our symptoms and you know drawing that back towards like okay well have I been giving my CS what they’re expecting and what they need is just sort of a helpful way to to not feel so hopeless when we’re dealing with symptoms but really sort of trace it back to like have I been giving them the things that they’re expecting to do their work so they can make good energy to power my life I love that so much I remember when I was deep in Michael Poland’s work and um a big we this was a time where almost everything was coming from the farmers market um in my life and a lot of our food comes from the farmers market and the same thing Casey we would lay it all out and we would look it and and we would know this was going to be our future brain this was going to be what was going to power our cells and it was you know we’re talking fiber micronutrients antioxidants the color of the rainbow and then you’re right it was about putting it all together and it still is very so much about that journey and that’s really what I was talking about is that it it’s really this foundational piece that I think you and I really want to in in in part here is that it’s about these these really important macro and micronutrients that I think a lot of us it gets lost in the sauce it just it doesn’t have to be so so complicated and so I know you and I talked about metabolically healthy meals and food all the time and those are very much my categories and then the removal of the things that are not going to serve us the type of chemical Messengers that we’re not looking to create or have conversation inside of our body but that it’s back to the basics you know we do our we live in a very crunchy Beach town here called the Adia I mean it is crunchy and um we have this crunchy farmers market like you everything if you want this is it this is the place to be if you’re looking for all I mean Chia anything you know and that’s all the and it’s so fun because you get to meet your Farmers you get to you know all the heirloom things I didn’t even know could be heirloom girl you know what I’m saying and so and um and so we when Kingston’s with us and we’re picking things out and then he’s helping to make meals with us you he was blending up a you know a yummy cauliflower and you know blueberry smoothie he didn’t know cauliflower was in there but you know and so here he is he’s on the counter you know doing his thing and and he just sucked the whole thing down it had chia seeds in it cauliflower in it blueberries a little bit of banana it just he was just so about it uh it that’s that’s what I was thinking about is like getting back to those beautiful Basics where we’re really cooking with real food that is hitting those categories and we’re being consistent about it like we’re making room and time to do it you know and we we batch so I just wanted to speak that’s really what the answer I was looking for was getting back to you know to the basics the foundation of really nourishing our bodies and our children’s bodies and making it in a way that feels like Community even in your own home yeah and I think you know there was a study that showed that over 50% of Americans are totally confused about nutrition that’s astounding you know over 50% of American Americans are confused about nutrition and what to eat and that confusion makes them doubt their choices and you know we’re eating two to three pounds of food per day we’re eating 70 metric tons of food in our lifetime and it’s so disheartening to think that because of the food culture that we’re living in today and frankly the vested interests that want us to be confused so that we become these sort of manic consumers of different strategies you know which fuel industry but not human health we’ve become really divorced I think from our common sense and our intuition about food you know I imagine that many people have had the experience of sitting down with like fresh beautiful Farmers Market food and on some level you just know that this food is going to serve your body like you don’t need a study to tell you and I think something something I think about a lot is the fact that like if you go on Pub metet and you look at the nutrition research that’s been done over the past 50 years it’s essentially an exponentially increasing curve it’s just a straight up line of how many studies are done per year in nutrition and yet Americans are more confused about nutrition than ever and I think that there’s something there there’s something we really need to reflect on which is that we’re getting actually sicker as a country as we do more nutrition research and there’s certainly something to be said for evidence-based you know research but I think there’s also something for to be said about just really on at the deepest level trying to connect with the food in front of you with the food that you’re purchasing and on that more energetic level really um take the time to think about how this is going to make you feel and how you feel after you eat it um and focus on principles rather than dietary Dogma because the body is incredible and the body actually has redundant Pathways to often get to the exact same outcome like we we have lots of different ways to make EPA and DHA Omega-3s in the body we have different ways of generating antioxidant potential in the body and so I think a really key point to internalize with food is that we really need to I think use get back to the basics like you’re talking about like a principles based approach to like what does the cell need and like how can I give it to the cell and that’s those five components I was just talking about two is like how does this food look and make me feel and connect with it on that sort of more like relational level and then the third piece which is the beauty of the time that we are alive right now is that we can literally use our biomarkers and the amazing access we have to our own biologic information to actually understand in short iteration Cycles how the food we’re eating is directly affecting our cellular biology and so between those three things I honestly would say like we we can actually move away from just obsessively trying to figure out like based on influencers and doctors and papers like what the right diet is for me based on that and actually move towards like just really trusting ourselves and having the feedback loop with our own bodies both on that you know symptom and an energetic level but also on the biomarker level you can you do not need to be confused you can move towards understanding what is exactly the right dietary pattern for you based on both those energetic and quanti ative levels you know I hope that’s an empowering message for people because I I do I see this on social media I see it in blog comments I see it in YouTube comments I think people are spending a lot of energy kind of ringing their hands about nutrition and the message that I really want to put into the world is that it actually can be incredibly simple joyful and beautiful and a lot of that comes back to trusting yourself I want to speak a little bit I would love for you to speak more into trusting ourselves and yeah oh my gosh we’re being torn in so many different directions we’re being to told that well we can FastTrack it with this this for like 90 days or whatever it may be whatever type of thing and um or whatever type of Dogma they land on you know just to try this for a minute I mean there’s just so you’re right there’s so so much out there it it used to not be so so complicated and um I would love to speak into really trusting ourselves obviously each of us are unique and what type of Technology can we be using using to really monitor our own personal chemistry and really what’s going on with our markers to make real time decisions about what is serving us and what is not obviously there’s some things that are 100% not serving but then we can get a little bit more Nuance depending on the person yeah yeah absolutely so well first to speak to sort of like the bummer of it which is that like there’s there’s three things that we just know are not positively impacting our health in my in my worldview and those three things I think again to limit confusion like these are things that I don’t think really any human body needs regularly which is refined added sugars refined processed grains and refined industrial seed oils those three things they just don’t really serve our cellular biology so that’s that’s you know that we have the five things that I think should be included in the diet and then three that we can just safely say like those aren’t those aren’t serving me if I’m eating them regularly so that’s one one piece of clity I think we can have and so this is of course you know there’s 50 names for sugar really trying to move away from them the the ultra bleached white flour products that make up so many of the products on our shelves not serving our cellular health and then the industrially refined and Ultra processed seed oils like the corn oil the soybean oil canola oil vegetable oil safflower oil uh these are not really doing much for us at all so then moving into the question of like learning and and the feedback from your food of of whether it’s serving you there’s two main pieces that I think about one is our own body awareness and so this is really examining what are my symptoms after eating telling me how do I feel after eating and what is that indicating to me about my food and then the second pieces are personal biomarkers and lab tests so this ranges from uh Labs that you would either get done in by a leotus like an actual blood draw um so this is things like our cholesterol and our triglycerides and our fasting glucose levels and our insulin levels and our liver function testing uh and and several other tests that give us a peak into what our diet is doing to us over the longer term and then there’s the real time biomarkers things like continuous glucose monitors which can tell us about uh literally in real time how the food we’re eating is affect our glycemic variability how much our blood sugar is spiking and crashing after meals and so together that combination of body awareness and personal biomarkers and lab tests together can really answer the question for you of whether you’re on the right diet and I think what it takes from us as individuals is to really you know commit to a strategy with curiosity and to and to check in on the on the daily level about how we’re feeling and on our symptoms over time time and the trajectory of those and then making sure that we’re committing to getting um lab testing semi-regularly to understand how things are going if we are trying to uh make progress towards towards a health goal that’s how I tend to think about it and frame it perfect yeah and and I always tell I always tell my community at least annual Labs yeah and I I give the list yeah and if you’re seeing things that are out of range especially in the metabolic biomarkers then um to even look deeper into that um you know maybe on a quarterly or at least biannual basis yeah yeah I think that you know especially if you’re making some pretty significant dietary changes I really think like a retest of metabolic labs and some of the nutritional biomarkers after three months maybe four months can be incredibly empowering because you’re either going to find out like one of two things things are getting better or things are staying the same and getting worse if things are staying the same or getting worse a after three to four months then there needs to be a tweak in in that dietary strategy something’s not something’s not working and if things are getting better that’s incredibly incredibly motivating I’ve had patients who have dropped their triglyceride levels by 150 points in three months and so that piece of information coupled with you know fasting glucose is dropping 5 to 10 points and maybe their A1C is dropping a tiny bit these things together say this is a strategy that’s working for you let’s double down and keep going and check in another four months or so and so you know it’s just Ultra empowering to be able to do that and these days many of these labs are very very cheap I what one message that I really want to get across to people is that I think every single adult has the capacity to interpret their own metabolic labs they are not something that you need to necessarily depend on your doctor to do and unfortunately the reality is that the average doctor in the mainstream system actually doesn’t really know how to properly analyze metabolic Labs because I can say from firsthand experience that I did not learn how to cruy think about underlying physiology in a patient through the biomarkers I learned a lot about how to like turn little knobs on medication I’m sorry I I learned a lot how to turn little knobs on biomarkers with medication but really what we’re looking for with lab testing is to have to essentially read the Tea Leaves of our physiology through the constellation of these labs and I actually really do believe that that’s something that all of us can do and there’s lots of amazing resources about that out there and there’s an entire chapter of good energy that’s dedicated to helping people realize how the labs work together what they are telling you about your own body and what the normal and then what the optimal ranges we should shoot for are yay I was going to ask if there I haven’t read the book yet so I was going to ask if there was a chapter devoted because you’re absolutely right you know you’re they’re kind of looking to see if you’re out of range or not they don’t really they’re not going to give nutritional recommendations around sorry Mara a bird just flew straight into my window I’m so sorry about that I didn’t mean to interrupt you you sorry so sorry we might have to start that one over yeah yeah yeah sorry okay I am so happy to hear because I haven’t read the book yet I’m so excited to get a copy girl um that you are going to have a chapter on that because I do think that the the big part of empowering ourselves is knowing what our metabolic labs are what our bar markers are and being able to kind of not take that information ourselves and make those tweaks that that is so powerful I would say that most doctors like I I went into my went I have my physical exam I just did a reel on this and girl I had a list of laughs because I can obviously run my own but I pay insurance you know we pay a hepsy amount of it and I’m like let me just let me just ask for all the things and what was interesting my doctor who you is very sweet you know when she she can she can only do what she can do and I’m aware and and I don’t say that but I know it and I I was asking for an apob B and I up you a couple other ones that I really wanted batting insulin and just and again I run those other places too um but I was like let me just ask and she’s like you know she’s like all of your your metabolic Labs your your lipids there’s no indic there’s no indication for you needing this she’s like what’s so what’s so disappointing is and she’s like unless your labs are starting to go out of range it just doesn’t it’s not an indicator for you to ask for these other labs and I was like it’s so crazy to me that as a 44 year-old woman who is in per menopause and lipids are changing for so many women and our cardiovascular risk just massively increases by the age of 50 that we wouldn’t get a baseline marker for some of these really important cardiovascular markers and so I was just mind blown I was like you know I’ll take what I can get and I’ll just go and get it I’ll day know um but it was it was an interesting conversation and honestly not that she couldn’t read them but it would really is just based on whether she was going to give me statens or not which again my everything is dialed in optimal but she’s like ultimately that’s all they’re looking to see is whether I am diagnosing you with stattin it was just really I mean it was just heartbreaking to have that real conversation with her and just to know that this isn’t the place it’s like it’s like trying to get milk from the hardware store yeah yeah and this is why I think this is why it’s the most exciting time really to be alive because it is actually the first time in human history that we can get these Labs get them outside of conventional doctor’s office and have the educational resources to interpret them that’s amazing and we should all take advantage of that especially if we have any symptoms any diagnosis are on any medications or just have a general sense that we could have a healthier life like we if that’s if that’s how you’re feeling I think um getting some baseline tests and knowing where you stand uh is is a great great strategy uh so you kind of can point the arrow on where you’re trying to improve exactly one I’m so grateful like when you talked about multiple resources your book is one of those resources someone could have this book and please go get it have this book right and have have the foundation of what it looks like to build your cellular energy but then have the resources of the measurements to to look at your labs in a perspective with your own biology with your own symptomology and build a plan with these resources is like you said that there’s never been a time where we haven’t been able to really own our health and own our autonomy around our health than it is today but you have to be you have to be willing to own it and you have to be willing to have the resources and they they are so available and I know that this book really from start to finish just gives everyone what they need to to drive that arrow in the right direction and to execute with the right habits that’s what I’m so excited about um I want to talk a little bit we were talking talking about kind of how we’ve lost our way and you spoke into it a little bit with the protocols and all the things in the hacks but obviously you know there’s a big push to longevity and health span and you know and for my ladies as well although we live longer we also are struggling with more chronic conditions longer as well and so increasing Health span for women in per menopause and menopause is very much the name of the game for me but I want to speak into how we are losing our way there when we are majoring in the minors I know so many of my women are just feeling like I have to do all this over here to really maintain good longevity and health does it have to be so complicated and I you and I don’t think so yeah you know I just I’m I’m thinking about this so much recently and I read about this in the book which is that you know you look at the books that are you know coming out and a lot of the podcast and there’s great stuff but like this this sort of culture it’s like a longevity obsessed very protocol obsessed very biohack obsessed culture like to me it feels like there’s really something missing and there’s this Delta between what is out there you know as sort of the the Zeitgeist narrative about health optimization and then where we’re actually at because the reality is is that like the airwaves are dominated by diet Wars and literally like the minutia of like how many minutes of Zone 2 training to get per week how many minutes of cold plunging to get per week and yet in the middle of that we are getting sicker every year as a country so there’s some there’s some sort of mismatch between what we’re talking about and the actual outcomes and this this is the whole that I am really hoping the good energy framework fills because I think what’s actually going on here in my personal word worldview is that some of this minutia is is actually a distraction from like a much deeper spiritual crisis that’s occurring before us where essentially like the corruption of our Health Care system and our industrial food system has systematically divorced us from essentially like a sense of curiosity about our own bodies like it’s it’s it’s very much about making us question our com sense making us just ridding the joy of the of the healthare conversation and making us forget our true nature especially our true nature as women as what I would consider just like completely Divine beings that are on this incredible Cosmic Journey right like that started at the big bang and we are just like continuing on through this incredible Cosmic journey through eternity and infinity and for this brief moment in time like we have Consciousness in this body that like can produce other bodies like it’s just it’s absolutely miraculous and I just really believe that connection rather than silos is where we need to focus on to truly transform both Health as women but also Health as a country and a world like I very specifically CH the subtitle for this book to use the phrase Limitless health because that that is what I am hoping for people it’s not just about like getting rid of your symptoms and you know getting off a medication like we are here for a short time we want Limitless health and I think true Limitless health comes from an appreciation of our true nature as connected to everything else in the universe I think there’s ‘s multiple levels of connection there’s there’s that we’re missing in our in our conversation one is that we have separated every disease and every symptom into silos you know it’s like there’s Alzheimer’s and there’s arthritis and there’s neck pain and there’s fibromyalgia and there’s migraines and there’s per menopausal symptoms and there’s all these different things and like the fundamental thing we’re learning from The Amazing molecular biology research that’s going on in the cellular biology research is that actually at at the root cause so many of these different symptoms are totally connected by the common physiology of metabolic dysfunction chronic inflammation oxidative stress you know and essentially our mitochondria not being able to function properly we have a system where we have over 40 Medical Specialties that literally separate the body into the smallest little pieces and entrench this idea that we’re these fragmented things that need to be essentially undergo wack-a-mole medicine versus a cohesive connected picture of how we are one body we have total disconnection from our soil from the way our food is grown and produced and get how it gets to us we’ve been told to separate oursel from our disconnect from our life source which is ultimately the sun to you know stay indoors we spend about 90% of our time now indoors separated from our source and then you look at Social distancing and there’s been a disconnection even between physically interacting with people and we know that loneliness and physical separation between other people is a primitive fear signal that drives inflammation so on every level there’s been a disconnection between the parts of our body between people between us and our source material around us in the environment Sun Fresh Air clean water our soil how our food is grown and I think one of the deepest disconnections in our very sort of like desanctified despited Western culture is actually like we don’t even look at the connection between like life and death and like an endless beautiful cycle of renewal that’s been going on since the Advent of life and so we’re very scared of death and the Health Care system abjectly weaponizes that against us by making us petrified and totally uncurious about this concept of death and then they can basically grip us and make us do anything if we have the illusion that it’s going to somehow you know make us Immortal so all of that together I think is like what is missing from the longevity and optimization and biohacking conversation because with these protocols and these hacks it’s very much built on a foundation of you know if I just grab or do this one thing everything will get better but I actually believe it’s a wholesale real imagination of what it means to be human and what we’re really doing here and what our true nature is as like miraculous Sprouts of Life on this planet and to me if we can bring some of that beauty and joy and awe back into the conver and curiosity frankly um I think it’s especially going to help women because women are creators women are so deeply connected to all of this women literally take food into their bodies and 3D print humans that have Consciousness like it’s absolutely magical and on every level from industrial birth to just our our our urbanized cultures that sort of like prevent us the awe the joy and the miraculousness into the healthc care conversation because from that Foundation everything becomes a lot easier and on an even like biochemical level it engenders a of abundance in our lives that is one of the biggest antidotes to fear and we look at how so many of our our diseases of modernity are chronic inflammatory conditions and chronic inflammation is Gen generally like one and the same with metabolic dysfunction because chronic inflammation is is essentially the cells of the body showing that they’re afraid of something and in my view that I presen in good energy that thing that they are afraid of is is the fact that our cells are deeply underpowered because of metabolic dysfunction and what could be scarier to a body than an underpowered cell that can’t do its work properly so we get chronic inflammation that never goes away because the environmental toxic stew that we’re living in that’s creating the metabolic dysfunction never goes away so you’ve got metabolic dysfunction chronic inflammation and one of the thing that then absolutely perpetuates that is the psychological sense of scarcity and fear that we live in in the modern world so one of the best things I think we can do to start to humiliate that cycle is to really get straight on abundance and give ourselves a sense of a deeper sense of safety in a deep knowing of our Limitless potential as women and as humans and let that start to wash over yourself um and I think a lot of thing a lot of really good things can can Sprout from that including motivation to do all the other health behaviors that we talk about and that we know are good but that need to be coming from a deeper sense of certainty than just you know I heard it on a podcast yeah it just reminds me of kind of the getting back to the fundamentals again of you know getting back to Earth getting back to Connection getting back into what’s going to fuel our body and yeah in the A and wonder I’ll never forget my my college biology class my biology teacher who she just you know we’re looking at the cell and she was just marveling she’s like can we just talk about the miracle of what of all the organ and everything that’s happening in here and it was just a whole lecture on that and and I was I was mind blown but yeah on the on the on the awe and wonder of bringing life into this world and and connecting into nature yeah so much of what where we’ve come from we’ve just lost yes you and I agree with you there um we’ve lost the it’s just become more you know what’s the protocol what’s the hacks and and I that’s just kind of how we’ve all been programmed for so long now um and just just kind of getting lost and I know that there there are areas where women and and and people are connecting back in but it’s not at a level that is making yet making a profound difference because you said more and more of us are getting sick I was just listening to an an an interview where it’s guesstimated close to 20 over 20% of adults have type 2 diabetes because of the the majority of undiagnosed cases um it’s far more than we think and and that’s not the pre-diabetes and that’s again not that’s not the chronic inflammation that we’re talking about as well you know when we look at it all that it’s such a majority of us especially after a certain age and and my and my worry and concern is for how many of our children are coming into this you know and how early we’re starting to see these diagnosises as well one of my dear friends Dr Alisa song she’s got a book coming out I’m so excited about it and it’s just looking at our the metabolic health and the gut health of our children and how you know how we’re not putting the pieces together that that this this is an issue of inflammation and an issue of of cellular batteries you know not working properly even at an early age and that we may be looking at this for adults but we’re not putting the pieces together that the same things that are impacting us you know in our 40s and 30s and 50s in or later is really happening to our children much earlier so I think that’s really the thing that that I’m highlighted and and really want to bring up is that it’s happening to our children much earlier than it ever happened to us it’s why we it really needs to be on our radar absolutely yeah I think what’s happening to our children is it’s a scandal and I think it’s only some I think we’re going to look back at this time in history and just really be so disappointed with how we kind of went off course because as adults it’s our responsibility to protect children and children are just absolutely are getting sicker at a faster rate than adults at at this point in time 30% of young adults are pre-diabetic teens and young adults 30% that’s almost entirely preventable I would say it’s virtually totally preventable and you know these kids are not going out and buying their own food these are children and it’s it’s our responsibility and somehow you know the conversation gets so muddled and I think we just need to speak very clearly about it like as adults we need to have the moral leadership and for fortitude to protect our children if we can’t like you know what are what are we doing as a society at this point in time 77% of young adults are too unfit to join the military 30% of teens and young adults are pre-diabetic 40% of 18-year-olds meet the criteria for a mental health disorder and 20% of teens have fatty liver disease a lot of these conditions are things things that a pediatrician would never see in their entire lifetime 50 years ago like an entire career now it’s just common place and it’s not even these like chronic metabolic conditions you know you a lot of the conditions that we think are just kind of like part of growing up they are signs of metabolic dysfunction I look back into like when I was a teen and I I was H I was happy and you know I was vibrant and energetic but like I look back and I was overweight I was like close to two lbs when I was in eth grade but I was six feet tall so I kind of was just like I was chubby you know and I had really bad PMS symptoms like horrible horrible cramps I had a lot of jawline acne I had some anxiety like a lot of teens but I definitely was like would get very stressed out about things like very frequently I had very bad low back pain which I kind of chocked up to sports um and so I look at these things and I’m like my God like I was sick and I did not even realize it I just thought I was a normal kid and i’ I got headaches a lot I got migraines now and then and I’m sort of like as a as a whole I kind of looked like oh she’s just like a normal vibrant healthy kid but in reality those were all symptoms telling me that my body was not getting what it needs and they were symptoms of my cells crying out for something different and of course now to meet the needs of myself but it’s just astonishing to me that we now look at kids who are overtly sick and we basically call them we say it’s normal because so many kids are like this now so we need to wake up and really start thinking about protecting our kids and protecting both the cells of our own body and the cells of children as we would protect like a helpless infant that like we need to basically meet all of its needs and so I just that’s it’s really one of the saddest parts of I think of the place and time that we’re at right now is how we’re letting down our children in terms of health and we should demand our politicians do better as well and that comes down to be actually absolutely uproarious about the idea that like the federal government is is brokering deals with craft Hines to put Lunchables in schools we should be screaming at the top of our lungs on every platform um about about just generally you know school lunches and what is happening to our children what they’re being fed you know with government subsidies um towards the food and just so many elements of that are just institutionalized the way that we’re allowed to Market Ultra processed foods are allowed to Market to children on TV that’s something that almost no other country in the world allows um yeah I think that we need to be a little bit louder about Children’s Health for sure I agree I agree 100% you know I’m so grateful Kings is in a school where we make his lunches every single day and and and kids aren’t even allowed to share because you know they really mindful about all of that um which I really appreciate so Kingston isn’t getting something from somebody else that he’s not allowed to it’s only coming from our house which makes me feel really really good and and we’re not allowed to bring treats or snacks to school like no no nobody is if we’re like you know Valentine’s Day is coming up we’re recording this before Valentine’s Day and um Kingston’s giving he’s giving away food it’s it’s food but it’s food erasers so sweet like apples and oranges and it’s it’s super cute and so yeah that’s they’re all going to be bringing prizes but it’s none of it’s food or candy like that’s just the rule which I loved and that was in such an alignment for what we our philosophy um because I don’t know what other I don’t know what other people are okay with like okay want to steer a little bit more into just some of the I’m just curious kind of I’m always love to be surprised and delighted but what were some of the few surprising things you learned from the research when you were writing good energy that are just actionable for people to implement I know we’ve gone deeper into into like really going back to the fundamentals connecting back with Earth really checking in and owning our own health looking at our own Bier markers because you’re right a lot of doctors are not going to guide us in the right direction they’re guiding us towards like what medication would work for this right now and that’s just that’s just real yeah I talk to my my my community members all the time you know even there’s Labs that they won’t get because doctors don’t know how to interpret them and they don’t want the liability of that I mean that’s just real but I you know the point is is that we really do get to empower ourselves and so want to speak into I know we spoke into obviously getting back out in nature becoming more spiritual deeper connections with the people that we love eating metabolically healthy foods that are going to feed our cellular energy but was there anything surprising that you were like this is cool my gosh that’s such a great question yeah there was there were just so much interesting research that I came across when I was read this book I think that again it’s like what you said it’s like a lot of it comes back to the basics like you look at some of the stuff around movement and I think that one thing we forget is like 75% of Americans aren’t even getting like the basic lowest level physical activity recommendations that the CDC has set forth like we don’t even need to be like necessarily talking about like minutes of hit training and zone two yeah exact or V2 V exactly V2 Max it’s like people need to take a walk and like one of the one of the pieces of information that just astounded me was about the reduction in disease rates with walking there was a study in in Jama so one of the like Premier Medical journals that was over 2,000 adults they were followed for almost 11 years and they actually showed that those who just got 7,000 steps per day had a up to 70% lower chance of dying during the follow-up period than those that got fewer than 7,000 steps for day like if you had a pill that said over the next 11 years you had a 70% lower chance of dying and by the way it takes like less than an hour to do like I think or you know just basically said it’s very simple like I think most people would do that why is that not front page news that that our risk of all cause mortality goes down by 70% if we just walk 7,000 steps per day it’s not even 10,000 right it’s 7,000 steps so one other thing that was really interesting with the book was really seeing how many Studies have shown that people overestimate the number of sleep they get and the number of active minutes they have per day by like a huge huge huge amount and so this is where I think that trackers can actually be quite helpful we don’t want trackers to be something that causes a lot of anxiety but we do want to like be real with what we’re actually doing so I think if people can just commit to getting those 7,000 steps a day ideally 10,000 it’s absolutely lifechanging there were other um studies that I looked at in in regards to walking that showed that um across almost 7,000 men and women people who walked 8 to 12,000 steps per day so a little bit more 8 to 12,000 steps per day had a 50 to 65% lower risk of death than those who took 4,000 steps or less per day so again and the one other fascinating piece of data is that the average American takes about 4,000 steps per day um that’s just a huge opportunity area for us and the key thing I think about steps that is really important is that it’s not just about the steps it’s about the fact that we’re moving major muscle groups frequently throughout the day like if you’re getting 12,000 steps per day you’re probably moving a little bit throughout the entire day maybe some people are just taking one long walk but you that’s really a proxy metric for like getting up and moving around more often and something really fascinating about that biology that may be even that we know actually is much more valuable than just exercising for like one like like short uh period of of intense exercise over the course of an hour but then sitting the rest of the day is that when you’re walking very lowgrade easy movement and moving those muscles throughout the day what you’re signaling to your body is for the glucose channels within the cell to come to the cell membrane to take glucose out of the bloodstream to fuel the muscle just gentle gentle walking even standing anything that activates those major muscle groups frequently throughout the day keeps the glucose channels at the cell membrane constantly taking up glucose and using it now think about the alternative which is a person who is basically sitting most the day like the average American and then maybe exercises for 30 minutes in the evening their glucose channels have not been at the membrane all day totally different physiology so I like to think about that as I like motivate myself to stand at my standing desk or my treadmill desk is like I’m not just doing this because some paper told me to I’m doing it because I’m physically pushing my glucose channels the cell membrane to take up glucose out of the bloodstream and use it so that was a really fun one another one that was very relevant to me another really interesting factoid was the power of slow eating I am a notoriously fast eater and I love food and this is a really great tip because it’s not something that actually has anything to do with restricting food it’s just about slowing down what you are eating and there was research I came across that showed that people who eat the fastest have a four times higher risk of metabolic syndrome than slow eaters so no change in the food just speed of eating four times higher risk of metabolic syndrome there was a different study that showed faster eaters had a two times risk R of type 2 diabetes development so this is just like a simple strategy and so I really am trying now for myself personally to sit down smell my food before I eat it take a couple deep breaths and try to take one deep breath in between each bite which sounds so simple but for a fast eater it’s actually pretty challenging and I’ve noticed that I eat less I’m calmer my digestion is better I’m activating the Vegas nerve which is rest and digest and it’s amazing to know that that’s a strategy to essentially drastically reduce our risk of type two diabetes or metabolic syndrome um and then the last one I’ll mention that I thought was really interesting and surprising was around the power of food journaling and there was actually like a huge study from Kaiser Permanente that was a 28-week weight loss program and they showed that the people who kept the most food logs per week in a food journal that was directly predictive of how much weight they were going to lose and interestingly we’ve actually found something very similar in the levels data set where people who log more food in the glucose app tend to lose more BMI points over time than people who don’t log as much food and really I think this all comes back to mindfulness and awareness like what are we actually putting in our bodies um that was a fascinating one and I’ll mention one more about that was actually quite interesting because i’ never heard this term before researching for the book um it was a concept called social jet lag is that a term have you come across that ter yeah it’s really interesting so essentially social jet lag you take your social jet log is a helpful metric in understanding sleep consistency so when we talk about the relationship between sleep and metabolic Health there’s three things that matter that are differently measured and tracked in the research literature there’s sleep quantity there’s Sleep Quality and there’s sleep consistency and all three matter for our mitochondrial function so quantity is literally just like how many hours of sleep are you logging and the magic number for metabolic Health seems to be about 7 to eight hours for adults Sleep Quality has to do with like how much deep sleep you’ve got how much Rems sleep how many interruptions there were in sleep uh and that certainly matters for metabolic health and then the third is consistency and this is the one again I struggle with the most consistency is are you going to bed and getting up essentially at regular times each day and this one is so important because it is one of the key ways that we help entrain our circadian rhythm and essentially Let the Body know what time it is there’s three main ways that we let the body know what time it is sleep consistency meal timing and whether we get sunlight in the morning directly into our eyes our bodies are on a 24-hour clock and there are genes that are expressed in 24-hour periods like whether they’ll it’ll either be at night or during the day and the ways that we help solidify our internal clock solidify our circadium rhythm is sleep consistency meal timing and when we see Photon light energy into our eyes so from the Sleep consistency perspective it’s really important because it helps set up our circadian rhythms which ultimately helps tell us when to express the metabolic genes in our body at the right times which is super important for mitochondrial health so you’d use social jet lag by basically saying okay if I went to bed at 12 midnight and got up at 8 a.m. you look at the midpoint of that which is 4: a.m. let’s say on the weekends you go to bed at 2: a.m. and you get up at at 10: a.m. the midpoint of that would be what 6:00 a.m. so there’s a 2hour difference between the midpoint on a workday and a weekend it’s 4:00 a.m. for the workday and 6: a.m. for the weekend and the study basically showed that if you have more than one hour of social jet lag essentially differences between your midpoint in different days of the week or between work dayss and weekends it confers a much higher risk of metabolic disease so the way to essentially use this information is to get a sleep tracker wear it consistently for at least a month there’s Fitbit or a whooop eight sleep lots of different trackers mine is like a $60 fot bit Inspire to which I love you can get on Amazon and look at essentially uh when you’re going to bed and when you’re waking up find the midpoint and then just see how much that’s fluctuating night to night and that’s something that we really want to try and try and dial in and that’s again one of the hardest for me and um thank God for my sweet boyfriend who I live with who is much more regular about sleep timing and has been has been a huge unlock for me but prior to meeting him I was actually working with a sleep coach to help with this I had um a sleep coach this amazing app called Crescent Health that like will be essentially accountability partner for you on any aspect of sleep that you’re that you’re struggling with and help give you strategies to be more you know a little bit more disciplined um about about that um yeah so some those are just some of the fun sort of like simple but profound aspects of Healthy Living that none of which really have to do with deprivation of any kind maybe maybe the consist sleep consistency because you have to go to bed a little bit earlier but that can really unlock huge health benefits well and I think it’s so prevalent for my community in particular you know I talk about that a lot is consistent going to bed at the same time you know so many women are struggling particularly around sleep issues and it’s it’s about like one of those big steps is consistency every single night and so that’s something I’ve been working on as well and you’re right a Tracker but I loved all of that all of that is so doable um and and that’s really what I you know I was so excited about this conversation is the lack of complication that it needed to be like we again we’re getting so complicated where we need to get back to the basics and walking is it’s so profound it’s probably my absolute favorite long longevity hack honestly is it’s that and it’s the consistent movement over throughout the entire day and ideally walking outside getting outside like I loved doing the hike with you and the Palisades you know just that that’s what I’m talking about is like us getting outside in nature and then doing what we do make sure that we’re moving throughout the day like that is such a GameChanger you know and the one that I am working on is definitely the mindfulness eating and um sometimes I’m helping Kingston with his meal and I have to really like stop myself CU he is eating at his own pace and let me tell it’s a very slow mindfulness which I I think I I am as a mama just like next you know Next Bite like let me help you and I was do him okay do not turn him into you just is like let me just slam this and get going again so that’s where I really become aware is watching my son take his time eating and really thinking to myself like I I need to learn something from him like I so I appreciate you sharing that and I think in that regard to like one of the easiest ways to sort of trick yourself into eating slowly is to eat at the dinner table with other people this is an interesting I mean I think a key element is is trying to bring up things that are complex potentially topics of conversation because if you can start to get people engaging and talking more in a dynamic way you will absolutely eat slower and there’s some I know there’s certain cultural traditions where actually like it’s thought that maybe eating silently is better for health and and you know there there’s lots of different and I I’m just talking about for my own slow eating and for you know I spend most of my day on the computer and so like human connection that meal times is is very important for my personal health Journey but you know we got some like beautiful little cards from um wonderful podcaster Liz Moody that are like conversation cards that can that like really get into some interesting stuff and something that I found is that you know sometimes like to just sort of sit down and like spark that kind of like conversation if there’s if it’s sort of just like a regular day and there’s not that much going on it’s like actually asking a question where people really unpack things like it gets me to eat so much slower and so that’s just one thing to consider is just like you know kind of get get those conversations going it’s it’s a bonus because you get connection and it also if you’re talking and someone else is talking you eat you just eat so much slower so that’s just a fun a fun tip for for people who are having trouble with the with the slow eating yeah and it’s a it’s a time for connection too there’s a lot of wins there yeah this has been so powerful and profound I’m so grateful for all the direct C that we went today and I’m so excited for this book and so obviously we can get it where all books are sold but where would you love us to go my gosh so the best place to go is just Casey means.com goodenergy and from there all the retailers of your choice are on the website and you can just click straight to it uh so Casey means.com goodenergy and then where all major books are sold and your small bookstores so thank you so much for for creating this opportunity to talk about it Dr Mara I appreciate you so much and and then I should also just mention if people want to connect on social media I’m at Dr Casey’s kitchen Dr Casey’s Kitchen on every platform perfect yeah I wanted to make sure we mentioned that as well well congratulations I’m so proud of you I’m so excited for this book I know that it’s going to transform the way that we think about our health in a way that’s really gonna serve us um selda Soul really thank you

Truly Right View: Advocating for Free Speech in the Age of Political Censorship

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