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Transform Your Health - Read Good Energy by Dr. Casey Means (#251, 2 Oct. 2024)

Good Energy is a shot across the bow of the conventional medical practice in the United States.

Dr. Means graduated from the Stanford Medical College and practiced traditional medicine until she realized a substantial part of the medical system is all wrong.

With the exception of treatment of acute medical condition Dr. Means challenges nearly the entire model of medicine in the United States as it relates to treatment of chronic medical conditions.

She is the modern Martin Luther seeking to knock down the walls of medical practice in the United States, but she's not only knocking down doors to bad practices, she's provide a key to unlock new doors to a healthier and happier you.

I think she's right on.

In this episode, I share my own good/bad energy story and also share some concepts from the book and tips and explain why Dr. Means may be one of the most important medical figures of the 21st century.

Broadcast on:: 02 Oct 2024
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What is going on guys? You guys are in for a real treat today. I am going to do a review of the book Good Energy by Dr. Aacey Means. Now I'm not going to be able to do justice to this book in this particular podcast because there's just too much in it. This book is chock full of all you need to do to create good energy and all you need to avoid not to have bad energy. So many of you may be thinking like, oh my gosh, what's good energy? Well, I'm going to define that and what's bad energy? I'm going to define that as it's explained in the book. But if you read this book, you have the potential to completely transform your own life. And if you share it with someone else, possibly transform their life. So dudes, read this book Good Energy by Dr. Aacey Means. Casey Means. So for this episode, I'm going to highlight just a few of the things that I learned in this book. I'm going to give you an overview of why this book is so important. And finally, I'm going to give you just a few tips that I got from this book in terms of dietary tips that hopefully you will find transformative in your own life. But not only your own life and others life, because if you don't know what you're doing, and you're just living life, not taking into account what causes good energy and what causes bad energy, you could set yourself up for some serious medical problems that could not only put you in a hospital, but could end your own life and it's so easily avoidable. So dudes, the first thing I want to do is talk about why this book is so important. And to some degree, put it in context. This topic of metabolic health was not something that I thought at all about until about I would say probably four or five years. My introduction to metabolic health came in the four when I went to my doctor and she weighed me and she's like, you have 300 you weigh 305 pounds. And you really need to get your blood sugar levels checked. You have something called pre diabetes and you're getting very close to type two diabetes. And so we may have to put you on some drugs to get your blood sugars down. Now at the time, I still had no idea what that meant zero zilch zippo other than it was bad. And I might have to take pills to do it. If I didn't eventually address the pills and that did satisfy it, I might have to go on to something called insulin. I loved loved my doctor. She was this great woman very competent, conventionally trained, very personable, literally would trust her with my life. But like a lot of doctors, she did not know anything about nutrition other than just kind of the standard advice. She also didn't really know anything about these emerging credible health rebels that were offering a critique of the conventional medical system. People like haleo author Rob Wolf, the carnivore MD doctor Paul Saladino, the primal footprint critic of the conventional medical system, Mark Sisson. She didn't really talk anything about that or even tell me that that's something I should think about. Instead, she put me on the standard medical protocol, which is you get your yearly labs, you look at your fasting blood sugar level, you look at your a one C reading, which is a 90 day reading. She then monitored that as it got worse and worse, she then did a essentially, there's a thing where you take out sugary drink, and they measure your glucose response to determine whether in fact you have a confirmed type two diabetes. At that point, once you if you fail that, then what they do is, is they will then put you on certain types of drugs to deal with your blood sugar. Eventually, they'll give you insulin. And if that doesn't do it, they'll actually start injecting you with insulin to help your body process the food that you eat so that your energy can create selves. She didn't mention any of this stuff. And I don't blame her because the traditional medical education does not teach nutrition as foundational to the cause of so many preventable conditions. So this is about probably six or seven years ago. And by no means the beginning of this movement, this movement goes back in terms of these health related rebels, most of whom are credentialed, but not as many MDs as you would like to see. Mark Sisson has some training in biology. There's Gary Tobs who was with a new dogs, which is the New York Times. That was kind of one of the early critics of the fat clauses part disease model. And was an early writer on the work of Dr. Atkins, who was basically considered kind of a crackpot doctor, people like Rob Wolf, who is a I think he's a biochemist or some sort of PhD in candid biochemistry, who wrote paleo solution. These guys have been, or at least the last probably 15 to 20 years, kind of shouting from the mountaintops about this topic, it entered my conscious as a topic about four years ago, that is metabolic health. When I started getting these very scary warnings from my doctor, because that was something I just didn't think about. It was only because I randomly came across a fasting app. Many of you who know me have heard this story before. I'm like my mom, I tell the same stories over and over again. I randomly found this fasting app and started fasting as a way to lose weight. That entry into fasting opened up my eyes into this whole world of critics on the conventional medical system. And so I started looking into the ketogenic diet. I started following people and actually listening to podcasts on people like Rob Wolf. I started reading books by people like Gary Tobs on the critique of the conventional nutritional system and the virtues of the ketogenic diet and the vices of excessive amounts of refined grains and sugars, what that can do in terms of damaging your metabolic health. I started listening to people like Ben Greenfield and Paul Saladino, credentialed rebels, Paul Saladino has his MD, but even Paul Saladino who has his MD, it's in psychiatry. You know, he went to the University of Arizona, which is good. So as I'm speaking right now, October 2nd, these people were really good, but not necessarily the top of the top within the medical establishment that shout from the highest mountain tops and try to convince people of the virtues of this approach of challenging some of the central dogma of the medical system, especially as it relates to the treating of chronic medical disease and mental disease, like depression, like anxiety, like type 2 diabetes, like obesity, like all of these different chronic medical conditions, gastric issues that you have. The medical system, when they look and see you have a symptom, they prescribe a medication for the symptom, but they don't necessarily get to the root cause of the system that the person actually has. And so this has been kind of where we are up until this year, 2024. Most of the critics that I've observed have come from without outside the system. And there's always a reason to kind of dismiss them. Well, Mark Sisson's not a doctor. He had some training in biology, but not a doctor. Rob Wolf. Yeah, he might be on to something. He does have credentials as a biochemist, but he's not a medical doctor. Paul Saladino, who I really like does have his MD, but it's in psychiatry. So yeah, I want to listen to him. He's a little quirky and he basically believes all planets are trying to kill you. So he's a little eccentric and so gosh, and we really trust him. Even though I like, by the way, all of these guys, Ben Greenfield, who I really has his own podcast, but Ben has his degree, he has his undergraduate degree. And I believe it's like human physiology. And he has a great podcast on all different forms of getting healthy, but he's not a doctor either, right? He has, he was a trainer, he has some credentials, but he's not a doctor. So about a month and a half ago, I was listening to my favorite podcaster in the health space, Andrew Huberman, who's a PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University. And he had this guest called Dr. Casey Means. And I knew she was gonna be really good because she was talking about blood sugar and the virtues of blood sugar and after dinner walk to reduce blood sugar spikes after you ate your last evening meal. I was like, I really like this one because she knows about blood sugar. And she's offering kind of a readily available tool that's free to address that particular issue. I'm like, I gotta learn more about this woman. So I did, I listened to the podcast. And then I learned that this woman isn't some crank or crank pot. She's the perfect person to be the Martin Luther to pound her 95 theses on the door of the conventional medical establishment. She is a highly trained Stanford medical doctor from Stanford Medical School, who is trained to be an ear, nose and throat surgeon who thinks that the conventional medical systems approach to chronic medical conditions, especially is completely wrong and completely off track. And she outlines it based upon her own training, the deficits there. What she directly observed as a conventional practicing ear, nose and throat surgeon, and why she no longer practices as a conventional ear, nose and throat shirt surgeon. And then instead practices with her own clinic in Portland. And she's completely transformed lives doing that. And for your benefit, she has written a complete book. If you didn't have the opportunity to take any nutrition or wellness classes in school, fear not, all you need to do is just read this book. You know, I think of in the, in the context of an undergraduate medical education, you could take a semester class and just focus on the concepts in this book. And you will have the tools as a starting point to make your own decisions about your metabolic health, avoiding chronic inflammation and oxidative stress, the things that you need to address through diet exercise lifestyle choices that will allow you to have good energy. That is energy to do the things that you want to do in your life. And that to be weighed down by bad energy that's going to lead you to fatigue, sickness and hanging out with doctor's office while taking pills that aren't necessarily going to help you. So this book, I think we'll see how it's treated historically. But I hope it's considered equivalent to the Martin Luther pounding his 95 theses on the door of the Catholic Church. But this can revolutionize the approach to medicine. This can save billions of dollars of medical expense if people can follow it. But more importantly, the words of every favorite motivational speaker, if it can change just one life, this book is worth it. If I can change one life by just sharing this book with you, it is worth it. It is that good. Everything you need to know about a how to how to help create a healthy blueprint is in this book. You don't need to buy anything else. It's state of the art. It includes all the latest research. I could have some critiques of it, not necessarily that I disagree with her underlying conclusions. I think it could have been a little simpler. But she's basically trying to say like, if you want to know what you need to know, here's how to do it. And then the other thing that she gives, she empowers the consumer to ask questions of their medical doctors and give them a guide as to what type of credential medical practitioner they should see. That's what I love about this. You know, I'm not a doctor. So, Rodney Cole, I'm a I'm a jurist doctor. I can give you advice about law, right? I can give you about what advice about law in my area of expertise in which I have experience. One thing I cannot do, especially if I'm getting paid for, I cannot accept coin. And I cannot give you advice as to what you should or shouldn't do. All I can do is basically refer you to really good people that have influenced me and to share books that I good. And then you can do whatever you want with that information. You can throw it into the waste paper basket. You know what I started to lose a ton of weight with fasting and got a lot healthier. People are like, what are you doing for your fasting? I gave them some generalize it. And what I try to do is refer to people like Dr. Jason Fung, who is a nephrologist at the University of Toronto, who is another one of these health rebels writing really good books on the power of knowledge on insulin resistance. And that's all I can do. I can't do anything more than just share these books with you. But a lot of times, unfortunately, so many of the people that were raising these critiques of treatment of conventional disease, conventional chronic disease. And if you're like me, you maybe didn't really think about what's the difference between chronic and acute. Conventional medical system actually addresses both, obviously. What are chronic? Chronic are things that aren't immediately going to kill you right now, but will over time, if they're not addressed. And even if they don't kill you, they're likely to cause a great deal of suffering to you. You know, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, anxiety, type two diabetes. These are sorts of things that if left untreated won't kill you this second. But over the long term they can and acute are, you're in a car accident, your lung is punctured. That's treatable. Now I am completely obviously for acute medical conditions. You get into a car accident. I'm not going to be like, Oh my God, go to go reductive Tacey means and do a seance and that will stop your punctured lung from emerging. I don't believe that. And I also believe there's a role for conventional medical treatment in chronic disease, especially where all else failed, but fails. I think that's going to be a vanishingly small subset of people because the other thing that's so good now is that this information that's out here, there's a lot of peer reviewed research to support it. And so for Dr. Casey Cali means, Casey means she's married to a guy named, I think, Cali means, which I think is his, it's either her brother or her husband, but it's Casey means. You're going to have all you need to know. And it's going to be just like receiving an undergraduate degree in nutrition. And it can change your life. Now, am I the perfect model of nutrition? No, I'm not. But let me just share with you some of the just impacts that I had in my old life. Once I started to kind of think about these three things, insulin resistance, radical inflammation, and oxidative stress, I'm not going to give you the deep dive definition of those you can get those in the book. But I'm just going to tell you some of the things that have improved in my old life because I began to think about these topics. First and foremost, I'm not, I'm not fat ass. I've lost a lot of weight. And I feel a lot healthier. You just look better. Two inflammation, inflammation sometimes is not always visibly present. But after I started losing weight, I had my former mayor came up to me and said, you don't look as puffy and inflamed as you're used to. This was physically manifesting itself in my face. My daughter came up to me and she's like, dad, you don't look so red anymore. Some of that was because they don't drink every day anymore. But these were things that I didn't think about at all. My energy levels, now that I've started thinking about good energy versus bad energy, and it's done basically a four year journey, are off the charts. I used to take an afternoon nap almost every day. I had no energy in the afternoon. I called it the afternoon low. And now I basically have full energy from four 30 in the morning until I go to sleep at like nine o'clock. And then when I go to sleep, I'm asleep within 30 minutes. My energy levels are off the charts. Now some of it's because I also drink coffee, but I have no afternoon wall. I don't even know what an afternoon wall is anymore. All I do is just have energy throughout the day. And I feel great. My only mental health issue is I'm in a good mood all the time. So I'm not as understanding or empathetic when people aren't in good moods all the time. So really can transform your life. And I'm still a babe in the woods. There's so much stuff that I don't know. But I know enough to know that I like this credentialed critique of the medical system. These these credentialed rebels were focusing on mitochondrial dysfunction, chronic inflammation, and oxidative stress. This book isn't only about nutrition. It also gets into things like fasting, taking sonas, cold therapy, getting exercise, getting adequate sleep. So it's basically a one stop shop for all you need to do for good physical and emotional health. She doesn't get into the spiritual health, but I think that's the other piece of it. But kind of beyond the scope of this book. But so one of the greatest things that's always lodged against people like me that share the wonders of these credentials rebels is you're not a doctor. You're not a doctor. So and most people when you go in to talk to the doctor, you're soon with a doctor, they're super smart through way smarter than I and they are. They're like way, way, way, way. So whatever smart I am, doctors are like a factor of 10 smarter than I am. They're way smarter than I am. They went to medical school hard. I am way too dumb to get into medical. There's no way I could have gotten into medical school. So they're super smart. They have some of the best training in the world. So you would think that doctors would know this stuff. You would think that but no, they don't know this stuff and listen to Casey Means description of her own medical education. And this is consistent with what Mark Hyman has said, what also really, really love is his own podcast about the amount of nutrition education that she got while she was in medical school. Check this out and prepare to have your mind blown. She says, at Stanford Medical School, I didn't take a single dedicated nutrition course. In fact, 80% of medical schools to this day do not require their students to take a nutrition class despite food driven diseases decimating our population. I saw occasional references and this is Casey Means talking to nutrition research, but the main messages were that nutrition is complicated and findings often contradict themselves. For example, some studies have shown that red meat causes heart disease, while other studies have shown that it prevents heart disease. Some studies have shown that sugar causes obesity, while others have shown that it doesn't. And some studies have shown that low carb diets are best, while others have shown that low fat diets are best. And here's what she says, only after leaving medicine, did Dr. Casey Means learn when she says medicine, conventional medicine, because she still has a health clinic in Portland, Oregon. Did she learn that so many of these stuff studies were funded by food companies, which spend 11 times more on nutrition research than the National Institutes for Health. Unsurprisingly, this money slants the findings. 82% of independently funded studies show harm from sugar, sweetened beverages, but 93% of industry sponsored studies reflect no harm. With food companies, when food companies fund research, the studies are six times more likely to have a favorable result about the food in question. The policymakers, the politicians that are making things like the food pyramid are using the industry funded research in terms of making the nutritional guidelines. So it even begs the question, even if the doctors had had the nutrition research, what have they gotten biased research? So it's going to be for you to decide which research you support, which research you don't. But I believe that the evidence now is pretty clear. All I can tell you is that once I started thinking about these particular topics, insulin resistance, product inflammation, and oxidative stress, and trying to implement some of these principles in my own life, did my own health completely take off. I no longer have any rain fog. That's how I can do the rocky casts for you. I feel good. I don't have too much gray here yet. I have some of my beard, but I feel pretty darn healthy for a 49 year old as healthy or more healthy than I did when I was 40 years old. So for whatever, that is worth. And if one, I've made my own decision, but that's going to be for you to decide. But what I love about Hacey Means is, is that she's a doctor. So I think I've kind of made my point. She is a frickin doctor. And she's very critical of this approach. But more importantly, not only is she critical, she offers you several solutions that are potentially life changing for you. So I'm going to get into just a few of those solutions to get all of it you have to read it in the book. But I'm going to outline just a few of the little lessons in case you're super busy, and you don't have time to read everything in the book. But I totally advise you to buy the book, click on the link below in my podcast notes. And I'll get a portion of the sales, like two cents, if you buy it through Amazon, but it was such a good book. And it's a book that you'll be able to use your whole life. I think these are going to be pretty, I think the science is actually settled on. It is not settled in the conventional medical establishment, but I think it's settled for me that people like Dr. Casey Means are right on these topics. So let's just elucidate a few of these concepts. I can't really do it justice, but you can read more when you are in the book. So the first thing she talks about is insulin resistance. Insulin resistance affects your ability of yourselves to produce energy. That's the basic concept. It's bad to be insulin resistant. It's good to be insulin sensitive. So what does that mean? What does it mean when you have type two diabetes? The main thing is, is that you are insulin resistant. Your cells are not good at taking in the energy that your body receives from nutrition. If your cells aren't very good under these little things in your cells called mitochondria that are like these little factories within your cells that produce energy. When you're insulin sensitive, your cells are really good at and efficient at taking the energy that comes in and using that energy to power your body. So that is insulin or mitochondrial dysfunction, which is basically how she refers to the consequence of being insulin resistant. And she gets into all the various ways that you can address that. A couple little tips related to insulin resistance. One is not to own the perils of overnutrition. I didn't think about this topic at all until I started regularly fasting. I don't do any long term fast as much as they used to because it is a stressor on the body. But I'm still pretty regular about mat meeting between basically 7 o'clock at night until about 11, 30 or 12, sometimes one in the afternoon. I have no food. You think about, well, what's the problem with eating throughout the day? The vast majority of the people engage in overnutrition. And what's the problem with this as it affects your mitochondria? Is that it's kind of like, have you ever seen I love Lucy when I love Lucy is working at the chocolate factory. There's this conveyor belt. And her role is to take certain pieces of defective chocolate off of the conveyor belt. And so if the conveyor belt is going at a certain speed, which she can kind of handle and she's really relaxed. But when it starts going too fast, she can't handle all the things coming across the conveyor belt. And she just doesn't know what to do. And it's really hilarious. And she goes crazy and super stressful. And she's not very good at it. She can't take what she needs from the actual chocolates that are coming through the conveyor belt. That's kind of like what happens when you're eating throughout the day. When I was eating throughout the day, I was ingesting far too many calendars or calories, these little measure of heat in your body, energy production. I would get up around six 30 or seven, I get up at four 30, I would have like some cereal, with me some sugary, you know, oatmeal or something like that. And of course, I feel a little tired and a little hazy. Maybe I'd have some eggs early in the morning and some cheese. And then I would work and then I'd run up 12, 11, 30, 12, I'd go eat and have some, you go down to the Indian cafe and have a whole bunch of rice, then get an insulin spike and then an insulin crash and be super tired and cloudy the rest of the afternoon. When I go home and eat some dinner, drink for the couple hours that I'd finish off with a big huge bowl of blueberries and whipped cream. That was my typical day. What's the problem with that? What does that do to the cell when you engage in over nutrition number one? And when you eat throughout the day, you break down the cell's ability to produce energy. You make it insulin resistant. It can't handle all of the energy that's coming into its body. So what happens? The cell poses itself out and the body has to do something with that energy. So it stores it in the form of fat. Here's what Dr. Casey means, how she explains it. And remember, Dr. Means is a doctor. The cell simply cannot process, according to Dr. Means. All the material coming in from too much food, so things back up, damaging byproducts are produced in excesses. And many processes in the cell, including the efforts of mitochondria get gummed up. This leads to the strain leads to the inside of the cell, building up with toxic fats, which blocks the cell's ability to do normal signaling and activity. Additionally, when mitochondria are attacked with the burden of trying to convert so much food to energy, they produce reactive molecules called free radicals. And these free radicals are bad. Free radicals are negatively charged, and they go out and they look for other cells in the body to exchange a neutron with. And that can really bind and damage other, they can damage your cell lining, you can damage all different things throughout your body. And then as a result of that, that's what's called oxidative stress. So here's what we get into some of these concepts that she talks about. But to address that, she gets into what you should and shouldn't need. But one simple solution with that is she's a big advocate of time-restricted eating, which is controversial in some quarters that basically say it doesn't matter. But she limits her food intake to basically an eight to 10 hour eating window, which to me is super easy to do. So if you start eating at eight, you stop eating at six, like, that's a lot of window to stuff food into your pile. So that's one simple solution. The other thing is, is to eat fiber, because the fiber is going to allow your body to absorb some of the nutrients coming in and to help them not digest so quickly. The other thing she talks about is not eating refined sugar. This also will slow the process of ingestion so you don't get OD that energy that your body can't use. So she talks about mitochondrial dysfunction and all of the things that affect the ability of your cell to produce power through that little thing called the mitochondria. The other thing she talks about is chronic inflammation. If you're in sports and your knee is hurt, your body will to heal that spot will come to its defense and cause swelling and cause some inflammation in that location. If you get sick, your body will look out for those invaders and try to defend itself and send out all of these different things to prevent those foreign bodies from getting inside of your cells and attackers, all these natural and healthy defense mechanisms. But that same mechanism that protects you from disease and that helps your body repair can go into overdrive where your body all of a sudden starts attacking things within yourself and getting inflamed. That's bad and you want to avoid that and it tends to be bad when you're with chronic stress, when you have overnutrition, you're not needing the right types of foods. And she does a super deep dive into that, making sure that your body, that your defense mechanisms of your body are only getting inflamed periodically when they need to actually protect itself as opposed to when food is one thing, it is a foreign particle. And if you're eating bad food all of the time, especially high processed food, your body goes into overdrive and can begin attacking itself. And that is not good. You do not want chronic inflammation. The other thing she talks about is oxidative stress. Now, this is something I didn't think anything about. So she's talked about insular resistance in the form of mitochondrial dysfunction. Chronic inflammation number two is something she talks about throughout the book. And number three, she talks about oxidative stress. Now, I can think before I got into this space, the amount of times I thought about oxidative stress. Do you think about that on a regular basis? Oh my God, I got too much oxidative stress. The only thing time you may have talked about stress was when you're like, you're stressed out, like you get too much to do, or you're stressed out by your mom or whomever you're stressed out by your friends, that kind of stress. Well, there's a different type of stress. And that is oxidative stress. Oxidative stress occurs when these things called three radicals start excessively circulating in your body without sufficient antioxidants to balance those free radicals that are circulating in your body. The production of these free radicals occurs when the first issue occurs, which is the mitochondrial dysfunction. Are you following me? According to Dr. Means, when mitochondria are taxed with the burden of trying to convert so much excess food to energy, they produce and release reactive molecules called free radicals. So the second bad thing or the third bad thing arises directly from the first bad thing, which is mitochondrial dysfunction. What happens when that happens? Free radicals are molecules with negatively charged, highly reactive electron that seeks to neutralize itself by binding to other structures in the mitochondria in the cell and in doing so, causing significant damage. The body has its own mechanism for neutralizing free radicals, some are good, some are bad. Some include the production of antioxidants, which bind and quail and pull these free radicals down. But here's the key. When the production of these damaging molecules exceeds the body's capacity to handle them, and this is the case with chronic overnutrition, a damaging imbalance results called oxidative stress that hurts the mitochondria and surrounding cellular structures. So that's what she talks about. It's a chain reaction of damage. What are some of the problems that result if you have too much oxidative stress? Things like dementia, things like heart disease, things like cancer, because you're talking about dysfunctional cells within your body. All of these things heart disease, I believe it can affect your risk of stroke, risk of heart disease, and that derives directly from oxidative stress. Now I find these things extremely interesting. And these three things, mitochondrial dysfunction, chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, permeate the book. And they cause all sorts of disease within the body, not just kind of minor disease, but things like cancer, things like heart disease, things like dementia, things like gastric issues, things like prone's disease. All of these things, bad things, and potentially acute things arise from these three problems, including stuff like anxiety, including stuff like depression, your mental, your physical, your emotional well-being, all can result from these three things. Now, what are some of the approaches that she has? I think she's definitely very critical of the conventional medicines approach to these things, but she gives you all sorts of solutions to address these big three. Let me highlight one with the antioxidant issue is that obviously your body has the natural ability to present antioxidants, but it also, there are certain foods that are really, really high in antioxidants. One of them are blueberries, those are loaded with antioxidants. So if you load your body and you take enough, just like anything, don't eat too many of them, that will help your body swell these free radicals so that they can be in balance. That's one. Other are adequate sleep, getting just a good night's rest of about eight to nine hours, and she gets into how you can do that. She talks about certain micronutrients that will help you produce what she calls ATP, a certain type of molecule. She talks about enzymes that you need to focus on, things like how enzyme Q10. That's a micronutrient that is essential for the function of electron transport and is shown in the production to lead to increased ATP synths with this. Other micronutrients include key mitochondrial processes, including selenium, magnesium, zinc, and several B vitamins. So she gets into this granular detail. I found all of this stuff fascinating. You should find this stuff fascinating. She talks about the importance of getting an exercise. I try to exercise and she basically says it's best to do it throughout the day, if you can, but it gets really hard to do that. But if you can, if you can get seven to eight thousand steps a day in terms of walking, you don't have to read this is very important in terms of movement. And she said it's better to take small little steps throughout the day, rather than 10,000 steps at once, but do the best you can as far as that goes. And in terms of bad energy, in terms of food, she has very strong reactions against three things. Refined sugar, industrial seed oils, refined grains, things like bread, especially conventionally sold bread, refined sugar, just as it sounds, conventionally refined sugar, as well as high fructose porn syrup, and industrial seed oils, which cause all sorts of inflammation in your body. So that's kind of like some of the summary, some of the take homes. I think there's other things that we could focus on. She's definitely a fan of intermittent fasting. We can do an episode on that. She's also really focused on making sure you're getting enough physical movement throughout the day to allow yourselves to soak up some of that glucose and optimize your mitochondrial dysfunction. But more importantly, she wants you to live a really good life. We only have, if we're lucky, we might have 80 years of really, really good health. I'm about two thirds of the way through, so I want to try and at least have a very good health span and take the steps now so that when I'm 75, hopefully I'm going to be doing a rocky cast, 26 years from now, and be able to say, hey, I'm still doing really well. It's because of the steps I'm taking now. Right now, I'm benefiting from some of the lifestyle changes that I started making about five to six years ago, and I've continued to try to learn with occasional lapses. I still drink a little bit, but hardly at all. Alcohol's one thing that she says that is highly inflammatory. It's not good for your mitochondrial production, bad for your sleep. So if you can limit alcohol to maybe one or two times a month, but you know, I, gosh, I got in the point where I drink so little now, I hardly even have any desire to drink at all, even like on really nice days, because I just, I have all this good energy and all these endorphins that are like popping around in my head, because of all the good, really healthy food and the good lifestyle choices that I've made. So, it feels really good. And so that's the key here. It's to feel and look good and to have good energy. So all you need to do, this is a book that I'm probably just going to keep and read and reread over and over and over again. And by really diving in and understanding these concepts, you are going to have equivalent to a nutrition undergraduate degree. If you can master these concepts, it is as good as an undergraduate degree. Like, one thing I want to do is to become a health coach. I don't have a credential at this point, but I think if I apply these sorts of things and share them with other people, it's all of the knowledge, it's all state of the art, it's all peer reviewed. And she is a top medical doctor from Stanford Medical School. There's so much life changing material that's present in this book, including things like you wouldn't necessarily think are about are the function of a metabolic disease, things like who are example, her mom, she dedicates it to her mom, her mom died in 2021 of pancreatic cancer. And Dr. Means says that was a preventable metabolic condition. I didn't think at all about things like that. A preventable medical metabolic condition. Now, in defense of the conventional people, there are some of these conditions that once they become so bad, you got to use the conventional medical treatment if it gets really, really acute. But even then, and here I'll just defer to my credentialed rebels, a lot of these even serious medical conditions can be reversed through this alternative approach, which up until now, has still been kind of in the periphery of the medical system, chiropractors, rebel, you know, literally, Rob Wolf calls his podcast, the healthy rebellion radio, things like that. They've not been met with warm reviews by really, really credentialed people. And now they are. And that's very, very important to living a healthy and happy life. And so I hope you will buy this particular book. It's well worth it. At least on, I think it's price is like 32 bucks that can get it to like 25 on Amazon. It's totally worth it. Maybe at some point I can even interview Dr. Haci Means. She is a total badass. Probably the only critique I'd get. It's so much. It's like, where do you even begin to start? There's almost too much information. So I could almost like cut the book down, like in terms of the takeaways and share those of you, but it's so good. So this is definitely a book that I'll read over and over and over again. So that is essentially it for this episode of The Rock Me Cast. I hope you have the opportunity to read this book and continue to tune in and share what you've learned on this rocking cast so you can be the best version of you. Until next time you and I see each other on The Rock Me Cast.

Good Energy is a shot across the bow of the conventional medical practice in the United States.

Dr. Means graduated from the Stanford Medical College and practiced traditional medicine until she realized a substantial part of the medical system is all wrong.

With the exception of treatment of acute medical condition Dr. Means challenges nearly the entire model of medicine in the United States as it relates to treatment of chronic medical conditions.

I think she's right on.