Casey Means, MD
@CaseyMeansMD
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Co-Founder @levels . #1 NYT Bestselling Author of Good Energy - The Surprising Connection between Metabolism and Limitless Health. Committed to awe.
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Today is the day - GOOD ENERGY IS PUBLISHED! 📚🚀
I wrote "GOOD ENERGY: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health" with
@calleymeans
because after what I saw as a surgical trainee, my experiences as a physician, my personal health journey, and losing my
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Of all the unintended consequences of the feminist movement, perhaps the most generationally damaging was the implicit push to outsource the role of a primary food-preparer in family, and the outright disrespect for the role.
10 points on how this has unfolded and how we need to
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Walking is DIFFERENT than “exercise” biochemically but it’s absolutely critical to metabolic health.
Walking is simply a body in low-grade motion, which is required throughout the day for optimal cellular function. Every time we get up and walk we help stimulate the glucose
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I wrote Good Energy because the metabolic health crisis is the biggest threat we face. And the answers are simpler than we are told. The tools to feeling better today are the SAME as how to prevent disease tomorrow. The biggest lie in healthcare is that type 2 diabetes, cancer,
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If this
@unlocklevels
x
@eightsleep
article doesn't make you want to commit to dialing in both sleep quantity & quality, I don't know what will! The data is overwhelming & consistent that sleep is critical for good health, *especially* metabolic health.
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My brother
@calleymeans
speaking powerfully on the first order issue of our time: metabolic dysfunction. Please watch and share.
Ep. 72 "If a fish tank is dirty, you clean the tank. You don't drug the fish." Calley Means makes the case against Ozempic.
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Three years ago today, my mother died in my arms of a preventable disease.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. I became a doctor so this wouldn't happen.
But 9 years into training, I had a realization: I didn't know why patients get sick. I only learned how to cut into them or
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Great article collab w
@CookingCaveman
! Lots of knowledge bombs, ie "women w higher fasting glucose & post-meal glucose levels had a significant *decrease* in performance on *memory* tests." Even in "normal" range, there's room to optimize.
@unlocklevels
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Studies show that humans spend only 7.6% of their time outdoors. As a physician, I believe this is the true root ROOT cause of our chronic disease epidemic and declining life span, and not just because of its impact on our chronobiology. Here's why? 👇
When we're outside, we get
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The stark economic reality is that nearly every institution that touches our health - from medical schools to insurance companies to hospitals to pharma - makes money on "managing" diseases, not curing patients.
This is the highest level of why so many aspects of American
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Woke up and Good Energy is the
#1
book on Amazon. You guys made this happen - Thank you to everyone who ordered. Thank you for the unbelievable support. Thank you for spreading the word on Good Energy and believing in a different, hopeful, healthy, EMPOWERED future for our
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It’s hard for me to fathom that we have a chronic disease epidemic of such unprecedented proportions that it could bankrupt our country, infertility is through the roof, cancer is now affecting one in two adult men, dementia is skyrocketing, and even DOCTORS and medical groups
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"Stanford University School of Medicine...will accept a $3 million grant from pharma giant Pfizer to back a new curriculum."
Huh... Wonder what the students will be learning about in their classes. 💊🤔
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Why are people so afraid of calling out bad food? Where is the moral clartiy on the reality of what is going on?
In the US, people are getting Alzheimer’s at 50, nearly a million people dying of heart disease per year, half of the country has prediabetes or type 2 diabetes,
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Don’t trust doctors.
Don’t trust influencers.
Don’t trust “the science.”
Don’t trust me.
Trust YOURSELF.
Never forget that nearly every industry in the world benefits from YOU being divorced from your common sense, body awareness, and intuition.
With dissociation and
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Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the last few years is that the phrase "trust the science" made it into the zeitgeist as a legitimate statement rather than be universally called out for the mind-control propaganda that it is. First, there is no set cannon that
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The is literally NO amount of money we could put towards our current "healthcare" paradigm that will actually generate health in Americans because the money we'd be spending does nothing to fundamentally help the mitochondria work properly.
Our healthcare crisis (obesity,
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Human bodies and minds - especially children’s - are profit centers for large industries. The question that is foundational for industry (who’s dictum is shareholder returns): how much can we possibly put IN (food, sugar, oils, shows, chemicals, shots, meds) and take OUT
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t type 2 diabetes rates less than 1% 50 years ago? Aren’t 1 in 2 adult men now developing cancer in their lifetime? Isn’t infertility rising at around 1% per year? Don’t about 30% of young adults now have prediabetes? Can someone define for me
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Humans: the ONLY species in the world with "experts" and "evidence based medicine," and the ONLY species in the world with a chronic disease and obesity epidemic.
Think about who profits from you being indoctrinated to disregard common sense and intuition. Answer: Not you.
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We need to get back to controlling our own food. Growing it. Picking it. Direct relationships with farmers. Visiting the farms our food comes from.
Our body is 100% molecularly made from food. We are now totally disconnected from how our food is grown and produced.
Therefore
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GOOD ENERGY IS OUT TODAY.
I’ll put it plainly: We need YOUR HELP to get this message out.
If you believe in our mission to help reverse the plummeting health of Americans and the planet through a root cause metabolic approach, and have gotten value from
@calleymeans
’ and
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Awesome conversation between
@unlocklevels
and Work for Change team about the value of
#CGM
in optimizing health, performance, and diet through metabolic biofeedback. Shoutouts in there to
@virtahealth
and
@DrSarahHallberg
!
@joshuasforrest
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Ironic that almost every other commercial during the Super Bowl was either for something that CAUSES diabetes or something that TREATS diabetes. Doritos ➡️ Dexcom G6 CGM ➡️ Pringles ➡️ Trulicity ➡️ Cheetos.
Highly profitable but sad cycle. When are we going to wake up?
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One of the best and simplest things you can do for your health is spent vastly more time outdoors, especially during daylight hours.
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Modern medicine has over ONE HUNDRED specialties focusing on isolated body parts and systems. More specialization has led to worse health outcomes. We’ve never been sicker.
Ultra specialization leads to a fragmented view of health, which serves to line the pockets of
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- 19 BILLION lbs of glyphosate sprayed.
- 80k+ synthetic toxins in food, water, air, homes, and personal care products.
-Circadian rhythms destroyed.
-Fear inducing media streamed to our devices 24 hrs a day.
That’s the tip of the iceberg.
This is NOT a “mysterious” epidemic.
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The book is here: GOOD ENERGY. Pre-order today.
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80% of US healthcare spending goes towards treating preventable chronic illness. Imagine a world where chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes are RARE because we addressed the root causes. What if we never had to treat disease again because we prevented it from
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We all feel it. Something isn't right. At all. We're getting sicker, more depressed, and more infertile every year despite increased spending.
In Good Energy,
@calleymeans
and I unpack the root cause of why the "healthcare" and "food" systems are broken, why Americans -- from
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Glucose as a molecule has caused more destruction of the human mind and body than any other substance in human history.
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WE ARE LIVING IN A BIZARRO WORLD.
Government subsidizes high fructose corn syrup. Puts Lunchables in schools. Then wants to inject 12 yr olds w Ozempic and put them under the knife for bariatric surgery.
PUSH BACK LOUDLY. Children are becoming a profit center for industry.
Maybe we could just try not poisoning kids? 🤷🏻♂️
That would be easier than injecting them and cutting open their stomachs “at the highest available intensity.”
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💪🗣️ THANK YOU to everyone who has supported GOOD ENERGY and made it the
#1
bestselling book on Amazon for several days. We are heartened that so many of you agree that we need a radical redirection of our healthcare system and norms around diet and lifestyle. This is not a
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Metabolism is how we transform cosmic energy (food with photon energy stored in the carbon bonds of plants) to consciousness (powered by cellular energy, ATP).
Insulin resistance is a block to cosmic energy (solar energy) being allowed INTO the human cell to be liberated into
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Screwed up cells, screwed up society. Violence to our soil, our microbiome, and biodiversity is violence to ourselves. Because it’s all one and all connection. The things that screw up our cells are ultraprocessed foods, poor sleep, being sedentary, environmental toxins (that
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As an ex-surgeon, some unsolicited advice: if you can avoid surgery, AVOID IT. SIMPLE diet & lifestyle choices can massively help to keep you off the OR table.
Learn what you can do to minimize chances of going under the knife, from surgeon
@ifixhearts
:
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Death is simply the complete cessation of metabolic function. No more cosmic energy flowing through us to create ATP. Lights off.
Ergo, anything we do to hurt metabolic function is a choice to be a little bit dead, while we’re alive. (This is basically “chronic disease”).
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This is a commercial from the president of the United States for his political donors. For products that cause depression, infertility, chronic illness, and obesity and will bankrupt our country. Interesting.
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Got to talk GOOD ENERGY, metabolic health, the chronic disease epidemic,
@Levels
, and practical health strategies with friend + legend
@DanaPerino
. This woman is a force and light in this world. She has seen it ALL and remains optimistic and joyful. We should all follow suit!
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Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet (a top 5 medical Journal): “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and
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LAUNCH WEEK RECAP!🎉🎉🎉
WOW. Back in LA and feeling OVERWHELMED with gratitude for the support of so many people helping create the magic of the launch week across LA, NYC, and DC and for EVERYONE sharing about Good Energy on so many platforms, channels, and in their lives. I
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I love thinking about the relationship between trees and our mitochondria. Ever think about how good it feels to look at trees, spend time in forests, and even hug a tree? I think it feels good in part because without them we would immediately die. Without them we would have no
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Where is the clarity. Where are the medical organizations and leaders speaking evangelically about the need for healthy living in the face of a crisis of metabolic diseases that is destroying our human capital and ravaging our children. We need to be speaking plainly about the
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Mainstream medicine is not incentivized to create healthy patients. It’s a business designed to grow. Never forget it.
Take control of your health.
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This is SCREWED UP. They are right: Froot Loops WILL “mess your kids up” like this ad from
@instacart
promises. It is our job AS ADULTS to protect kids - NOT EXPLOIT THEM FOR PROFIT. Kids are on track to live much shorter, sicker, and more painful lives than their parents. Kids
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All "protocols," "wellness behaviors," "hacks," and "optimizations" will never truly heal us unless we change one key part of the equation, explained below in 10 points. 👇
1. Fundamentally all of our "health and wellness" decisions (the protocols, the biohacks, the morning
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@hubermanlab
Thank you Dr. Huberman for shining a light on the most important health topics. 🔥💪
For anyone who resonates with this, I wrote a book outlining these systemic issues and providing actionable steps forward:
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This is a tax payer funded, state-sponsored, insidious massacre of children's mental and physical health. This is representative of corporate interests being valued over human lives and wellbeing. You should have the backbone to call this out
@WSJ
.
Lunchables could show up at some school cafeterias this fall—as Kraft Heinz gets a foot in the door on a potential $25 billion untapped market
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Article by
@anahadoconnor
about the deadly nexus of social media, the dietician industry, + processed food companies. It's criminal. ~$10+ trillion of industry rely on us being sick and addicted to ultraprocessed food. Don't buy it, don't eat it. Ever.
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I am thrilled to announce that my course with Commune is out TODAY. The course is titled Optimize Your Metabolism and it’s the most comprehensive, action-oriented piece of content I’ve done to date. For a short period - the first four days are FREE!!! I get DMs with all sorts of
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Proud to be in great company with
@JamesClear
@PeterAttiaMD
and Dr. Mindy Pelz. Thank you for your pre-orders on all three versions of Good Energy - hardcover, kindle and audiobook. I can’t wait for you to have this book in just 3.5 months. It is CLEAR there is a POWERFUL
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4️⃣ SIMPLE shopping rules to help reduce the chances that the packaged food you buy at the grocery store is going to contribute to your sickness, cellular dysfunction, and shorter life… only buy things that meet these 4 criteria:
1. ORGANIC
2. ZERO ADDED SUGARS
3. NO REFINED
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Sitting in the sunshine, reading TGIF, laughing so hard I choke on my coffee is my preferred way to learn about current events and spend a lovely Friday morning. GRATEFUL FOR YOU
@NellieBowles
@TheFP
🫶🏼
Subscribe subscribe subscribe!!
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The “biomarkers” that I think matter the most and will tell you if your “diet and lifestyle” interventions are working:
1. Are you filled with joy and awe?
2. Are you overflowing with gratitude?
3. Do you feel purposeful and creative?
4: Are you rooted in a wellspring of peace
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When I look at my food from the farmer's market on my countertop on Sunday mornings, I think: This is literally my body and brain of next week. And I feel joy.
I encourage you to connect with your food on this level - does the food in front of you possess the qualities you want
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I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!
Calling all my healthy followers! 🥗
I'm interviewing
@CaseyMeansMD
tomorrow on the
#FoxNewsRundown
podcast about her new book "Good Energy" and how to optimize our metabolism for limitless health.
I plan on asking her the following, but want to hear any suggestions you may
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God I love fiber. For me, it’s a magical unlock for so many aspects of health. OVER 95% of Americans fall short of the recommended minimum daily fiber intake despite much research showing fiber as a powerful tool for balancing blood sugar, supporting metabolic health, and
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WTF to EVERY healthcare provider who is not using their voice to UNAMBIGUOUSLY SCREAM that we need to change healthcare incentives towards promoting health, prevention, and eating real food. My bro
@calleymeans
gets into it with
@bariweiss
@thehonestlypod
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I would humbly argue that this is one of the most important blindspots in healthcare. We all talk about "chronic inflammation," but what is ACTUALLY causing that? It's the environment hurting our mitochondria synergistically, and the resultant underpowered cell sending out alarm
Why you feel unwell and how to start feeling better
🎤 On a recent episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast hosted by Dr. Carrie Jones, Levels Co-Founder Casey Means, MD, discusses disruptions to our cellular machinery.
@Dr_CarrieJones
@CaseyMeansMD
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ON PURPOSE with
@jayshetty
, coming soon.🎙️
For over two hours we spanned mitochondria, death, spirituality, soil, metabolic health, regeneration, the weaponization of fear, microbiome, empowerment, biowearables, love, lab testing, systems issues, symptoms, children’s health,
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Dr. Casey Means Says Ozempic Is A Band-Aid On A Problem Caused By Our Broken Healthcare System
#FoxNews
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Many spiritual traditions suggest that attachment is the root cause of all suffering. Bliss is the absence of attachment.
Cravings are the ultimate form of attachment. An insatiable wanting for more.
Our ultraprocessed food that has been systematically normalized and
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Here are FOUR reasons why I still take daily multivitamins and supplements 💊 despite already being on whole foods diet:
1️⃣ Our soil health 🌱 is under siege with modern industrial farming practices 🏭, and we are all paying the price in the form of nutrient-depleted food
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Can you tell I’m happy to see
@ShawnModel
???! 🤣 That’s my BIG smile!!! So grateful to be on Shawn’s show with my bro
@calleymeans
to talk about Good Energy. Episode will come out soon! The Stevenson family literally IS good energy! I’m just taking notes!! 📝
The magical, bold,
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Metabolic health optimization. Step 1: know your baseline - symptoms and biomarkers. Step 2: understand the pillars of environment that hurt mitochondria. Step 3: take stock of your OWN life and where your environment may be hurting mitochondria. Step 4: make changes for 3
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We’ve known this since April 2020, and yet have we seen a single public health measure to support the population in keeping blood sugar stable?
No.
Given how elevated glucose ⬆️ risk for poor viral outcomes, tips to stabilize glucose should be on every billboard in America.
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They want us to think it's complicated... Complicated = confusion = we spend more $$$ on "solutions." Eat real food.
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My alma mater. Shameful. Patients are dying of metabolic disease all throughout the hospitals there, and this is like a laugh in the face of their suffering. Show an ounce of moral leadership and get rid of these diabetes machines.
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Good Energy is out in the UK 🇬🇧 and New Zealand 🇳🇿! So grateful to
@glucosegoddesss
for her support and spreading GOOD ENERGY in the world! 🙏💓
🖇️ Pre-order Good Energy for all of tools to live your healthiest life:
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Dictionary definition of biohacking: "experimentation that improves the qualities or capabilities of living organisms."
Based on my 36 years of experimentation (aka, living), I believe the 4 ultimate biohacks are:
1. Gratitude
2. Awe
3. Curiosity
4. Being outside
My personal
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What are the lab tests you should ask your doctor for? How can you know if your cells are ACTUALLY making GOOD ENERGY?
The question you’re trying to answer with these standard blood tests is whether you are part of the 12% percent of people in the United States who meet the
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Gotta scratch your head when a weight loss MD says on national TV that “food is NOT going to treat this epidemic” … when referring to obesity.
Is this a bizarro world?
If your MD doesn’t think food is the answer to metabolic diseases, run.
@OneNationFNC
@kilmeade
@FoxNews
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@neilquinn
It's a fair question! The book is a wholesale reimagination of our relationship to our bodies and the environment and is a massive mindset shift that connects food, soil, cells, mitochondria, spirtuality, systems issues, empowerment, and getting out of the matrix in a way that I
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I interviewed the wonderful Jessie -
@glucosegoddesss
- on the
@Levels
Whole New Level podcast and we talked a bit about the prevailing notion that diabetes and obesity are genetic diseases despite mountains of evidence saying that our lifestyle plays a far bigger role.
As
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Improving our health requires understanding that we are inextricably interconnected & interdependent with everything else in the world, including soil, plants, animals, people, air, water, and sunlight. Hurting those things or separating ourselves from them will always hurt our
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I was AT Stanford during this time (2010-2014) and I can tell you one thing (sure, its correlation, not causation): I learned a LOT about about pharmacology (hundreds of hours) but didn't have a single lecture on food-as-medicine, weight lifting, stress mgmt practices, or other
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@jordanbpeterson
She has the clout + influence to transform our rigged Farm Bill and move our country towards regenerative ag, inspire the removal of toxic chemical additives to kids’ food, improve school lunches towards unprocessed whole foods… and instead she did this… sugar water for kids.
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The modern fertility crisis a mitochondrial crisis. If we don't fix the mitochondria, it won't improve.
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This should be so obvious, but it’s not.
There are 3 first principles ways to get more GLP-1 in the body to promote satiety:
1. Generate more of the cells that make GLP-1 (L-cells of the small intestine).
2. Get the L-cells to produce more GLP-1.
3. Stop GLP-1 from being
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Metabolic health is the highest leverage thing we can optimize in society. It’s the force behind every thought, every feeling, every idea, every action. And it’s screwed up in 93% of Americans bc of the irresponsible environment we’ve created. We need to fix it.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Ultraprocessed food = food equivalent of bandwagon/sheep mindset.
Natural food = food equivalent of free thinking.
Think about the subliminal messaging of food as it pertains to human empowerment, politics, and social dynamics.
Homogeneous, packaged,
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Just like DNA is a molecule, so too the foods we eat are molecules. The interaction between these two sets of molecules is in large part what determines our health outcomes. The 70 metric tons of food molecules we eat in a lifetime regulate every level of our genetics, from
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No more seed oils at
@sweetgreen
! A massive positive example for the ENTIRE food industry! MANY THANKS to sweetgreen for an incredible move for customers, health, and the planet.
I hope MANY other restaurants follow suit! Please share this news widely.
Today, we’re excited to share an exciting milestone—not just for
@sweetgreen
for our entire industry. Starting 10/24, all of our protein, veggies and grains will be cooked in extra olive virgin oil at ALL SGs—a commitment that’s *never* been made by a restaurant at our scale.
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Jan, your support has been monumental and so appreciated!
#1
in books! The connection between metabolism and heath is an idea whose time has come.
Congratulations
@CaseyMeansMD
and
@calleymeans
!!!
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What does a startup CEO actually do all day?
@SamCorcos
,
@Levels
CEO, analyzed 7,922 hours of meticulously tracked time spent in his first two years at Levels to find out. This article is a mind blowing tour de force on time management.
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"TRUST THE SCIENCE" -- yet our healthcare system can't give appropriate pre-diabetes treatment for a SINGLE patient in this study of 21,000.
The horrifying study, linked below: "no patients who received a diagnosis received appropriate treatment for their prediabetes."
There are an estimated 98 million Americans (!!!) with pre-diabetes and we’re effectively doing nothing about it.
Checking fasting glucose and monitoring your blood sugar is a very quick screen to see if you or a family member are in this category and even better with a
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Great to talk with
@thebradsmith
on
@cheddar
about
@Levels
, biowearables, blood sugar, and metabolic health. Couldn’t be a more important topic right now, as viral cases going up & we need an individual/national effort towards improving our underlying health, esp blood sugar
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Do you know what your triglyceride levels are?
Do you know how to lower them?
Did you know that your triglycerides are a far better predictor of heart disease than LDL?
More here:
@RobertLustigMD
@Levels
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Chlormequat (commonly known as Cycocel, Citadel, or Chlormequat E-Pro) is a gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitor used as a plant growth retardant to produce plants with sturdier, thicker stalks, facilitating the havesting of ornamental flowers and cereal crops. It causes fertility
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Wow - thank you ALL for your preorders.
Best Sellers 02/03/2024
#2
: Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
Casey Means MD, Author
Calley Means, Primary Contributor
$28.80
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