Casey Means
Appearances
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
PCOS, essentially you have an ovary, that ovary is making hormones. And when that ovary is stimulated by excess insulin, which is the hormone in the blood that helps us take blood sugar out of the blood and into the cells, insulin levels go up in the setting of metabolic dysfunction. We basically destroy our cells with our toxic food and lifestyle. The cells can no longer process sugar to energy.
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
So the cell rejects sugar and it stays in the bloodstream. The body compensates by making more insulin to try and drive the sugar into the cell that's putting up a block because it's broken essentially. That high insulin floats all around the body and does bad things all over the body like drives cancer growth and also stimulates the ovary to make more testosterone.
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
So you have women who are supposed to be making, you know, estrogen and progesterone and very specific levels throughout the hormone cycle so that we can ovulate. And instead insulin is driving the ovary to create testosterone, which totally disturbs the balance between all the sex hormones in the female body. And we don't ovulate.
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
So you get these cysts that form because you've got an egg trying to basically like ovulate, but instead it can't because the hormones are disrupted because of insulin, which is because of metabolic dysfunction because of our food. And, we get infertility because we're not ovulating.
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
And this condition is reversible in as little as 12 weeks with dietary interventions. There is peer reviewed studies to show this. If we get our blood sugar levels under control and our insulin levels under control, we restore the hormonal balance and many women, all the symptoms will disappear and they'll be able to become fertile.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
And so I think it's just really important for everyone to find the resources like the book that explains it in clear detail. And you can sit down with the book and your lab tests and understand for yourself where you stand.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
feeling like i had to do this quick and fast forever you talk about eating slowly which i think sounds like the easiest simplest but underestimated habit so could you walk us through that it's incredible this is also my biggest challenge it's so hard especially as a surgeon like i just would wolf food down and research strongly shows that the people who eat the slowest
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
have a four times less likelihood of developing metabolic syndrome than people who eat the fastest. So literally this has nothing to do with what you're eating. It's how you're eating. So this should be very empowering for people. Cause it's like, even if you don't wanna change the actual food, change the speed at which you're eating. And that does change everything.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
The average American family is eating fewer than three meals per week at a table with the family. Like, this has become so normal now that we don't eat with other people, we eat in our cars, we eat while we're walking, we eat on the go. And I think just the key message here is that the more you can invest in sitting down at a table and eating slowly and mindfully,
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
it's literally going to have a profound impact on your core metabolic health.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
7% body fat?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Love them.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Yeah, that's such a great question. And we can't even talk about that, Jay, without talking about number four on the list, which was vegetables. All right. And I'll tell you why. So the fourth thing, which is as important as protein, is getting enough vegetables in your diet on a daily basis. So do you know how much that is, by chance? I don't.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Right, and so not a lot of people really know what's the right amount. And really, the amount of vegetables you eat has a lot to do with the amount of fiber intake you need, which 90% of America doesn't get enough fiber, and fiber is a critical ingredient of our diet. Secondly, that's where most of our micronutrients and phytonutrients are, is in those vegetables.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Thirdly, they just keep you full and satiated all the time as well. So getting enough vegetables in your diet is extremely important. The number that I've seen in a lot of fitness and nutrition gurus talk about is, it's a big number. It's like 800 grams of vegetables, which is about a quart of vegetables, right? So once again, get your scale and measure this out and see what it is.
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Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
It's not a small amount. It's like two full salads a day, but that's kind of what we need to work up to. So if you're doing that, the need for supplementation is minimal to none. Actually, I'm not a big supplement pusher. I'd much rather people get it in your diet.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
The reality of the situation is, however, it's really hard to get that much protein and that much vegetable product into your diet, right? And of course, we can't talk about vegetables without talking about making sure you're buying organic, you know, you're buying as local as possible.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
And if you can't go to ewg.org, Environmental Working Group's website, they'll give you a list of what are the most toxic vegetables and the least toxic out there right now. So look at that website and it'll give you the list. So if you're not getting enough vegetable intake into your diet, the next step is to add some supplementation to that.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
The most common supplements I recommend for people are vitamin D. We don't get enough sunlight to produce it. We're not getting enough in our diet. So most people do need some vitamin D. It needs to be dialed in based on a blood test. So you do a blood test. I like the vitamin D level to be around 50 to 80. And the vitamin D form that I like people to take is vitamin D3K2.
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The K2 is also another vitamin added in. It prevents overabsorption of calcium with the vitamin D and deposition of calcium in your blood vessels. So vitamin D3K2, then fish oil supplement as well. For the vegetarians and vegans out there, there's some great non-fish sources of fish oil as well. So I would do that as well. Magnesium is something that we're all very deficient in.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
The first thing I want to say is that the system, again, benefits off you thinking it's really complicated. It is not that complicated. Everything I learned about how to interpret lab testing, I learned after medical school. I learned it doing my own research. And I think that every American adult is totally capable of understanding their basic biomarkers, and in fact, we must.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So I would do magnesium supplement. as well. And then creatine, believe it or not, it's amino acid that has a lot of research behind it. Do you do creatine?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Five to eight milligrams every morning. Just put a scoop in your coffee and mixes in with anything. I think that's another really interesting, good one. And then I kind of then, you know, kind of do it based on what I ate the day before, right? So if I got a couple of good salads in, fine. I don't need to do anything else.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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If I didn't, I'll take a packet of AG1, which is like a phytonutrient powder, which I really like, and or a multivitamin. Sometimes as well, I'll do that too. And then protein powders are pretty much always a staple for me as well. That's the other supplement that I use.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Yeah, putting that onto other stuff, putting that into a shake, you know, shakes are very convenient. There's a really good protein powder I like called Supergut. It's actually a resistant starch and a protein powder and fiber all in one like bag. And so Supergut is a fantastic like rescue product.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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I have like if I've been on a plane for eight hours or something, you know, and I just come home and just take that and I get my nutrition in. And that's pretty much it. You know, there's other things you can do. Like if you're having trouble sleeping, there's ashwagandha, there's glycine. If you're having trouble with stress, ashwagandha is another good one for that.
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But then I'm really selective about which ones to use.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
You bring up an extremely good point. A couple points I want to make here. One is you have to become the CEO of your own health. And what I mean by that is a CEO manages a business by looking at numbers on a daily basis, right? Most people manage their health based on a feeling that they have, symptoms that they have. They're not looking at numbers.
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So becoming the CEO of your own health means knowing what are the key KPIs of your health. There's only about 10 of them. Skeletal muscle mass being one of them, body fat percentage being another, vitamin D level being another. You got to keep that dialed in, right? Because the other point I want to make with you is that when your vitamin D level is low, like at this age,
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Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
and you don't take care of it for 20 to 30 years, that's when the lack of vitamin D leads to the higher risk of Alzheimer's, leads to the higher risk of heart attack, leads to the higher risk of hormone problems. It all started 20 to 30 years before when you barely felt it. You see what I mean?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So looking at those numbers 20 to 30 years ahead of becoming sick is the key to becoming CEO of your own health and then making all those diseases a non-issue, making all the things that people die of a non-issue.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
And so what I would say is start simple and start free. Every year, if you go to the doctor, they're gonna order a very basic set of tests that usually involves a cholesterol panel and a fasting glucose test. They're gonna take your blood pressure as well. So- A lot of people might be asking, how do I figure out if I have good energy or bad energy? And it's very simple.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
You start with five essentially free biomarkers, fasting glucose, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, waist circumference, and blood pressure. They generally come standard on a physical.
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And if you have a fasting glucose less than 100 milligrams per deciliter, an HDL cholesterol above 40 for men or 50 for women, triglycerides less than 150 milligrams per deciliter, a blood pressure less than 130 over 85, and a waist circumference less than 35 for women or 40 for men, and you're not on medication... you, by our standard criteria, fit the category of essentially having good energy.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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That is essentially saying you are metabolically healthy. Shockingly, people who meet all five of those criteria not on medication currently comprise less than 6.8% of American adults. 93.2% of American adults, based on the most recent research, have at least one of those metabolic biomarkers off or not in the optimal range. So that's just step one is just know where you stand.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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And you can literally like log into your electronic health record right now and get a tape measure for your waist and figure out those things. And I think a simple way, I'll just simply say kind of what those tests mean. So fasting glucose, like I mentioned, if that's rising in the blood, it's a symbol that deep inside your cells, the mitochondria are overwhelmed.
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The mitochondria are overwhelmed from all the lifestyle things we talked about that are under our control, and they are saying we cannot process any more of this into energy, therefore we are blocking it from coming into the cell, therefore it rises in the bloodstream. That's why fasting glucose matters. It is a sign that deep inside the belly of your cell
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The cell is overwhelmed and is blocking the entry. So it's rising in the blood. Triglycerides are totally related to that because when that glucose is high and has nowhere to go and isn't being converted in that miraculous cosmic process to human energy, it converts to fat. So it can be stored because the body does not want the blood sugar to be super high.
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High blood sugar is a problem in lots of ways. It sticks to things and causes dysfunction. It causes inflammation. So the body converts it to fat and stores it in within cells or in fat cells. So that's what triglyceride means. Triglycerides is basically saying there is, again, damage within the cell. The cell is overburdened and we are becoming metabolically dysfunctional.
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So we have to print fat to take care of this excess that we can't process. HDL is a helpful part of the cholesterol family, high density lipoprotein cholesterol. It's a type of cholesterol lipoprotein, so a molecule that floats around in the blood that actually takes cholesterol from the arteries back to the liver to be processed and excreted.
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So it's, it's a way of taking cholesterol from where it could be causing problems in the blood vessels and putting it back to the liver.
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Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
And unfortunately when the liver becomes dysfunctional because of the way we're living today and becomes filled with fat, do the other, do the, do what I just spoke about with triglycerides, this process of creating the right amount of HDL gets dysfunctional and we start to see HDL decline and that's a problem. So HDL is quote unquote good cholesterol. And when it's
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that basically means that we can't pull the damaging cholesterol from the blood vessels back to the liver. So simply put, that's a lot of what you need to know about metabolic biomarkers. There are so, so, so many more. And then waist circumference, that one's kind of interesting because... it's really a proxy metric waist circumference for how much fat is around your internal organs.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
This is a type of fat that we're hearing about more and more called visceral fat. There's three types of fat, subcutaneous fat, which is the fat you can see. It's the fat that, you know, we kind of try to get rid of because we don't look as good in a bathing suit. It's actually not the fat that's gonna kill us. You know, this fat, it's not gonna kill us.
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Then there's visceral fat, which is the fat that is around our organs that makes the organs dysfunctional. And then there's intracellular fat, which is literally fat that's built up inside the cell that causes massive dysfunction. Visceral fat and intracellular fat are the two types of fat that are going to shorten your life.
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And those are both driven by insulin resistance, that process that we talked about that is fundamentally rooted in mitochondrial dysfunction. So the waist circumference is just a way of basically telling you how much fat is around my organs and therefore how insulin resistant might I be. And then the last one is the fifth one that I spoke about, which is blood pressure.
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And blood pressure, again, it roots right back to glucose and insulin and metabolism. As our insulin levels in the body rise and they rise, again, just let's make it really simple. The cell, the mitochondria is broken.
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Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
it's not working properly it can't process the glucose it creates insulin resistance because insulin resistance because insulin is the hormone that's secreted to help glucose get into the cell but if there's an insulin block essentially the insulin can't do that job and glucose rises in the blood but this the the body's like oh no the glucose is rising we need to actually secrete more insulin to drive glucose into the cell
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Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
which of course adds more burden to the mitochondria, so insulin levels rise. Well, when insulin levels rise as a compensatory mechanism for this mitochondrial dysfunction and the rising glucose levels, another impact it has is to block nitric oxide production and nitric oxide is the chemical in the blood that dilates our blood vessels and keeps our blood pressure under control.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So hopefully it's a little complex, but those five things all link back to the exact same thing, which is mitochondrial dysfunction, which is caused by the lifestyle pillars we talked about. Just to summarize, those five simple tests that usually come on every annual physical are the best place to start.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Understand where you stand on those compared to the ranges I mentioned, and that will give you a sense of where you are. And then it's really implementing the basic dietary and lifestyle strategies to give your body what it needs so we can free up the strain on the mitochondria and bring those things down.
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They will all start coming back in a normal range as you free up the mitochondria to do better work. which we do through our daily choices. Just quickly speaking to function health, that is like the next level. And that is, if it's something that's accessible to you, I recommend every single person in the world do this if they can.
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Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Because it's over a hundred biomarkers, like you said, for less than $500. less than the copay that you would pay at the doctor's office for like 10 labs. And what that will do is actually give you a hyper granular picture of what's going on inside your body and your metabolism. And I mentioned that there are three hallmarks of bad energy.
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There's chronic inflammation, there's oxidative stress, and there's mitochondrial dysfunction. And the beauty of the function health tests is that they actually have tests that will tell you about each of those. So you can really know what's going on and beautiful functional medicine interpretations that actually help you understand what they mean.
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But I think something that's, again, hopefully empowering and not too scary is that at the best hospitals and medical schools in America, like Stanford, where I went to medical school, Doctors are not learning how to interpret lab tests in a way that will help you be empowered to live a healthier life.
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We are only learning a very algorithmic way of looking at lab markers in isolation in order to prescribe medications. If LDL is high, prescribe a statin. If glucose is high, prescribe metformin. and so on and so forth. And what's really interesting is that for the biomarkers that we do not have a good drug for, we ignore them.
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Like triglycerides, you rarely hear about triglycerides, even though they're more associated with heart disease than LDL. We only hear about LDL because we have a medication for it. If uric acid is high, here's allopurinol. So we focus on the biomarkers that have a drug for them. And what they don't learn is how to look at the labs
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in concert with each other to read the tea leaves of what the labs are saying together to tell you about your core physiology. So what I just shared with you about fasting glucose, triglycerides, HDL, blood pressure and waist circumference is frankly, more than what we even learn in medical school of how they all relate back to metabolic dysfunction.