Casey Means, MD
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Yeah. So just like Callie, you know, we grew up in D.C. I was I loved biology, went to Stanford Medical School, went on to do surgical residency and head and neck surgery, climb the ladder, you know, do what every good medical student and resident is supposed to do, climb the academic ranks, publish papers, et cetera. And so I was heads down in that journey. And.
Just like Kelly's saying, like with what I think is happening with the American people right now and really more globally, like there was something inside of me that was whispering and then speaking a little louder. And then finally was a deafening call to me that like something is not right. Like I'm operating. I'm working eight hours a week.
I'm operating, you know, two, three, four or five surgeries a day. And, you know, in some ways, I feel good about that. You know, people, maybe their sinusitis is a little better for a little while. But fundamentally, when you pop up for just a second, which they don't want you to do in health care, you know, everyone's working their tails off.
But when you pop up for just a second and look around at what is happening to American health, children's health, health across the lifespan, as well as global health, it's a disaster. It's literally a disaster. And again, this isn't... People will say that's alarmist, but I... You know, in trying to understand, like, why don't I feel right about my work?
I just started looking at the data in a different way. And I started to look at what's happening with health trends. And if you just kind of run through the list of what's happening, it's unbelievable. Like we are getting destroyed and it's very recent and it's accelerating. The stats speak for themselves. You know, you know this very well. Seventy four percent of Americans are overweight or obese.
50% now of American adults have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. These were diseases where there was 1% of Americans in 1950 had type 2 diabetes. Now it's 50% of Americans have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. Alzheimer's, dementia are going through the roof. Young adult dementias have increased like three times since 2012. So early onset dementias, we're seeing...
You know, this one in two Americans are expected to have cancer in their lifetime now. One in two. And young adult cancers are going up 79% in the last 10 years. We've got, of course, the autism rates are absolutely astronomical. One in 36 children has autism now in the United States. That was one in 150 in the year 2000.
And in California, where I live, it's one in 22, one in 22 with a lifetime neurodevelopmental disorder. We've got infertility going up 1% for a year. 25% of men now under 40 have erectile dysfunction, a quarter of the country. You know, this is fundamentally a metabolic disease. We've got 77% of young Americans can't serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.
We've got autoimmune diseases. Some studies are saying they're going up 13% per year. It's just, it's really unbelievable. And I could go through so many more diseases. Of course, we've got heart disease, which is almost totally preventable as the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per year.
And I think what, as I kind of just looked around, and again, these are just statistics, I started trying to put the pieces together.
why is this happening why are these all going up all at once and that led me on what is now a seven eight year journey ultimately leaving the surgical world putting down my scalpel forever because what i realized is that when you go to the science with a root cause perspective you go back to pubmed with a slightly different perspective not how do i treat these diseases once they emerge but why are they happening you see a very obvious blaring answer which is why we had to write a book about it which is that it's all caused by metabolic dysfunction
A term that I never learned in medical school. I learned about metabolic syndrome and the different individual diseases that make it up. But there is a problem. There is a fundamental breaking of our core cellular biology that is caused by our diet and the world we're living in, the modern world we're living in today.
that is crushing the very way that the human body and our human cells can transmit food energy to life energy, to cellular energy. And so our bodies are essentially, I mean, fundamentally, because metabolic health is how we make energy in the body,
the way that our environment is now synergistic to you storing our metabolic health and the science is very clear about this it's basically like all of us are a little bit dead while we're alive that's what metabolic dysfunction is it's less energy in the body we're underpowered and that's very dark like when you step back and and say okay This is clear from the research, and I never learned it.
I didn't learn it at Stanford Medical School. I didn't learn it in my surgical residency. And we could fix it. We could fix it really quickly if we all popped up and woke up and looked at the data and put pieces together. But of course, we're not trained to connect dots. That's not our job in medicine. We are trained to follow algorithms and to be reactive. And so I think, you know, just to sort of
kind of back up to the bigger picture of why we're so passionate about this. I think that the reason there's a Maha movement, the reason that people are so passionate about your podcast that talks about this so much, people know that something's not right. And people know that this health issue is the tip of the iceberg. of what's actually happening in our world today. It is a reflection.
Our human health is simply a reflection of the destroyed ecosystem of our globe. The fact that we have forgotten that we're completely connected to nature and we're completely interdependent with nature. But the health crisis is simply a reflection of a destroyed ecosystem. And humans have become...
so powerful and so technologically advanced and so connected in the recent decades that we now actually do have the power to both destroy the world and destroy our health. And the health is just the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger thing happening that is existential. And I think that's... We all want kids to be healthy. We all want humans to be healthy.
But this is also... It's interconnected with all the systems and all the issues. And that's... I think it's hard for people to totally articulate that, but that is what's happening. And we actually have a choice right now. And I do believe this is the moment that we need to decide, are we going to address these interdependent issues?
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