Casey Means, MD
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first heard Oct 2024
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And are we going to make the effort and be courageous enough to fight for this? Or are we going to let ourselves be told that there's nothing wrong? Nothing to see here while our health and the health of the planet is just absolutely being destroyed. So that's what our mission is.
And I would just say also, if you do step back and look at everything holistically, one of the biggest problems with the healthcare industry right now is that it's so siloed. We have over 100 different medical and surgical subspecialties. And the business model of American healthcare right now is volume. It's how many people can you see. And so that's what you get paid for.
You don't get paid for outcomes. You get paid for volume. And so- That has incentivized a structure of health care where it's most profitable to actually be seen by as many specialists as humanly possible. And that's what the average American is dealing with.
They go to the primary care doctor with a list of issues and they get eight, 10 referrals and they spend their life going through revolving doors of these different health care. offices and not actually really feeling better and they feel disappointed. And that's why I think people are frustrated.
So we've got all these doctors who are incentivized to really be head down in their specialty lane and not actually step out and look at the big picture of how things are connected when in fact it's all connected. We don't see the body anymore. And I'm just telling you this from like sheer experience of being In medical school, we are not trained to see the body as a unified system.
We're trained to see it as 20, 30 different parts. And so no one's seeing the forest for the trees. But like Kelly's saying, look at what's happening. You look at what's happening with kids. We've got ADHD through the roof, autism through the roof. These are neurodevelopmental issues. Then you look at midlife. Well, Women and men are depressed. We have huge rates of mental illness. 25% of women.
25% of women now are on SSRI. I mean, we're living in like the wealthiest, safest country in human history and 25% of people are on SSRI. That's insane. Then you go into menopause, perimenopause, that age group, and it's sort of brain fog. And then we have full-blown Alzheimer's going up. So we've got all these neurodevelopmental issues and neurodegenerative issues sort of across the lifespan.
And, you know, then you look at kind of the hormonal side of things. We've got girls going through puberty much earlier than they ever were. You know, we are the, of continents on Earth, we are the earliest puberty rates right now. That's gone down on an average six years since 1900. Our puberty rates are way earlier. So girls are reaching sexual maturity at like age 10.
Then you've got in midlife, you look at women and infertility is the roof. We've got PCOS is affecting 26% of women. This is a metabolic fertility issue. It's the leading cause of infertility in the country. Then we look at older age and like menopausal symptoms are a disaster for women.
This is why a book like The New Menopause is like the number one book in the country for a while because women are desperate. So if you step back and look at all these different things, we've got these neuro issues throughout the lifetime all exploding. These hormonal issues throughout the lifetime all exploding.
it's happening all over the place but no one stopping asking why like why is this happening instead we put adhd in a bucket we put depression anxiety bucket we put alzheimer's in a bucket um and so that's that's really the problem and i think you know when you think about some of these things it's like we're becoming infertile and we're losing our minds across the lifespan like what the hell is happening like that's what these diseases these buckets of diseases represent and i think
That's why I think it's... We talked about health is the tip of the iceberg of fundamentally a planetary issue. But the planetary issue is the tip of the iceberg of what I think is really, really going on here, which is a spiritual issue. We are not fighting for life in this world anymore. And I think that's more of a consciousness issue. We talk about, why is no one covering this? It's like...
I think people see it. I think in some way we have like totally lost respect for like the miraculousness of life. That's what our actions are reflecting. Like we know a lot. We have the technology, the money and the resources to fix all of this, the planet and health. And we're not. And that's why I think there's something darker happening on like the consciousness level.
And I think we could get our way out of this if we like, I think it's going to be hard to get our way out of this. If we stick to like partisan politics and quibbling about individual policy ideas, I think it has to start with like, are we committed to life and to awe and to connecting with source and then listening and moving our way out of here? Or are we not? Yeah.
And if we choose not, which is what I think we're doing, I mean, I think there's huge light happening because that's why everyone's interested in this. That's why a lot of people are interested in this issue right now. But, like, if we don't, like, I do think we're on the road to existential disaster because we're that powerful now. And so, you know, I think...
So step one is us deciding, like, what choice do we want to make in this lifetime? Do we want to do we want to believe that humans are that life is a miracle? This universe is a miracle. Our bodies are miracles. And we want to connect with God in this lifetime. We want to build and respect these temples that are interconnected with the earth to do that. Or do we not?
And like, that's the choice we have right now. And I think we have to take that very seriously. And I think a lot of the political stuff that's happening, Maha, it's all just reflection of people. wanting to find a way to fight for life and not knowing how. But on the biggest level, that's what I think is kind of happening here.
Well, if you ask the New York Times, they'll write a headline that says girls are going through puberty weight weight earlier and no one has has any idea why. And of course, that's because there's not a double blind placebo controlled peer reviewed, you know, RCT in a in a journal that can exactly pinpoint the one reason why it's happening. But again, if we put the dots together.
Which, of course, I'm going to be called like not evidence based for saying that what's happening in our environment right now. So what drives early puberty is excess estrogens. Right. We're like we're pushing estrogens to basically, you know, spark that whole process of puberty. Well, look at our world. Where are these? Why would we be having extra estrogens?
Well, let's look at our environment, the plastics. So we've got plastics, as you know, everywhere. I love you were talking about this, I think, with Brigham, like you've got the metal cups and I love it. But like there have been eight.
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