Casey Means, MD
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first heard Oct 2024
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billion metric tons of plastic produced on planet earth since about 1907 with when plastic was commercialized and the interesting thing about plastic is that when it breaks down it acts like a xeno estrogen an exogenous estrogen molecule that can literally bind to our estrogen receptors and act like estrogens so now we've got you know we've got you know this like we've got plastic
effing everywhere it's literally in the air we're breathing the nanoparticles it's in our food it's in our water it's in everything um and we've now found plastics in every human organ so of course that's affecting our bodies and our young girls bodies it's actually affecting our bodies in utero there was a recent study that was done that showed a hundred percent of placentas that were dissected had microplastics in them so that's one number two look at the pesticides
So there are pesticides actually where their molecular activity is to increase aromatase, the enzyme that converts testosterone to estrogen. So atrazine, which is banned in Europe, but we spray 70 million pounds of it per year in the U.S., increases aromatase, which converts testosterone to estrogen. Illegal overseas and illegal. It is – we buy it from other countries.
So China and Germany and other countries are selling us a chemical of which 70 million pounds are sprayed on our food, invisible and tasteless, which upregulates aromatase and converts testosterone to estrogen. So that's number two. And then you look at just the fat that we have on our bodies.
So fat, and especially visceral fat, the metabolically active fat around our midline, that is a metabolically active organ that actually converts testosterone to estrogen. So we are living in this wildly estrogenic era. environment that is created by humans and it's all invisible. And, and, you know, again, it's like, how would you even do the study right to show that?
And yet it's, if you put the pieces together, it's very clear. Now go into later life and talking about estrogens. We've got a huge percentage of American women on birth control pills. That's of course, post, hopefully post puberty, but we're, we're putting women on exogenous estrogens, for acne, for PCOS, for menstrual irregularity, sometimes, of course, for actual birth control.
But it's very ubiquitous now in the environment. And it's like, when you kind of know this stuff, you're like, How are we allowing this to happen? And then, of course, it's affecting boys, too. Right. You know, and so I kind of just think about this world we're living in where it's tons of estrogens. It's not like there's a bunch of exogenous testosterone. Right.
It's not like the plastics are also stimulating testosterone. So you've got these estrogens. Then we're.
barreled with sugar and it's literally like it's in our kids school lunches the sugar everywhere sugar is driving the visceral fat in kids which is turning estrogen testosterone so it's like we live in a world that's basically feminizing us which for women that's going to make puberty early for men it's going to feminize them you know and then we also have an entire food system that driving visceral fat to make us
more estrogen sort of rich. And what is this doing? I think in a lot of ways it's depleting American vigor, right? Like we're living in this estrogen stew that's hard to get away from.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I think Callie's getting into something also that I think is part of the reason why... I mean, there are a lot of... Fortunately, there are a lot of doctors speaking out right now, and I have so much, like, gratitude for all the other, not only doctors, but, like, NPs, DOs, chiropractors, like, nurse practitioners, all these amazing people who are speaking up and getting a lot of shit for it.
But this is very tribal, you know? And I think that when you think about... And it's hard. Like, this is a primal instinct to not break out of the pact and to not go against what the norm is.
So I think in a lot of ways that we're dealing with like here is going to come down to like how courageous are we willing to be to move humanity back and by humanity very much also the Earth's health because they're interconnected. They're one in the same. How courageous are we going to be to stand up for that? Or are we going to let things slip through our fingers?
And I think the tribe, when I was in medical school, like it's amazing how
Because of the interest and the fact that Stanford got a $3 million grant from Pfizer while I was there to revamp the curriculum, and the fact that the American Diabetes Association that makes clinical guidelines is getting millions of dollars from Coke and Cadbury, and the American Diabetes Association is getting millions of dollars from Mead Johnson that makes formula, and Abbott Nutrition that makes formula, and vaccine companies that make flu vaccines.
The fact that the money, I mean, 8,000 major conflicts of interest were just reported at the NIH with food and pharma. So at every level, the medical guidelines that if you step out of, you are at risk for litigation as a doctor and the NIH, you know, like, you know, this thing that we all respect, tons of conflicts of interest and the medical schools accepting money.
The tribe that then you become a part of as a trainee is a tribe that only hears one thing. And so I have a lot of compassion for doctors because I was I did go through medical school and not learn anything. any of the things that I had to learn after to actually figure out how to help myself and others truly generate foundational cellular health to be healthy.
I just look back at what I've had to learn since medical school. I learned about basically Organ specific physiology, pharmacology. And then in residency, I learned how to do surgery. And then, of course, throughout the whole thing, I learned how to bill. But that that is ultimately those are not the tools that actually generate foundational cellular health.
You know, 80 percent of medical schools in the United States don't require a single nutrition course, not one minute of nutrition. And yet 90% of our health care costs are tied to diseases. The things that are torturing American lives are tied to food. And doctors, it's not a hammer in our toolbox.
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