Casey Means, MD
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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I didn't learn at Stanford Medical School that 95% of the people on the USDA Food Guidelines for America Committee had a conflict with the food industry. I didn't learn that there were 8,000 conflicts of interest at the NIH. I didn't learn that there are 8 billion tons of plastic on planet Earth that are degrading into estrogen analogs.
I did not learn that there are 6 billion pounds of pesticides sprayed on our global food supply every single year, most from China and Germany, and that these are literally tied very strongly to Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer, obesity, mitochondrial dysfunction, infertility.
ADHD, liver dysfunction, I didn't learn that, you know, simply taking 7000 steps per day can slash your risk of obesity, type two diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, even gastric reflux by 40 to 60%. And the average Americans walking 3500 steps per day, like we're literally just not moving as a country. And if you just walk a little
bit, 7,000 steps, which takes like 45 minutes, you slash your risk of every major, you know, chronic disease. I didn't learn that we need to be getting sunlight because circadian biology dictates our cellular health. Like we are diurnal animals that have biologic processes that happen during the day and other biologic processes that happen at night.
And the way your body knows whether it's day or night is if you get photons hitting your retina and your skin cells. Pretty basic, pretty foundational for human health. Didn't learn anything about it. Didn't learn anything about sunlight. Didn't learn anything about photons. Didn't learn anything about sleep. You know, we're sleeping 20% less on average than we were 100 years ago.
And sleep is a huge risk factor. You can, in an experimental setting, take a young, healthy person and subject them to sleep deprivation for five nights and they become pre-diabetic. Well, 50% of Americans are pre-diabetic and type 2 diabetic and we're not sleeping well. And I didn't learn not one minute on sleep. So all the things and so many more, and of course, nothing about nutrition.
You know, and Marty Makary talks about this, like, I certainly didn't learn that medical error and medication is the third leading cause of death in the United States. I learned that patient comes in and I need to label their diagnosis and give them a pill. So When I speak of the tribalism, it's like I have so much compassion for doctors who feel stuck right now. They're stuck in a broken system.
The tribe that they're a part of has taught them a certain set of things. There are huge trillions of dollars of interest to make the things that they learn a specific myopic lens. And... Putting together dots is risky because if you step outside the guidelines, you're at risk for intense litigation and potentially ridicule.
I mean, I'm called pseudoscientific alt-right, you know, woo-woo caucus all the time. And so it's scary. And I think that fundamentally this is, again, why it comes down to like this is actually more of a consciousness and spiritual issue because it's like we need to pray for courage. We need to sit down every morning and decide what we want for the future. What do we want? We're all players.
We're all important. We all need to use our voices. Being complicit, like what future do we want and what are we willing to do for it? And get our priorities straight. Is our priority like our house and our mortgage and our boat and our comfortable life that's killing us? Or is it to elevate, to be stewards of the future and of the planet and to make some harder choices
And I think one thing I would just say, if there are doctors listening, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but like this tribe on the other side, you know, that I think we're all in of like promoting health, like it's beautiful and people are really healthy and happy. And it's not that hard and it's not that expensive.
And everyone is welcome here in this tribe of trying to move humanity towards more health. harmonious future. And everyone is welcome. It's bipartisan. It's really about, like Brigham was saying, this is about team humanity. And team humanity always by extension will be team planet because they're interconnected. And so I think we need to break out of that sort of more
our past, you know, human selves of tribalism and really realize like, we need to be brave, we need to be courageous, we need to fight for life. And, and it's pretty, pretty bright and wonderful when we start doing that.
I would just add a few more dates. I think one thing about the research, we're one of the only countries in the world where the burden of proof for harm, we allow these chemicals to just enter our food system. We have 10,000 chemicals in our food system. Europe, only 400 because they have to show that it's safe before they use it.
We're allowed to use it and then only if there's issues that crop up do people have to do research. There's this ridiculous
GRAS generally recognizes safe designation which is essentially a company self assesses whether the chemical that they are creating is generally recognized as safe no one's overseeing it and Brigham talks about this like compassion for the FDA they're overwhelmed there's a lot of stuff to do it's kind of like a hoarder's house where do we even start like I don't necessarily know if I buy that.
I think that it's pretty bad and bought off that we have all these chemicals. But they basically just have to self-designate if it's generally recognized as safe and then it can go into our food system. One thing that I find really interesting is like that I really reflect on a lot is like, what is the difference between a food chemical and a drug?
They're all just synthetic molecules that are made in factories, in labs by scientists. Do you know what the difference is? Intended use. So basically, if the intended use is for food, you can synthesize almost anything you want and put it in food.
We are being mass drugged and poisoned in our food system with 10,000 virtually unregulated chemicals, which have bought off papers saying that they are safe. I mean, you look at what happened with all the Monsanto litigation about non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. They had to release...
this whole thing called the monsanto papers they were declassified where they ghost writ scientific they ghost wrote scientific papers saying that glyphosate is safe so there's all this corruption in there where basically we have 10 000 unregulated chemicals in our food system and we're getting sick as hell obviously and then you've got the evidence-based people saying well we need to have a 10-year longitudinal study to show that glyphosate is causing xyz disease and it's like obviously that's not the right approach because first of all
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