Casey Means, MD
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first heard Oct 2024
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So it's a bit of that dose makes the poison because our body has the ability to excrete toxins. Our body has the ability to deal with some heavy metals. Our body has the ability to probably clear some level of glyphosate. But we can't clear all of it all the time, 24 hours a day, in 100 times the quantity of all these things together.
And the research and the evidence-based thing and this cult of the science, they love to ignore that. The idea of synergistic effects, of this of this overwhelming breaking of our cellular resources is just conveniently forgotten because we study things in isolation. That's literally the definition of how a double-blind, placebo-controlled study happens.
It's one variable and one thing that you're testing. That doesn't make sense. We live in a toxic stew.
It's like with vaccines. It's like, yeah, I bet that one vaccine probably isn't causing autism. But what about the 20 that they're getting before 18 months? We don't look at it in synergistic. And so that's a big problem. And this is where the cult of the science, and I say the science specifically because science is beautiful.
Using the scientific method and using that way of inquiry into the natural world is a beautiful art. But weaponizing... papers that are often bought for or corrupted. And, you know, the leaders of some of our key medical journals have actually even said that 50% of scientific research that published ends up being wrong. So it's bought for corrupted or wrong. We rely on this.
And if one interesting trend that we're seeing in our world is that if we do choose to put dots together, use our intuition, our God given intuition, Anything other than this particular way of examining things, you are dangerous. You are dangerous. And I think that that's something we need to really question. You know, I think especially as a woman, like, and I'm thinking about having kids soon.
I'm like thinking about like, wow, like I am. I have the ability in my body to build a human, 3D print a human, pull in a soul to that human. I don't need a peer-reviewed study or a textbook to tell me how to do that. Our body and our intuition and our minds and the subtle things happening inside us are important. They are incredible.
We have now been told that you can't trust it and you are dangerous if you do that. And I think that's one of the reasons why I think parents are very frustrated right now is because parenting, I'm not a parent yet, but Callie is.
And, you know, when we're being told now that parents are the enemy for using their own judgment about their families and kids, like, I think that's probably it's deeply frustrating to people. And that's basically what we're being asked to do. Yeah.
Yeah, no, I think the point about incrementalism versus radical is the question we need to be asking ourselves. Like, we're not, yeah. And so in terms of Alzheimer's, so I think something really interesting framing is that the brain, you know, it's only 2% of our body weight, but it uses 20% of our body's energy.
And there's been this theory with Alzheimer's of like, oh, it's the plaques in the brain. It's the tau and the tangles and the beta amyloid and all these things. And so we thought, OK, well, if we can get rid of those with a drug, like maybe that it'll improve. But no Alzheimer's drugs really work meaningfully.
And more recently, there's been this understanding of like, OK, metabolic dysfunction is definitely going up. We know metabolic syndrome and diabetes are going up and the brain uses 20 percent of the body's energy. And something that's happening in the body like diabetes is also happening in the brain. There's been this interest.
Chris Palmer talks about this in such an amazing way in his book, Brain Energy. But like we've somehow decided to separate the brain from the body as if they're different things when, in fact, they're all just made of cells. They're all just made of cells that do the same things. They need to do metabolism to keep the cell working.
So we've got this organ that uses 20% of our energy, and we've got 50% of Americans with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, which is fundamentally a metabolic issue. And of course, the brain's basically underpowered. It's not getting the energy it needs, and that's going to express itself as dementia. So it's been increasing exponentially.
in parallel with everything that's happening with our increasing diabetes rates. And then the early onset dementia and Alzheimer's disease, that has tripled since 2013. So younger people, and that makes sense, though. We've got 30% of teens now with prediabetes. That was like 0% in the past. You didn't have kids with the adult onset diabetes in the past.
And so you've got now 30% of teens with prediabetes. You've got You've got middle-aged people now, 50% with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. Of course, that's also creating an energetic deficit. So this neurometabolic, neuroenergetic theory of Alzheimer's, maybe with these cells crying out for help, maybe some of these plaques that we're seeing are actually a protective mechanism.
The brain actually laying down almost like protective shielding. It's a response to an underlying metabolic deficiency. issue as opposed to the problem itself. But of course, in our paradigm, we're like, we just got to get rid of that symptom of the problem.
When in fact, actually, if we could unencumber the brain to be able to make energy properly, make good energy properly, that's why our book is called Good Energy, they would actually be able to heal itself and to have the power to do its work, which is cognitive thinking. I was just going to say, an amazing book about Alzheimer's
That just hasn't gotten as much attention as I think it should, as Dale Bredesen's book, The End of Alzheimer's, because he talks about when you really look at the research, there are about 36 different biomarkers and factors. I think he calls them like the 36 holes in the roof of what creates like if it's raining and you plug one hole, your house is still going to be filled with water.
You have to plug all 36 holes to prevent or reverse infection. alzheimer's disease and of course all these are related in some way to metabolic health but it's things like your vitamin d levels your insulin levels um the amount of uh you know movement you're getting vitamin d insulin b12 other things like that these these things that we know are part and parcel with metabolic health so
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