Casey Means, MD
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first heard Oct 2024
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And there was an amazing Lancet paper from a couple of years ago that showed that if we just got on top of some of the basic modifiable factors of our metabolic health, we could slash Alzheimer's rates from happening.
So, you know, I think, yeah, fundamentally, it's one more branch on the tree that is rooted in this metabolic dysfunction in our body, which is fundamentally rooted in three processes that uniquely really hurt the brain, which is oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and chronic inflammation. These are the three hallmarks of metabolic dysfunction.
And the brain is so sensitive and such a complex, high processing power organ that these core cellular disturbances that make up metabolic dysfunction, which are caused by our environment and cannot really be addressed with drugs, mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, they're showing up so prominently in the brain.
You were talking about this with Max Lugavere. Yeah. Max Lugavere.
Well, this is coming out every day. We're hearing about a new premier researcher who's published hundreds of papers in their field who literally are... Western blots are one of these things you see in scientific papers that basically show you protein levels. Yeah.
copied and pasted Western blots in like papers across their career, like just made up data that then has served as foundational dogma for future research. So you think about the ripple effect.
Yeah. And so this but this is it really gets back to the core problem that's above all the problems, which is an incentive problem. Like it's a simple economic incentive problem that's basically causing all these problems. And I think it's that what we're striving for in this country is ultimately economic growth and value. That is what we care about.
And so, you know, in each industry, you see people fighting for that, including at the NIH, including researchers. We're all motivated by this carrot that is destroying us. And yeah, it's very, very dark because, yeah,
And they're living eight years longer.
Oh, yeah.
Eat that pizza. You know, it's like the only place in the world I can eat gluten because it doesn't destroy my gut.
And I think this is why the freedom of speech issue is actually so important and so existential, because the thing that gives me hope right now, like this all sounds dark, but we're both extremely optimistic. But if the ability to talk about these issues is taken away, that is when I would lose hope. Right. Because the fact that, you know, independent media is.
is the most listened to form of media on planet earth right now that is a good thing we can still discuss ideas and the light can connect across the globe but when you start severing that ability like there's a beautiful force happening right now i think we all see it like people are waking up people understand that there's a problem like we see this every day and you know twitter has its issues and whatnot but like people are talking and connecting from around the world to try and
figure out how to solve these issues that we all know on some level in the quietness of our heart are a really big, big deal, and that the time is now. And if that gets taken away, I worry about what's going to happen.
Should we rethink the Constitution? Is the First Amendment a major roadblock?
I also just can't imagine like if what's Callie's talking about from the top is happening and putting voice to power to some of these things that people feel and people know if this is actually right now it is silenced at the top. We went through four years of COVID without a single health care leader at an agency ever telling us to get on top of our metabolic health and how to do that ever.
And yet people were talking about it. So if we are able to give voice at the highest level to these concepts, I just wonder also what that ripple effect through our country is going to be like when people are part of that tribe and can actually speak about it without the fear of being called, you know... just totally all right, you know, crazy person for even talking about these things.
That grassroots momentum that I think could happen would be incredibly powerful where we can all come together to work on this because as opposed to it being adversarial with the top, it's connected to what the top is talking about. We so believe, you know, parents don't want their kids getting sick. We don't want to be sick. We don't want to see our parents dying of Alzheimer's and cancer.
And all of these diseases, there is this pervasive thread that Americans are lazy and they don't want to be healthy. I was indoctrinated with that message as a medical student and as a surgical resident. It's not true. People want to be healthy. There's a huge system rigged against them. You know, we've got people don't want to be feeding their kids this dead trash food that comes in a package.
But it is what is cheaper because of corrupt policies at the top with the farm bills. You know, people don't want their kids to be eating this plastic meat in school. But, you know, Lunchables and Kraft Heinz and the USDA forged a deal that's now putting Lunchables in schools that serve seven billion meals to children per year.
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