Dr. Casey Means

Oh, your blood pressure is high, we need to bring it down.

But what I'm inviting people to do is understand a little bit about each test and then read the tea leaves of what it's telling us about our mitochondria.

So let's start with fasting glucose.

So fasting glucose, when you look at these studies that I'm referring to, they call optimal less than 100%.

So to define whether you were in that 88% or 93%, you had to essentially be in their optimal range for all biomarkers, not on medication.

So I'll quickly run through what their ranges were.

My ranges for optimal are tighter than these.

But fasting glucose less than 100%.

triglycerides less than 150, HDL above 40 for men or 50 for women, hemoglobin 1C less than 5.7%, total cholesterol to HDL ratio less than 3.5 to 1%,

Waist circumference less than 35 inches for women or 40 inches for men and blood pressure less than 120 over 80.

If those things were in those ranges and you weren't on medication for blood sugar or blood pressure or whatnot, you were considered optimally metabolically healthy.

That's now 6.8% of Americans.

All of these biomarkers are easy to change in one to two months, I would say, with simple lifestyle habits.

But so key to understand about the triglycerides, we don't want to confuse triglycerides with eating more fat.

Triglycerides are a storage form of excess carbohydrates in the blood.

So this is why it can tell us something about, and I know you and Rob Lustig talked about this at length.

And how it's helping us with that tapestry of understanding the trifecta of bad energy is that if you think about it, let's just go back to that cell and that poor mitochondria that's being absolutely decimated by our environment and its capacity is low.

Okay.

So that mitochondria is like, I can't process glucose or fatty acids to ATP very well.

So I'm going to block