Dr. Casey Means

And it's really about us learning to actually read the tea leaves of what they're saying and not look at them in this algorithmic way, but how together, if they're creeping up or if many of them are a little bit high,

we need to focus all of our energy on improving mitochondrial capacity, basically, and bring those numbers down, which we can do very, very quickly.

Once you start getting the mitochondria moving through more of those substrates, a lot of them will just naturally come down.

Now in the book, I give scripts to literally talk to your doctor with, because you are gonna get pushback

Often, if you ask for a fasting insulin, I would say probably, I mean, even though doctors are waking up a little bit, like maybe 85% of people are going to have their doctors say they won't order that for them.

So I actually think there's a huge benefit.

I hate to say it, but like going outside the system, this is where I think innovation is.

has been valuable.

There's a lot of amazing companies doing direct to consumer lab testing so you can basically avoid the hassle.

And some of them are very affordable.

There's Function Health is a company that's doing 110 biomarkers, including all the key metabolic biomarkers for less than $500.

And they'll do it twice a year.

So you don't ever have to.

And then they do interpretations.

Inside Tracker, Next Health, Levels is doing labs.

And so

There's a lot of this springing up because I think people are sick of fighting with their doctors to get a crumb of information about their health.

And we should probably be testing these, I would say, three to four times a year.

And the beauty is that I think a lot of what keeps people down in the health world is that they're confused about what to do.

There's a lot of noise.