Dr. Casey Means

There's a lot of different strategies.

Do I do paleo, keto, carnivore, vegan, Mediterranean?

Do I do HIIT or Zone 2 or eccentric?

It's like there's so much noise.

And the beauty with having a plan for understanding your biomarkers regularly is that you can cut through all the noise.

Try a strategy, see where you stand, retest in a few months, and see if you're moving in the right direction.

You don't have to trust your doctor.

You don't have to trust me.

You don't have to trust anyone.

You can literally trust your own labs.

And I say to people, if your labs are optimal, and the ranges I just mentioned are not optimal, you want to actually get to better than all of those if you want to be optimal.

If your key metabolic biomarkers are optimal...

if you feel absolutely freaking incredible and you have no symptoms, then you're probably doing the right strategy, whatever that is, vegan, keto, whatever, like an exercise in your lifestyle, because that is showing that your cells are fundamentally working properly.

So I think that's just a really empowering message.

Now there's phenomenal companies that are cropping up to basically help

allow people to do this on their own schedule which i think is really the future of health and actually will help lessen i think some of the intensity of the diet wars you know because it's like people can just say like i trust my strategy i know i'm doing what's right for me because like look at all my biomarkers and i feel great you know so yeah what used to be the before and after um

I think on the highest level, it's about running through what are the science based things that we know in our environment can lead to metabolic dysfunction.

and take honest stock of how those factors are playing out in your life, and then choose a few to start moving in a different direction.

So the ones that I think are ones that we can really control, um, and that are, we know based on the science are impacting our mitochondrial metabolic health is the food, the sleep, the movement, the emotional health, the toxins, our relationship with light and our relationship with temperature.

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