Dr. Casey Means

Your journey to optimal metabolic health might be totally different from mine because I might really need to focus on the food and the sleep and the emotional health, and you might really need to focus on the toxins and the light and the movement.

And so a lot of it is actually taking stock on where the levers are in your own life.

Where are you crushing it, and is there a lot of room there?

for improvement so step one is knowing like that those are the thing those are the things in our environment that we need to to basically improve to have to give ourselves the best capacity and then of course checking your biomarkers to make sure your interventions are working but but food i think is one that is like totally unavoidable of those pillars those seven pillars food is one that most of us are getting wrong and that we really actually have to get right to

improve our metabolic health for a lot of reasons.

I mean, our bodies are basically 100% molecularly made from food.

It's so wild.

Like babies are 3D printed from food basically inside a woman's body.

It's wild to me.

And then what's so cool about the body, what brings me just immense awe every day is that like we have this conception in our Western world that the body is like a thing that we're with throughout our life because we kind of look the same and we like age slowly.

So it's like Casey is a thing and Andrew is a thing, but the body is actually a process.

And there's this amazing Taoist statement, like, life is a process, not an entity.

Yes.

And it's so much more hopeful because if I'm a process, if you're a process, then every day we're eating, we are changing the process.

Whereas if you think you're a thing, then there's no hope because I'm Casey and that's who I am and I have this disease.

And I think so much in our language actually of healthcare

both our Western sort of de-spiritualized nature, like we don't really have a lot of curiosity with process, but even like the ideas, the way we talk about disease, I have diabetes, you know, and I, and we don't even talk about diabetes cures, which now a lot of people are curing their diabetes.

We call it remission.

It's this thing that's a part of you.

And I think I just love this idea of we're evolving every day.