Dr. Casey Means

And so through the complex biology of satiety hormones and neurobiology and microbiome function,

We are driven to eat so, so, so much more.

So truly the jumping off point for anyone on the quest to better health is to eat as much real, unprocessed food from good soil as possible.

and really of any dietary philosophy they want.

Truly, I think if someone's eating real, unprocessed food from good soil who is plant-based or who is keto, they are going to have such a higher chance of meeting their body's actual fundamental needs.

And the good thing about biomarker testing is they can track for themselves if they are having good cellular function with that strategy.

There's been studies that have panned this out.

You know, we, we know that the more ultra processed food you eat, the higher risk of obviously obesity, but also chronic diseases are.

But then of course, there's an amazing study from Kevin Hall just recently where he basically locked people up at the NIH and he, for two weeks, he had them eat ultra processed food.

And for two weeks, he had them eat real food.

And he,

people ate 7,000 more calories in the two-week period when they were eating ultra-processed food versus the unprocessed food.

I say this tongue-in-cheek and with such admiration for what he had to do, but I think it's so amusing that we have this totally frankenfood, toxic food system that's largely ultra-processed.

And it took amazing Kevin Hall to basically do an NIH-funded study where people – what I say by locked is that they were –

inpatients at the NIH and every had ad lib, you know, unlimited access to food during each of those two week interventions.

So it's two weeks of ultra processed food, two weeks of unprocessed or mentally processed food, and they could eat whatever they wanted.

as much as they wanted in both groups, and then they would weigh every single bite that was left on their trays.

So they knew exactly, exactly how many calories they ate.

And literally just giving people this ultra-processed food, which is devoid of what our bodies need and therefore will drive people to eat more, they ate

uh, 500 calories more per day for a total of 7,000 calories more in that two weeks.