Dr. Casey Means

If you go to the science and look at the real physiology is

metabolic dysfunction.

So that's kind of the landscape of what metabolic dysfunction is and how it's kind of creating a big blind spot in the health care system that really represents an outdated way of categorizing disease that unfortunately is killing us, I would say.

Yes, absolutely.

So

The mitochondria are the structure within the cells.

We have 40 trillion cells.

And each cell might have a handful or many thousand mitochondria.

And they are the magical part of the cell that does that conversion process of food breaking down and then converting to energy, translating it to a currency of energy our body can recognize.

And so...

Currently, what's happening is that our environment, the environment that our cells exist in across every single cell,

facet of our life over the past 50 to 75 years has changed rapidly.

You look at how our food system has changed from whole real food and good soil to industrial food.

Our sleep habits have changed.

We're sleeping less.

It's very fragmented.

Our movement patterns have changed.

We're sitting 80% of the waking day.

Our time in nature has changed.

We actually are indoors as Americans, 93% of a 24 hour periods that totally changed our relationship with light.