Dr. Casey Means

So releases it almost as a neurotransmitter, a purogenic neurotransmitter that massively activates the immune system to come and help.

But the immune system comes and is like, not much we can do for you here.

Because the problem is not something that the immune system can help with, like grabbing a bacteria and lysing it or taking care of some cells infected with the virus.

The problem is outside the body.

It's the environment.

So you end up getting this tornado of dysfunction, of mitochondrial dysfunction caused by the environment, leading to the cell danger response, which leads to innate immunity.

And then on top of this, you get the oxae of stress, which is the third piece of the trifecta, which is essentially these mitochondria trying so hard to do their work, but they're not working properly.

So they create damaging metabolic byproducts called oxae of stress, free radicals that cause more damage.

So this is happening in the nose.

It's happening all over the American body because of our environment.

So you've got these tornadoes of interrelated physiology of mitochondrial dysfunction all

chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, which if you start going to the research as a clinician who's focused on symptoms and confusing those for the disease and look at what's the pathophysiology of arthritis?

What's the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's dementia?

What's the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes, obesity, fatty liver disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome, erectile dysfunction?

it all traces back to this trifecta that no medication or surgery, you obviously can't operate on oxidative stress, you can operate on the downstream symptoms.

So that's the real secret that I really feel like we need to reorient the healthcare system around since 90% of healthcare costs

go towards treating the downstream symptoms of these and for every marginal dollar we're spending on treating symptoms we're getting the rates are going up because they're doing nothing to actually affect that trifecta but to really make it simple

I like to think of this trifecta of what I call trifecta of bad energy, trifecta underlying metabolic dysfunction of chronic inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress as chronic inflammation is biochemical fear.

It's response to a threat.

Mitochondrial dysfunction is kind of like rolling blackouts.