Dr. Casey Means

It's not enough power.

And the oxy of stress is like wildfires.

So it's kind of what's funny to me a little bit is like what's happening inside the cell is almost like what's happening like in our society.

It's like this is like living in California.

It's like blackouts, fire, fear.

And that's literally what's happening inside our cell because of the environment and the

Again, the optimistic news that you alluded to is that we actually have tons of tools and tests that can actually help us understand our level of metabolic health and even give us hints about inflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction.

And it's very easy to improve if we know what we're actually focused on.

Well, that's the health care cost, Andrew.

It's pretty great.

Any country where we've exported the standard American diet and some of the other norms of Western living are starting to see the same rates of chronic disease.

But it is worth not mincing words here.

Of all high-income countries in the world...

The United States has the worst chronic disease rates and the lowest life expectancy, and our life expectancy is going down.

And we spend about twice as much on health care than the second highest spending country in the world.

So we are abjectly failing, and that failure is predicated in our health.

cult of siloing conditions into different, you know, different specialties and not focusing on this root cause.

And I want to just be super clear.

Like there's a war being fought right now to get us to believe that siloing is the way, because as you alluded to siloing is profitable.

If you can convince doctors and people that,