Dr. Casey Means

that their 10 different symptoms are separate things, then they're going to 10 different specialists' office.

Meanwhile, 75% of American adults are overweight and obese, some of the highest in the world.

A full 50% of American adults now have prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

50%, 30% of teens have prediabetes.

40% of Americans have a mental health diagnosis.

Cancer is set to reach 2%.

2 million cases this year in 2024, highest ever in recorded history.

Alzheimer's is going up.

Fatty liver disease is affecting 40% of adults, 18% of teens.

Autoimmune disease is skyrocketing.

Infertility is going up at huge rates.

All these things are going up all at once in the US and, yes, in many of the other countries that are eating our diet.

And there's no sign of it slowing down.

And so that's really...

If you look at the research through this different lens, you'll find that all of those diseases trace back to metabolic dysfunction caused by our environment that no shot, pill, or surgery can really address unless we unpack the environmental piece.

This is the key question for how we can get healthy.

And it's really about creating capacity in the body to turn more potential energy to usable energy, as opposed to

taking that potential energy and shunting it to a storage form it's all just like i think about everything visually and i'm like you've got the circular cell from high school biology textbook inside or all the little mitochondria with the squiggly lines inside and it's just like there's x's through those mitochondria so instead of you know after glycolysis and you've got the pyruvate instead of going through the mitochondria it's being shuttled into something

Allison, I mean, this is fundamentally the cause of insulin resistance because when the body senses that the mitochondria can't do that conversion process, the cell basically says, because I can't convert this, I don't have the capacity to convert it to usable energy.

I'm going to take the substrates and I need to block them.