Plastic in Our Brains?! Dr. Casey Means Explains Why Americans Are Sicker Than Ever

Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari

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Society & Culture, Relationships

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer, and co-founded metabolic health company Levels. We sit down to discuss corruption in the food and medical industries, including how our food has changed over the years and which chemicals in and on our food we should stay away from. We also get into vaccines, why we need to question some of the studies we are seeing, the harmful effects plastic is having on our bodies, plus ways we can improve our sleep and our overall health.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.4	This is Let's Be Honest with Kristen Cavalery, a podcast all about getting real and open on everything from sex, relationships, reality TV, wellness, family, and so much more.
0:15.5	And just a fair warning, there will probably be some oversharing.
0:24.4	Casey. warning, there will probably be some oversharing. Casey Means, thank you so much for being here. Welcome to Let's Be Honest. I'm so happy to be
0:28.9	here. I am so excited. So you're at the forefront of this incredible movement right now.
0:34.4	And it's been so fun and exciting for me to watch because I'm actually
0:38.5	most passionate about health. And you are waking people up to the corruption of the food
0:44.0	industry, the medical industry. And it's just, it's been incredible to see. Thank you. So I want
0:49.5	to start for my listeners who maybe haven't heard of you yet, tell us about your background and how you kind of started figuring out that maybe things aren't what they seem.
0:58.1	Yeah. Well, for me, it was like I went into the medical field such high hopes of being a doctor that could really help people heal and help improve human thriving.
1:07.3	And, you know, I kind of got on the treadmill of the academic path. So went to Stanford
1:11.7	undergrad, Stanford Medical School, then trained to become a head and neck surgeon. And I'm like over
1:16.0	a decade into this path. And I'm, you know, you're so heads down. You're just like working,
1:19.8	working, working. And I kind of look up around me. I'm like just about to turn 30. I'm in my fifth
1:24.7	year of surgical training. And I'm like kind of popped up from everything and was just really realizing like something's really broken about our system.
1:32.6	Something's not working. American people are getting sicker every year. Our health and the wealthiest, most resourced country in the world is getting worse every year. Our life expectancy is actually going down for the past
1:45.3	four years and we spend more than 2x any other country in the world, literally. And we're an average man in
1:50.9	America is living to be 73 in Japan or Switzerland. It's 83. Like there's this tax on our health just
1:57.3	being in America. So I'm kind of deep into my surgical training, but also noticing
2:01.6	these really bad trends in health. And I couldn't shake that. So that started a journey for me of
2:07.4	really exploring like what's going on. Why are we actually so sick? Why is it getting worse? Why is
2:12.6	the spending and the access to health care not solving it? And then really looking at my own practice as an ear, nose and throat, had a neck surgeon,
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