The Key Signs You're Not Healthy & How To Fix It w/Casey Means, MD EP 1252

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

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🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Today's guest is Dr. Casey Means, the Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tech-enabled tools that can inform smart, personalized, and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Dr. Means’s perspective has been recently featured in the the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Hill, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more. In this episode, you will learnLife Hacks to improve your overall metabolism. How your mind can control our metabolism.How to achieve metabolic flexibility. The core definition of health. For more, go to lewishowes.com/1252 Mel Robbins: The “Secret” Mindset Habit to Building Confidence and Overcoming Scarcity: https://link.chtbl.com/970-pod Dr. Joe Dispenza on Healing the Body and Transforming the Mind: https://link.chtbl.com/826-pod Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds with David Goggins: https://link.chtbl.com/715-pod

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0:00.0	It's not working. We're getting sicker. Every single year we're getting sicker,
0:04.5	we're getting fatter, and we're getting more depressed as a country. And I think the key problem
0:08.9	with this is that... Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howe's former pro-athlete
0:16.0	turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message
0:21.5	to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today.
0:27.5	Now let the class begin. You went from I guess being a doctor to saying well how can I help people
0:37.0	in a holistic approach to preventing chronic illness and disease. And I'm hearing you say that it
0:41.9	starts with metabolic health, is that correct? Yes. So what is metabolic health then for people
0:47.3	and how can they optimize this? Yeah. So well first of all I think you hit the nail on the head. There
0:53.7	is a movement and a tribe of doctors who are sort of waking up and realizing that we are missing
1:01.6	the elephant in the room of modern American healthcare. And the elephant in the room is that
1:07.8	first of all the vast majority of things that are killing Americans today are conditions based
1:14.2	in our dietary and lifestyle choices over the course of our lifetime, which means that we have
1:18.8	huge amount of agency in changing our faith in terms of these diseases. How many diseases would
1:24.5	you say are caused by food and nutrition alone or diet? Nine of the 10 leading causes of death
1:30.9	in the United States are either not only just caused by food and lifestyle but are directly
1:36.9	attributable to dysfunctional blood sugar or are worsened by elevated blood sugar. Really?
1:42.3	Nine of the 10. What's the 10th one? Well to go through the ones that we're like what we're
1:47.3	talking about. So we're looking at things like Alzheimer's dementia, which is now being called type
1:54.5	three diabetes, which is so related to blood sugar, heart disease, type two diabetes. Cancer is
2:01.2	very much driven by blood sugar. Chronic kidney disease, which is very much a problem of the small
2:06.7	vessels in the kidney becoming narrowed in part because of metabolic dysfunction and erratic blood
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