Good Energy by Casey Means Summary
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Dr. Casey Means' "Good Energy" revolutionizes health by unveiling the metabolic roots of chronic disease. Endorsed by Dr. David Perlmutter as "game-changing," this four-week roadmap connects cellular health to spiritual wellness. Could understanding your mitochondria be the missing key to vibrant living?
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The Cellular Energy Crisis Behind Modern Illness
Imagine your daily fatigue, anxiety, skin issues, and digestive problems aren't random annoyances but connected warning signals from your body's most fundamental systems. This revolutionary perspective explains why American life expectancy is declining for the longest period since the Civil War era, with 60% of adults battling chronic illness and 93% showing signs of metabolic dysfunction. When our cells can't produce energy efficiently, organs and systems begin to fail, creating a cascade effect: bad energy leads to broken cells, broken organs, and ultimately broken bodies. The modern environment has created a perfect storm for this dysfunction. We consume 3,000% more sugar than a century ago, work sedentary jobs, sleep 25% less than our ancestors, and face exposure to over 80,000 synthetic chemicals. Our medical system compounds the problem by treating each symptom as a separate condition requiring different specialists and medications, missing the common thread running through seemingly unrelated disorders. Consider how IBS patients are twice as likely to have metabolic syndrome, or how depression connects to metabolic health - the brain consumes 20% of our energy despite being only 2% of body weight, making it exquisitely sensitive to energy disruption. Even hearing loss shows strong metabolic connections, with 42% of people with elevated fasting glucose experiencing high-frequency hearing impairment versus just 24% with normal levels. Our children are experiencing an unprecedented metabolic health crisis that we've dangerously normalized. Childhood obesity has tripled since the 1970s, rising from 5% to over 18%. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, first reported in children in 1983, now affects up to 20% of all children and 80% of obese children. In Hispanic young men ages 25-30, the rate reaches a shocking 42%. Mental health issues have reached epidemic proportions as well. About 20% of children have an identified mental health condition in any given year, with 40% meeting criteria for mental health disorders by age eighteen. Between 2016-2020 alone, anxiety and depression diagnoses increased by 29% and 27% respectively. These connections aren't coincidental - they're causal. By understanding how cellular energy production affects every system in our body, we can begin to see health not as a collection of isolated symptoms but as an integrated whole dependent on our cells' ability to generate good energy.
The Medical System's Metabolic Blind Spot
Decoding Your Metabolic Health Through Testing
Food as Information: Molecular Messages to Your Cells
Reclaiming Your Biological Rhythm
Movement as Metabolic Medicine
The Mind-Body Connection in Metabolic Health
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"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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