GOOD ENERGY (Part 1): How to Feel Incredible, Avoid Disease, and Age Well

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Bad news: 93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. Their bodies struggle to convert food into the energy their cells need. And this fuel shortage underlies all sorts of conditions, from diabetes and cancer to insomnia and erectile dysfunction. Good news: Simple changes to how we eat and exercise can dramatically improve our metabolic health. This is the thesis of “Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health” by Casey Means. A Stanford-trained physician, Casey grew disillusioned with conventional healthcare when she realized that many doctors are great at prescribing pills and performing surgeries but hopeless when it comes to addressing root causes. This led her to leave traditional medicine and focus on combating metabolic dysfunction, which she believes is at the heart of America’s health crisis. Today on the show, she tells Rufus about her journey, explains why she thinks the medical system fails patients, and shares the simple biomarkers that you should check to see if you’re at risk for a deadly disease. 📱 This is part one of our interview with Casey. Part two will be available here on Thursday. But if you can't wait that long, you can listen right now on the Next Big Idea app: https://nextbigideaclub.com/app/

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:02.0	I'm Rufus Griskam and this is the next big idea.
0:10.0	Today, Casey means on how to feel incredible, avoid disease and age well. I have issues with authority. You know the hair dryer tags that say
0:36.4	warning do not remove? I remove them. Exercise classes where everyone's mirroring an instructor who's sashaying hips to the left?
0:46.0	I'm going to the right.
0:48.0	So as you can imagine, when presented with long lists of things I should not eat and should not drink, I look at them sideways.
0:57.0	I don't like living in a world that's about temptations and prohibitions and self-denial.
1:02.0	I wouldn't have made for a very good monk.
1:05.0	So what I'm submitted to the red light green light game of modern health science
1:10.0	you're not allowed to eat butter, you are allowed to eat butter, you're not allowed to eat butter. You are allowed to eat butter. You're not allowed to eat eggs.
1:15.6	Now you should eat eggs. Red wine is good for you. Wait? No it isn't.
1:20.6	I tend to go with the interpretation of the data that most appeals to me.
1:26.6	I call it scientific studies that support the life I want to live anyway.
1:31.8	I do, however, want to be
1:33.7	be healthy. I'm sure you do too, and I'm fascinated by how our bodies work. I love learning
1:40.3	from experts. As we've said before on this show, this is a golden age for the science of human
1:46.0	flourishing. But I tend to prefer the positive framing. What are all the delicious foods we can eat and ways we can move that
1:55.6	will make us feel great? Let's celebrate those. I have found a kindred spirit in
2:02.0	Casey Means whose new book, Good Energy, the surprising connection
2:06.6	between metabolism and limitless health recently hit number one on the New York Times Best
2:12.3	Seller list.
2:14.1	Casey studied medicine at Stanford
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