Take Control of Your Metabolic Health with Dr. Casey Means | The Metabolic Link Ep. 43

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Jun 18, 2024

Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford-trained physician and co-founder of Levels, shares her inspiring journey from a head and neck surgeon to an advocate for metabolic health. She discusses how personal experiences with family illness sparked her mission. Dr. Means highlights environmental factors affecting mitochondria and offers practical steps to enhance metabolic health. She emphasizes the interconnection of trauma, emotional well-being, and cellular health and provides actionable tips for a sustainable lifestyle that promotes energy and vitality.

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ANECDOTE

Personal Wake-Up Call To Metabolic Medicine

Casey Means left surgical residency after severe personal health decline and healed by restoring lifestyle habits in two months.
Her mother's decades of missed metabolic warning signs and premature death drove her shift to metabolic medicine.

ANECDOTE

Family Story Of Missed Metabolic Signs

Casey Means recounts her mother's decades of metabolic signs (macrosomic baby, menopause troubles, insulin resistance) ignored by specialists.
Specialists treated isolated diseases but failed to connect them as a metabolic continuum before cancer emerged.

INSIGHT

Complexity Masks A Common Metabolic Root

The healthcare system profits from complexity and specialization, which obscures metabolic roots of many diseases.
Diseases look different in tissues but share intracellular drivers like mitochondrial dysfunction and chronic inflammation.

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In this interview, host Victoria Field sits down with Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford-trained physician, entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author of the new book Good Energy. Dr. Means shares her inspiring journey from being a head and neck surgeon to leaving traditional medicine and becoming a leading voice in the metabolic health field. They take a deep dive into the environmental factors that impact our metabolism, the importance of taking care of your mitochondria, and practical steps to improve your overall metabolic health and well-being. Dr. Means also shares her own health struggles along the way and even sheds light on the emotional aspects of metabolic health, including the importance of navigating through trauma and making peace with death. Tune in for a conversation that is both informative and deeply personal.

Casey Means, MD is a Stanford-trained physician and co-founder of Levels, a health technology company with the mission of reversing the world’s metabolic health crisis and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book Good Energy, released May 2024. She received her BA with honors and MD from Stanford, was President of her Stanford class, and has served on Stanford faculty. She trained in Head & Neck Surgery before leaving traditional medicine to devote her life to tackling the root cause of why Americans are sick. She has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Women’s Health, and more.

To learn more about Dr. Means, to join her newsletter, and get her book, please visit: https://www.caseymeans.com/

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