Summary of Good Energy by Casey Means:The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

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Good Energy is a groundbreaking book by Dr. Casey Means that reveals that metabolic function is the key to preventing and reversing various health conditions. The book explains that nearly every health problem can be explained by how well cells in the body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening diseases, cells need to be optimally powered to create "good energy," the essential fuel that impacts physical and mental wellbeing. Good Energy offers a four-week plan that explains five biomarkers, how to use inexpensive tools and technology to monitor metabolic health, and how to navigate the medical system for optimal health.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: May 16, 2024
• ISBN: 9783755480938

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INTRODUCTION

Everything Is Connected

The author's mother, who was born to a wealthy family, faced numerous health challenges throughout her life. She struggled with weight loss, elevated blood pressure, high cholesterol, and prediabetes, which were common pre-diseases for women her age. At the age of seventy-one, she was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, which led to her death. The author argues that the health trends of our children, parents, and ourselves are not as healthy as they once were.

At the time, 18 percent of teens had fatty liver disease, close to 30 percent were prediabetic, and more than 40 percent were overweight or obese. Today, young adults face conditions such as obesity, acne, fatigue, depression, infertility, high cholesterol, or prediabetes. Six out of ten adults live with a chronic illness, and about 50 percent of Americans will deal with mental illness. Rates of cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, upper respiratory infections, and autoimmune conditions are increasing at the same time we are spending more and more to treat them.

The author argues that the root cause of our health issues is complicated and that preventable lifestyle conditions are responsible for 80 percent of modern human deaths. Depression, anxiety, acne, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and most other conditions are rooted in the same thing. The ability to prevent and reverse these conditions is under our control and simpler than you think.

Good Energy, also known as metabolic health, is a fundamental physiological function that determines one's predilection to great mental and physical health or poor health and disease. It governs the essence of what makes you tick, ensuring that cells have the energy to do their jobs of keeping you nourished, clear-minded, hormonally balanced, immune protected, heart-healthy, and structurally sound. When cellular energy production is working well, you don't have to think about it or be conscious of it.

When you hold the keys to Good Energy, you can be a positive outlier, experiencing vitality, clarity of mind, balanced weight, painfree body, healthy skin, and a stable mood. This can lead to a natural state of fertility, better health, and a better chance of avoiding chronic diseases.

The problem is a mismatch between the metabolic processes that run our bodies and the environmental conditions around us. This evolutionary mismatch is tipping normal metabolic function into dysfunction, leading to Bad Energy. Small cellular disturbances in every cell at every moment can negatively impact the tissues, organs, and systems of the body, negatively influencing how we feel, think, function, look, age, and combat pathogens.

Research has shown that every one of these conditions is directly linked to metabolic issues, a problem with how our cells make energy: Bad Energy. The way we practice medicine has not caught up with this root-cause understanding, treating the organ-specific results of Bad Energy rather than the actual issue. Addressing the correct issue (metabolic dysfunction) is crucial for improving the failing health of our modern population.

Over the past century, we have consumed more sugar, worked in sedentary jobs, and slept less. We are also exposed to over eighty thousand synthetic chemicals in our food, water, and air, leading to cellular dysfunction and chronic symptoms. Metabolic dysfunction can be detected through increasing waist size, suboptimal cholesterol levels, high fasting glucose, and elevated blood pressure. 93% of Americans are in the danger zone on at least one key metabolic marker.

The author's mother experienced all of these symptoms, and her case is an example of something happening every day to millions of people and families. Disease is not a random occurrence; it is a result of choices made and how we feel today. If you are battling annoying and seemingly nonlethal health issues, an underlying contributor to these conditions is generally the same thing that will lead to a major illness sometime later in life if nothing changes in how you care for your body.

The author, a vocal advocate for the modern healthcare system, met Sophia, who had recurrent sinus infections, causing persistent foul smell in her nose and difficulty breathing. After surgery, the author found that she had not done anything to cure the underlying dynamics causing her chronic nasal inflammation or help with her other health conditions. Many patients return to the hospital for follow-up sinus procedures and treatments for other diseases, including diabetes, depression, anxiety, cancer, heart disease, dementia, hypertension, and obesity.

Despite surgically treating inflamed tissues of the head and neck day in and day out, the author never learned what causes inflammation in the human body or its connection to the inflammatory chronic diseases so many Americans are facing today.

The author, a physician, became convinced that understanding the root cause of disease is crucial for improving health and preventing disease. He realized that institutions like medical schools, insurance companies, hospitals, and pharma companies make money on managing disease rather than curing patients, creating an invisible hand that guides good people into allowing bad outcomes.

In September 2018, the author quit his job at OHSU to focus on understanding the real reasons why people get sick and helping patients restore and sustain their health. The insights gained from this quest could not save his mother's cancer, as her cancer likely had been growing quietly in her body before he left conventional medical practice.

The author believes that our lack of understanding about the root cause of disease represents a larger spiritual crisis. We have become disconnected from our bodies and life, separated from food production, sedentary lifestyles, and core biological needs. This has put our bodies into a state of confusion and fear, which impacts our brains and bodies. The medical system capitalizes on this fear and offers solutions to symptoms of this dysfunction,