Good Power: The Shocking Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Well being

Great expose and finally the truth!!! Drs don’t care about healing!
Great expose of how flawed the medical field is! People need to realize the industry is geared toward inducing people to be on drugs for Big Pharm profit!! Drugs are a bandaid for diseases that we need to find the root cause. Drs being given incentives for prescribing scans and imaging is corruption! And we are being poisoned by conglomerates and totally sold out by the FDA!! America is the unhealthiest nation of all due to toxicity in our food supply and no regulation on cosmetics!! We are getting sicker and sicker. Auto-immunes multiplying, joint replacements on 60yr olds????, everyone is obese because of GMO’s and nutrient deficient. HOW DO PEOPLE NOT REALIZE THIS??? THIS WASN’T THIS WAY 50YRS AGO OR EVEN 20! Our elderly ARE NOT living longer … they are dying these long drawn out deaths, without adequate funds to provide for their own care… only concerned with “appearing not to need a walker, a cane, a wheelchair, or caregivers”. Cigarette companies own Big Pharma!!! Drugs are making us sicker and sicker. How do people NOT SEE that mental disorders are multiplying? FDA is doing nothing to protect us! Scamming us! This book is a great EYE OPENER to all of these things and how GMO food is devoid of nutrients… making us sicker and sicker. Artificial sweeteners are known carcinogens and should be banned! We need LESS sugar not artificial! The second half of the book has a formula for healing ourselves. But there needs to be healthier options!

A must read, Good Energy by Casey Means, MD
Understandable book on difficult topic of metabolism and health. This book is like listening to your smart sister explain a topic she knows thoroughly and knows how to teach and reach you with the information until you comprehend it. Dr. Means and her brother Calley Means tell their family story of caring for their Mother with love and empathy during the short illness that took her life prematurely. The book encourages all of us to improve our eating and sleeping habits to achieve better health and be our own best health advocate. After reading the book, the truth of what you’ve learned will bring you back to study it further, enjoy the recipes and read the helpful common-sense charts about what to do during your health journey. Thank God for honest people like Casey and Calley Means who honor their Mother’s memory by writing this excellent book to share their knowledge and caring hearts with everyone to greatly improve our health and lives.

Must read for everyone
This book makes understanding why Americans (and most the world) is facing a crisis. If you don’t know anything about healthy eating and healthy lifestyle, this book could change your life. I am already a Levels member and wear CGMs, but this book even helped me make some additional decisions towards optimizing my and my familes health. Make your life not suck anymore, and take this book seriously. Government, big pharma, and the food industry hate you and have propagandized the country into a dismal stay of being. I look forward to the day when the themes of this book are mainstream again, how we are supposed to be interacting with the world.

Good Energy written by Casey Means offers a deep dive on the deteriorating of health of North Americans.Means paints a picture of horrible health outcomes noting statistics like, “six out of ten adults are living with a chronic illness” and “Seventy-four percent of adults are overweight or have obesity.” Means notes that “preventable lifestyle conditions are responsible for 80 percent of modern human deaths.”To Means what ails us isn’t a complicated mystery but a clear byproduct of lifestyle. Our choices have consequences. She notes that many of the health problems share a common element: metabolic dysfunction. Healthy metabolic function or what Means considers Good Energy is the goal for happy health. Means defines metabolism as “the set of cellular mechanisms that transform food into energy that can power every single cell in the body.”Over the past 100 years, the types of foods we consume, quantities, and our living environments have changed dramatically, not for the better. Means points out that “we are consuming astronomically more sugar (i.e., up to 3,000 percent more liquid fructose), working in more sedentary jobs, and sleeping 25 percent less. We’re also exposed to over eighty thousand synthetic chemicals in our food, water, and air.” There are consequences to these exposures. Our metabolic markers are reflective of our health. “93 percent of Americans are in the danger zone on at least one key metabolic marker.” Means points out, “No animals in the wild suffer from widespread metabolic conditions, nor did humans as little as seventy-five years ago.”We’re consuming 20 percent more calories and eating too many processed foods. The average adult now eats 70% of their calories from processed food. We’re missing numerous necessary nutrients and our metabolic function is compromised as a result. Coupled with increased calorie intake is our decreased activity. We eat more and do less. We get fatter and sicker as a result. Additionally, our lifestyles are also more stressful. This has hormonal impact which impacts our health.The costs of making catastrophic choices is calamitous. Means notes, “more than 75 percent of deaths and 80 percent of costs are driven by obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other preventable and reversible metabolic conditions we have today.”Means takes her readers on a detailed description of each of these areas highlighting what the consequences are to the body of negative choices.Unfortunately, virtually all aspects of healthcare are incented to manage disease as opposed to promote health. Money is made by treating ailments not in having a healthy population. From medical schools to hospitals to insurance companies and pharmaceutical businesses, all benefit from managing disease as opposed to preventing it. Means writes, “Every institution that impacts your health makes more money when you are sick and less when you are healthy.”Means suggests the solution lies in owning responsibility for our health. Know this NOCLYS: No One Cares Like You Should. Your health is yours. Don’t leave it to the hands of experts or professionals. Care enough to care about your own healthcare. Medical intervention is great for acute emergencies like broken bones. However, we can take greater ownership of “regular” healthcare. Means writes, “You are the primary person in charge of understanding your body.” This is easier now with technology. We can get real time information about what’s going on inside.Means presents five accessible bio-markers we can seek to have tested by our doctors: blood sugar, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference. She provides values or targets for these bio-markers that are much “stricter” than what the medical industry considers normal.Means writes of the importance of nutrition to our health. “What we put into our bodies is the most critical decision for our health and happiness.” Food is what drives everything inside of us. All of our bodily functions require energy. That energy comes from the nutrients we consume. Unfortunately, what most of us are consuming is not ideal. Our choices as to what to consume are compromising our health.“Refined added sugar causes astronomically more deaths and disability per year than COVID-19 and fentanyl overdoses combined. We need to see refined added sugar for what it is: an addictive, dangerous drug that has been included in 74 percent of foods in the U.S. food system and for which the body needs zero grams in a lifetime.”Amidst the backdrop of deteriorating health of the average person, Means offers an optimistic path forward. She suggests technology and knowledge is available to help us help ourselves. Seek to have the bio-markers she suggests measured by your physician and work to improve these to target levels Means sets out. Then patiently work to integrate more of her suggestions into your daily life. Means suggests monitoring food intake by keeping a food journal, setting nutritional goals like consuming 50 grams of fiber daily, adding fiber to each meal, eating more of daily calories earlier in the day, seeking to narrow the number of hours a day in which food is consumed down to a goal of ten, and to aim for a fifteen-minute walk after eating. She suggests three “rules” of nutrition: avoid refined sugars, refined grains, and seed oils. This narrows down food choices away from processed to natural foods.Sleep, too, becomes a key factor supporting our health. Our sleep quantity and quality has been impaired over the years. We should be aiming to get seven to eight hours a night of quality sleep. Keeping our bedrooms dark, phones far away, and controlling temperature are all factors to assist the quantity and quality of sleep we enjoy.Sleeping and eating better will provide a boost to our energy which can be further enhanced by making movement a part of our day. We’re moving much less than past generations. Means suggests more frequent bouts of exercise throughout the day are more valuable than one vigorous session. We don’t have to go full out to get benefits. Moderate activity works wonders. Moving for a minute or two here and five minutes there several times during the day adds up to material health. There is no right way to exercise. Anything that you’ll do regularly is ideal.Beyond eating, sleeping, and exercising, avoiding chemicals becomes a goal. Chemicals from air, water, packaging, cosmetics, and other hygiene products can all contain things which we either know little about or are developing evidence that exposure over time leads to negative health consequences.Reducing exposure to stress, too, will help our bodies. We become a byproduct of our inputs. The information we absorb has biological impact. Most news is negative and causes cortisol to swim around our bodies resulting in health consequences. Means writes, “A cell living in a body experiencing chronic fear is a cell that cannot fully thrive.” Technology can be addictive which fragments our attention and impacts our bodies as well.Good Energy is a worthwhile read that will give you as much insight as you want to explore related to the threats to our health our modern world offers as well as a detailed and practical approach to taking responsibility for and regaining our personal health.

Very intense and complete guide to health. I found some of it so medically technical – bit difficult to decipher but so worth the time!!