(Images Casey Means)
At Multiple Levels
by Bruce O’Hara
January 24, 2025
I just finished reading Casey Means’ book Good Energy.
Casey’s book addresses the American disease epidemic of systemic dysfunction happening at a cellular level.
Mitochondria are the microscopic engines that vitalize every cell in our bodies. A diet heavy in ultra-refined foods combined with various lifestyle factors means that something like 94% of Americans suffer from mitochondria that function sub-optimally. Over time, this metabolic dysfunction very often leads to a series of chronic diseases and eventually a shortened lifespan. Metabolic dysfunction has Americans becoming fatter, sicker, and dying younger with each passing decade.
I’d like to do a post on this issue at some point, but Casey’s book also speaks eloquently to systemic dysfunction at a much higher level: i.e., the American ‘health’care system.
Casey graduated at the top of her class from Stanford medical school. She then went into a five-year residency program to become a Nose and Throat Surgeon.
It was in her last year of that residency that Casey hit her limit. She was reaming bone and flesh out of a woman’s inflamed nasal passages. She knew this woman suffered from half a dozen chronic diseases all caused by inflammation and disrupted metabolism. She knew her patient was seeing half-a-dozen specialists who each, like her, were treating her symptoms without addressing the root cause.
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