Good Energy by Dr. Casey Means is about how so many common diseases and symptoms in the United States are rooted in what she calls “metabolic dysfunction,” or mitochondrial dysfunction, specifically.
Her thesis is that our modern health system has it all backward. It attempts to treat the end result of the dysfunction—Type 2 diabetes, obesity, dementia, autoimmune diseases, various cancers, etc—while ignoring what happens at the cellular root.
If we take better care of what goes on inside our cells, we will be healthier.
Cells become dysfunctional when overloaded by all the crap in our environment—fake food, lack of movement, poor sleep, high stress, toxic chemicals, bad air—that they no longer function. Dysfunctional cells lead to dysfunctional organs, dysfunctional organs lead to all kinds of negative outcomes.
The book can be a slog at time—400 pages of how we basically blew it as modern humans—but it has made me think more deeply about my lifestyle choices, from the “healthy” food I buy to the quality of sleep I get.
3 easy things you can do to take better care of your cells, according to Dr. Means:
1) Learn your medical biomarkers at your annual physical: fasting glucose, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, hemoglobin A1C, waist circumference and blood pressure. If these levels are sound, you’re sound.
2) Invest in the highest quality nutrition you can. Food is the fuel that makes the cells go—or not go. Ultra processed, sugary foods wreak havoc on cells. Looking at you, "nutritional" snack bars and Monster Energy Drinks.
3) Exercise daily; engage in some form of resistance training. If you can’t get to the gym, aim for between 7,000 to 10,000 steps per day. Or book a sesh at Speakeasy Pilates. Just sayin.’
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