Digital Social Hour
Metabolic Dysfunction: The Silent Epidemic | Casey Means DSH #1126
Sun, 19 Jan 2025
Metabolic dysfunction is wreaking havoc on our health—and it's time to talk about it! 🚨 Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as we unpack "Metabolic Dysfunction: The Silent Epidemic" with groundbreaking insights into chronic inflammation, the healthcare system, environmental toxins, and how they all connect. 🌍🔥 This episode is PACKED with valuable insights about why our modern lifestyle is making us sick, the truth behind systemic health issues, and the empowering steps YOU can take for a healthier future. 🥦💪 From tackling food industry corruption to exploring the shocking rise in chronic diseases like diabetes and infertility, this conversation will change the way you see health forever. Don't miss out—watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets! 📺 Hit that subscribe button and discover eye-opening stories every week on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly. 🚀 Join the conversation and let’s take action for better health together! 🗣️💡 #oxidativestress #healthscreening #metabolicfactors #insulinresistance #metabolicmedicine #chronicdiseasemanagementworkshop #foundationalhealth #chronicdiseaseprevention #metabolicfactors #oxidativestress CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Fires in Crowley 00:29 - Joe Rogan Experience 01:45 - Unsustainable Health Trends 04:17 - Science Has Been Compromised 08:01 - No Profit in Healing 11:17 - Root Cause of Chronic Diseases 13:53 - Affordable Preventative Care 16:52 - Medical School Curriculum 21:47 - Vaccine Mandates 27:19 - Encouraging Nuanced Discussions 29:20 - Industrialized Birth Practices 33:05 - The Business of Birth 35:17 - Orgasmic Birth Experience 38:30 - Birth Culture Insights 39:48 - Fixing the Healthcare System 44:27 - MAHA Movement Overview 46:15 - Chemtrails Explained 48:40 - Stratospheric Aerosol Injection 51:58 - Life Expectancy Trends 54:33 - Importance of Fresh Food 57:19 - Benefits of Farmer's Markets 59:05 - War on Small Farmers 01:03:03 - Your Senate Testimony 01:05:48 - Kellogg’s Petition Update 01:11:30 - California's Autism Rate 01:15:40 - Microplastics in Our Environment 01:17:30 - National School Lunch Program Issues 01:22:45 - Book Insights 01:23:05 - Thanks for Watching APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Casey Means https://www.caseymeans.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drcaseyskitchen/ SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/
Chapter 1: What is metabolic dysfunction and why is it a concern?
When I think about the chronic disease epidemic that's going on in human bodies right now, a lot of what's causing us to be sick right now with metabolic dysfunction is chronic inflammation. And it's just so interesting to see what's happening in the body reflected on planet Earth in a sense.
Viewpoints right now, the algorithm is fueling, there's inflammation in the body, and then it's almost like there's inflammation in our environment.
All right, guys, Casey means here today coming off of Joe Rogan. Congrats. Thank you. You guys have been blowing up.
It's been quite a month.
Tucker, Joe Rogan, you can't get much, much bigger than that. So congrats.
Thank you. It's so wonderful to see this conversation about foundational health becoming mainstream. And I do feel like there's kind of a spark being lit in America right now, which is very exciting.
No, there absolutely is. What you guys are doing is groundbreaking because I was talking about this stuff like a year or two ago and it would get either banned or I'd get a strike. But now it's so big that everyone's talking about it.
Yeah, I think the cat's out of the bag. I don't know if the genie can go back in the bottle now because there's awareness. People knew something wasn't quite right with the health of our children and what's going on in America and the health trends that are going on. But no one, I think, really... could exactly put their finger on why.
And then I think post-COVID, as people started feeling more comfortable sort of questioning the status quo in healthcare, and then some of these powerful figures like Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson, Bobby Kennedy, et cetera, starting to talk about it, it's like putting voice to power. And now I think...
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Chapter 2: How is chronic disease linked to our modern lifestyle?
Right. I mean, the trends that we're dealing with right now with health are completely unsustainable. And if they keep going the way they're going, we're going to face an existential problem with, I think, our population and the future of humanity. That's just the reality.
Like if the graphs that we have today of every chronic illness, things like cancer and Alzheimer's dementia and type 2 diabetes and obesity and infertility keep going the way the graphs are going, and there's no reason they would stop if we don't change anything about the environment. will be facing an existential health collapse in the near future.
And so I think people know that on some subconscious level and now the pieces are being put together. And that's pretty cool.
It's scary times. I have friends of mine scared to have kids.
For sure. I know a lot of people who are scared to have kids.
Yeah, the autism rates and the health concerns. It's really concerning, right?
And many of the threats that I think are impacting our cellular biology and that are making the modern world we're living in quite literally hostile to foundational cellular function, they're invisible. You can't actually see them. You can't see the microplastics. You can't see the pesticides. You can't see the heavy metals. You can't see the EMFs. You can't see a lot of these things.
And so it becomes scary because everyone has a story of their perfectly healthy aunt who got lung cancer at age 50. who'd never smoked. Everyone has a story of their friend's child who was totally healthy and they do everything right. And then the kid got autism. So things are happening now that it's almost like, wait, I could do everything quote unquote right.
And these really strange things are still happening to people around us because our environment, again, it's this cumulative exposure to so many different things that are fundamentally disastrous to our cellular biology.
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Chapter 3: What role do environmental toxins play in health?
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funded research, the National Institutes of Health, even that is compromised. There was research that came out that since 2012, there have been 8,000 major conflicts of interest with industry and NIH researchers accepting money from all sorts of different industries that, of course,
I'm not going to say that these are like direct bribes or that they absolutely lead to a specific outcome in the science, but what do they do? They compromise our judgment and even how we think about the problematic nature or toxicity of the products that we're studying and the things that we're studying.
I think it's just really important that for a federally funded agency that's taxpayer funded, like the NIH, that purportedly is to help with American health, that we would keep it clean from industry influence.
Because right now, as you know, there's this incredible devil's bargain that's happening in America right now where the largest and fastest growing industry in the country, which is the healthcare industry, $4.5 trillion a year, it's almost 20% of the largest GDP in the country.
That industry, which is designed to grow as a unemotional statement of fact, makes more money when patients are sick and utilizing healthcare services over longer periods of time and dependent on those services. And so they do not actually have... The healthcare system, from an economic perspective, does not have an incentive to keep people healthy.
And then you've got a food system, an ultra-processed food system, which is around a $2 trillion industry. So now we're at like $6.5 trillion. And that ultra-processed food industry...
again designed to grow and how do they grow they get more people addicted to the cheapest food possible for as long period of time as possible so you make the food hyper palatable and addictive and then that creates incredible illness we're eating ourselves to death in this country and then you've got a health care system that profits off managing those conditions for decades and decades and that's when you have those incentives in place we are dealing with the predictable outcome that would happen from those types of business incentives which we have a massively chronically ill population due to our toxic food system
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Chapter 4: Why is the healthcare system failing to keep us healthy?
We're one unified system, very dynamic system. And so you get doctors being incentivized to not see the forest for the trees, to not see the root causes and the connecting points between all these diseases. And what the science is clearly showing us is that almost every chronic disease that's torturing American lives across a lifespan from infancy to older age.
So from starting from ADHD and autism and behavioral issues in children and asthma and allergies all the way to Alzheimer's, dementia and cancer and stroke and heart disease and the things that are killing us in our old age, they're all along the exact same physiologic spectrum, which is called metabolic dysfunction.
And that metabolic dysfunction is by and large not caused by our genetics because it's skyrocketing over the past 50 years. Our genetics haven't changed in 50 years. It's because of the way that the environment on every single level, our culture in the Western world that has become so, so toxic has.
it is synergistically destroying our foundational cellular health and our cells become metabolically dysfunctional. And then that really is the trunk of the tree of every chronic disease that we're seeing today on the intracellular, that invisible physiologic layer. But because seeing connecting points and root cause physiology and the environmental factors that impact disease
If we actually focused all our attention on that, what would it do? Well, we'd empower patients to clean up the environment around their bodies and what's going in and around their bodies and their metabolic function improve and a lot of the diseases would go away. Very unprofitable. Very unprofitable. So no one's talking about it.
I didn't even learn about this in medical school, at Stanford Medical School. And yet the science is overtly clear. That's, of course, why we wrote a book about it. But it's just astonishing to me that there's answers hidden in plain sight that are life-saving for people.
And because there's not a financial incentive to focus on it, it's it's not only not a part of the dominant conversation, but it is mocked by legacy media who literally put have as of this past month have put the words the chronic disease epidemic in quotes.
It was either in The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal when they were writing about the Senate hearing that I just was a part of, you know, basically saying that it's totally overblown and it's sort of like a theory thing. It's not a theory. Just look at the graphs. So not only do we ignore it, we are actually incentivized to demonize it.
Yeah. Well, they fund their advertising spend.
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Chapter 5: What are the benefits of preventative care?
Yeah. And big food.
Yeah.
So it all makes sense. It's all very clear. But like at some point as individuals and communities, like we have to we have to like rip the cord and like say we understand what's going on. We have to make different choices because the current choices we're making right now, they're not working for human health.
Chapter 6: How can food choices impact our health?
Yeah. And those choices, it's crazy because I got a prenuvo scan this morning.
Whoa.
Yeah. Cool. So if you want to, the thing is, if you want to be preventable, insurance won't cover it.
Yeah.
So you got to make these choices out of your own pocket. Most people can't afford it. So that's where the catch 22 is.
Yeah. And it's all by design. The number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States is healthcare costs. Isn't that amazing? Wow. And you get people in such a trap because it's actually not that expensive to be healthy. You buy real food, you go outside, you get good sleep, you manage your stress, you exercise. It's not that expensive.
But for that individual who is just trying to make ends meet, maybe actually spending that extra $50 a week on organic food or real food, maybe that is too much. And yet, just that small investment in the right time early might save bankruptcy down the road. But we put people in such a rigged system right now where we actually federally incentivize unhealthy food to be cheaper for people.
Our farm bill literally pays for commodity crops that are turned into ultra processed foods. We are taxpayer subsidizing processed food in this country. And so we put people in this incredible trap. But I think what's so interesting right now is that there's actually some meaningful movement on making preventative care more affordable by actually just using our existing tax system.
My brother started a company called TruMed, which I think is absolutely brilliant, which really understood that in our tax system right now, with no changes to it, there is actually an amazing carve out that says that you can use pre-tax dollars through HSA and FSA to buy products that are known to prevent, manage, or reverse any disease if your doctor deems it necessary.
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Chapter 7: What are the issues surrounding vaccine mandates?
Nothing.
Like I'm only paying for like if something happens to me, basically.
Right, right. And I think a lot of people, what they're going to end up doing is moving to the highest deductible plans that are the cheapest. So the cheapest possible plan with a high deductible
then put as much money as possible in HSA, FSA, try and buy most of their preventative care through the HSA, FSA with low monthly premiums because you have a high deductible plan and then not utilize as basically use your insurance for catastrophic care.
Like if you have a big accident, but primarily use your tax advantage dollars outside the system through HSA, FSA to like pay for your prenuvo scan or pay for your organic food from the farmer's market or pay for your CrossFit membership, pay for your function health, pay for your continuous glucose monitors, whatever it is. So
Well, we're living through a fascinating time right now where things are going to change because at every level of society, people are realizing the current system's not working.
Absolutely. When you were in med school, the curriculum, who exactly creates that? Is that big pharma?
Well... It would be hard to like prove that. Right. But if you look at. So, I mean, there's a couple interesting things. One is that the accreditation like group that basically accredits medical schools, the criteria they use to evaluate medical schools has basically not been modernized since 1910 when the Flexner report came out.
The Flexner report was this report that was approved by Congress that was essentially Rockefeller's private lawyer went out.
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Chapter 8: How can we advocate for systemic health changes?
And, you know, and I really liked the person who took us out to dinner and then they're texting with you and they're trying to help you out with different things and send you more information. And the next thing you know, you're in the operating room and you're done with your sinus surgery. And you're like, I should put a steroid-emitting nasal scent in here. So it's not overt. It's insidious.
But imagine that then on every level, on every level of how our research is done, how our curriculums are defined. And you kind of start to see how things really default to like, where is the money and where is the resources? And not necessarily in a nefarious way, but that's the way business works. That's how business works.
That's the way relationships work. Yeah, that's how life works. I remember applying to colleges. If you had an alumni parent that was a donor- I mean, your chances of getting in were probably higher. Let's be honest. Yeah. That's just how life works.
Yeah. So we just have to be aware of that and just start to ask questions like, why? Like, why are people and doctors getting made fun of online or in the media for, like, talking about whether vitamin D or healthy diets and exercise are a good strategy for building resilience during COVID. Why are those people being demonized? Why is that so dangerous to ask? And yet it was.
We saw that play out in COVID. And it's because it's against a really large multi-trillion dollar agenda that fundamentally requires people to be disempowered about their health and to get sick and then require people to swoop in and save them.
Yeah. So now I think ages zero to 18, they're requiring a hundred vaccines for public school, something around there.
It's in the like 70 plus range.
Yeah. How do you feel about that many going into children?
I think it's astonishing. So, I mean, I have so many thoughts about vaccines, but I think that one thing we need to realize is that that number has gone up exponentially in the past 30 or 40 years. Like, I think in the 70s, maybe, like, four were required. I mean, that should be fact-checked, but it's like it has gone up monumentally.
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