Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

11 reviews for Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

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   some guy – December 2, 2024

   This book will improve your life!
   This is a book that I will recommend to everyone! I consider myself a very health-conscious person. I do what I can to take care of my health, and that includes frequently reading about and listening to podcasts on the subject.Oftentimes reading/listening to topics like this can be very difficult to follow or comprehend, or the authors are a little disconnected from reality for the common person when recommending changes that people need to make in their lives (e.g. I enjoyed Peter Attia’s book “Outlive,” but most people don’t have the resources that he has available to himself to do a lot of the things he recommends like getting full body scans and getting access to a CGM).This book makes it very easy to understand why we should be doing certain things in our lives to improve our health, and why our healthcare system in this country is ultimately designed to fail us and isn’t something we should rely on.The author makes recommendations that are easily actionable for anybody to implement into their daily lives. I’m not saying that everyone will be able to do everything she recommends in the book (let’s face it, as much as I would like a CGM I can’t afford it as an OOP expense and most people are probably in the same boat as me), but taking small steps can lead to big changes in your health and she recommends many things that are easily actionable; adjusting your exercise habits, sleeping habits, thinking about the foods/drinks that you are consuming but shouldn’t be (or aren’t consuming but should be!), providing healthy recipe options, etc.Bottom line: this book is worth the time/money to invest in and will pay you back in spades!

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   Rusty Nail – December 2, 2024

   Concise and approachable presentation.
   I listened to this book on audible and loved it so much. I wanted to get a hardcover copy to share with my husband and be able to reference when needed. The book is very relatable for the average person that knows nothing about medicine and how the body works. The author gives context with her own medical background and mothers cancer diagnosis. The book does not read like a boring medical textbook. It is very engaging. She gives you clear actionable plans to start incorporating better choices into your life.

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   Elizabeth Elliott – December 2, 2024

   This book is better than any prescription
   This book is so easy to understand what is making our bodies not work right. Dr. Means explains exactly what could be going wrong inside our bodies. It’s actually pretty basic. Eat good energy foods and cut wayyyy back on bad energy foods. After a year of gastro issues including several visits to the doctors, I finally am getting better following Dr. Means advice. BTW, the gastro doctor actually told me to take miralax the rest of my life. Of course that gave me a new problem with heart burn. I bought Dr. Means book and now I’m actually better than I’ve been in a year. Buy this book to find out what good energy food and drink is and you will be better for it.

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   Tru2blueyes – December 2, 2024

   Awesome book
   This book is full of useful knowledge to live a healthy life. It’s so very informative about metabolic health. Easy to read & interesting…. informative you won’t find anywhere else.Make America Healthy Again.

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   Fudge13 – December 2, 2024

   Some really valuable info and practical guide to improving your health
   After hearing several recorded interviews with Casey & Calley Means, I was excited to order this book. While many of us have long thought the medical/pharmaceutical industries, along with the legacy media and the US educational system, were corrupt and far more concerned about making a buck than about the health of Americans, it’s nice to see a respected medical doctor sounding the alarm and bringing attention to one of the most serious crises in our lifetimes. For that, I give them 5 stars. Also, the information on how the nutrients in food react to and are utilized by our bodies and the importance of sleep and exercise is great information, and the practical guide to avoiding bad foods and consuming heathier foods is great, as is the guide to interpreting your own blood test results. Where I think they failed miserably (besides the whole concepts of “good energy” and “bad energy,” which seem a little woo-woo to me; nothing scientific about those) was in the latter part of the book. “Fearless: The Highest Level of Good Energy.” Dr. Means, who clearly does not believe in God, man having a soul, or life after death, gives 15 strategies for “healing trauma, developing unconditional self-love, feeling limitless, and making peace with death.” Among those are forming a relationship with a mental health therapist, practicing mindful meditation, aromatherapy, being less busy, and even considering LSD therapy. Not included is any mention or suggestion of participating in organized religion, which has been shown to increase feelings of well-being, community, and to help people overcome the fear of death, nor was there any suggestion to focus more attention on others. The book ends with a typical humanist perspective of love yourself, put yourself first, because that’s all there is, and when you die you can look forward to breaking down and becoming food for the generations that follow. Overall, it was a good book, and I’m glad they are bringing attention to the state of chronic illness in our country. Hopefully people will take note and things will change for the better.

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   Daniel – December 2, 2024

   Great book, will change your view on food!
   The book is jam packed with new information about the food and drug monopoly in our country. By change my eating habits and eliminating food full unnecessary ingredients that are a big part of many of the heath issues of our country. I have lost 26 pounds in 60 day and feel 20 yrs younger then my 72 year old body! I have regained the energy of my youth.

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   Renata Santana – December 2, 2024

   ” Excellent book “

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   slim one – December 2, 2024

   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.

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   Fair Minded Consumer – December 2, 2024

   This book is very informative and gives you an alternate view of what is impacting our health and how the pharmaceutical companies are not trying to cure you of what is actually the source of your symptoms.

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    Mariana Cabral – December 2, 2024

    Me gusto muchísimo ella y todas las explicaciones que da están super bien sustentadas. No me gusto nada que en cada sección se hace hincapié en lo mal que están en USA de salud y todo lo malo del sistema de salud, al final eso me quitó energía al leerlo pero entiendo que el punto es despertar consciencias y esa es una manera de hacerlo.Es algo extrema en sus recomendaciones y en todo éste camino hacia la salud tengo claro que no hay un “one size fits all” y que no está enfocado a quienes ya hacemos muchas de las cosas recomendadas, me gustaría saber que más hay para niveles avanzados…

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    manish – December 2, 2024

    It’s a must read for anyone looking at a technically sound and yet simplistic way of life that empowers you and enhances your productivity …