By Sheryl Duke
If you are battling annoying health issues such as fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, arthritis, or chronic pain, the underlying contributor to these conditions can be the same things that will lead to a major illness sometime later in life if nothing changes in how you care for your body.
To help you understand how to start correcting your health, I highly recommend a book called GOOD ENERGY, by Casey Means, MD and co-authored by her brother Calley Means.
This is an empowering book that asserts we have much more control over our health than we’re led to believe.
As a doctor and surgeon at a prominent hospital, Casey Means, MD came to the realization that while practitioners got into medicine to help patients, the reality is that every institution that impacts health – from medical schools to insurance companies to hospitals to pharmaceutical companies – makes money on “managing” disease, not curing patients. Means left traditional medicine to devote her life to tackling the root cause of why Americans are sick.
Metabolic Dysfunction
The metabolic processes that run our bodies evolved in a synergistic relationship with the environment around us. But those environmental conditions have profoundly and rapidly changed in recent decades, starting with our diet and including our movement patterns, our sleep patterns, our stress levels, and exposure to nonnatural chemicals. Things are not as they once were. The failing health of our modern population will never improve if the issue of Metabolic Dysfunction is not addressed.
We are now consuming astronomically more sugar, working in more sedentary jobs, and sleeping 25 percent less. We’re also exposed to more than 8,000 synthetic chemicals in our food, water, and air. As a result, our cells have stopped being able to make energy the way they should.
Food system corrupted
Let’s start with our diets. Our food system has been corrupted. In the 1980s Big Tabacco, R.J Reynolds and Philip Morris, made a calculated move and bought up major food companies. By 1990 the two largest food companies were R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris (Nabisco & Kraft). And, very intentionally these cigarette companies shifted their scientists over to make food more addictive. Then the tobacco industry’s influence extended to shaping nutritional guidelines. This junk science was used to create the infamous USDA food pyramid. Means calls this “the most deadly document in American history.”
Cancer rates have dramatically exploded since the 1980s, along with many other chronic diseases. Which brings us to the historical roots of America’s dysfunctional medical system.
Alternative medicine disregarded
John D. Rockefeller was a top funder of modern medical education, and he was also the father of the modern pharmaceutical industry. Rockefeller commissioned “The Flexner Report,” which fundamentally reshaped medical education in America and laid the foundations of the modern medical system, dubbed “Rockefeller medicine.” He financed the campaign to consolidate mainstream medicine, adopt the philosophies of the growing pharmaceutical industry and shutter its competition.
Rockefeller’s crusade caused the closure of more than half of U.S. medical schools, fostered public and press scorn for homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, nutritional, holistic, functional, integrative and natural medicines and emphasized a focus on pharmaceutical interventions. The report stated that anything about nutrition or holistic is not serious science – serious science is treating conditions with drugs or surgery.
Biology didn’t change because Rockefeller shifted from oil into pharmaceuticals. It remains the same and requires treating the causes of disease, which doesn’t happen now.
A key factor in perpetuating our health crisis is the corruption of our health institutions. For example, the Majority of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants go to conflicted researchers. The FDA drug approval department is 75 percent funded by pharma, and 95 percent of the advisors of the USDA Guideline Committee on Nutrition are funded by food or pharma!
Ideally, the first step in fixing and transforming the American Health crisis is to remove conflicts of interest from the bodies that set medical guidelines and research priorities It’s almost impossible in the current state to defeat this system, so the approach is to go to the people directly with solutions.
Part of Cally Means’ plan involves restructuring the financial incentives in health care. Currently, the system profits from keeping people sick and managing chronic conditions rather than preventing or reversing them.
Check out Means’ work at TrueMed.com and add your voice to the grassroots action momentum through his nonprofit, EndChronicDisease.org.
Your health is your most valuable asset. By taking control of your own wellbeing and advocating for systemic reforms, you’re not just improving your own life, but contributing to a healthier, more vibrant future for all.
Sources and references –1- Good Energy by Casey Means MD –2- Mercola.com.