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10 pieces of content that can change your life
Casey Means
April 23, 2024
Welcome back!
This week’s newsletter is a little different format than usual! There are so many new members of this Good Energy Living community that I want to orient everyone to what I think are the most empowering resources, tools, and content I’ve created to get you started and accelerated on your health journey. WELCOME!
🕶️ Think of this as your “summer metabolic reading list!” 😄 The sooner you absorb this content, the sooner you can take control of your health and feel more incredible than ever.
1. 📺👂🏼 School of Greatness Podcast with Lewis Howes
This covers the fundamentals of the metabolic health crisis, as well as my personal story and how I came to do the work I’m doing today. If you are new to this newsletter and the concept of Good Energy, this is a great place to start. It’s from 2 years ago, but every word rings truer than ever.
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or watch on YouTube below:
2. 📺 📖 Dr. Casey’s Kitchen - a Levels Kitchen cooking show!
Last year I filmed 4 of my go-to recipes, all CGM tested, blood sugar friendly, nutrient dense, and delicious:
Check out the complete Levels Kitchen playlist on YouTube and check out more recipes on my blog here.
3. 👂🏼 Eating Ourselves to Death with Bari Weiss
This episode clearly explains WHY Americans are fatter, sicker, more depressed and more infertile than ever and what we can do about it. I have immense admiration for the work Bari Weiss and team are doing at The Free Press and their podcast, Honestly, and I highly encourage you to subscribe to and support their work.
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
4. 👂🏼📺 📖 The Ultimate Guide to Understanding your Cholesterol Panel and Metabolic Health Tests
This YouTube has over 1.5M views already, and that’s because Rob Lustig gives the most clear and easy to understand advice on how to interpret your labs and understand the status of your metabolic health. Pull up your most recent labs and press play on this and you will learn so much. There is also a blog post around this episode.
Watch on YouTube below, or on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
5. 📺👂🏼 How to Fix America’s Healthcare Crisis with Shawn Stevenson
This episode highlights the personal stories that inspired me and my brother to write Good Energy, and it covers SO MUCH MORE including the serious problem with the mantra “trust the science”, the top three foods you should reduce in your diet, how to give your body the nutrients it needs to create its own GLP-1, and more.
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or watch on YouTube below:
6. 📺👂🏼 The Worst & Best Foods to Eat For Your Health with Dr. Mark Hyman
In this episode I dive into the insights around food that we gained from the Levels Dataset of over 200 million glucose data points (now that number is closer to 1 BILLION!). Curious about specific foods? The answers and insights will surprise you!
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or watch on YouTube below:
7. 📖 Why the way our food is grown matters for metabolic health
Ever wondered WHY you should care about regenerative agriculture or buy food at the farmer’s market? It sounds buzzy and trendy these days, but you can’t have optimal health of the body without optimal health of the soil that our food is grown in. And vice versa. This article describes how to support regenerative agriculture in your community.
Read the full article here.
8. 📖 Free Guide: My Ultimate Food List
Over the last 5 years, the top two questions I receive from people looking to improve their health are:
What is OK to eat? 🤔
Is [fill in the blank] bad? 🆘
So I answered those questions by creating an ultimate food guide! The guide includes simple rules to shop by, the 3 food components to avoid, and 5 to add to every meal, how to stock your pantry for optimal health, and what processed food and snacks pass my “good energy” test.
Download the guide here.
9. 📖 Free Guide: How to know if your cells are making GOOD ENERGY (aka, my lab guide)
The question you’re trying to answer with standard blood tests is whether you are part of the 12% percent of people in the United States who meet the normal criteria for the six basic metabolic biomarkers without medication, and therefore are a step in the right direction to having Good Energy. This guide outlines the 6 tests EVERYONE needs, what they measure, what optimal ranges are, and where and how to get them done.
Download the guide here.
10. 📖 Last but not least…my blog! In case you didn’t know, I write a lot on my blog here and three of the most popular articles have been:
Lastly, some of my newest thoughts and ideas I share on X, like why feminism has been a problem for health, the relationship between natural food and free thinking, why we need to get beyond “hacks” for true health, and embodying the qualities of the food we’re eating.
Thank you for being part of this community and newsletter!
💗 ,
Dr. Casey
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👀 In Case You Missed It
Tons of content going live lately - so I’m sharing a recap of it all with you below! 💗
✍️ LAST CALL to get a personalized copy of Good Energy by ordering through Diesel Bookstore!
I’ve partnered with Diesel, a fabulous independent bookstore in LA, to fulfill personalized signed copies of my upcoming book Good Energy! This is available for anyone in the US. Pre-order my book from Diesel and include a note on the personalization you’d like.
Pre-order from Diesel, here.
🎙️ Listen to my new podcast episode with Gabby Reece 💗
This episode covers health, food, movement, policy, femininity, metabolism and the future of the human species. If you are a woman feeling overwhelmed watch the last 20 minutes of this episode starting at about 1 hour 53 minutes in and let me know if it’s helpful.
Watch on YouTube, Apple podcasts, or Spotify.
🎁 Reminder to sign up below to get your SPECIAL BONUS BUNDLE if you’ve already pre-ordered Good Energy!
This bundle includes a PDF with a sneak preview of the book and bonus content about how to best stock your Good Energy Kitchen, an exclusive discount of 25% on a new Levels membership (this is something we almost NEVER do!), and the pre-release recipe and demo-video of a DELICIOUS metabolically healthy Lemon-Almond Cake with Jammy Strawberries 🍰🍓
Anyone who has already pre-ordered is eligible to redeem this special bundle. If you haven’t ordered yet, you can still get this by pre-ordering Good Energy now until May 13th 11:59PM EST ⏰
Submit your information, here.
📖 Read my new blog article with Eight Sleep, “Why sleep matters in having Good Energy”
In this article, I talk about:
Why sleep is one of the most important pillars when it comes to mental and physical health
My tips on how to get better sleep quantity, quality, and consistency
My favorite things about my Eight Sleep pod cover
Read the full blog article, here.
Use my code CASEY to get $50 off your next Eight Sleep pod cover.
🎙️ Listen to my new podcast episode on Mindbodygreen
Jason and I discussed everything you need to know about optimizing your metabolism.
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or watch on YouTube below:
Mindbodygreen also published a new blog article based on the podcast where I share my top 3 metabolism-boosting tips. Read the article here.
🎙️ Listen to my new podcast episode on Low Tox Life
Alexx and I discussed the systemic change needed in our health culture, and empowering solutions that we can focus on from today to move the needle in the right direction.
Listen to the full episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
📺️ Watch my second episode with The Texas Heart Institute, a brief and clear overview of metabolically health eating!
Here I emphasize aligning your food with your body's cellular needs and identify the five key elements for building powerful meals: fiber, high-quality protein, omega-3s, probiotics, and antioxidants. I also discuss the importance of ditching ultra-processed grains, sugars, and industrial seed oils.
Watch the video on YouTube below:
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