Metabolic health

Defined

Dr. Casey Means defines metabolic health as:

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It can be measured:

By understanding "your basic metabolic biomarkers that you can get at your annual physical with your doctor: fasting glucose, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, hemoglobin A1C, waist circumference and blood pressure.

Metabolic disfunction

"We're (Dr. Casey and Calley Means, co-authors of Good Energy) actually referencing a paper that came out of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in 2022 that showed, based on assessment of the lab results of 55,000 Americans, only 6.8% were metabolically healthy – 93.2% had at least one biomarker indicating metabolic dysfunction. What the science is telling us is that most of the chronic symptoms and conditions that are affecting Americans across the lifespan are rooted in metabolic dysfunction, which is a core problem in how our bodies and our cells actually make energy to power themselves."

The lack of metabolic health leads to metabolic syndrome