Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

I was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome a decade ago. At that time, my health care practitioner recommended a number of supplements as well as intermittent fasting. While the results were great, I lost interest in continuing the plethora of supplements, not only due to the cost, but the strange side effects I was experiencing.Over the next decade, I grew increasingly confused by contradictory nutritional guidelines.I bought this book because my lack of energy was becoming concerning. I did not expect much as this was an impulse buy.I WAS WRONG. This book has changed my relationship with food, and more importantly my relationship with my body. The writing is clear and concise with data and verifiable research, which provides credibility in my mind.Everyone should read this book and incorporate these guidelines.I have since also purchased the kindle edition so I can pass the physical copy on to my loved ones.Thank you to Casey Means. You have truly changed my life for the better. After six weeks, I have lost 10 pounds, regulated my blood sugar, and my energy is restored.

Fabulous assemblage of well explained and documented essentials to release yourself from all that the experts and consensus got wrong, leading us to undermine our health, AND all you need to correct course and reclaim it! I will surely recommend this book and purchase more for others but I can't loan my copy out. It's a standard reference for me now; can't be without it! I rank this volume only second to The Maker's Diet by Jordan Rubin.

I'm only halfway through the book, but implemented the dietary advice (with about 75% success) and noticed a startling immediate, observable, objective benefit. Three years ago I suffered back-to-back c.diff. infections (due to a lengthy course of a broad spectrum antibiotic) and my intestines have not functioned properly ever since. I decided to eat 3 cups of leafy greens daily (easy if you simply eat them plain, as a snack food) and cut out most processed food. I am forming stools for the first time in years! I am a grateful believer!

Did you ever go online to find a recipe and have to read through a 300+ word personal story of their life with the condiment? Well, this is a bit of that, on organic steroids.Similar to Heather’s book “A Hunter Gather’s Guide…” Casey connects our current bad health outcomes to our disconnection from our ancestor’s ancient lifestyles i.e. sleeping when it’s dark, eating fresh fruits and fish, avoiding chemicals and stress.Much of the advice here is helpful, some of it nearly absurd. Not that it’s wrong but impractical for most people. For example getting outside for sunlight within the first hour of waking up, as if we all sleep until 9 AM. In this part of the country in the winter the kids get on the school bus at 645 AM and the sunrise is an hour later than that. I promise you won’t need to stand in an ice cold shower if your fingers and toes have slight bluish tint after spending the last 2 hours shoveling your driveway.Casey repeats Heather’s advice to eat some psilocybin mushrooms. Putting aside that they fail to warn you of the grave danger to yourself and others if you have a family history of mental illness that can cause an onset of schizophrenia. I’m sorry if you missed out on the 1970’s, but advising a nurse mom and a cop dad of 3 pre-teens to drop acid and drop out is not helpful.More helpful is thinking of your diet and lifestyle at the metabolic level. Considering what messages your environment, diet, sleep etc. send to you at the cellular level. She backs up her thesis with facts, though too often relies on very small studies that happen to support her views. The medical jargon can get overwhelming at times, and a bit tedious, unless you’re a medical professional.I will certainly think much more carefully about what I’m putting into my pie-hole. The 4 week checklist was way more than I’m willing to buy in to, but at my cellular level, I do appreciate her advice. Recommended reading for humans.

Awesome book! Everyone should read this so they can advocate for their own health and be more educated about making good food choices for themselves and their families.

I’m amazed at all the info in this book! It will take some time to get through it. Packed full of information we need to get back to Health! I love this author. Her brother is amazing too! Can’t say enough good things about them. Must have book/reference/cookbook!

A very thorough book on health. Many elements of good health were explicitly covered with substantial detail in a very readable form.

This book makes some good points, but having read many other books about holistic health and wellbeing, I didn’t learn as much as I had hoped. Most of the information was not new for me. What I did learn was not really presented in a usable format. I’ve tried to go back and dig through the text to try to find the useful information about early and specific testing and piece it together, because it is valuable knowledge to have. The book could have helped people so much more if the testing info was simplified and organized more clearly. I agree with many of the author’s sentiments about human health and western medicine, so I did appreciate the book. The most important thing I learned was the clinically proven benefit that short walks after meals have on insulin health and blood sugar regulation.