Why Are Americans Sicker Than Ever?

Casey and Calley Means, siblings and brilliant co-authors of the book Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health, recently spoke to Tucker Carlson for more than two hours. They discussed how pharmaceutical companies have coerced government agencies and the food industry to “poison America and keep us sick.”

If you listen to just one podcast this week, let it be this one. You’ve probably heard some of what they’re reporting. They back it up with solid research and include revelatory facts, including:

• The average American eats a credit-card-sized amount of plastic each week, through sources like drinking water (via plastic bottles and aluminum-can linings) and food bags/coverings. Plastics disrupt mitochonridal function, the cell’s metabolic machinery. Our cells’ ability to produce good energy is thwarted, giving way to metabolic dysfunction, which is the root of every chronic illness, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, obesity, high cholesterol, fatigue, and more.
• For the average American child, seventy percent of his or her diet is ultra-processed food. Most of our youth spend less time outdoors than the average American inmate.
• Today, our kids start puberty between ten and thirteen years old, the earliest of any continent. Pesticides are partly to blame. Consider atrazine: In the U.S., we spray seventy million pounds of this herbicide every year, on grasses, weeds, and crops like corn, wheat, and sugar. When scientists put atrazine on the embryo of a developing male frog, it turned into a female. This points to a stark reality: pesticides spur hormonal disruption.

Here’s an excerpt from Good Energy, which I highly recommend:

“Among teens, 18 percent have fatty liver disease, close to 30 percent are prediabetic, and more than 40 percent are overweight or obese. Fifty years ago, pediatricians might go an entire career without seeing these conditions among their patients. Today, young adults exist in a culture where conditions such as obesity, acne, fatigue, depression, infertility, high cholesterol, or prediabetes are common.

“Six out of ten adults are living with a chronic illness. About 50 percent of Americans will deal with mental illness sometime in life. Seventy-four percent of adults are overweight or have obesity. Rates of cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, upper respiratory infections, and autoimmune conditions are all going up at the exact time we are spending more and more to treat them. In the face of these trends, American life expectancy has been declining for the most sustained period since 1860.”

Calley Means has been advising Robert Kennedy and President Trump on the best initiatives to restore and promote public health in the United States.

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