This is a YouTube video titled "Trusting Your Body's Signals | Dr. Casey Means x Dave Asprey" featuring a conversation between Dr. Casey Means and Dave Asprey recorded in June 2024. They discuss the confusion caused by conflicting health advice and emphasize the importance of listening to one's body through both subjective symptoms and modern technological tools like wearables and lab testing to reduce cognitive overload and improve health decisions.
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There are doctors saying one thing, the.
ADA saying another thing. You've got health influencers, you've got books.
You'Ve got podcasts, everyone. There's wars going on and people get very confused and it makes them doubt.
Their choices, which is a huge cognitive overload. People are afraid to eat a lot.
Of different things and a real message is like, you don't actually need to trust anyone but yourself, but you do need to understand how interpret what your body is telling you. And you can do that actually very simply in this modern age with two things. One is analog, one is technological. Analog is like learn to interpret your symptoms. How do I feel? How do I feel? And in this crazy distraction industrial complex of our modern world where we've just put productivity and you know, consumerism at the top, like we are all so damn busy that people just don't even have a second to sit and just hear their bodies talking to them all the time through their symptoms. So step one, a point of the book is just like slow down, understand this multi dimensional matrix that we're all.
Living in and buying into and realize.
That like a big part of your health journey is actually just like doing things in the world and then listening.
To how your body is feeling, looking, you know, what is the experience.
Step two is obviously technological which is like in the past five years we have these trends converging that are incredibly wonderful.
We have direct to consumer lab testing.
Things like Function health and inside tracker and others. We've got bio wearables like continuous glucose monitors and more coming down the pipeline. And then we've got of course the other wearables, the auras, the whoops, the, the Fitbits, all these things that can give us these real time feedback and.
So if we can learn to understand.
The numbers and then the subjective experience and then try things on and just be able to prove to ourself like is it working or not. We can cut through all the confusing.
Noise that keeps us spinning and feeling paralyzed. And so I, I actually think for so many of our levels members it has cut through the stress to actually get them to a place of feeling.
A lot of ease with hey yeah, I can eat this and I can.
Take a walk afterwards or like I.
Know that if I put some more.
Fiber on this it'll help. I think reducing the cognitive overhead is.
