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Reversing The American Food Pyramid | Calley Means : 1395

The Human Upgrade with Calley Means 2026-01-09

Summary

Calley Means joins The Human Upgrade to discuss reversing the american food pyramid | calley means : 1395. Key topics include nutritional strategies based on current research; performance optimization strategies backed by science; practical biohacking tools and technologies for health optimization.

Key Points

  • Nutritional strategies based on current research
  • Performance optimization strategies backed by science
  • Practical biohacking tools and technologies for health optimization
  • Key longevity markers and interventions to optimize healthspan

Key Moments

Has someone who grew up obese hit 300 pounds in my early 20s?

Has someone who grew up obese hit 300 pounds in my early 20s? It was just bad information because of perverse incentives.

"Has someone who grew up obese hit 300 pounds in my early 20s? I kind of take that personally. I tend to be an early adopter even of childhood obesity. And I realized that there was no reason that it needed to happen that way. It was just bad information because of perverse incentives. And I studied in my undergrad computer information systems with a concentration in a branch of artificial intelligence."

We're here to practice medicine with our prescription pad

The beauty of the system is because it gives everyone plausible deniability. At Stanford Medical School, when Casey asked in her first couple of weeks, why people were getting so sick, they said, that's not your job desk, why people are getting sick.

"The beauty of the system is because it gives everyone plausible deniability. At Stanford Medical School, when Casey asked in her first couple of weeks, why people were getting so sick, they said, that's not your job desk, why people are getting sick. You're just standing here with the lazy American patient who's going to eat their big Macs and drink their sodas and do bad things. We're here to practice medicine with our prescription pad"

They actually, it looks like there's going to be new guidance from the FDA

They actually, it looks like there's going to be new guidance from the FDA. But until, you know, this year, they've actually been trying to get people not to our CGMs.

"They actually, it looks like there's going to be new guidance from the FDA. But until, you know, this year, they've actually been trying to get people not to our CGMs. They don't want you to have your data. So this is the journey we're on. I'm so confused."

And that's deeply inspired me

And that's deeply inspired me. And we're on this warpath to get the change to the incentives of health.

"who's the founder of levels has been a deep inspiration for me after 11 years of training as you know, she left the system after seeing metabolic health this tide almost everything and not really talked about and actually suppressed in the medical system. And that's deeply inspired me. And we're on this warpath to get the change to the incentives of health."

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