Get the STUCK Out

In this information-packed episode, I speak with Dr. Casey Means, an MD with a passion for maximizing human potential and reversing the epidemic of preventable chronic disease through tech-enabled tools. We discuss her journey in the medical world and spend time digging into the details of glucose, insulin, and continuous glucose monitoring. I think you'll soon see that she brings a fresh and powerful perspective to the show, and that the information we discuss is incredibly relevant to getting unstuck, especially if you struggle with metabolic health.

In this overview episode, I begin to dive into the ways that what we take as true can be distorted, fabricated, or otherwise replaced by fiction. Examples I cover include popular social myths, the way that our medical research can be flawed, and the way our psychological operating system tends to distort truth.

In this episode, I continue to lay the groundwork for the series with an explanation of the importance of cycles of behavior and thought in our lives. I discuss what I believe to be the most damaging cycles today, as well as some basic strategies to escape their grasp. Finally, I cover the basic framework for creating new, healthy cycles. We'll be building on this idea throughout the podcast.

All of us are trying to improve ourselves. Whether it's eating better, exercising, or calling our grandmothers on occasion, it's so much easier to say we're going to do something than make it happen. Case in point: New Year's resolutions usually fail. Our inability to change our behaviors is a stuck point in our lives, and it's time we address this with honest questioning. What works? What is just a myth? What is popular but has no basis in science? For the most part, we are really ineffective in changing behaviors. And though there are tons of people out there telling you all you need is willpower, the willpower-based approach is limited, insufficient, and causes us to primarily feel blame and failure. So if that approach doesn't work, what does? In this episode of Get The STUCK Out, I highlight some of the basic frameworks for behavioral change interventions and then talk about some newer concepts that I believe to be gamechangers. In the course of this podcast, I'll be interviewing experts across the subjects I mention to give you the most practical tools possible for making behavioral change stick. As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts, and if you're liking the content, be sure to subscribe!