Good Energy

Dr. Casey Means is a medical doctor, tech entrepreneur, and advocate for preventative and holistic healthcare. A Stanford graduate with honors, she earned her MD from Stanford Medical School and later pursued advanced training at the Institute for Functional Medicine. Her extensive research experience at renowned institutions such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), New York University (NYU), and Stanford underscores her background in medicine and scientific inquiry. Dr. Means co-founded Levels, a health technology company that focuses on metabolic health and empowering individuals to optimize their well-being through real-time data tracking. Her multifaceted career reflects a commitment to challenging the status quo in healthcare and advancing both individual and planetary health (“About.” Casey Means).

Dr. Means’s decision to leave a traditional surgical career demonstrates her critical perspective on modern medicine and its limitations. Witnessing what she describes as a “broken and exploitative healthcare system” during her training, she shifted her focus to root-cause medicine, aiming to help people avoid surgical interventions altogether. Her experiences as a surgeon provided her with firsthand knowledge of the healthcare system’s inadequacies, inspiring her to develop actionable strategies to improve metabolic health, as seen in Good Energy.