Matt Rose

@thematineemusic @stillcreekcrows

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

In a burst of energy before she died, my mom urged us to take her to where she'd be buried.

Cupping my dad's face, she talked about how magical their life was together.

It was the most profound moment of my life, and it wouldn't have happened if we listened to her doctors.

Just 13 days before, in January 2021, my mom was apparently healthy.

She felt a pain in her stomach during her morning hike and got a scan. Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

She called me and said she wouldn’t meet her future grandchildren. The family rushed to her side. My sister @DrCaseysKitchen and I learned three things over those next 13 days... Lessons that we think provide an explanation - and solutions - for the largest issue our country faces: the fact that we are getting sicker, fatter, more depressed, and more infertile at an increasing rate while bankrupting our country with healthcare costs.

The first was that the predominant incentive in medicine is to intervene after you get sick.

Right after my mom's unexpected cancer diagnosis, a medical team out of Stanford and Palo Alto Medical Foundation jumped to action, recommending a laundry list of surgeries and procedures—biopsies, blood transfusions, and a liver stent. In most cases, the patient would have agreed to these procedures, and the meeting would wrap up quickly.

These recommendations were coming from some of the most prestigious institutions in the world, after all.

But based on my sister's experience in medicine (Stanford MD and surgical residency), she started asking questions. We learned that these procedures had about a 33 percent chance of extending her life a few more months at most, a 33 percent chance of shortening her life span, and a 33 percent chance of not impacting her life span (yet keeping her away from the family). In all cases, the invasive route would mean that my mom would need to sit in a hospital room alone, because of Covid-19 protocols, and potentially longer if the surgery had complications, as they often do with immunocompromised cancer patients.

My mom made it clear to the oncologist that she was not afraid of her rapidly impending death, but she wanted to minimize unnecessary pain or nausea in her final days. Despite being clear, the system pushed the exact procedures that would yield pain and nausea and aggressively shamed our family for questioning the full-court press approach.

Thank God we had my sister - who had routinely seen doctors push unnecessary surgeries to terminally ill patients during her training - who had the wherewithal to push back.

In 99.9% of cases, my mom would have died alone in a hospital room and we would have missed the life-changing final days with her.

The second lesson was that my mom's cancer was not "random." Her oncologists said it was "bad luck." It wasn't.

In the decades leading up to my mom’s cancer diagnosis, she was informed her rising cholesterol, waistline, fasting glucose, and blood pressure levels were conditions that she could “manage” for life with a pill. But instead of isolated conditions, all of the symptoms my mom experienced leading to her death were warning signs of the same thing: dysregulation in how her cells were producing and using energy.

But through decades of symptoms, my mom—and most other adults in the modern world—are simply prescribed pills and not set on a path of curiosity about how these conditions are connected and how the root cause can be reversed.

The third lesson was that there is a better way than our current system, and it starts with understanding that the biggest lie in health care is that the root cause of why we’re getting sicker, heavier, more depressed, and more infertile is complicated.

Depression, anxiety, acne, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s dementia, cancer, and most other conditions that torture and shorten our lives are actually rooted in the same thing.

And the ability to prevent and reverse these conditions—and feel incredible today—is under your control and simpler than you think.

After leaving traditional medicine and working with patients to understand their biomarkers and take simple root causes actions - my sister routinely saw quick reversals of formerly intractable conditions.

The siloing and medicalization of chronic disease in the past fifty years has been an abject failure. Today, we’ve siloed diseases and have a treatment for everything:
✅High cholesterol? See a cardiologist for a statin.
✅High fasting glucose? See an endocrinologist for metformin.
✅Depressed? See a psychiatrist for a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).
✅Can’t sleep? See a sleep specialist for Ambien.
✅PCOS? See an ob-gyn for clomiphene.
✅Erectile dysfunction? See a urologist for Viagra.
✅Sinus infections? See an ENT for an antibiotic or surgery.

But what nobody talks about—what I think many doctors don’t even realize—is that the rates of most of these conditions are going up at the exact time we are spending trillions of dollars to “treat them.”

In the face of these unprecedented trends happening to our brains and bodies across our life span—which all have metabolic dysfunction as a root—we are told to “trust the science.” This obviously doesn’t make sense. We have been gaslighted to not ask questions over the past fifty years at the exact time chronic disease rates have exploded.

The truth: we should consider listening to the medical system if we have an acute issue like a life-threatening infection or broken bone. But when it comes to the chronic conditions that plague our lives, we should distrust almost every institution giving the advice. The answers are much more simple and under our control.
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In the days following my mom's death, my sister and I affirmed to devote our lives to changing these broken health incentives. And Casey expressed a passion to write a book with lessons she's learned working inside and outside the medical system. I have helped her write this book over the past several years and it will be coming out in May.

A lot of issues will be discussed as we enter 2024, but the most important is that our human capital in America (particularly kids) is being decimated by preventable and reversible metabolic conditions. Thank you @bariweiss @TheFP for publishing an excerpt.

[Brad West @BradWestPoCo]

They have done their duty faithfully & we must do ours. While we owe our veterans a debt that can never be repaid, we are nonetheless called to do so.

We must never forget. From generation to generation, we must ensure that the knowledge of what was done & why is never lost.

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

September can’t come soon enough! @barnsideharvestfest is gonna be good times… We already know it. Get on those tickets! https://t.co/5LRDRpmP0l

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! The party of the summer has just been announced & the lineup for @barnsideharvestfestival is so good! We hit the stage on Saturday if you’re wondering 😉 Tickets go on sale starting Friday April 5th at 10am so you better act quick! #barnsideharvestfest

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

Vancouver! We are taking over the stage this Friday at @guiltandcompany for 3 full sets starting at 10pm. Let’s get it on!

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

Hey Vancouver, we have a special acoustic performance this Thursday evening at @guiltandcompany !

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

Peter Lemon behind his kit @hipposonic studio, but we can’t put a date on it. We think it was snapped by Adam PW Smith…. So must predate our See The Sunrise album sesh there with @stevebays …. We return to Hippo on Feb 24th to perform our new record & THERE ARE ONLY 4 TIX LEFT!

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

The kind folks at @MOJOmagazine have included a review of our new record in their latest issue of the mag, which you can pick up at a news stand or find online at the link below. The Matinee got their Mojo back!

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

An oldie but a goodie….. From the summer festival archives. Next show Feb 24th at @hipposonic studios in Vancouver…. Limited tickets available so jump on it if you’re wanting to be there. And you do. Yes, you do. https://t.co/cW0KlrwMBt

[Matt Rose @mattnarose]

@TheBabylonBee @GadSaad beat you on this one 🍻🍻

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

Hot Damn. @stevebays never disappoints. Here’s the latest video he created for us - Up now over on @americanaUK - Link in Steve’s tweet below 👇

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

You Are the Last Line of Defense.

This is the speech I gave in the memory of Barbara K. Olson @FedSoc.

https://t.co/xzk8SvQkK6

[RPMpromotion @RPMpromotion]

Wow!!! What a night in Van City!!! Tune in at 10pm PT tonight with @crutzer to @sonicradio for tunes from @thematineemusic @furtradeband @hotelmiramusic and @fionnband !! listen live >>> https://t.co/Emou4uyA9x

[匚ㄖ尺乃乇ㄒ 尺ㄩㄒ乙乇尺 @crutzer]

Fun news! I'm hosting a music show that will highlight the best of BC's alt music scene (past, present and future) and it starts tonight at 10pm on @sonicradio!! Playlist below 👇

[Real Gone / @realgonerocks.bsky.social @realgonerocks]

New at REAL GONE: The Matinee - Change of Scene (review & stream)

https://t.co/Wq8fT734qz

One of 2023's finest albums. Come in for a listen, and to read our thoughts!

@thematineemusic

#americana #retro

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

This new record of ours called ‘Change of Scene’ has been out for one month now and so we thought it time to ask, what’s your favourite song so far? Have a favourite line or lyric? We’d love to know what you’re connecting with! (Photo snapped by @hellovictoriablack !)

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

Thanks to kind folks @SIRIUSXM @TheVerge for listening and supporting Cut To Pieces!

[RPMpromotion @RPMpromotion]

. @thematineemusic keep climbing the Breaking Alt chart with ‘Cut To Pieces’ at #2 this week!! Listen to the full countdown on @TheVerge SXM channel 173 !! ✂️

[The Matinée 👽 🍄 @thematineemusic]

We chatted with Jeff about the new record and how changing things up made us fall in love again. Listen ⬇️