Hey Carl Franklin here, you know listening back to this show was helpful to me.

Some passing comments from Richard that I'll never forget are, the livers job is to keep

the brain fed and the liver requires insulin to convert glucose into glygogen.

I also learned what the words anabolic and cannabolic mean.

Anabolic means building up and cannabolic means breaking down.

Of course, this is where we introduce the fact that insulin is as close as we get to a

metabolic switch.

When insulin is high, glucose is stored as fatty acids and fat cells.

When insulin is low, fatty acids from fat cells can be used as fuel.

So higher insulin equals weight gain, lower insulin equals weight loss.

Insulin resistance is the result of chronic high insulin.

Insulin are no longer listening to the message of insulin, they become deaf to it.

So insulin becomes less effective at clearing glucose from the blood and also glucose

becomes less effective as a fuel.

So insulin resistance is really starving.

It's a vicious cycle.

You're hungry, so you eat carbs.

That increases your insulin resistance, which makes your body less effective at utilizing

the food energy and so you eat more.

And that is why you can eat an entire pizza, have a full belly, and still want to eat more.

We also talked about salt.

When we eat a lot of carbs, the kidneys reabsorb that salt and therefore hypertension.

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