coming up on the ultimate health podcast ultimately it's not what's in the food it's what's been done to the food that matters everything fructose does to the mitochondria is designed to inhibits function it's metabolic health that drives what we should be doing because if something is not metabolically healthy we shouldn't be doing it because it means it's killing us.

Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 542. I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. This week I'm chatting with Dr. Robert Lesteig. Rob is a neuroendocrinologist New York Times bestselling author and professor of pediatric endocrinology.

He's one of the leaders of the current anti sugar movement that's changing the food industry. Rob has dedicated his retirement from clinical medicine to help fix the food supply anyway he can to reduce human suffering and to salvage the environment stick around to learn how to eat in a way to optimize your health and prevent disease highlights of our conversation include what causes mitochondrial dysfunction is there a good reason to drink milk.

The problem with algal oil for vegans fructose inhibits your mitochondria and Rob's practical approach to eating. This is the second time Rob's been on the show we cover a lot of new ground I know you're going to love this.

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Oftentimes people don't know they're affected by it to way later on years even and it's something that if people know about it they can prevent or reverse so before we get into the chronic state insulin resistance let's set the sit stage here and talk about what insulin is and then we'll move into that right absolutely insulin's the where the action is insulin is the bad guy in the story.

And when you understand insulin and insulin resistance you understand all of these chronic metabolic diseases but I will tell you that insulin resistance is actually downstream of something even more important that we will talk about called mitochondrial dysfunction.

So mitochondrial dysfunction is where you know all of these diseases conglomerate all of the diseases that we are talking about in this thing called metabolic syndrome.

So type 2 diabetes hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, fatty liver disease, polycystic ovarian disease.

The diseases that affect 75% of the population and cost 75% of today's health care dollars are all the diseases of mitochondria and when you're mitochondria don't work you get insulin resistance.

Now let's go back to insulin. Insulin is the diabetes hormone that means that diabetics take shots of insulin indeed they do and they need to take shots of insulin in order to lower their blood glucose and having a high blood glucose is bad for you.

But having a high blood glucose is a manifestation of the problem not the problem itself because if you didn't have the mitochondrial dysfunction you wouldn't have the high blood glucose.

So the high blood glucose is downstream of the actual problem and insulin is a way to shall we say cover up the problem.

So yes diabetics take shots of insulin so insulin is known as the diabetes hormone really what insulin is is the energy storage hormone.

Insulin takes glucose from the blood and also fats from the blood in the form of triglyceride and stuffs it in cells for a rainy day.

So it will take glucose and put it into cells of the body including fat and it will take circulating triglyceride off VLDL and activate the enzyme on the surface of the fat cell called lipoprotein lipase which will snarf lipid out of triglycerize and store it in fat.

So basically insulin does everything it can to increase your fat insulin makes fat period full stop more insulin more fat.

So insulin is a bad guy in the story for just that reason.

Now normally normally when you eat something and your blood glucose goes up your beta cell the insulin secreting cell of your pancreas senses that the glucose went up and it is trying to clear that glucose.

To put that glucose into storage for a rainy day your rainy day hormone if you will to save up for when you need it most and so glucose will make insulin go up that is true.

But that insulin should put that glucose into fat cells where it can't do any damage.

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