617. Is GLPerfect Nature’s Ozempic?: Natural Tools to Rebuild Your Metabolism w/ David Roberts
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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I’m joined once again by the brilliant David Roberts, co-founder of Mara Labs, for a deep dive into the metabolic health crisis and the surprising science behind real, sustainable wellness. David walks us through the metabolic cascade that begins every time we eat, and why this natural process breaks down with age, inactivity, and modern diets. We also get into the critical role of muscle mass in regulating glucose, how fasting and autophagy rejuvenate mitochondria, and why walking may be the most underrated tool in the fight against obesity.
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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
(00:00:00) What Is Metabolic Health & Why It Matters
(00:13:35) Compassion, Obesity, & the Truth About Health
(00:25:54) Good Fats, Bad Fats, & the Hidden Toxins in Your Food
(00:34:08) Blue Light, EMFs, & the Hormones That Regulate Your Weight
(00:42:42) Ozempic, GLP-1s, & Natural Alternatives for Fat Loss
(00:57:21) The Power of Sulforaphane & the Path to Natural Detox
(01:36:20) Rethinking Aging: Muscle, Metabolism, & Mitochondria
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| 0:00.0 | So what is metabolic health? I know it has something to do with metabolism, but this is a word that is, you know, thankfully, starting to become more popular. And I don't know that I'm totally clear on it as a general term or metric of someone's health. Yeah. Well, first of all, thanks for having me here. Great to have you back, dude. |
| 0:20.9 | Yeah, and it's always a pleasure to travel to Austin, visit your cool house. |
| 0:25.9 | I mean, metabolic health and the opposite metabolic syndrome, you'll hear it thrown out in podcasts, read it in blogs. |
| 0:37.1 | And basically, it discusses it's about metabolism, about your metabolism, about people's |
| 0:42.7 | metabolism in the same vein, insulin sensitivity, type 2 diabetes. |
| 0:48.1 | So basically, metabolic syndrome is when you're triglycerizer high, you have high blood pressure, you have some |
| 0:56.5 | beginnings of cardiovascular issues, cholesterol, and glucose. And so, and insulin. So if you have |
| 1:03.9 | high insulin, high glucose, you know, you have trouble processing your glucose because |
| 1:09.9 | high insulin typically allows the glucose to go into the muscles |
| 1:14.7 | and it may be actually, you know, better to back up to your original question of metabolic health. |
| 1:21.6 | What does the normal look like? So you eat a meal and your, carbohydrates turn into glucose and that that glucose stimulates |
| 1:32.7 | insulin from your pancreas that insulin is a it's a it's a it creates a signal to your |
| 1:40.3 | cells and specifically cell receptors to receive glucose. |
| 1:46.5 | The glucose enters the cell. |
| 1:48.2 | In glucose, we all know, is needed for energy, |
| 1:51.1 | but it's not the usable form of energy. |
| 1:53.0 | You actually, it goes to your mitochondria, |
| 1:56.7 | mitochondria, which are sort of the power centers of the cell. |
| 2:00.0 | And then the reason we breathe in |
| 2:01.5 | oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide is because the oxygen is needed for something called |
| 2:08.3 | the Krebs cycle. And that takes glucose, which is kind of like money in the bank. It's not the |
| 2:12.7 | usable form of energy and creates sort of the cash form of energy called adenosine trifosate or ATP. |
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