Now I want to jump to a really complex concept that is antithetical to almost every conventional medical person.

And that is the concept of reductive stress.

And I actually remember viewing a podcast you were on with Tucker Goodrich and Kate Shanahan,

where you were discussing this concept.

And Kate's a pretty sharp woman.

She's one of the first people I've ever interviewed about the dangers of linoleic acid.

But she just couldn't get her head behind this concept.

She was just adamantly opposed to

reductive as a concept even. She didn't believe it. Didn't believe it. So I think we need to,

it would be really helpful to understand this because this is really mind bending and it's

absolutely turned my world upside down once I understood this thing with

respect to what I thought and believed to be the truth about really the fundamental way

that we age in an accelerated fashion.

You know, it's believed to be oxidative stress and then further refined

to be oxidative stress in the mitochondria. And yes, because that's where most of it occurs.

But when I wrote my book, FAP for Fuel, it was totally mixed up. I thought that was the cleanest

fuel. And it turns out, no, the cleanest fuel is when you have reductive stress minimized.

Because reductive stress, we'll define it in a moment.

But it actually is what causes oxidative stress.

So to understand, you have to understand what is oxidation and what is reduction.

So why don't we go over this simply?

Because this is a complex topic. And I suspect many of you will need to listen to this a few times to get it.

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