When we eat too much sugar, okay, and these days the average American city a lot of sugar like a hundred times more than we were like a hundred years ago in the rest of human history. It's like this massive overload of this substrate. What that does is it causes.

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Are all bodies the same when it comes to how foods I guess are consumed and assimilated through the body and the bloodstream and all these different things or is everybody different where some nutritional foods might impact positively but negatively in other bodies what should we be knowing about the body.

Yeah, it's a great question. And first of all, I'm a scientist so I will tell you how you can tell them a scientist is that real scientists tell you we don't know everything.

Okay, and it's the kind of humility that we have to start with because so often you think about, you know, scientists being very smart and things real scientists spend their time talking about what we what we don't know, not what we do know.

So, but you're asking me what we do know. All right, so I'll give you that answer. Look, our bodies are hardwired to be healthy.

So when we're growing in our mom's womb, our body as we're forming our bones and our heart and our organs and our limbs inside the form of the human that's being created are these health defenses.

So you think about the body like a fortress, you know, you've seen a bit we all seen a medieval fortress, a castle, right.

And basically, like it's a happy community that lives inside there, you got a king, you got a queen, you got a princess, you got everything else going inside there.

But that fortress has got to protect itself. So it's designed to repel enemies. It's got a moat, it's got a drawbridge, it's got the little slips you throw you fire arrows out of.

It's got sloping walls, so enemies can't crawl up. It's got traps. And by the way, you know, like in a medieval fort, the thing that I never realized having been to quite a few castles is that when you go into the entrance, there is a hole right above you, and it's called a murder hole.

And it's basically if the if people breach the the drawbridge, they would just drop rocks boulders down through the hole. All right, so the body is designed better than a medieval castle.

We've got our own defense systems. And there's five of them that I know about and I helped to kind of put together this picture partly because I studied the biotechnology.

How do you actually treat diseases using these systems. And we forget about the disease part and you think about the health part.

These are the systems, these five systems that maintain our health. So I'll tell you what they are.

Okay, first health defense system is called angiogenesis. That's what I study blood vessels, a 60,000 mile channel that delivers oxygen and nutrients everywhere.

Gotta have enough of them or your our body is in trouble.

It's called angiogenesis. This is the this is the channel of blood vessels. This is the this is how this is how the body grows blood vessels. Okay, it is a whole system of growth.

Okay, when we have just the right amount of blood vessels, our body is healthy. Now we're going to go to work out. All right, you're going to pump some iron.

Yeah, your your muscles got to grow. Now you need a few more blood vessels. All right. If you skin your knee and fall off a bike,

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