Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights.

So today I'm going to teach you a new word.

All right.

It's a very long word.

And then I'm going to describe what it is.

But this way, you can go to a party and sound very smart.

So what is this word?

The word is A-M-P-K.

What does that stand for? 5-pr prime adenosin monophosphate,

activated protein kinase. Okay, so just memorize that word and you can use it at a party.

So what is this thing? Well, it's the mitochondria protector. They call it the guardian of your metabolism.

Now, in this sense, metabolism isn't necessarily just about weight loss.

It's about producing energy.

And this energy is produced in the mitochondria.

So basically, it's the central regulator of energy homeostasis.

So homeostasis is the ability to adapt the internal part of your body

to the external part, the environment. So we can maintain survival. So if it's cold outside,

our body starts to shiver to increase temperature. That's homeostasis. If you were to run up stairs,

your pulse rate would go up to adjust for the need for oxygen to your brain so you wouldn't pass out. That's homeostasis. So AMPK basically is an enzyme that adapts to things that deplete your cellular energy. So it senses this drop in energy in the ATP,

which is like the energy currency of the body

within the mitochondria,

and then it adapts the mitochondria and other things

...