Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Today, I'm going to talk about the real reason why you are tired.

I have a lot of experience with this because I personally have been tired for years, probably

decades before I figured this out.

And so part of the body that generates energy is the mitochondria.

Those are those little energy factories, which is also a fascinating topic in itself because

these mitochondria have their own DNA, which is just fascinating.

And the theory behind how mitochondria evolved is basically this bacteria cell that invaded

our body and didn't get digested.

It formed a symbiotic relationship with our own cells.

And now we give it a home.

We feed it and it produces energy because there's a lot of similarities between mitochondria

and bacteria and also another similarity between bacteria and the chloroplast.

The stuff that has the chlorophyll and plants that harvest the sun's energy.

It's kind of like the plant's mitochondria.

So our energy is generated from the mitochondria.

And there's a very, very common reason why the mitochondria might not produce the energy.

I mean, even if you give it the right fuel, and that has everything to do with a very

key nutrient called thymine or B1, which really is the spark plug of the mitochondria.

B1 is the essential, very important helper vitamin to help you convert fuel into energy.

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