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Epigenetics, Microbiome, Mental and Physical Health with renowned physician Zach Bush

The Happy Pear Podcast

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The Importance of Calories in the Body

Excess calories go in the fat because fat storage is very low maintenance. Fat cells stored in the liver though, at some point do have a burden of energy. And this is an inflammatory injury ultimately that starts to be produced. When the liver gets inflamed and then also gets too full, it has to start storing it in the visceral cavity. This is the classic beer belly kind of effect. So you got the gut there. That's just more backed up calories at the portBecause it can't get to the mitochondria to be burned. The only way to get somebody who's in an obese state to eat more is to give them a drug,. But they're in Nate state when

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