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Food is Medicine (with Dr. Will Cole)

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The Evolution of Metabolic Flexibility

Human beings really require metabolic flexibility because that's how we were for thousands of years. And so you just had to basically or the human body got trained to be flexible and actually became more resilient that way. Then fast forward to the modern culture where this high carb diet and fast food is available all the time. If you're not eating different things at different times of the year and you're not, you know, forcing yourself to go without to restrict yourself, then your body is going to respond negatively to that. Right. It just seems kind of obvious. So why are we so late to the game kind of figuring this out? I see that in so many ways like what we call the

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