164. Why You’re Tired, Cell Danger Response, Caffeine and Your Brain, and Building Energy with Ari Whitten
Ancient Health Podcast
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How Does Nutrition Interact With Energy?
In Chinese medicine they'll say this is a waychee or defensive chi. It's like if I have too much stress in my body, I'm turning it all the way down. If you've got hyperglycemia, chronic high blood sugar or spikes into very high blood sugar levels, it's important to understand. The mitochondria can interpret virtually every type of stress as a danger signal. They will shut down or turn down the dial on energy production in response to them. And there's many ways that that can happen. In nutrition interacts with our blood sugar regulation. Blood sugar directly interacts with mitochondrial energy production. We are chronically producing low levels or sometimes moderate or high levels of
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