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TOP Highlights and Takeaways about Leptin, Fructose, Hydration and Mitochondria from Dr. Rick Johnson Interview

Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

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Is Leptin Resistant to Obesity?

The body breaking down fructose is having such a powerful effect on our bodies gaining weight but when you sort of understand the mechanism which we'll talk about again a little bit later it really explains it in such a logical way. leptin normally it blocks obesity but as he says it gets you know screwed up from eating sugar and eating fructose and another hormone is also very much responsible for obesity but it's not blocking obesity normally when it's functioning well it's actually driving obesity. That hormone is actually vasopressin so they found that people who are obese tend to have really higher levels of vasopressins.

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