During states of low carbohydrate consumption, the body does something which is natural called physiologic insulin resistance at the level of the muscle or glucose sparing. When we increase the amount of fat in our diet, and when we decrease the amount of carbohydrates, there are different signals from the adipose tissue because of declining levels of insulin. And so pregnant women who are doing a glucose tolerance test or a glucose in the next day should not be doing a low carb meal or they can do a low car meal if they want to. But if you do, if a pregnant woman does a lowCarb meal the night before a glucoseolerance test, they can look insulin resistant the next day.
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Tommy Wood MD, PhD is an elite-level professional nerd who has coached world class athletes in a dozen sports. He has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, a medical degree from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in physiology and neuroscience from the University of Oslo. Tommy is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine cognition, and is on the scientific advisory board of Hintsa Performance. He is also CSO (Chief Snake Officer) at the Costa Rican Center for Bro Research. Tommy lives in Seattle with his wife Elizabeth and their two goofy boxers. In his spare time he can usually be found cooking, reading, or lifting something heavy.
Time Stamps:
- 8:07 Start of Podcast
- 8:52 The mechanism of caffeine/other compounds found in coffee/tea/chocolate in the human body.
- 11:27 Paul’s thoughts on coffee.
- 15:42 Tommy’s thoughts on coffee.
- 21:37 Human detoxification of plant toxins.
- 24:22 Regional differences in genetics.
- 26:00 Benefits of Elimination diet.
- 27:37 Tommy’s issues with low carb diets.
- 29:52 Is insulin anabolic?
- 36:07 Protein requirements
- 37:17 Physiologic insulin resistance.
- 51:47 What Causes insulin resistance?
- 58:12 Digestion of processed fat and carbohydrate
- 59:47 What is the fastest way to fix insulin resistance?
- 1:01:47 How the processing of food changes your physiology.
- 1:04:22 Insulin resistance in asian populations.
- 1:06:32 The bagel study.
- 1:08:37 Low-carb-high fat vs. low fat-high carb.
- 1:12:07 Electrolyte balance on low carb diet.
- 1:17:47 Where to find Tommy online?
- 1:19:57 The most radical thing Tommy has done recently.
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