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Robert Lustig: "Processed Food, Metabolism, and The Ills of Society"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Intermittent Fasting and Metabolic Syndrome

Intermittent fasting means less food coming into the cell, which means that your ATP is going to be broken up into its components. An enzyme called AMP kinase senses the increase in AMP and it stimulates the program for increased mitochondrial synthesis. So you make more mitochondria and they're now fresh. And they're coexisting with unhealthy mitochondria, but the population percentage has changed.

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