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#38 - Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Ph.D.: Advancing Alzheimer’s disease treatment and prevention – is AD actually a vascular and metabolic disease?

The Peter Attia Drive

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The Importance of Eating Carbohydrates

The whole purpose of eating is to convert chemical energy into chemical energy from one form to another. To do it, you need an intermediary to translate and that intermediate has to turn the chemical energy into electrical energy. Red blood cells for example don't have mitochondria but at least they need cytochrome oxidase. It's the only way nature found how to solve this. When circulation is compromised then you have less oxygen you're creating a situation where these events cannot move on. In fact their brain is telling them that they should be hungry because they are not able to transfer those electron donors into electron transport and produce energy. So they feel their energy deprived so they increase food consumption especially they attracted

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