
Dr. Andrew Weil, Healing Herbs, Healthy Oils, Mushrooms, Omega-3's, and Other Health Tips (#26)
The Kevin Rose Show
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Pre Diabetes
We evolved in periods when food was generally scarce, and people lived near the border of starvation most of the time. In response to that environment, uh, we evolve jeans. These are often called thrifty jeans, that enable us to store up energy very efficiently when calories are present. Those jeans now work against us when we have available food all the time,. Many of those foods are very easily digested and processed into glucose. So it's desirable to have glucose levels in the blood stable.
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