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The INSANE Diet and Nutrition guide to ending inflammation & REVERSE AGING | Dr. Steven Gundry

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

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How to Stop the Fat From Pouring Out Into the Munition Factory

In starvation, mitochondria will devote all the protein manufacturing in the cell to make more of their proteins and they'll actually not make muscle protein. So my mitochondria is protecting itself by uncoupling. They're getting rid of this stuff. They're making more of themselves to share the workload. Each one is working less hard so that they aren't being damaged,. But you're recruiting more mitochondria. And it's actually brilliant because it traps the fat, makes you use it more slowly. In World War I, munition workers in France and Germany who were assembling shells and working with gunpowder were extremely thin despite eating huge amounts of food. It took a couple of doctors at Stanford

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