Why our brains favor glucose as their fuel source

Why fat is less energetically favorable as a fuel compared to carbohydrates  

The problem with reducing the bioenergetic view to the “Ray Peat diet”  

The amount of carbohydrates our bodies can handle before storing them as fat

Whether consuming carbohydrates causes Alzheimer’s disease 

Whether the raising of our blood sugar and the production of insulin is wasteful and harmful

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Timestamps:

3:01 – an introduction to Nutrition With Judy’s article on Ray Peat

7:41 – energy and metabolism are at the core of the bioenergetic view

18:43 – the problem with reducing the bioenergetic paradigm to the “Ray Peat diet” and the importance of context

29:28 – why carbohydrate oxidation is more energetically favorable to fat oxidation

41:09 – why consuming carbohydrates does not make you fat or prevent you from oxidizing fat

45:35 – our body’s impressive capacity for carbohydrate oxidation and storage

58:06 – glucose requirements in the brain other than energy production

1:00:21 – why the increased production of CO2 from carbohydrate oxidation further supports the energy favorability of carbohydrates

1:00:58 – does consuming carbohydrates cause Alzheimer’s disease?

1:06:05 – why the raising of blood sugar and the production of insulin is not wasteful or harmful