Glucose
topic on 2 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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5 statements about Glucose, every show
Pasricha: Decision-making energy is replenished only by sleep and glucose
“Decision-making energy is a finite resource, and you know, there's that great book called Willpower by John Tierney, and it's a finite resource. When it's gone, and there's only two ways to replenish it, which is sleep and glucose”
Sinclair: Eating Carbs After Protein Prevents Blood Glucose Spikes
“And also, you want to eat your carbs after you have protein, because that'll prevent your glucose from shooting up too high.”
Barrett: Cortisol is primarily a glucose-mobilizing hormone rather than a stress hormone
“People say, oh, that's the stress hormone. No, it's not. It's a hormone that ha it's a hormone that is secreted in what we call stress, but basically glu, what cortisol does is it gets glucose into your blood really fast so that cells can use it really fast.”
Jeffrey Wu: Ketones yield more energy per unit carbon than glucose
“Ketones are compounds that are broken down from fat And our cells can use that to create ATP, and it's very interesting because a lot of emerging data around ketones being more efficient for the mitochondria to produce energy, you actually get more power per u…”
Combining Paxil and Pravastatin causes unexpected spikes in blood glucose levels
“And in one story that I'll just summarize very briefly, we looked for drugs that might cause glucose in, glucose increases, diabetes, if you will, in combination, where individually, they did nothing. So we had a very strong signal that the drugs, when taken a…”