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Tag: Health

My Body Changed Fuel. Nobody Informed the Brain.

Posted:   |   Tags: health, metabolism, nutrition

Metabolism is about converting food into energy, and it does so through three main pathways: the glucose pathway: the body processes carbohydrates and produces energy. This is the priority pathway for the brain and red blood cells—the former because of its importance, and the latter because they have no mitochondria. the beta-oxidation pathway: it transforms fat into energy. When insulin drops, this pathway increases. the ketosis pathway: it allows the energy from beta-oxidation to be distributed throughout the body in a context of low glucose. Read more...

I Used to Make My Own Omega-3. I Still Don't.

Posted:   |   Tags: evolution, health, nutrition, omega-3, suplements

We call Omega-3 and Omega-6 “essential fatty acids” because the body cannot produce them and needs to obtain them through food. One might ask why, if it’s such an essential element, evolution didn’t favor the selection of individuals capable of synthesizing it, but the way to think about it is the inverse: humans anciently had the capacity to synthesize it but precisely due to economy stopped doing so, optimized to obtain it from the environment where it was abundant at the time, and focused its investment on other more advantageous things. Read more...