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Default Overeating is Bad for Mitochondria: Calories Count

Here's another timely post by Dr. Cate:

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Overeating is Bad for Mitochondria: Calories Count

There’s a lot of important discussion around macronutrients in the nutrition world regarding what percentage of our daily calories should ideally come from protein versus carb versus fat. In all this discussion, what’s often overlooked is the fact that simply overeating puts a stress on the system.

I think we should include a fourth macronutrient: time between meals.


There's lots of fascinating stuff here, including a video. It supports the ideas behind Intermittent Fasting and only eating to hunger, plus lots more:

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This 15 minute youtube lecture below provides a fundamental insight to what overeating does to our metabolism. In order to understand the true origin of insulin resistance and other diseases of overconsumption we must look inside mitochondria. Mitochondria are the battery packs powering most of life on Earth including our brain and muscle cells. It turns out most of us have been overstuffing these little guys with too much energy, and now we know that doing so can harm them.

Dr. P. Darrel Neufer explains how a mitochondria works like a battery. We literally charge mitochondria with electrons when we eat, and drain those electrons with activity that moves protons through the pump. The problems arise when we over charge our batteries. Unlike real batteries, which simply ignore the charge and the electrical balance inside our house is unaffected, our mitochondria must disrupt our body’s hormonal balance in order to protect themselves.


Amazing stuff. Like they say, read the whole thing.
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