Ep. 73: Refuting Nutrition With Judy’s “Thoughts on the Ray Peat Diet” (Part 1)

In this episode we discuss:

• 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