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- need carbs because of valuable fiber and resistance, starches
- simply making lower carbs, higher protein and ratio to detect your tipping point
- conventional bananas can no longer grow without human intervention
- smaller amounts of sweet fruit, moderate amounts of lower sugar, fruits, like berries, and big amounts of fruits that are considered vegetables
- tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, pumpkin, squash, etc!

Protein ✔️

Moving into Carbs

MACROS

Finished learning about the microbiome and all the factors that will contribute to keeping the gut health on track. Macros up next!

#1 learning about the microbiome!

- Insulin signals are fat cells to absorb components IN
- Glycogen wants to get stored OUT of the fat cells out of your liver to burn it for energy
- Insulin resistance is when the cell can’t hear the insulins message so there’s too much shit in bloodstream. That’s caused by high glycemic foods and inflammation
- Lower the carbs and have high protein and fat to keep these two balanced!
- More muscle mass!

- Calorie counting is a façade
- The different types of fat (we need more brown/beige fat!)
- How fat cells change in size not #
- Whole foods over processed foods
- Cooking increased caloric density
- The jobs of each metabolic processes (a lot)
- *Prebiotics!
- Inflammation is huge in fat growth. It’s vital for immunity but it needs to be reduced in the liver, gut, and brain (effects the thyroid -> hypothalamus)

Introduction to what the book is going to be about was exciting and interesting- I got a little emotional honestly

Everything comes back to food. Everything that we eat, dictates how our bodies, bones, and internal organs grow. Things that we think we know, we simply don’t and the book is about to teach us that

Mental health, sleep, energy, focus, intelligence, etc- all comes back to what we put into our bodies