Energy production (metabolic tendency)
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Have you every wondered .....
The rate at which we burn through different energy sources, and which types of energy sources (fats, carbohydrates, and proteins) significantly impacts the amount of energy we have to think, move, exercise and also how we feel emotionally. To simplify matters though, let us talk about the metabolic behaviour in terms of one's Metabolic Tendency. Your Metabolic Tendency refers to your body's tendency to burn through carbohydrates for energy quickly or slowly. If your body burns through carbohydrates quickly, you may be classified as a "Fast Oxidiser". If you burn through carbohydrates slowly, you could be classified a "Slow Oxidiser". Further, if you do not burn through any energy source efficiently, you could be classified as a "Sub Oxidiser". Sometimes this Slow/Fast /Sub oxidiser status has been referred to as a Metabolic Type, but "Tendency" is a more accurate and useful term to use because, whether you have a slow, fast, or sub oxidation rate you can correct your body's tendency through intelligent nutritional & dietary choices. These intelligent choices can resolve imbalances in oxidation speed and optimise your metabolism. Once your metabolism is optimised, are you still a fast or slow or sub oxidiser? No. Once corrected, you're not that type anymore. So, to label yourself a "Type" is misleading and disempowering because it can make people assume they are stuck as that type when, in fact, remedy exists. For maximum energy production, we have a balanced oxidation rate - which would mean that our body has a steady stream of energy available to it at all times - which requires that we are efficient at metabolising all fuel sources (carbs, fat & protein) AND that our diet provides the right kinds and ratios of fuel sources and the cofactors necessary to process them. There are various reasons that our body may have a tendency to lean towards being a fast, slow, or sub oxidiser and they can all be corrected. Once they are corrected, you will experience a huge, huge, huge increase in your vitality, your ability to burn fat, be happy and to think effectively and with borderline superhuman endurance. Usual Causes of Undesirable Metabolic Tendencies
Scientifically Speaking...The fast oxidiser produces pyruvate and o-acetate faster than he does acetate, and is thus deplete of the most potentially bountiful source of energy in the body/diet: acetate. The slow oxidiser is in essentially the same problem, but for opposite reasons: while he is not deplete of acetate as the fast oxidiser is, he cannot access it because he is not producing sufficient quantity of cofactors that are required to metabolise acetate: pyruvate and o-acetate.
In either Metabolic Tendency, the same problem occurs: an insufficient breakdown of acetate in the citric acid cycle (impaired fat metabolism). This is what generally causes and/or significantly contributes to low energy (i.e. chronic fatigue), mental and emotional disease and obesity. Simply Speaking...If you burn through carbohydrates too quickly (fast oxidiser) due to poor diet choices or ineffective digestion of proteins or fats, then you cannot tap into those most abundant sources of energy (protein and fat) that could come from your diet & body energy reserves. If you burn through carbohydrates too slowly (slow oxidiser) then your body lacks all the pieces of the metabolic puzzle needed to burn fat and protein for energy.
Metaphorically Speaking...Think of carbohydrates as the kindling needed to start a fire. Your salivary enzymes are the match that initially lights the kindling. The kindling provides some immediate warmth and light (energy), but its not the real fire. Your body fat and dietary fats and proteins are the major fuel for the fire - they are the big logs that will give you abundant warmth and light (real metabolic energy). The energy from the kindling literally dims in comparison to the potential fire from the big logs, BUT you can't get the fire going with the big logs if you didn't start with the kindling first. Same so in our body - essential digestive intermediaries created as sugar is metabolised as necessary to start the metabolic utilisation of energy from stored body fat and dietary fats and proteins.
Beta slow oxidiser imbalanceIf your tests gave some indications that you have a Beta Slow Oxidiser Imbalance you should know that it is an imbalance deals with energy production and how the body uses food for fuel. To create energy, for the most part, our body burns either fat or glucose (to keep this explanation simple). Your body is made to burn both types of fuel for different purposes. But changes can occur in our body or in our lives that will train the body to prefer one fuel over the other and it may stop burning the other type of fuel almost altogether.
If your test showed that you have a Beta Oxidiser imbalance, then you most likely are burning much more fat than glucose. If you also have high cholesterol, high triglycerides and a high fasting glucose, any of these markers can be another indication that you are not processing glucose effectively. In order to process sugar or glucose, the body is having to take all sugar or glucose coming into a person and turn it into fat before it is able to be "burned" for energy. This imbalance may show itself in the form of a number of different symptoms or "conditions". The outcome may be different depending on the individual, but you may have already found yourself experiencing one or more of the following issues at some point:
Tri-Carb fast oxidiser imbalanceIf your tests gave some indications that you have a Tri-Carb Fast Oxidiser Imbalance you should know that a Tri-carb is a person who is predisposed to burn off all his glucose and does not like burning fat. Now, it's not that he won't burn fat, but he will always prefer to burn off all of his glucose first. This is what is commonly referred to as a hypoglycaemic. But the hypoglycaemic can also be a step away from becoming diabetic.
But if he's hypoglycaemic, how can he be a step away from becoming diabetic? Well, it's because many hypoglycaemics have way too much insulin in the system and their system responds as though there were five furnaces in the house. And every time the house gets cold, instead of one furnace coming on and slowly warming the house up and then turning off, FIVE furnaces turn on and the house is hotter than a son of a gun before the furnaces shut down. And so that's how it goes with the insulin. These individuals have become insulin resistant but they have not been insulin resistant long enough that the cells have stopped responding to the insulin altogether. We're at that stage where we are still responsive enough to the insulin that when the pancreas produces up to 5 times the amount of insulin it normally would, it reaches a critical level and all the sugar goes into the cells at one time. This person can get very severe headaches in the front of his head. This person may also complain that the head feels full or he'll get fuzzy brained, and this is due to the blood sugar dropping far too rapidly. This can make a person extremely miserable. This imbalance may show itself in the form of a number of different symptoms or "conditions". The outcome may be different depending on the individual, but you may have already found yourself experiencing one or more of the following issues at some point:
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