Dear Friends,
There is all the rage about electric vehicles the last few years. I watched a documentary that was trying to figure out which type of automobile was the greenest impact on the Earth. Now if you are measuring from the tailpipe well the EV is much better than the Hybrid or combustion engine because there is zero emissions. Well of course there are emissions because electricity in this country is made by about 75% fossil fuels. Its just the emissions are in someone else’s backyard. Oops!

The combustion engine obviously leaves a mark right where it runs. The hybrid is a mix of combustion that made electricity from braking. So the overall winner was figured by finding the totality of carbon footprint of the car. Meaning running it for a lifetime. The manufacturing of the car, the impact to the earth by mining for materials that go into the car and its battery (this part was not kind to to the EV).

This documentary gave first place on the podium for the greenest car to the hybrid. Why the heck am I talking about hybrid vehicles? Well because that is exactly what WE are as human beings. You’re a Toyota Prius….you just didn’t know it! You can burn sugar (glucose) or you can burn fatty acids (adipose tissue). Think of glucose like kindling on a fire, think of fatty acids as putting logs on the fire. 

If you made a fire and used only kindling you are going to have to tend to hat fire constantly but if you used logs, you will have to tend the fire only on occasion.  

Kindling represents refined carbohydrates. They are actually like rocket fuel! Short bursts of high fire energy. Imagine putting a newspaper into a fire–POOF! Now this isn’t bad, think of our caveman days. When were the carbohydrates (berries and grains) available? Yup fall or prewinter. What do bears do before winter? You got it, they fatten up. Carbs stimulate insulin which does what the first and last two letters in the word spells: IN. Insulin store sugar as fat.

Fatty acids are the logs from the tree (adipose). They burn slow and long and are very efficient and much cleaner to burn. The kindling throws off way more exhaust, meaning there is a mess to clean up after (lactic acid).

We are meant to utilize both fuels but the problem is, we don’t have true winters anymore where we have to rely on our fat reserves. Although with the prices of food these days, we may soon have to! Yikes! 

This constant refined carbs with no “food winter” is the main driving factor behind the abysmal health of the developed world. In fact, our most lethal weapon against our foreign adversaries is franchising food restaurants in their countries. They are sicker than we are…don’t need a fancy spy balloon to see that!

So please take the first step towards health and start reducing your refined carbohydrates. A great way to do this is to follow the life hacks in the books Glucose Revolution. Her instagram site is glucose goddess. I also have a two minute breakdown of each of her glucose hacks on my instagram and facebook pages. They make breaking your sugar addiction much more tolerable.

Lent is upon us and it is a great time to start cleaning things up for spring. 

God Bless,
Dr. Dan

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