A New Way to Control Your Blood Sugar – BiOptimizers with Dave Asprey – #807

• Both of you have done many, many biohacks for years, which is really cool. Strength and conditioning and high level athletics or bodybuilding. – 4:00
• Blood sugar is, obviously, a key component of the digestive process, which is why we’ve been focusing on it so much.  – 4:43
• Most people think that the most anabolic hormone in the body is testosterone, but the reality is it’s actually insulin, which is a response to blood sugar. – 5:32
• Is there a role for healthy people who want to put on muscle to do, say, oh, an intermittent fast, and then work out at the end of the fast, and then have a soda, like spike your blood sugar because you want to put muscle on?  – 9:49
• The management of your blood sugar can have really positive effects in the body, but more importantly, I think it can have very negative effects, and a lot of people are running into a lot of trouble with that.  – 12:12
  
• Her blood sugar went from 240 to 120 in two hours. I’ve been using these ingredients we’re going to talk about for the last two years. – 15:14
  
• We have lipolytic pathways and glycolytic pathways, and those are either the whole biochemical process of, again, converting carbs into energy and using them or storing them or same thing with the fats.  – 17:09
  
• I want to start with a few practical things to manage blood sugar that isn’t supplement-related.  – 23:54
  
• You’re just not going to know unless you have a map of your gut bacteria – 27:22
  
• That week, where I was testing the various formulas, I broke 13 records in two workouts because it tells me when I do PRs, which either meant more reps, more weight. It will track any type of record. – 29:20
  
• AMPK is a nutrient-sensing hormone, and when we fast, for an example, when you fast, AMPK goes up, and it’s believed to be very powerful for longevity. – 30:44
  
• There’s some things you can take like bitter melon extract, fucoxanthin. That will improve the mitochondrial function. – 36:36
  
• Cinnamon is very powerful. I mean, it’s very well-known that helps with blood sugar, but it actually is a very powerful thing for your gut biome, and we’re seeing that in our lab in Bosnia.  – 38:08
  
• One of the most interesting ones, you’re going to love this one, Dave, is the Tibetan holy fruit extract, One of the cool things about this ingredient is that it stimulates three different stem cells. – 42:26
  
• Our alpha-lipoic acid, which increases GLUT4 and activates AMPK. So, again, it’s hitting different insulin pathways – 44:31
  
• InnoSlim, which we also have in kApex also helps with AMPK and also insulin signaling, which is the PI3K pathway. Benfotiamine is another great one to increase fat and glucose metabolism in the mitochondria. – 45:04
  
• As biohackers, we tend to move to the maximum and pull back as you suggested, and the medical community tends to go to the minimum effective and tries to get to some what they quote unquote is normal. – 59:14
  
• Anybody that tries our products, too, I want to be clear, too. Go ahead and run your experiment. Send us the results. We’d love to get that feedback. – 1:08:35

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