Mitochondrial Function and Fat Oxidation

so you lay these categories out where you have three categories. So category three would be like the really big people, the big, the really gravitationally challenged people. So the people in the middle are going to be more of your average types of body fat percentages. and then, you know, all the way to where they're starting to get obese, all the way down where we're starting to get lean. And then you have the really lean people. So what we reckon is that each category, your physiology is going to be a little bit different. Okay. So if you look at people who are really lean, like you and me, like we're probably have really good functioning mitochondria. We can oxidize nutrients really well. You know, you're probably just like me. Like as long as we stick to just a good clean diet and calories, we don't put on any fat and we look ripped all the time, right? Once you get super shredded or once you get lean, or if you're genetically, your genetics are set up for that, like you won the genetic lottery, it's easier for you to not gain weight. So yeah, people are really good oxidizers. And that could be again, genetics, it could be the function, it could be nature versus nurture, right? Nature, meaning that you're genetically set up that way, nurture. You got that way because you like me and you trained for the last 35 years of your life and you into nutrition and you keep shit clean most of the time like good oxidizers The problem with people who are really lean is their bodies don want to get rid of the fat right Because as you get leaner your brain goes wait a minute I don like this Like we're losing this stored energy and we come from hunter gatherers. There's no inherent benefit to being 3% body fat when you're hunting, gathering on the Serengeti, right? So like your body's going to get resistant at some point. So that's why when you look at bodybuilders, they take things like clenbuterol, albuterol, they take things like that, these beta agonists that pretty much influence the fat cells to release their fat because they get to a point where it gets more and more difficult to get that last little bit of fat off. They can oxidize the fat if they can get it to the mitochondria. They have a problem getting it from fat cells to muscle cells or fat cells to mitochondria. Now, when you go on the other end of that spectrum, when you have really overweight people, they have no problem getting the fat out of the fat cells. They have a problem oxidizing it. And this is why you'll see really high blood fats in people, really high triglycerides that it has nowhere to go until they make new, new fat cells because a fat cell can only get to a certain size before it ruptures. So as it starts to grow in size, the body responds by pushing that back out in the bloodstream so it can it can basically save the cell okay but the problem is it's in the bloodstream it has nowhere to go now because if it goes to the muscle cell you can't really turn it into heat or or energy in any great degree so then the the muscle cell goes well i'll just i'll store it here or i'll push it back in the bloodstream we'll store it somewhere else like on your liver or in your veins so we'll get ectopic lipid storage. We'll put it in your eyes. We'll put it in your kidneys. We'll put it everywhere else because we have to get rid of it somehow, right? Because if we think about what that is, it's basically energy. And anything can be toxic if it's at a certain level. If I drink enough water really quickly, it could give me a heart attack. It can kill you, right? If I get too much pure oxygen, it can kill you. If you have too much energy in your bloodstream, it can kill you. So when you think about a diabetic, like my cousin had type two diabetes, had no idea. Actually, yeah, he had. Yeah, he didn't have type. He had type two, but it had gotten to the point where it was almost like having type one, but it wasn't an autoimmune disease. It was basically what I call lifestyle diabetes, which is type two diabetes. He was really overweight. He never checked his blood sugar. He had no idea he was on a walk and he passed out and woke up in the hospital and his blood sugars were something like 800, like crazy. He almost died. And so a lot of people don't know like that, that signifying that you have way, way too much blood sugar in your bloodstream, which doesn't really have anything to do with the sugar. It has to do with toxic levels of energy in the bloodstream. That could be sugar. That could be ketones. That could be fat. Just some things will kill you faster than others. Like sugar will, you have a massive increase in blood sugar that will kill you a lot faster than having too much fat in the bloodstream. Fat, too much fat in the bloodstream kills you really slowly. Blood sugar can kill you immediately if it gets way too low or way too high. And just for anybody who's listening to this that doesn't know like normal blood sugar levels. So if you look at American Freedom Units, you should have somewhere between 70 and 100. The optimal range based on the literature is around 84 to 86, right? And when you eat, that's going to jump up to say 100, 110, 120, 130. Once it gets past 140, that's a key indicator that you are pre-diabetic or possibly diabetic type two, which I think they should stop calling type two diabetes, diabetes, because type one and type two are two completely different diseases. So it creates a lot of confusion with people who don't know this stuff. But if you look at something like, and let me change that into our units now that I'm overseas and we use metrics. So anybody who's outside of America uses metric system, you're going to look at somewhere around 70, somewhere around like 3.9 to about 5.5, 5.6 is considered pretty normal. Once you get up to around like 7.7, 7.8, now you're getting in the diabetes zone. right? So if you think about that, my cousin, he was sitting at 800. He was eight over eight times the normal amount of blood sugar, which can put you in a diabetic coma and kill you immediately. Yeah. That's, that's freaking insane. That's yeah. So, so it sounds like, again, it's just kind of energy overload and that energy really has like no, nowhere to go. Essentially. Can I go use the bathroom real quick? Dude. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Sorry. So when you're at these kinds of higher bodies, I mean, what, what would you say are like, maybe the biggest differences? I know one thing that, you know, you've kind of mentioned too, is like, you know, for these types of people, it's like, we really want to try to, again, this is something that's gotten poo-pooed, I feel like in the industry of like, oh, cardio, you don't want to do it to lose body fat. But from my understanding, you know,

These types of people, we really want to try to get that like movement up and again, try to get that like you call it a huffy puffy stuff. Huffy puffy shit. Maybe I can't remember what you call it. Yeah, huffy puffy shit. Yeah.