Your Blueprint for a Resilient Metabolism
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Why It All Matters
Metabolic health influences every cell, system, and signal in the body. When it's dysregulated - whether due to underlying health conditions, poor nutrition, high stress, lack of sleep, or too little movement - your mitochondria get sluggish. That means less energy, more inflammation, brain fog, weight gain, and even higher risk for diseases like diabetes, depression, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s. Interestingly, many leading clinicians and scientists are treating mental illnesses including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) as metabolic disorders disorders of the brain. This emerging field is called Metabolic Psychiatry. Many studies have demonstrated (1) the detrimental impact of the lack of ATP to fuel brain cells as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction and (2) people with mental disorders are more likely to develop metabolic diseases, and vice versa. Exciting insight and work in this area here. The good news! You can boost your metabolic health with key lifestyle levers that impact the following:
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