Dr. Luc (Luke) van Loon

High glucose or high carbohydrate is not causing issues when it's only high and not excess.

And that's a difference.

The greatest problems with chronic metabolic disease is excess energy.

Excess energy in the form of glucose, excess energy in the form of fat, excess energy in the form of protein.

It's all bad.

And all the mechanisms have been shown for glucose, fatty acids, and amino acids in, for example, inducing insulin resistance.

If you oversupply a nutrient, at some point you become resistant to it.

And then the body doesn't know what to do with it and you get issues.

If your milkman comes by every day with two bottles of milk and you only drink one, it's not going to cost a lot more days before you start calling him to bring you less milk.

That's what your muscle also does.

At some point it says like, hey, I can't store more because this storage is hurting me.

So it's not about high glucose or high fat or high protein.

It's excess.

Excess is the problem.

No, and sometimes people misinterpret data, of course.

I mean, you can say something like, hey, having a very high heart rate is not good.

But why do you then exercise?

Because that makes your heart rate go up.

But then your resting heart rate goes down.

So you have to get the full picture to understand.