Dr. Martin Picard

And if there's no energy flow, there's no purpose for that structure.

If you feed, if you stimulate that structure, be it a muscle,

or brain circuit, right, a brain network or brain area, then naturally, you know, that area should grow and build.

And what we know happens in the brain and also happens between different organs of the body is there's kind of a competition for finite energy resources, right?

What you said earlier, like you can't just eat more to get more energy.

Now we know very well if you overeat, right, you eat more than your body is actually flowing, consuming in terms of energy, transforming, you get sick.

Like if you can, you put on fat, which is a good adaptive diet.

coping mechanism to eating too much.

But then eventually the system gets overwhelmed and then that hurts the mitochondria and it hurts cells to become insulin resistant.

And so there's all sorts of consequences to eating too much.

You cannot eat more to get more energy.

And that is, I think still scientifically a very big mystery, right?

That why can't we just ramp up our energy

energy transformation, and then sleep less and work out three hours every day.

Even professional athletes who devote all of their energy to building muscle mass, building skills, or building aptitudes, there's a limit to how much you can eat.

We don't really know why that is, why there's a limit to that.

So the body operates an economy of energy.

You have X amount of energy.

You can push that up over short periods of time.

Like if you start to work out and you're a cyclist, you do the Tour de France, right?