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Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
It's like saying all animals are the same.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
Humans are the same as cockroaches, the same as cats and dogs.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
You can't, and their effects are very, very broad.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
And so we've started tearing this apart.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
I was a chemistry undergrad by training, so I guess that's where I'm coming at this.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
So we just started, and being somewhat practical too, we started putting people on, we took two common fibers, arabinoxylan and inulin, which are these two, just commonly used, arabinoxylans and physium hus, and it's associated with mesomucil and inulins and those chicory pea fiber things.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
Well, Metamucil is a good example for the โ Arabiziland would be a gnat.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
Arabiziland is kind of interesting.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
As the name sounds, the chemist has arabinose and it does have some glucose, but it has polyphenols in it too.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
And I don't know if you probably have covered this on your show.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
They are.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
And they're being, especially in the last, I'd say, you know, six, ten years, being more and more appreciated for all their positive effects as antioxidants and the inflammatory.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
So anyway, they're part of a rabbi's island.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
This inulin is a glucose polymer, but they're a short chain and a long chain.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
That has different properties as well too.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
That's in various certain fruits and certain other things.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
And when we went into this, if you read the literature, you would
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
say, well, there'll be some say, well, inulin lowers your glucose, and others say, no, it has no effect.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
And some saying it lowers your cholesterol, and others it doesn't.
Huberman Lab
Transform Your Metabolic Health & Longevity by Knowing Your Unique Biology | Dr. Michael Snyder
Same with the rabizolidin.