Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Like, this is the real deal here.

And I started looking into the literature where sleep deprivation after one night, like half, you're getting four hours of sleep instead of eight, you can be insulin resistant the next day.

And I'm like, what?

Oh, yeah.

So I'd love to hear about that and how that's contributing to this, you know, fact cause of insulin.

So we're talking about other causes of insulin resistance.

You've also kind of looked into some of this other stuff that's very interesting with respect to environmental toxins and how particulate matter from air pollution, perhaps even plastic-associated chemicals or microplastics, how those can contribute.

Is that something that's meaningful?

The sleep deprivation, the cortisol sounds pretty meaningful.

Are these other, talk about it and whether or not they're pretty meaningful in the context.

Yeah, there are some more affordable HEPA filters now that do seem to kind of make a dent in reducing particulate matter.

But it's interesting that this air pollution is really, it seems like

pretty pervasive.

Like it's not just metabolic health, but it's Alzheimer's disease.

I mean, it seems like it's a cardiovascular disease.

I mean, it's really affecting lungs, of course, you know, respiratory health.

It's affecting so many different chronic diseases as well.

And so it is important to keep the context in perspective, right?

I mean, obviously diet, you know, exercise, these things are the most important when it comes to metabolic health.

But these other things matter.