Dr. Ron Elfenbein

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810 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Timcast IRL · Xi LANDS In DC For Trump Meeting Amid China CONFISCATING F-35 Parts w/ Dr. Ron Elfenbein · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

You come across a big kill, you know, you you kill a woolly mammoth and you eat it and you you you wanna store all those calories, so you store it as fat.

And it also insulates you and keeps you warm and all these other things.

And then for the times when you're not killing a woolly mammoth and you have no food, you're living off that stored body fat.

But you can't store glucose.

Only as glycogen, which is a you know, a few tablespoons essentially of of sugar that you're s that you're storing.

So you burn that off very, very quickly.

So you really can't store glucose, which is your b why your body needs to produce it, because otherwise you wouldn't you wouldn't survive.

So y but the answer is no, your body wouldn't produce glycogen per se.

It would produce glucose if you're not eating anything because it has to to maintain that level blood sugar so you don't pass out and go.

body will always produce a a amount of of glucose to keep your to keep your blood sugar stable.

No your body can overproduce glucose and that that usually is caused by an endocrine tumor.

So if you're produced if your blood sugars are spiking high and you're not eating anything, there's something wrong with you and you should get checked that you should get that checked out.

That's usually a pr a tumor producing too much glucose.

But same thing with an insulinoma, which is producing too much insulin, you'd blood your blood sugar will drop.

It's the exact opposite.

So yes, you you can have certain type of endocrine tumors that produce glucose, so your body your blood sugars will spike, but that's not normal.

Normally your body's pretty good at modulating glucose levels.

And it wants to keep it in this in this distinct range because too much glucose

in your in your i is toxic to your the lining of your arteries, which is why you get athosclerotic artery disease.

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