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so today i’m going to teach you a new  word all right it’s a very long word  

and then i’m going to describe what it is but this  way you can go to a party and sound very smart  

so what is this word the word is ampk what does  that stand for five prime adenosine monophosphate  

activated protein kinase okay so just memorize  that word and you can use it at a party so what  

is this thing well it’s the mitochondria protector  they call it the guardian of your metabolism  

now in this sense metabolism isn’t necessarily  just about weight loss it’s about producing energy  

and this energy is produced in the mitochondria  so basically it’s the central regulator of energy  

homeostasis so homeostasis is the ability to adapt  the internal part of your body to the external  

part the environment so we can maintain survival  so if it’s cold outside our body starts to shiver  

to increase temperature that’s homeostasis if you  were to run up stairs your pulse rate would go up  

to adjust for the need for oxygen to your brain so  you wouldn’t pass out that’s homeostasis so ampk  

basically is an enzyme that adapts to things that  deplete your cellular energy so it senses this  

drop in energy in the atp which is like the energy  currency of the body within the mitochondria and  

then it adapts the mitochondria and other things  to be more efficient so it can survive so it’s  

going to increase more atp and decrease the  consumption of atp so basically it rewires  

your metabolism to make it more efficient so any  time we’re talking about efficiency in the cells  

we have to talk about autophagy an autophagy is  the condition in your body where you’re recycling  

old worn out cell parts and turning them  into new cells so ampk triggers autophagy  

mitophagy now what is mitophagy that’s a condition  where you’re recycling damaged mitochondria into  

new mitochondrion now what’s significant about  that is there’s so many diseases including cancer  

that are related to damaged mitochondria then we  have something called xenophagy and that is the  

removal of intracellular pathogens and turn that  material into new cells now isn’t that cool to be  

able to get rid of pathogens viruses and bacteria  that are unwanted in your body and also as a side  

note it suppresses tumors it’s anti-cancer it  helps you get rid of diabetes it helps get rid  

of a fatty liver but other than those things it  pretty much doesn’t do anything else all right  

so now what’s the significance of this enzyme the  main thing we want to know is how do we trigger  

it right well anything that lowers your energy  will trigger it like low glucose as in a low carb  

diet hypoxia i know what’s that that’s low oxygen  i’ve done a video on this where you can exercise  

with a certain breathing restriction mechanism to  induce hypoxia and that can activate that as well  

we also have exercise okay because you’re using  up your glucose fasting of course is the big one  

you’re depleting your glucose and then running  on ketones and metformin by the way which i’m  

not recommending and i’m not telling you to get  off your metformin either but i’m just telling  

you that metformin is a synthetic version of a  natural plant chemical that helps you with insulin  

it makes insulin more sensitive it also helps your  liver not make so much glucose and of course a lot  

of diabetics are using metformin i i think out of  all the medications for diabetes that one probably  

is the least damaging but if you’re on metformin  i would highly recommend you start taking  

vitamin b1 and b12 because metformin can deplete  you of b1 and that can increase your risk to  

lactic acidosis now there’s some other things too  that can increase this enzyme ampk polyphenols  

okay what are polyphenols it’s a natural compound  in certain plants resveratrol from red grapes can  

increase this enzyme certain phytonutrients  in green tea can do it berberine is another  

natural extract that can help increase it curcumin  is another one i’ve done a lot of videos on that  

ginseng is another one an alpha lipoic acid  so anyway i just wanted to teach you this long  

complex word so you can sound smart at a party and  comment down below and let me know how that goes  

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