Health, Aging, and Disease - It's all About Energy - Part 2
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hi uh I'm Frank shenberger I'm a medical doctor been practicing medicine for uh almost 40 years now and uh I've produced uh a lecture series here now a four-part lecture series on health aging and disease it's all about energy this is the second part of that series uh so if you haven't seen the first part you can watch this too of course but uh I would suggest you get some of the background information from by looking at part one uh in part one I talked about how important energy production how critically important energy production is to being maintaining your health and uh I I showed some slides and demonstrated in studies and such how how it's decreased cellular energy production that in fact causes es our bodies to age become susceptible to disease and all the the the Frailty and the weakness and all the symptoms that are associated with getting older how all of that is caused primarily by one thing and that's a decrease in cellular energy production um in the rest of this series we're going to talk about more about that but in this particular part we're going to uh talk about well if it's if if that's what's causing us to age if that's what's causing us to become weak and have a decrease in the quality of Our Lives as we get older then uh then improving cellular energy production would be a way to improve the quality of Our Lives as we get older and to decrease the chance of us getting disease and so that's what we're going to be focusing on today this is part two production um this just uh uh shows the the four parts to the lecture series part part one was the importance of cellular energy production uh part two that's this part is maximizing your cellular energy production part three will be about measuring cellular energy production with a testing procedure that I've developed called bioenergy testing and part four will be how patients and doctors alike can use the results from a bio energy test to maximize health and to slow down energy uh slow down aging process process I have written a couple of books uh that deal specifically with this issue one's called bursting with energy another one's called the type 2 diabetes breakthrough the reason uh I wrote picked on Diabetes was uh not because I'm a diabetic expert but because of all the chronic diseases that people get a diabetes is most clearly the one that is singly caused by decreased cellular energy production so if you if you have a think you're at risk for getting diabetes and even if you don't think you're at risk getting diabetes this is a good book to read it will go over all the information that I've been presenting in this lecture series plus give you all the it's a fully referenced text so it'll give you all the references and all the scientific studies that uh if you want you can dig deeper and and to refer to to learn even this um in the in the last section we went through the uh what I call the four stages of the aging process I'll just kind of a quick review of that now so that you can pick up and where we left off from part one we're talking about cellular energy production now this is different from just when we use the term energy uh you can uh normally people say I have low energy I have a high energy they're talking about whether they're tired or they're weary that kind of thing this is different uh cellular energy production is where you actually literally produce energy from oxygen in your cells the efficiency of which you do that is what we're talking about so if you can produce oxygen if you can produce energy from your oxygen molecules that you're inhaling well in your cells we say you have very efficient energy production uh it doesn't make any difference how you feel uh because you can feel just great and have very poor cellular energy production and you can feel very bad and have great cellular energy production and in the last section I I Ed the example of say an elite world-class athlete who uh might because he didn't get enough sleep or might because um he had a cold or maybe because he's got allergies or something uh um might feel poorly might feel tired or run down but on a cellular level I guarantee you that a world-class athlete is producing energy at an exceptionally efficient rate by the way all of that oxygen Almost 100% virtually 100% of the oxygen that you and I suck in that we breathe in it only does one thing in the human body it is used to produce energy in the cells that's it so if you want to get an idea of what it's like to not produce energy efficiently for the next five minutes start breathing through a straw okay you'll cut down your oxygen delivery and immediately start cut down your energy production and you'll get an idea of how it influences you you won't like it but that's the way a lot of people who are sick a lot of people who just are age and older are they're like they could have been only breathing through a straw in other words they're not producing cellular energy very well so these are the four stages of of how how that is and let me just kind of go over this once again um the top line here is called maximum ATP production ATP is the energy molecule that uh uh oxygen is used to produce so this is the maximum amount of cellular energy you can make uh this line right here is the maximum amount of cellular energy you make in the part of the cell called the mitochondria it's that part of the cell where oxygen is used to make energy so uh and what oxygen does when it gets into the cell is it either Burns glucose or it burns fat we're going to talk more about this by the way uh but when oxygen gets into your cell gets goes into this little molecule called a this little uh part of the cell called a mitochondria uh in that mitochondria the oxygen is either going to burn fat or it's going to burn glucose and when it does that it's going to produce ATP or energy now there's two ways that you can produce energy that's one of them by by processing oxygen but there's another way and that's called Anor robic energy production anerobic means without oxygen so there is a way that your cell can produce energy in the absence of oxygen without oxygen at all and it's called Anor robic energy production um anob energy production is not efficient it's not an efficient way to produce energy and in fact you can't live very long on it a good way to to assess how your Anor robic energy production is doing right now is just to hold your breath because what's going to happen when you do that is your oxygen levels are very quickly going to go down and you're not going to be able to produce energy from oxygen after about a minute of doing that and you're going to be producing predominantly most of your energy anerobic and you're going to find real quickly that that's not adequate to your needs and in fact if you couldn't start breathing Within 3 to four minutes of course you'd be dead so um uh what anerobic energy production is is that ability to produce energy without oxygen and then from here on down its ability to produce energy with oxygen this is what we're interested in because here's what happens uh when you're young and you're healthy and everything is perfect or in fact when you're old and you're healthy and everything is perfect because that's very achievable here's what you look like your maximum total energy production which is the sum total of how much you can make anerobic and how much you can make with oxygen the sum of that is right at Optimum okay and you're producing energy by burning sugar optimally and energy by producing fat optimally and you got a nice column here everything's adding up really quickly the first thing that can happen to you however when you move from this column to this column get a little bit closer to disease that's what's over here is that your ability to produce energy from fat goes down and to compensate for that you start producing more and more of your energy from glucose now this this leads to two things when you produce more and more of your energy from glucose leads to two things basically one you're going to develop low blood sugar symptoms because your body cannot store much glucose so if you start producing most of your energy from glucose you're going to run out of glucose pretty fast you're going to develop low blood sugar and you're going to feel tired and run down and you won't like it the other thing that happens because you're not burning fat efficiently is you're going to start gaining fat you w't like that either now many of you who have you know gotten past the 35s and the 40s uh will start to recognize you know what I just seem to be accumulating fat a whole lot easier than I used to now that's one way of you knowing that you're in this column now you're no longer in this column okay that's the first thing that we see when people are moving away from Health they're they're starting to produce more and more of their energy from glucose and less and less from fat but overall their energy production looks pretty good they're still up here they look pretty good now the next step that they go to is where they actually don't produce energy in their mitochondria very well at all and in this step they're not producing it well from fat but they're not even producing it that well from glucose so this is the first stage where their actual energy production mitochondria begins to decrease and we can measure this so we can see this happening but notice once again uh that their overall energy production is pretty good because they've learned to compensate Now by producing more energy anerobic so this would be a person over here would be a person that says you know what um I feel pretty good at least they may feel good uh you know I can uh go out and play golf or I can you know run the five miles I used to run or I can do all the same things I used to do and he can he can do that but he can't do it with the same level of efficiency he's not doing it efficiently he's doing it more and more Anor robic and less and less aerobically and because of this he's generating more and more free radicals and his body is going to start breaking down faster um now in this in this Central Area here notice uh this is uh where patients have what I call E OMD or early onset mitochondrial dysfunction that means from an early onset their mitochondria aren't working this may even start in their 20s uh that means they're asymptomatic often people in here feel they feel great they're not complaining about anything now a lot of the times they do have some symptoms but when they see their doctor their doctor tells them you know what you've got symptoms maybe you've got headaches maybe you've got digestive issues or whatever uh but the fact is you don't have a disease and you're basically okay uh doctors call this functional symptoms uh or the other thing they may hear uh when they go to see their doctors the doctor May say you know what at your age what do you expect you're what I call healthy for your age in other words you're not healthy but you do have these functional symptoms and you have moved in this territory but you're not diseased either and then finally the fourth stage is of course where you go from here to here this would be the fourth stage wherein the actual energy production anerobic and aerobic combined still Falls below what would have been expected or hoped for and now this stage is actually the stage of mitochondrial Decay and disease and this is where the whole thing becomes irreversible so this can happen in your late 60s your early 70s and certainly your 80s and you don't want to let it get to that point because when it gets to that point you will never be able to move all the way back to this column you can yeah you can improve your health you can move it back in this direction but you can't get back to square one however if we identify you in this category yes with the proper therapy and by changing your lifestyle and doing a few things that we're going to talk about in this lecture series you can definitely line yourself up back in the fully healthy category so that's kind of the overview with what we're going to talk about uh at this point um we also discussed in part one and I'm going to go over this very quickly uh just a very quick review uh you can go to part one and you can see that more detail but we discussed how how these lifestyle and uh nutritional issues lead to early onset mitochondrial dysfunction which leads to increased free radical formation the decreased ability to contain those free radicals that combination is deadly it leads to the actual destruction of your mitochondria which of course further decreases your mitochondrial function this is a vicious cycle we get trapped into somewhere between the ages of 35 and 55 and as this vicious cycle is going along we're starting to age and our bodies are starting to break down and de and develop degenerative disease the point here is it all starts with decreased cellular energy so in this talk we're going to talk about how to maximize your cellular energy production and one of the things I'd like to point out is you don't do it with drugs you don't do it with medications okay uh this is a great quote uh that I like to uh use in all my presentations to doctors because Sir William Osler is considered to be the father of modern medicine it was the chief of Medicine Johns Hopkins University at the turn of of the last century and uh uh he is considered to be the father of modern medicine and this is one of his quotes one of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine unfortunately due to our pharmaceutical industry based form of medicine these days that's probably the last thing the physician is educated to do seems like doctors today are trained to give more and more medications um that doesn't work it's not good it's not healthy uh but that's the way the system is anyway so what we're going to talk to you about today is how to improve your energy production without using medications how to improve it naturally and easily and safely basically there's five areas of intervention one is what I would call oxidation therapy these are therapies directly acted on to improve the way your mitochondria convert the oxygen to energy nextly next we're going to talk about the diet mostly this is a low carb high protein diet and we'll talk to you specifically about why that is and how it is that carbohydrates an excessive amount of carbohydrates in your diet will deprive your mitochondria of producing energy adequately there are certain supplements especially the B vitamins but also minerals uh there's certain herbs uh there are certain hormones particularly uh that can be used to uh improve the way your cells produce energy uh a fourth topic is stress control and I'll present a very dramatic case of a lady uh who uh had a very significant decrease in our cellular energy production simply from stress um we'll talk about coffee alcohol sleep all kinds of things that have to do with stress and finally we'll get into the issue of detoxification these are the five areas that we can focus on to maximize your cellular energy production we'll take these one at a time but first of all I want to go through kind of the the chemistry of cellular energy production and uh in that context I want you to take a look at this slide and if it looks a little intimidating to you um don't get too intimidated um it's uh it's it's very easily to explain and that's where we're going to go for about the next 10 minutes now we're going to take just looking at this slide because this slide has all the very basics in it of what your cell does to produce energy and by understanding how this slide works you'll understand more and more of how you can use those things we just talked about to maximize the way your cells produce energy so let's take a look at that uh first of all let's get oriented here this line right here in blue is the the mitochondrial membrane so this is the mitochondria now again your cells have thousands of these little mitochondria floating around inside them but everything that's in the inside of that blue circle is what's going on inside a mitochondria outside the mitochondria other areas of the cell and uh and how that's working so we're going to talk about that but that's the basic orientation up here you have glucose this this is sugar and over here you have fat and what happens ultimately is glucose will find its way into the mitochondria or fat will find its way into the mitochondria and that and oxygen will find its way into the mitochondria this O2 is oxygen and those three will meet and produce energy so let's look a little bit about how that can happen let's take glucose for example now glucose will be converted to a a molecule called pyruvate through the action or the enzyme action of something called NAD that stands for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide uh I don't like to say that probably nobody else does either so we'll just say NAD NAD is made from the vitamin nasin so remember that because what we're going to talk about at some point is how valuable niin is and how much nasin we use up all the time and how important it is to replace nasin but that's uh where nasin goes it is used to make NAD and you can't even get off first base with sugar metabolism without NAD okay so remember that because we'll come back to that so glucose under the influence of NAD gets converted to pyruvate pyate then under the influence again of NAD gets converted to AAL coenzyme a so you can see how important NAD is in Sugar metabolism okay AAL coenzyme a is the substance in the mitochondria that goes through this biochemical cycle called a kreb cycle and in the process of Asal coenzyme a going through the kreb cycle a number of things happen first of all what happens is that NAD is converted to nadh that's what the kreb cycle does so you could almost say that the job for the kreb cycle is to make this stuff nadh that's what the kreb cycle does it's a it's a it's a chemistry cycle in the mitochondria and its job is to make nadh from NAD that's what it does also you could say that the reason the kreb Cycle Works is because NAD makes it work because without NAD the kreb cycle can't work but that's what the kreb cycle does it'll take NAD turn it into nadh and it does it through the influence of glucose coming through here of course it also will from fatty acids coming through here we haven't talked about that yet but we will in a second and besides uh turning NAD to nadh the other thing that the kreb cycle does is that it produces carbon dioxide now you'll notice over here here we have a couple of uh things I put in here that's vitamin B2 vitamin B3 B6 B12 folic acid something called trimethyl glycine magnesium and various hormones these all influence the kreb cycle and improve the way at which it can do this okay so um now that the kreb cycle has converted NAD to nadh here's the next thing that happens the oxygen that's in that mitochondria combines with NAD H takes the H off sticks it on itself and converts itself to water uh and what's left of course since we took the H off NAD is we nadh is now NAD so so what happens here is oxygen unites with nadh to produce water and NAD but here's the Miracle of Life here oxygen is one of the highest energy molecules in the universe water is the lowest energy molecule in the in the universe so when you take oxygen to water you have a massive amount of energy released a huge amount of energy and the cell is able to harness this energy in the form of a molecule called ATP which is what literally drives everything in your entire physiology everything in your cell is driven by this uh by this cycle right here so in order to get these things going you've got to have Asal coenzyme a you've got to have n D you got to have oxygen and then the whole system can work pretty well and you'll make lots of energy and then I'll test you and I'll say yeah you're making an abundant amount of cellular energy and you're going to live long and you're going to live well here's that's so that's how glucose does it but notice how key NAD is glucose can't go to pyruvate without NAD pyruvate can't go to AAL coenzyme a without NAD the CB cycle can't work without NAD NAD is very critical now let's go over here to Fat here's your fat stores and so what you can do is you can break down those fat stores into molecules called triglycerides they're fat molecules they're they're in your bloodstream they eventually get broken down into certain fatty acids and under the influence of there's our old friend again NAD under the influence of NAD and a molecule called carnitine which is very important talk about that later this fat can be converted to a coenzyme a into the mitochondria so there's two ways to get AEL coenzyme a one is through glucose one is through fat both of them require NAD glucose requires a little bit more NAD but both of them require NAD to get the job done um but let's look some more over here how does this whole fat thing happen well you need to have NAD involved you need to have Carn involved and you need to have a couple other hormones really important hormones one of them is T3 T3 is thyroid so that's the main thyroid hormone you've got to have enough of that ready or you can't metabolize your fats uh you also have to have a hormone called cortisol cortisol is your main adrenal hormone so you're going to need your main thyroid hormone you need your main adrenal hormone in order to break down the fat and allow this to happen now what would happen if you didn't have enough thyroid hormone or if you didn't have enough of the adrenal hormone cortisol is you couldn't break down your fat what would happen in that case well if you can't break down fat you can't burn fat this way you're going to need to get your energy so what you're going to do you're going to start shifting over into burning more and more sugar but remember that's what we said that is the first stage where healthy people start to move away from a pure state of health where they don't burn fat so well and they start relying more and more on their sugar and the reason that is is typically because they don't have enough of the hormone cortisol or they don't have enough of the hormone T3 or they don't have enough of this substance called carnitine or one other problem and that problem was insulin they might have too much insulin cortisol and T3 are hormones that promote fat breakdown that promote fat metabolism but insulin's different it's sort of the opposite it actually prevents F break down so that's why I have a sign here with insulin having a positive effect on fat stores it wants to make fat but a negative effect on breaking down fat so here's the possibilities if you're not producing your energy well from fat you're either having not enough thyroid hormone T3 or not enough of the adrenal hormone cortisol or you're having too much of the hormone insulin now in young people it's usually the last one that's the problem or the cortisol problem when we're under stress our body produces cortisol to meet the needs of that stress if we're under stress that's prolonged for really long time what will happen is the adrenals will become weak they won't be able to crank out enough cortisol and we become cortisol deficient at that point we won't be able to break down our fat so well and we get into this scenario where we have to rely more and more on on sugar as we rely more and more on sugar the blood sugar goes down we don't feel well and we get low blood sugar and so forth and so on so there is this shift that happens when there's too much insulin and not enough cortisol and not enough flour to shift where you're shifting away from fat metabolism more into sugar metabolism and that's the first stage in moving away from Health now one of the reasons that you won't get enough cortisol I just mentioned is because you're stressed out how could you be stressed out well common causes are you drink too much coffee you don't get enough sleep you worry too much uh less common ways to be overly stressed would you exercise too hard you uh um eat foods that are very poor in nutrients so you don't have the nutrients that your adrenal land needs to make the hormone but there are lots of reasons our bodies can be stressed and once they get stressed and overtax which is extremely common today's society extremely common I have a a kind of a standing rhetorical joke that I make when I teach doctors how to treat patients with fatigue and I ask them how do you know if a patient has low cortisol levels and the answer is they're in your office because if they had decent cortisol levels they'd feel great they'd be burning fat efficiently and they wouldn't be in your office but that's one of the reasons you know so uh that's how you get decreased cortisol levels how do you get decreased T3 levels or decreased thyroid levels that happens as you get older and one of the factors as you get older usually past the age of 40 your body doesn't make enough thyroid hormone it can also happen from an extremely common phenomenon called iodine deficiency that's extremely common and that can lead to uh low thyroid function another very common cause for low thyroid function can be Mercury toxicity the heavy metal mercury will poison the thyroid IT selectively goes to the thyroid IT poisons the thyroid and so the thyroid can't crank out enough T3 and uh although the slide doesn't show it one of the ways your body also makes T3 is from the liver in other words the thyroid will make a hormone called T4 that will get converted to T3 in the liver so if your liver isn't functioning right maybe you're drinking too much maybe it doesn't have enough of the nutrients it needs to function right maybe it's just toxic from all the chemicals you're getting in the environment but if your liver is not working quite right you may not be able to convert enough T3 so we've we find the T3 deficiencies are fairly common we find the cortisol deficiencies are extremely common and we find that insulin excess is almost the norm now how do you get insulin excess you get insulin excess by eating carbohydrates to excess ladies and gentlemen we live in a culture that has been encouraging us to eat carbohydrates for the last 20 to 30 years I've seen this change even as I've been a physician um the lowfat that high carbohydrate craze has run a muck and we're all eating way too many carbohydrates much more than the human body was ever designed to and we're eating some of the worst kinds like sugar and bread and and pastries and cookies and cakes and all that kind of stuff and we're eating them to excess and for most people if they think they're not eating too many carbohydrates I can tell you probably you are if you think you're on a low carbohydrate diet you might be but you also might not be because our culture is so imbued with the idea of eating these things all the time that it's very easy to be lulled into thinking that you're having a healthy carbohydrate intake when in fact you're really over the line because when you eat too many carbohydrates you produce that hormone insulin and that's the biggest problem we have people eat too many carbs they have an overproduction insulin they're stressed they don't get cortisol and their thyroids are poison they don't get thyroid hormone as a net result fat metabolism goes down the tubes we start living off sugar now here's the problem that's the first stage of low energy production but here's the problem ultimately as you start living off sugar a funny thing starts to happen if this oxygen thing isn't totally perfect if this KB cycle isn't totally perfect which it's easy not to be folks because a lot of hormone deficiencies will impinge on the CB cycle a lot of nutrient deficiencies will impinge on the Krab cycle okay so if this system is entirely perfect glucose can will go the other way remember I told you you could make energy without oxygen energy that's made from oxygen is made in the mitochondria right down here but there's another way to make energy I got a little little e there it's not a Big E because you can't make much energy that way but you can make energy that way this is called Anor robic energy production this is where glucose under the influence of NAD gets converted to pyate but instead of another NAD molecule being around to take from pyate down here there's not enough NAD molecules around I'll tell you why that is in a second but just know from now you're going to get deficient in NAD and as you get deficient in NAD glucose is going to start to do the following Well it can't go this way so what's it going to do it's going to go this way and pyruvate will be converted to lactate and in the process of that there's a small amount of energy released but noce notice what happens when pyu goes to lactate NAD as as it's being used by glucose to make pyruvate gets converted to nadh but as pyruvate gets converted to lactate that nadh gets converted back into NAD isn't that slick so that even though you're using the NAD up you're replacing it as pyate goes to lactate so you can actually got a little cycle going on here glucose can get converted this way almost continuously with just one molecule of NAD you don't need any more molecules of NAD that's why where do you make your NAD by the way you make it down here from oxygen that's why you can hold your breath no NAD will be made and yet you can continue to live this way okay and that's what what happens is this the the first step is when your body shifts from fat metabolism to glucose metabolism that's the first step in moving away from Health into a disease State the second step is when you just can't you you get toxic down here we're going to talk about why that happens but you you your mitochondria just don't work so well and when they don't work so well you're going to this glucose is going to start getting converted this way more and more because you're not going to have the additional NAD you need to move it this way okay that of course gets worse with your fat metabolism gets even worse because you need NAD to use fat so that's would be yet another reason why you can't convert fat because the nads become BEC deficient again why is it becoming deficient because the ability for your mitochondria to convert oxygen to NAD is becoming curtail we're going to talk about why that happens but because of that you don't get enough NAD which means you can't move from the Pyro pyate this way and you start living this way well folks here's the problem over time you're going to get more and more of your energy produced this way and less and less of It produced this way and as you do that you're going to be producing lactate more and more lactate lactate is an acid it's the primary acid in the human body as you produce more and more lactate your body is going to become more and more acidic as it becomes more and more acidic your body is going to break down and fall apart also since you can't produce energy this way you can't get the big burst of energy your cellular energy production actually goes down because this is just a little energy so you get kind of a double whammy over time and that is you're producing less more and more of your energy from sugar you're running out of sugar you need to feed that fire by eating more and more carbohydrates the more carbohydrates you eat the more insulin you make the less fat you can burn it just worsens the situation not only that as you live more and more off sugar you're getting hypoglycemic you're feeling bad not only that you're producing less and less energy and if that weren't bad enough you're producing more and more acid and your body's becoming more and more acidic you're well on the way to premature aging and disease now there are a lot of books out there that tell you listen uh uh a acidosis and increased amount of acid in the body is what causes disease and aging and they're right what they're wrong about is they keep on insisting that that has to do with the foods that you eat they say you should eat alkal and foods and not acid foods because if you eat acid foods that what's make that's what makes acid in your cells that's just flat out wrong although you do make acid from acid foods it's inconsequential to the amount of acid that you make from lactate the amount of acid from lactate is thousands of times more than the amount of acid you're going to get from your Foods so if you don't want to have an acid system the answer is not necessarily to start reducing e eting acid foods and start eating alkaline foods that's not going to get you anywhere what's going to get you somewhere is to improve your cellular energy mechanism so you produce less and less lactate that's what's going to work for you and that's what we're going to talk about more but I want you to understand from this slide that as you age as you get older you start living more and more up here you start making more and more lactate now the liver can convert the lactate back into sugar so this actually is a nice little system you can actually start living more more up here and that's what people do as they get older and that's what gives them this tremendous propensity for becoming weaker and more frail their body starts breaking down they become much more susceptible to disease and all the other effects of Aging now one thing I didn't tell you and I want to mention this right now is shortness of breath uh you know you've seen people that would get out of a chair and walk maybe 10 feet and they're kind of short of breath or they walk up a flight of stairs and they're short of breath why is that these it could be they have something wrong with their lungs of course but I'm talking about people there's nothing wrong with their lungs there's nothing wrong with their heart why is that that they get short of breath it's because of this lactate molecule because What's Happening Here is in the human body lactate gets converted to carbon dioxide I don't show it on the slide but that's what happens and as you get more and more of this carbon dioxide from lactate produces you have to Exhale the carbon dioxide you got to get rid of it and you do that by breathing harder and harder so that's another clue to know if you're moving in this Direction one of the clues is if your blood sugar's falling another one of the clues is if you starting to gain weight easily and the third one of the clues is if you're you're starting to get short of breath just walking up a flight of stairs or doing something that ordinarily shouldn't make anybody short of breath okay uh what else can I talk about um I guess I should mention right in here that there's this molecule called ADP I'm getting a little technical now so I hope I don't lose any any of you guys but uh ADP is what ATP is made out of okay it's made out of ADP and and down in here in order to harness this energy you need ADP so if you don't have enough ADP that's going to be a problem now I'm not going to belabor this too long but you're going to see in another slide least especially for your Physicians or scientific types uh you're going to see that ADP comes from energy production so so it's another vicious cycle that we're going to see uh before we leave the slide I just want to point out down here notice tfas are trans fatty acids um they're common in many uh mass-produced Foods they don't occur naturally to any degree at all but they decur quite a bit in processed foods uh they will shut down this process um so will heavy metals and certain other poisons called uncouplers the premier uncoupler is arsenic arsenic poisoning is an example of a total shutdown here you don't live very long after you take arsenic because of that but other heavy metals such as uh lead cadmium nickel these are all heavy metals that can poison this system right in here and are very common the uh amount of lead in our bodies today is in the order of 200 times more than it was in the average body only a 100 years ago so we do have more of these these tend to shut these down and these are the kinds of things that we battle so as I go through the next few slides and we start talking about this I'll uh periodically uh reference back to this slide so we can put it in context and you can start to get an idea of how your body works how it makes energy what you can do to make it make energy in a better way and also what you can do to production uh I won't spend much time here because this is somewhat of a complicated topic but I did want to mention this this is what's called the methylation cycle um and what happens in this cycle is you eat protein the protein gets converted to an amino acid called methionine methionine goes through this conversion process to an amino acid called homocysteine homosysteine gets converted back to Meine and this process keeps cycling through keep in mind what drives this process is a number of things and these are critically important methylation goes on in the mitochondria just like energy production does and it's tied one to one with energy production so if you don't methylate well you won't produce energy well and this so this is kind of a critical process to understand works like this no methyl methine as it's getting converted to homocystine is spitting out these molecules it's spitting out something called creatine it's spitting out co-enzyme Q10 it makes lcarnitine now you'll remember from these two from just the last slide you need carnitine to burn fat so if you aren't methylating well you won't be able to burn fat well you need co-enzyme Q10 to produce any form of energy that's uh that's aerobic any form of energy from oxygen you need this so if you don't methylate well you can't do that and in order to maintain decent energy levels decent ATP levels you need to have this molecule called creatine and you produce all your creatine from methylation so methylation is very important you're producing three critical elements of your cellular energy production from this process of methylation the other one you produce a fourth one you produce this adenosin maybe remember in the last slide I was telling you about a DP a Denison diphosphate that gets converted to enison triphosphate which is what harnesses the energy that you make in your mitochondria in order for your mitochondria to make that energy you have to have ADP around right you get your at ADP from this so you can see the methylation is absolutely critical to producing energy well on a cellular level now in order to keep this process going there's a couple of things you need presumably the one that stood out to you most is this you need ATP methylation won't even work without energy production you've got to have energy production to even get off first base with with this so it's a vicious cycle the less energy you produce in your mitochondria the less the methylation can work in your mitochondria the less the methylation can work in your mitochondria the less energy you can produce in your mitochondria it's a vicious cycle so it's critical to make sure that you're methylating well and what do you need to do this you need folic acid and methyl cobalamin or methyl B12 and these nutrients are absolutely critical uh Physicians that have been around for a while and that just empirically know if their patients are tired or run down or something's not right you can give them a shot of folic acid and methyl methyl B12 and they'll perk right up and this is why so it's very easy to run out of methyl cobalamin which is just another way of saying methyl vitamin B12 and it's very easy to run out of folic acid so these when we talk about nutrients these are nutrients that I consider extremely important to keep your cellular energy production levels up high and then there's this substance TN TG TMG stands for trimethyl glycine it's a natural substance it's found in legumes but for today's for today's lifestyle and by that I mean uh folks we live in uh an environment that's basically a toxic soup we get exposed to literally thousands if not tens of thousands of toxic chemicals and pollutants that were never on the face of the planet even a hundred years ago they're in our bodies biopsy studies show them to be in our bodies they're in my body right now we're all loaded with these toxins these toxins have to be eliminated or you'll die or you'll get sick how do you eliminate them you need to have plenty of energy so the bottom line I'm telling you is this you can't get by this day and age you can't get by with what would have been considered decent cellular energy levels 100 years ago you need to have problem probably 50% if not 100% more cellular energy today to be able to get by to be able to fully detoxify off all these substances that we're getting exposed to and be functionally well and healthy so in order to get that much energy you need to feed the furnace you need to take a lot of these B vitamins particularly methyl cobalamin and this substance here trimethyl glycine um called abbreviated TMG so when we come back and talk about TRL glycin just remember that along with folic acid and b12 that's what continues the methylation process which is so critical to Cellular energy production now I'm happy to tell you that I think this is the last of the slides where we're going to actually see uh something this complex the rest of it's going to be a little easier and perhaps a little bit more fun we'll be coasting from here on on we'll be going downhill so to speak so you you spent a lot of time you've learned uh about some of these basic things and this will come back to really help you out as we start start to understand more and more what you can do to improve your cellular oxygen or your cellular energy levels okay so we're getting back to that list and so now that you understand how you make energy we can talk about how the various therapies or that the first category is oxidation therapy remember oxidation is sort of the same as cellular energy production so there's a thing called oxidation therapy the premier oxygen or oxidation therapy is free it's called exercise there's no charge for as far as I know federal government has not levied attx on your ability to exercise that may be coming soon but until then you can exercise for free which means that you can use you can use a therapy that rather dramatically will improve your energy production systems and it's free it's called exercise however the caveat here is to exercise correctly not incorrectly and what that means is to exercise hard enough but not too hard in the third or the fourth part of this series when I go into actually how to use the results of Bio energy testing you're going to learn how to find that out where is your actual perfect exercise Zone if you're not exercising hard enough you're not getting enough bang for your buck if you're exercising too hard it's actually counterproductive so there's a little Zone you got to be in there we're going to talk about that it's also covered in my books but exercise is the premar therapy to keep your cellular energy production up next we have therapies that doctors uh do or or other health practitioners one is hydrogen peroxide therapy this is an intervenous therapy where we literally inject a solution containing hydrogen peroxide uh into a patient it's extremely safe uh and uh it's a treatment we use all the time it's very effective uh for improving cellular energy metabolism another one that doctors use and I particularly used a lot in my practice is uh using a molecule called ozone uh ozone and hydrogen peroxide are two naturally occurring molecules that when used properly can rather dramatically improve cellular o u cellular energy production I kind of tell my patients that ozone therapy or hydr peroxide therapy is kind of like um exercise in a bottle and so if my patient sees me and wants to know what sort of oxidation therapy I can use I will tell them if they can exercise go exercise but if they can't if they're sick or they're too old or they have a broken leg or something and they can't exercise this is a way to get exercise in the bottle other forms of oxidation therapy that are commonly and very successfully used would be uh SAA therapies and exercising with oxygen therapy that's abbreviated ewot uh this this is where you exercise at a kind of a lower level uh but while you're exercising you're breathing 100% pure oxygen and these would be a list of oxidation therapies so that's the first thing that you can do to enhance your cellular energy production is oxidation therapy and of course the premier of that is exercise now diet therapy by now you might have figured out what P predominantly is a problem with h with your diet um there certainly one thing you need to do in terms of your diet is to eliminate it any hydrogenated or trans fatty acids remember from that slide hydrogenated let's see let's go back on that again right down here it's your trans fatty acids they block your ability for your mitochondria to work so stay away from these hydrogenated fats and trans fatty acids they don't exist in nature they're man-made at least they don't exist in nature to any extent uh the way you really get them is by uh by eating cookies or or other processed chemicalized type of foods now here here's something that's sobering when you uh when you there have been animal studies that have used Tracer molecules that show that uh when you eat a hydrogen hydrogenated fat it can stay in your body as long as eight months so if you pick up one cookie and it's got hydrogenated fat in it and you eat that cookie just think to yourself that fat that's poisoning me can be in my body up to 8 months from now I think when you think of that you'll not want the cookie nearly so much I know I don't okay so eliminate the hydrogenated fats from your diet the other thing we talked about this watch those carbs those carbs are disaster for most people however not for everyone so we all know of people that can eat a lot of carbs have a high carbohydrate diet and just do just great I know I've tested them we know they're out there now what what's the difference the difference has to do with whether you're a fast oxidizer or a slow oxidizer and in the and in the first part of this series I I kind of referred to that and I'm going to come back to it right now we're going to talk a little bit about it a fast oxidizer is a person that mostly lives off sugar they don't live directly off fat let's go back to the slide and I'm going to show you something here let's go back to this slide a fast oxidizer is somebody that lives here doing this all the time they don't really burn fat this way that efficiently they do but mostly they just burn sugar now how do they burn their fat they burn their fat this way I don't even have an arrow going that way so a fast oxidizer takes fat and converts it to glucose and they can do it so efficiently that they burn the fatly they don't burn it this way they burn it this way that's a fast oxidizer a slow oxidizer is the other end of the spectrum a slow oxidizer can't do this can't go from here to here very efficiently at all the only way a slow oxidizer can burn fat is to go this way so it's very critical for a slow oxidizer not to eat not to live off glucose to really have very little carbohydrate in their diet which will allow their body to go this way because remember the more carbohydrate they eat the more insulin they produce and then insulin blocks this so slow oxidizers can shouldn't eat hardly any carbohydrate at all fast oxidizers are the type that can kind of get away with it um we can test you and tell you you know if you're a fast or a slow of course some most people are somewhere on a spectrum in between fast and slow but your classic uh fast oxidizer would be the string bean type the the the guy you know that that is skinny can he can overeat he can eat sugar he can eat all kinds of stuff maybe he's not healthy but he won't get fat because you can continue to convert the fat to Sugar the slow oxidizer type is the uh type that uh has to watch their carbohydrates intake a lot or they won't be able to uh to to burn burn fat at all and they'll start gaining weight so that's that slow oxides is the type to gain weight really easily fast oxidizers of the stringing types that don't you can figure out where you are on that Spectrum um okay so uh certainly watch those carbs especially if you're a slow oxidizer uh and uh the other thing about a diet is uh when we say a low carbohydrate diet we mean a high fiber diet so high fiber low carbohydrate means a diet that essentially is mostly vegetables but you want to the the the uh the foods that are are high in carbohydrate are the grains sugars starchy vegetables such as uh potatoes and fruit the one exception being berries so so for you slow oxidizer types we want you to be on a diet that improves your cellular energy uh metabolism and that would be a diet that limits carbohydrates and certainly for all types stay away from hydrogenated fats so we've talked about oxidation therapy we talked about diet therapy and now we'll talk about supplements uh about 15 years ago I made up a supplement I call it super quick start you can get it at this website here bioenergy testing.com um and I love this stuff because it's formulated based upon everything that you've just seen here so it's extremely high in B vitamins especially folic acid methyl cobalamin especially um uh all the B vits like nasin that that we talked about in there so it's very high in these B vitamins but these would be the B vitamins you want to get plenty off to help your cellular energy production now remember it's not like the old days 100 years ago you could have gotten by on less cellular energy production than you can today you need more today to help you detox so you you can't get an adequate I don't care how good your diet is you cannot get an adequate amount of these B vitamins to keep up with what you need to have today in order to detoxify from all the environmental pollution that we have and are sustained with um well o need magnesium we turn up magnesium zinc and chromium in particular we turn those up uh lipoic acid uh if we go back to the slide here you'll see that lipoic acid is involved with sugar metabolism uh it's also I didn't put it in here but it's also very much involved with fat metabolism so that's a key nutrient that you can't hardly get enough of lipoic acid carnitine uh we talked about cartin you make you can make it through methylation but it is good to get a lot of it in your diet as well well certain hormones are incredibly important so make sure that if you're a physician you know how to diagnos properly whether your patients need extra thyroid or extra cortisol or any of the anabolic hormones like estrogen or testosterone in order to to help this scenario trimethyl glycine we mentioned that coenzyme Q10 and I didn't mentioned D ribos Dr ribos is a way to get ADP remember remember you needed this ADP right and I told you you get it through methylation dbos is a way you can get it without methylation so it's a very good jump start way to improve your cellular energy production so this lists out the various nutrients that I have found to be particularly valuable to help improve improve your cellular energy production so we've got oxidation therapy we've got what to do with your diet we just talked about supplements what's next Stress Control so I wanted to tell you a really great story of a of a lady that came in to see me she was 63 years old at the time she first saw me and um uh we tested her out on bioenergy testing her cellular energy production was the energy production that's typical for a 32-year-old woman so this woman was a real case that I like to point out this is this is what you can be as you get older here's a 64 year old 63 year old woman who has the cellular energy production of a young woman aged 32 now how'd she get to be that way well for sure she had pretty good genetics but also she did a lot of these things we're talking about she exercised regularly she took very good care of herself got to bed time and so forth and so on and uh so she when she came in she said what should I do doctor I said nothing just keep on doing what you're doing this I can't improve on this I said but you know what why don't you come back in a year let's see how you do in a year so she said okay okay she came back in a year we tested her again she tested out just the same way so now she's 64 I think and uh still having youthful energy production uh we then I told her the same thing just keep doing what you're doing we I said but you know what I'm I know you so well now you don't even have to come back in a year come back in two years so she comes back in two years and guess what this time her energy production is down this time she has the energy production that's more like the average 65y old woman so when I saw her numbers uh I immediately thought well something must have happened she must have stopped exercising or maybe she got in an accident or maybe she was poisoned I don't know what happened but I I figured something like that had to happen turns out that's not what happened she was still exercising the same way eating the same way everything in her life was absolutely identical to the way it had always been still taking the same hormones everything the same except one thing and that was she had been highly stressed for this last year her sick mother had moved in to live with her she had Alzheimer's uh she couldn't get a decent night's rest she was constantly worried uh and even though she did all these other things the stress itself was enough to bring her at energy production to uh one/ half of what it had been so stress is a very dramatic curtail of cellular energy production now when I say the word stress I mean these kinds of things that are listed on the slide here um I mean not not only you know worry like in her case but bad lifestyle habits uh one that we commonly see is too much coffee it's a vicious cycle uh you you you're you start producing more and more of your energy from sugar you start getting low blood sugar your adrenals start to get weak all of this from stress and you and you get tired and run down so you you medicate yourself with coffee the more coffee you take the more stressful it is to your system and you're of and running uh alcohol is similar thing so excessive coffee excessive alcohol I believe uh one cup 4 ounces of coffee a day is probably beneficial for the majority of people uh but more than that can start to get detrimental uh same with alcohol a glass of wine or a drink once a day can be beneficial start to get more than that starts to become stressful to the body you remember anything that's done in excess gets stressful to the body even if it's good for the body if you eat too much if you sleep too much if you exercise too much these things are good for you but if you do them to excess they can lead to stress and the stress actually can curtail your energy production systems so too much coffee too much alcohol uh too much exercise or or inappropriately Hard Exercise not enough sleep too much worry allergies all those environmentals that are were surrounded with you can be allergic to to that and as you get allergic to that that turns out to be very stressful to your system sugar and carbohydrate intake every time you eat something that's got a lot of sugar in it you're going to stress that adrenal gland of yours now it's already stressed enough from some of these other things you might just push it over the line and you push it over the line it can't make cortisol and you'll kind of remember that scenario where here's your cortisol you need cortisol to burn fat without the cortisol you can't do that you start living off the sugar and and the whole thing starts getting worse your energy production starts going down and finally I want to mention EMF you know we're all very much aware of the pollution that we get and what we drink and what we eat and what we breede but don't forget the invisible kind of pollution that comes from electromagnetic frequencies such as your cell phones such as your wireless internets such as the uh wireless phones in your house uh all of this electromagnetic frequency such that we get from fluorescent lights bombards us constantly we didn't have that 100 years ago but we've got that now and that just adds to the list of the amount of stressful things that happens to our body so stress we've talked about oxidation therapy we've talked about taking supplements we've talked about eating in a way that it maximizes cellular energy production and this is now a fourth way and that has to do with stress on your system so I can tell you it's very important to to watch this and to take this seriously watch the amount of coffee and alcohol you take make sure you're exercising in an appropriate way uh make sure you're getting plenty of sleep make sure that if you're a worrior if you're prone to depressions if you have uh false belief systems that are making you feel awful bad about yourself or about the world around you do something about it get that fixed if you have allergies don't eat the foods you're allergic to Don't Get Around the things you're allergic to especially watch this and and limit this as much as you humanly can and that'll help you with the stress aspect and that leads us to the last aspect of improving cellular energy production and that is detoxification uh so um when we talk about detoxification we're talking mostly about the the heavy metals and the organic pet petrochemicals remember if we go back to the slide now here we are and there's your heavy metals and your uncouplers are the uh are the like pesticides and Organo uh uh biochemicals that actually tie up this enzyme system in here where in oxygen interacts with nadh to produce energy they they can block that so these heavy metals and these uncouplers are what I'm referring to here under detoxification as organic Petri chemicals so uh they will flat out shut down mitochondrial production and heavy metals once they get in your system they don't leave they stay there for your entire lifetime um organic petrochemicals tend to uh stay in your body a long time the more fat you have the more you can accumulate because they they're fat soluble and that's where they like to stay so uh doing things where you lose weight you lose fat Mass anyhow uh can uh or you turn over your fat say in a sauna or with exercise is a great way to detoxify from these and the best way to detoxify from having Metals is simply with this treatment here called kelation therapy Keel therapy is a therapy a doctor does you can learn more about it uh through the internet there's tons of stuff on on keian therapy uh I I strongly believe in it I think everybody ought to receive key therapy after their after their 60th birthday because I more or less guarantee you that every one of us is loaded up with lead and mercury and cadmium and Arsenic and all these other heavy metals that are so ubiquitous in the the environment um so uh yeah we mentioned exercise by turning over your fat is one way to uh uh detoxify a high fiber diet uh the way the body detoxifies these chemicals is it spits them out through the liver and the chemicals get bound up on fiber so the more fiber that's in your diet the better you can detoxify uh the powder that I mentioned just a little bit a while ago the super uh uh the super immune Quick Start power that I make up for my patients not only does it have all the vitamins in it but it has a a bunch of herbs in there that are designed to help your liver do this detoxification process and as I say uh there's no way we can get away from these toxins so you might as well admit you got them and set about to do things to help your body eliminate them uh so so high-fiber diet liver supplements the super immune quick start is loaded with the liver supplements uh saas uh like infrared saas we use them here at the clinic and they can be very beneficial to help the body mobilize fats and get rid of these toxins and basically anything that improves cellular and energy production will enhance your body's ability to eliminate these toxins because remember that the method that the body uses to eliminate the toxins is all 100% dependent on cellular energy production so you get to have this vicious cycle the more toxic you get the less energy you can produce the less energy produce the less you can get rid of the toxins so just to recap finally recap if you want to improve your cellular energy production you want to make sure that your diet is correct make sure that your supplement you should have supplement intake and make sure that it's correct make sure that you're exercising or receiving some form of oxidative therapy uh make sure that you're detoxifying and make sure you're dealing with the elements of stress and that's it for this section uh in the next section now uh in part three we're going to be talking about uh how to measure cellular energy production with a a a testing system I've developed called bio energy testing and uh so you've learned why it's important to maintain your cellular energy production you've learned how you the kinds of things you can do to optimize and maintain your cellular energy production now we're going to learn how you can measure your cellular energy production and find out if you're that

Summary: hi uh I'm Frank shenberger I'm a medical doctor been practicing medicine for uh almost 40 years now and uh I've produced uh a lecture series here now a four-part lecture series on health aging and disease it's all about energy this is the second part of that series uh so if you haven't seen the first part you can watch this too of course but uh I would suggest you get some of the background information from by looking at part one uh in part one I talked ab…