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Exercise, Food, and Becoming More Efficient
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Picard demolishes a common misconception: you do not feel more energetic after exercise because you have more total energy. You feel better because energy flows more smoothly through a system that has been forced to build more mitochondria. Going from couch to marathon training can literally double mitochondrial density in muscle. The same principle governs food: eating more never gives you more energy; it increases metabolic friction. Alcohol is a toxin the liver must burn energy to neutralize — the calories go in, but net energy goes down, which is why the next morning is miserable. Toxins from pesticides, pathogens, and parasites all consume the same finite budget. The immune system fighting a flu hijacks energy from the brain, which is why you feel mentally slow and emotionally flat when sick. The body's sickness behavior — social withdrawal, skin sensitivity, desire to curl up — is an energy conservation strategy, not a malfunction. The message is consistent: everything that enters the body that shouldn't be there costs energy, and that energy comes from somewhere else.
People with zero amyloid plaques can have full-blown Alzheimer's. People with massive plaque deposits can have completely normal cognition. The real driver is energy resistance in the brain — starting with hypermetabolism, then collapsing into hypometabolism — a pattern identical to what diabetes does to muscle.
Ketones travel a much shorter metabolic pathway from blood to brain mitochondria than glucose does. Liver mitochondria make ketones from fat and ship them to brain mitochondria — an inter-organ communication that bypasses the long, friction-filled glucose pathway. That's why many people think more clearly on a ketogenic diet.
