Dr. Tabatha Barber explains inflammation as cells unable to produce enough energy to clear metabolic waste, so free radicals accumulate and damage mitochondria, DNA, and cell membranes. When free radicals degrade the membranes where hormone receptors live, it's like hammering a keyhole: insulin, vitamin D, and estrogen can't get through.
That is what inflammation is, a cell that cannot make enough energy and cannot clear the exhaust. So now this extra exhaust, free radicals, float around and they start to damage your cell. They damage the mitochondria. They will damage your DNA, cause gene mutation, turn on your bad genes like the BRCA gene. You can keep that gene turned off. Free radicals damage it and turn it on. The free radicals will damage your cell membranes, your nuclear membranes. These membranes are made of fats. That's where a lot of the receptors sit. That's it. Receptors are the keyholes for the key to fit in. So you have an insulin receptor, vitamin D receptor, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid— all these keyholes. A lot of them are in the cell membrane, and free radicals damage. It's like taking a hammer to the keyhole.
