Transcript excerpt from a conversation (host: Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP) about metabolic balance and daily energy patterns. Speakers discuss signs of metabolic dysfunction such as peaks-and-troughs in energy, reliance on stimulants (e.g., coffee), post-meal lulls, and the importance of assessing how one produces or sustains energy.
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Okay, how do I know if I'm metabolically out of balance? What are the things that you would say to people?
For me, the simple.
Thing is, how do you feel your energy is during the day? Do you have.
A constant source of energy, or are you.
Constantly going through.
Peaks and troughs.
And relying.
On stimulants.
To help you through that? So when you have.
Lunch, do you.
Feel like you need to sleep afterwards? Do you have a lull.
In energy afterwards? Are you reaching for, you know, coffee, caffeine, and these other stimulants to help kind of give you that energy?
So the more you're relying.
On stimulants to help you through.
The day, the.
More you.
Are having these peaks and troughs of energy that.
You feel, the.
More metabolically.
Dysfunctional.
You will be. And to tie this, I would just.
Say back to my own experience and, you know, intermittent.
Fasting when I was, you know, unhealthy or the rest of.
It, then I would have all of.
These energy peaks and crashes. I would rely on coffee five, six times a day to get, you know, to get me through the day. So I think, for me, that's the easiest way to relate, is just to take a step back, think about your energy. What are you using to get your energy?
What are you using to prop up.
That energy when it sinks low? And I think that's usually the best.
