This is the audio recap of the blog post Battling Reductive Stress: Pyruvate and L-carnitine.

Brad and Elizabeth talk through the basic materials of biology - fat and water. Elizabeth is not a biologist. This one has a conversational tone and is less nerdy than Brad’s other podcasts (maybe).

Reductive Stress - the opposite of oxidative stress - is at the heart of our metabolic problems. How it’s caused and what to do about it.

Brad and Dave chat about Dave’s experience with The Croissant Diet, anecdotes from his weight lifting background and his ideas about research.

An experiment designed to sell soybean oil inadvertently gives us the clearest example demonstrating the principles of the ROS Theory of Obesity and the SCD1/Torpor Theory of obesity.

Brad talks about the ice ages, squirrels acorns, the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, PPARy, SCD1, bear grease and the ancestral wisdom of Native Americans.