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• If you're like most people, it's a shock to learn that our quality of life depends on microbes in our digestive tract. Once this sinks in, it's reasonable to think we should definitely get to know these microbes better and take good care of them.
• The human body has an elaborate food processing and distribution system to bring protein, vitamins, fats, and sugar in the form of glucose directly into contact with the walls of the human cells. However, regarding metabolic syndrome, obesity, and metabolic disease, the focus is on glucose. Avoiding and reversing metabolic syndrome, obesity, and metabolic disease requires just the right amount of glucose to pass through the cell wall to provide nutrition to the human cells.
• When you look at nutrition at a cellular level, what goes in the cells counts, not what goes in the mouth. Nutrimatters favors the hormone/insulin model over the calorie balance model. It is more important to focus on avoiding bad food than eating good food since all food must be reduced to its primary molecules before entering a cell, no matter how "good" it was when it entered the mouth. That's right, broccoli and a brownie are the same in that both must be reduced to molecules of glucose before cells can use them as nutrition.
• Like most life forms, these non-human microbes have preferred foods, produce diverse byproducts, prioritize reproduction, and thrive in various temperatures and environmental conditions, including a highly complex, cooperative, and competitive ecosystem of other microbes. As food molecules pass in and byproducts out of their cell membranes, think of each of these different species as a different filter that takes a complex molecule and converts it to another slightly less complex molecule, ready to be processed by the next microbe in the inside food chain.

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