More Than 95% of People Are Energy Deficient

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At Mercola.com, Dr. Joseph Mercola discusses energy deficiency with Kate Deering, author of “How to Heal Your Metabolism.” He writes:

Kate Deering, author of “How to Heal Your Metabolism,” has been involved in the health and fitness industry for more than three decades. She has a deep understanding of bioenergetics and, in our recent interview, we explore some of the nuances of applying bioenergetic therapies and how they can help you live with increased vigor and vitality.

Deering was eating healthy and exercising — doing everything “right” — and felt great until she entered her 40s. That’s when she hit a wall and, like many people as they get older, felt her energy and health decline:

“I was eating a very high-protein diet, low-carb diet, and it worked until it didn’t work. And my system didn’t respond the way I wanted to any longer. And it could have been the start of some level of perimenopause.

At the time, I had no idea. I just thought, I am doing everything right and it doesn’t seem to be … helping me. I was gaining weight, my sleep started to go, my cycle became inconsistent. I just felt fatigued. And I think a lot of women can resonate. You just don’t feel like yourself.

And so I was like, is this it? Is this what 40 feels like? And you come to this point, maybe this is what everyone’s saying, you hit 40 and all of a sudden life shifts. At that point, that’s when I started to learn about Dr. [Ray] Peat’s work, the bioenergetics space and how monitoring health on an energetic perspective is really the meaning of health and how well your metabolism is running.”

More Than 95% of People Are Energy Deficient

There’s more to optimal health than being “lean and fit,” Deering realized, as even in this state it’s possible to be energy deficient. More than 95% of the population is not making enough adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which your cells need for life, repair and regeneration. ATP is the metabolic energy that sustains life. Deering explains:¹

“We can’t use food or calories directly. We have to convert that into ATP through many different processes. And so many things are reliant upon that conversion. I always tell people if I was to go over to Europe, I can’t use the American dollar over there, I have to convert it into euros. And your body’s the same way. You have to convert calorie energy from food into ATP, and that’s what runs your system.

And if you don’t do that well, you will be under energized, which is going to create more problems and metabolic problems into your system. And it’s not a matter of there’s too much food consumption or calories coming in. It’s a problem is that you are unable to convert those calories into usable energy so your body can run effectively.”

Deering started to pay attention to signs such as her body temperature, pulse, digestion and sleep, “all of these markers that I avoided because all I was looking at before was you’re lean and you’re fit.” Measuring body temperature, for instance, is a simple way to tell how well your body is creating and utilizing energy. A lower body temperature signals that you’re not producing enough energy and have less than optimal metabolic function.

“I realized at the time I wasn’t very healthy. My body temperature was like 96.5. My pulse was like 55. I mean, I had numbers of an athlete or an endurance athlete, a body that was very inefficient, but I didn’t have a metabolism that was functioning optimally for me,” Deering said.²

She took a 180-approach, adding dairy and carbohydrates to her diet immediately. While she admits she should have taken a more gradual approach and made too many changes too quickly, over time the new dietary approach stabilized her system:

“If I was eating the right foods consistently through the day, my body felt regulated. I felt very stable in my energy, stable in my mood, slept very well, my cycle regulated, all these perimenopausal symptoms just literally went away. And I thought … I have the Holy Grail … this is what health is.

My body temperature went up, my pulse went up. And so things just all of a sudden completely shifted on me and I just started to now look through this different lens.”

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