so we've seen studies where avocados are combined with higher carbohydrate meals and it seems to sort of attenuate the blood glucose response like it it makes it so that the postprandial response is less like less of a blood glucose Spike and also less insulin in fact there was one study that's published in the journal nutrients that looked at just this it said all right we're going to give subjects a half of a fresh avocado along with their meal and they found 30 minutes later their glucose levels were not as spiked less insulin Spike as well and then ALS o 3 hours later less of an insulin Spike this is a huge thing now most of the time we chalk this up to fiber we chalk it up to fats there is something super fascinating going on I'm going to explain it in just a minute it's a compound called avocatin be it's a specific fat molecule and that's what we're really starting to discover could be the really powerful Factor longterm with avocado consumption you've got to check out this pemf 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in general uh okay so the fiber and the fat do that both okay the monounsaturated fats and then the fiber but what is this avocatin be well what it is is a fat molecule that is seeming to have an effect on how our mitochondria uses fat so to give a little bit of context people think that just carbohydrates are going to make you potentially insulin resistant like okay if I go out and I eat a bunch of Sour Patch Kids or a bunch of candy that doesn't have a lot of fat in it yeah if I do that for a lifetime there's a good chance that I can affect insulin resistance so I'm not saying that doesn't apply but people tend to forget that fats and how much fat is circulating in the bloodstream can positively absolutely affect our insulin resistance and it goes like this if you normally have glucose flowing through the bloodstream and it's nice and easy and the body can respond to it because it's the glucose that's floating around and allows the body to see it produce insulin and we absorb it but now let's say there's a bunch of fat circulating too okay that fat is circulating too and it makes it much harder to grab the glucose okay so in a lot of ways it's making the glucose circulate for a longer period of time and therefore affecting how it gets uh taken up so our cells being exposed to fat in the wrong context not when it's being oxidized can absolutely affect the receptor an insulin receptor gluc it can just affect that overall so we want to make sure we're doing what we can to mitigate this okay the right kinds of fats do that like from avocados avocado oil Etc but also the compounds that are in it so let's take a look at some research so the study was published in the journal molecular nutrition and food res research and it was a rodent model but still very interesting okay so for 8 weeks they induced obesity with these rodents by well you guessed it giving them a high fat diet so they induced obesity but they also induced insulin resistance okay they practically made them diabetic and then they gave half of that group after eight weeks they gave half that group avocat and B this direct fat molecule and they found what do you know insulin sensitivity just rapidly improved what is going on with this well then we have to start looking at what are called mechanistic actions when we look at like okay well we know that this worked in an observational setting so what's the mechanism this is where it gets really fascinating this avocatin B seems to affect our mitochondria and our mitochondria processes energy but what it does is it is making it so that there is less incomplete fatty acids in the mitochondria when they go through that process so fatty acids circulate through the bloodstream this just fat essentially lipids they go into the mitochondria and they go through what's called beta oxidation they get burned okay they get burned and they get taken up and converted into energy in the ideal world in the perfect setting every single little fat molecule that's floating around is going to get oxidized used and we're sitting pretty but that's not always the case there's an inefficiency at play in everything in our body and a lot of times there's such an inefficiency that those fat molecules are incompletely oxidized meaning you're left with fragments or some fatty acids that never got oxidized because the mitochondria just didn't have the bandwidth or the efficiency to deal with it well this is not always good because a then there's less fat that you're actually utilizing and burning but B then you have more fat that still gets to circulate around with no purpose contributing to insulin resistance so when you have this avocatin be that is working against incomplete beta oxidation or fatty acid utilization you are ensuring more complete oxidation which is ensuring two things ensuring that you're oxidizing the fat and burning fat which is always good and ensuring that you don't have a bunch of incomplete fatty acids floating around okay this can improve our insulin sensitivity this improves our glucose tolerance because now there's less stuff floating around and the body can become more sensitive because it can respond to directly what is at play and in this particular discussion we're talking about glucose right we don't think about the interplay between fat and glucose very much but if the body can use fats better it leaves more let's just call it availability to handle glucose better and also it gets rid of the whole desensitization issue that we would normally have at play so avocados are really coming in for the win we've got the oil and ethanolamine the oea conversion from the oleic acid the monounsaturated fats we've got the fiber we've got the fact they're are very low carbohydrate low glucose moderately higher fructose fruit and then of course we've got good old avocat and be so as always keep it locked in here here on my channel and I'll see you tomorrow