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Metabolism Made Easy — 240 episodes
The Liver During Fasting: An Energy Factory
Chylomicrons: The Fat Delivery Trucks
Digestion of Triacylglycerol (Fat): Pancreatic Lipase
Hormonal Regulation of Metabolism: The Fast-Feed cycle
Insulin's Effects on Lipid Metabolism
The Liver: A Selfless Metabolic Engine
High Protein Diets: The Liver's Burden
All Nutrients Lead To Acetyl CoA
Glucose: The Brain's Panic Button
The Glucose Enigma: The Brain and Red Blood cells
High Protein Diets: No Storage of Amino Acids
Metabolic Marshall Law: The Mandatory Urea Cycle
Insulin Resistance: Role of 2 Lipases in Dyslipidemia
Digestion of Nutrients
Protein's Role in Ketogenic Glucose Synthesis
INSULIN: Metabolic Manager Extraordinaire
The Well-Fed State: Insulin-Dependent Enzyme Regulation
Cellular Respiration-AI Podcast
Outcome of Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Homocysteinemia and Megaloblastic Anemia
The Methionine Hub: Vitamin B12, Tetrahydrofolate, SAM & Homocysteine
The Hidden Life of Fatty Acids
Fat Metabolism: 2 Playbooks
Nucleotides: The Ultimate Cellular Multitaskers
The Liver's Cholesterol Dance: Statins & Plasma Cholesterol
Lipolysis, Beta-oxidation and Ketogenesis
INSULIN: Orchestrating The Fed State
The 3 Stages of Catabolism: How food is converted to energy?
Dietary Fat: The Lifecycle of Triacylglycerol @ Metabolism Made Easy-AI Podcast
Nitrogen Disposal & Carbon Skeletons- AI Podcast
Glycolysis Summary: 5 Key Features
Pyruvate: Distinct Roles During Fasting/ Well-Fed States- AI Podcast
8 Enzymes Regulated by Insulin
Allosteric Regulation of Enzymes
INSULIN: A Master Builder
Glycogen Summary: Liver vs Muscle
Understanding Metabolism
Catabolism of D/L Amino Acids
FAT: The most Abundant Energy Depot in The Body - AI Podcast
The TCA Cycle: A Central Role in Metabolism
Amino Acid Carbon Skeletons
Amino Acid Functional Groups I
Amino Acid Catabolism: The Mandatory Urea Cycle -AI Podcast
Insulin: Activation of Lipid Synthesis
Ketone Bodies & The Liver- AI Podcast
Glucose isn't the Villain, High blood glucose is
Insulin Secretion: Molecular Mechanism-AI Podcast
Glycogen: Fasting vs. Exercise-AI Podcast
Fatty acids: Sources & Fates
The Ingenious Journey of Dietary Fat-AI Podcast
Glycogen Metabolism: Liver vs. Muscle-AI Podcast
The Breath of Life: Oxygen & Cellular Respiration
Why We Need Oxygen?
Electron Transport Chain: Cellular Respiration
The TCA Cycle & Acetyl CoA: A Metabolic Crossroad
Major Energy Sources In The Diet
FASTING: A 3 Organ Concert
Cholesterol Biosynthesis, Statins, and the Reduction of Plasma LDL
Cholesterol, Cellular Uses & Regulation of Biosynthesis
Lipoprotein Lipase, Insulin & Plasma Triglycerides
Thromboxanes, Prostaglandins & Vascular Health
Fish Oils & Inflammation
Insulin, Exercise & Plasma Glucose
Glutamate, Aspartate & Pyrimidine Synthesis
Folic Acid & Purine Synthesis
Folic Acid: 3 Essential Roles
Fat Digestion & Chylomicron Delivery-AI Podcast
How Glucose is Converted to Fat ?- AI Podcast
Hormonal Regulation of Metabolism: A Summary
Insulin Resistance & Dyslipidemia
Insulin Resistance: Causes of Hyperglycemia
Amino Acid Structure I
Amino Acids -Proteins: An introduction
Understanding Dietary Fat -AI
Macronutrient Uses in Metabolism -AI Podcast
Mitochondrial Catabolism: A Summary
Breakdown of Stored Fat by Epinephrine-AI Podcast
The Liver During Fasting -AI Podcast
Red Blood Cells & Glucose -AI Podcast
Hormonal Regulation of Blood Glucose -AI Podcast
Why we need glucose ? AI Podcast
ALT, AST & Glutamate Dehydrogenase
Protein Degradation & The Urea Cycle: A Summary
Glycolysis: Allosteric Regulation of PFK-1
Cholesterol Summary: Uses & Regulation of Biosynthesis
Classification of Amino Acids
A Summary of Metabolism & Its Regulation
Misconceptions About Catabolism of Glucose,Fat, & Amino Acids
Integration of Metabolism: A Summary of Tissue Metabolism
Cell-Cell Communication
Catabolism of Alanine, Glutamate & Aspartate
Catabolism of Amino Acids: An Overview
Fatty acid mobilization from adipose tissue
3 Misconceptions About Dietary Fat
Misconceptions About Glucose
The Brain &Hypoglycemia
Glucose & Insulin Secretion by The Pancreas
Glucose Transporters( Video)
Hormonal Regulation of Metabolism in a Nutshell
The Brain's Energy Sources
Glucose Transporters
The Purine Salvage Pathway
Glucose Uptake by Muscle & Adipose Tissue
Glucose: The Essential Nutrient
Hormones & Receptors: 4 Distinct Types
Insulin Effects on Carbohydrate & Lipid metabolism
Enzyme Inhibition
Glycolysis: Regulation of Pyruvate Kinase
Metabolism in The Well-Fed State
The Brain Loves Glucose
DIETARY TRIACYLGLYCEROL (Fat): Digestion, Absorption & Storage
Transport of Ammonia by Glutamine
Metabolism During Fasting
METABOLISM: A Biochemical Summary
Enzyme Regulation
The Urea cycle : Key Features and Enzymes
TRANSAMINASES: Amino acid degradation
Adipocytes, lipolysis, and energy reserves
The Cori Cycle
Regulation of Acetyl CoA Carboxylase
Regulation of Cholesterol Biosynthesis
What is Metabolism?
Dietary Components: 12 distinct uses
What happens when we fast: The plasma sources of glucose, fatty acids, and ketone bodies
What a ketogenic diet teaches us about metabolism?
3 GPCRs: 4 second messengers
The 3 Stages of Catabolism
Major Metabolic Pathways for Carbohydrates and Fat
NSAIDS, Cortisol and Inflammation
Covalent Modification II: Regulation of Enzymes by Phosphorylation
Insulin, phosphatases and the well-fed state
Insulin Effects in 6 minutes
Digestion, Reassembly, Absorption, and Storage of Dietary Triacylglycerol
FASTING, Glucagon and Liver Glucose Ouput
Covalent Modification of Enzymes
Reduction of Plasma Cholesterol by Statins
Insulin Effects on Liver, Muscle and Adipose Tissue
Adenylate Cyclase: 7 Key Features
Reversal of PKA Effects by Insulin
Phosphorylation of Key Enzymes by PKA and AMP kinase
Cortisol and Inflammation
Insulin and Enzyme Dephosphorylation
Phospholipase C. 6 Key Features
2 Enzymes that Require Vitamin B12
Thiamine Requirement: 4 Key Enzymes
Carbon Skeletons: Glucogenic vs. Ketogenic
NADPH: Sources and Uses
Malonyl CoA: Regulation of fatty acid synthesis and beta oxidation
Acetyl CoA: Sources and Fates
Metabolism: An Overview
Purine Salvage: HGPRT and Hyperuricemia
Glycolysis vs. Gluconeogenesis: A Futile Cycle?
Insulin Resistance III: Dyslipidemia
Insulin Resistance II: Hyperglycemia
Insulin Resistance I: Behind The Scene
Biosynthesis of non-essential amino acids: Summary
The Pancreas and Insulin Secretion
Citrate: A Master Regulator
The LIVER: Detoxifying Organic Molecules
The LIVER: Detoxifying Ammonia: Role of UREA
The LIVER: Altruistic Ketogenesis
The LIVER: Cholesterol Central
The LIVER: A Glucose Factory
The LIVER: 5 Unique Functions
Hormone-Sensitive Lipase: 3 Key Features
Lipoprotein Lipase: 3 Key Features
Cholesterol biosynthesis III: Statins
Detoxifying Ammonia: Role of GLUTAMINE
Three Amino Acids:Three Carbon Skeletons
Nitrogen input to the Urea cycle: Role of Glutamate
Methionine and the Vitamin B12 Trap
Protein degradation II: Amino acid carbon skeletons
Can glucose be made from Fat?
Protein degradation I: An overview
LIPASES: Location, location, location
Nucleotides and Chemotherapy: An overview
Triacylglycerol: You are what you eat!
CREATING an effective presentation: Less is more
Insulin and Glucagon Metabolic Effects
Eicosanoids and Inflammation
Eicosanoids: Leukotrienes
Omega-6 vs Omega-3 Eicosanoids
Eicosanoids and vascular health
Cholesterol biosynthesis II: HMG CoA reductase
Cholesterol biosynthesis I
Cholesterol: An overview
Organizing intermediary metabolism
Adenylate cyclase termination signals
5 myths about fat
Rapid fire: Insulin and Glucagon effects
Organizing Glycolysis: 5 questions to ask
Electron Transport Chain III: Inhibitors and uncouplers
Electron Transport Chain II: The details
Electron Transport Chain I: An overview
The 4 fates of pyruvate
Glucose to CO2: energy output
The TCA cycle II
The TCA cycle I
Fuel reserves during fasting
Lactate dehydrogenase
Pyruvate dehydrogenase and thiamine
Pyruvate Dehydrogenase
The Urea cycle II
The Urea cycle I
Pyruvate kinase and red blood cells
Signal transduction VI: Alpha1-adrenergic receptor
Signal transduction V: Beta-adrenergic receptor
Signal transduction IV: GPCRs and Second messengers
Signal transduction III: Receptor tyrosine kinases
Signal transduction II: Steroid receptors
Signal transduction I : an overview
Enzyme inhibition
Enzyme regulation
Folic acid and vitamin B12: an overview
Disposal of Nitrogen/Ammonia: An overview
Glutamate Dehydrogenase
Plasma Glucose: Alcohol and Hypoglycemia
Aminotrsnsferases: ALT and AST
Protein digestion: Zymogens and transaminases
Macro and micronutrients: an overview
Gluconeogenesis II
Gluconeogenesis I
Nucleotides II
Nucleotides I: Purine biosynrhesis
The fasting state
The well-fed state
Glycolysis IV: The last 6 steps
Glycolysis III: PFK1
Glycolysis II: Hexokinase and Glucokinase
Glycolysis I: an overview
Glucose transporters: 7 distinct transporters
Maintenance of plasma glucose: 4 processes that consume or produce glucose
Signal Transduction II: G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR)
Signal Transduction I: 4 distinct classes of receptors.
The glucagon receptor: Activation and cellular responses
Metabolic effects of glucagon
Metabolic effects of Insulin
The Insulin receptor: Activation and cellular responses
Ketone bodies
Metabolism Made Easy: Insulin secretion and synthesis
Metabolism Made Easy