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"The relationship between exercise and blood glucose is clear: muscles need energy to move, and glucose is a major source of fuel that makes movement possible. Muscles use three different types of fuel for energy: high-energy phosphates, glucose (the storage form of glucose is known as glycogen), and free fatty acids. Depending on the intensity and duration of exercise, your muscles use different fuel mixtures. For example, if you lift a very heavy weight over your head, you are primarily tapping into the phosphate system." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"We call a thought without the emotional fuel that would bring it to life a wish. While possibly well intentioned, our wishes probably have little effect on our bodies or the world—until we awaken them. As Figure 7 illustrates, when we marry the thoughts in our minds with the power of the emotions that emanate from our lower energy centers, we create feelings. Thus, a feeling is the union of what we think with the fuel of our love or fear for our thought. And now we have a definition for feelings and a way to understand how they're different from emotions. Figure 7." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The precise ways that inflammation itself supports cancer are not fully explored, but we are beginning to recognize a biological model that has the following elements: Fuel Cancer cells grow rapidly and need high-octane fuel for their growth. As we have previously explained, many cancer cells thrive on fuels that are made from a fat in the body called arachidonic acid. You may recall that in 1999 scientists discovered that one of these fuels is responsible for the growth of prostate cancer. The importance of this "high octane fuel source" for cancer cell growth cannot be overstated." - Thomas M. Newmark and Paul Schulick, BEYOND ASPIRIN Nature's Answer To Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease (Get the book.)

"THE EFFECTS OF ABNORMAL METABOLISM If you think of food as fuel, metabolism is the process by which that fuel is used to make your body operate. If you consume fewer calories than your body burns at rest, your metabolism will adapt to the lack of fuel and slow down its processes to conserve that fuel. If you are attacked by infection, your metabolism will speed up to pour fuel into the necessary functions. Both conditions ?starvation and infection ?eventually lead to muscle depletion and weight loss. There are two ways you can tell if you are suffering from a low or high metabolic rate." - C. Wayne Callaway, Catherine Whitney, Kristine Mehring, Surviving With AIDS: A Comprehensive Program of Nutritional Co-Therapy (Get the book.)

"The body's innate intelligence cannot work because there is insufficient fuel to drive the process of healing. It's a bit like having a new Lexus in the driveway that's out of gas?all that intelligent engineering and design go to waste without fuel. Recall also from chapter 2 that thought directs energy fields. Thought itself exists as subtle electromagnetic energy. You can use different ways of thinking to direct and focus BioEM energies to heal an illness or injury. With these two concepts, you have two parts of a three-part healing strategy." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"When the body gets ready to run or fight, digestion stops, sexual arousal withers, heart rate and blood pressure zoom, and the adrenal gland pumps out two hormones: adrenalin, which improves alertness and further turns on the cardiovascular system, and a variant of cortisone called Cortisol, which works to release the body's major fuel, glucose, from its storage reservoir in the liver. Now the body has plenty of fuel, enabling you to run, fight, or do whatever else you need to do to protect yourself from imminent danger." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Muscles use three different types of fuel for energy: high-energy phosphates, glucose (the storage form of glucose is known as glycogen), and free fatty acids. Depending on the intensity and duration of exercise, your muscles use different fuel mixtures. For example, if you lift a very heavy weight over your head, you are primarily tapping into the phosphate system. If you decide to run 5 miles at a brisk pace, you will mainly use glycogen, while walking slowly primarily uses free fatty acids (and some glycogen as well, but not very much)." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"They know that the cars have been made to run on these products, that these products have been designed to work in the cars, that there is a match between the design of the engine and the type of fuel which is needed. They are not surprised that their car will not work well on the wrong fuel, that it is sick. No amount of tinkering with the car's engine will make those cars well again. This can be achieved only by the use of the right fuel. The same principle applies to our bodies. They have to be fueled with the nutrients which they require to move, keep warm, grow, and maintain good health." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders (Get the book.)

"We've got to fuel our affirmation with the power of our love, as if it's already accomplished, for the new condition to become real in our lives. And this, I believe, is the key to a successful affirmation and what sets one apart from a wish and an empty thought. Thoughts and Wishes As noted previously, a thought is simply the image in our minds of what's possible or what could become so in any given situation, from relationships and healing to everything in between. Without the energy of the love or fear that fuels our thought, it has little power and remains just what it is." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"THE EFFECTS OF ABNORMAL METABOLISM If you think of food as fuel, metabolism is the process by which that fuel is used to make your body operate. If you consume fewer calories than your body burns at rest, your metabolism will adapt to the lack of fuel and slow down its processes to conserve that fuel. If you are attacked by infection, your metabolism will speed up to pour fuel into the necessary functions. Both conditions ?starvation and infection ?eventually lead to muscle depletion and weight loss. There are two ways you can tell if you are suffering from a low or high metabolic rate." - C. Wayne Callaway, Catherine Whitney, Kristine Mehring, Surviving With AIDS: A Comprehensive Program of Nutritional Co-Therapy (Get the book.)

"Feeling Defined A thought without the emotion to fuel it is just a thought—it isn't good, bad, right, or wrong. By itself, it has little effect on anything and is the imagining of a possibility that remains in the mind: the seed of what could be, suspended in time—harmless, and relatively powerless. We call a thought without the emotional fuel that would bring it to life a wish. While possibly well intentioned, our wishes probably have little effect on our bodies or the world—until we awaken them." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Depending on the intensity and duration of exercise, your muscles use different fuel mixtures. For example, if you lift a very heavy weight over your head, you are primarily tapping into the phosphate system. If you decide to run 5 miles at a brisk pace, you will mainly use glycogen, while walking slowly primarily uses free fatty acids (and some glycogen as well, but not very much). To best improve insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake by muscle cells, you should focus on exercise that stresses the glycogen system." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Saturated fats stored in the body as body fat and utilized as fuel during periods of weight loss may continue to fuel cholesterol production in the liver. As these fat reserves are utilized and the excess weight is lost, cholesterol levels will eventually improve, but, again, it may take years. 3. At a late stage of life (adult), genetic influences on cholesterol production may be too strong for dietary intervention alone to overcome." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

"For those of you who are thin and want to gain weight or need more calories to fuel your high athletic efforts, more of these higher-fat, higher-calorie nuts and seeds can be used in your diet to meet your higher caloric needs. I also recommend pregnant women consume at least 2 ounces of seeds and nuts a day. Nuts and seeds are about 175 calories an ounce. 3) Fruits You should always keep a good supply of fresh fruit on hand. It is the ultimate "convenience" food." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"So it's key to feed children premium fuel every day. Q: What do you think about tanning bed rays? A: The light sources vary from place to place and from booth to booth, which makes tanning beds unpredictable and sometimes risky. Artificial UV light sources often have all three wavelengths (UVA, B, and C), and there is no ozone between you and the light-bulb. Some lights have a mixture of UVA, UVB, and no UVC that resembles sun exposure on earth. Most booths produce all three—or just lots of UVA, because it tans faster. UVC rays are dangerous to your skin and immune system." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"FEELING GOOD AT LAST For many of us, finding the right foods is like putting the right fuel in your car. It makes everything work better. If you had accidentally filled your tank with outboard-motor fuel instead of normal gasoline, your car would run, more or less. But it would idle roughly, it would not accelerate well, the ride would be terrible, and its exhaust would look like Pittsburgh's bitter memories. It would bear no resemblance to a normal drive. When you discover the error and put in the right fuel, the engine gradually cleans out the old fuel and starts to purr." - Neal Barnard, M.D., Foods That Fight Pain: Revolutionary New Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief (Get the book.)

"They will last longer and fuel your child's imagination to higher levels. When I was a toddler, my most prized possession was a wooden Fisher-Price bumblebee that I dragged everywhere with me on a little string. (Toddlers love pull toys; as soon as they learn to walk, they're eager to drag something behind them.) There was nothing high tech or flashy about this toy, but I loved it above all others, and I still have it! All objects have energy, and the toys our kids play with help form their tastes and preferences." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The mitochondria turn fuel into energy, and strongly influence how people feel and function. Poor function of the mitochondria, which can occur when Co-Q-10 is low, can create symptoms of lethargy. These symptoms are often present in kids with symptoms of the inattentive subtype of ADHD. The symptoms are also often present in autistic kids. Therefore, I often give Co-Q-10 to children who are chronically tired, lethargic, and inattentive. It can produce a notable clinical effect. It's hard for the body to produce its own Co-Q-10, and it's also hard to get abundant amounts from food." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "In her own practice, Anju was continuing to have success with the autistic children she was treating, and this helped to fuel her growing sense of confidence that she could improve the health of her daughter, whose immune system was as oversensitized and as damaged as that of any child I'd ever heard about. Anju was bringing down Priya's inflammation, modulating her skewed immunity, desensitizing her to potential allergens, reducing her level of toxicity, and building her strength and vitality. Priya, as usual, was great about doing all the treatments, and that gave Anju hope, too." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Cardiac muscle cells work nonstop to fuel an organ that pumps sixty to a hundred times a minute, twenty-four hours a day, for years and years. This constant energy demand makes the heart especially vulnerable to even subtle deficiencies of the raw materials contributing to ATP generation. In metabolic cardiology, we encourage the heart's enzymatic energy reactions in a preferential direction as opposed to the pharmaceutical approach that blocks enzymatic reactions. We do it with CoQIO, L-carnitine, and D-ribose. They feed the enzymatic production of ATP in the mitochondria." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Here's how it works: the primary fuel your brain uses is glucose, or sugar-no surprise, there-which it prefers to all others. Your brain will switch over to burning fat, as anyone who has followed a true high-fat/low-carb diet knows, but it's not happy about it. That's why most high-fat/high-protein dieters get a headachy feeling for a few days in the initial phase as the brain acclimates to burning fat for energy. You may get the same feeling in the first few days of the Teardown phase." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Saturated fats stored in the body as body fat and utilized as fuel during periods of weight loss may continue to fuel cholesterol production in the liver. As these fat reserves are utilized and the excess weight is lost, cholesterol levels will eventually improve, but, again, it may take years. 3. At a late stage of life (adult), genetic influences on cholesterol production may be too strong for dietary intervention alone to overcome." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

"Thus, a feeling is the union of what we think with the fuel of our love or fear for our thought. And now we have a definition for feelings and a way to understand how they're different from emotions. Figure 7. When we marry thoughts with the emotion of our love or fear regarding them, we create feelings. Feelings are defined as "the union of thought and emotion." They're the basis of our beliefs and are formed in our hearts. Of course, while there are only two basic emotions—love and fear—we can experience an infinite number of feelings." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"However, in 1973, when trying to work out an alternative to fossil fuel during the oil crisis, American physicist Hal PuthofF, inspired by the Russian Andrei Sakharov, began trying to figure out how to harness the teeming energy of empty space for transportation on Earth and to distant galaxies. Puthoff spent more than thirty years examining the Zero Point Field. With some colleagues, he had proved that this constant energy exchange of all subatomic matter with the Zero Point Field accounts for the stability of the hydrogen atom, and, by implication, the stability of all matter." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"His closing remarks touched on the responsibility of scientists to tell the truth and not fuel false hope. He challenged the scientists on hand not to exaggerate the prospect for cures, not to underestimate research challenges, and not to trivialize issues of public anxiety with pseudoscience. Directly after that, he took a few questions and my co-author was lucky enough to be called on. He pressed Smith more on the "hype vs." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "The grandiose promises made by scientists and pronounced at political conventions fuel false hope and set us up for potential disappointment. Alzheimer's disease is a multi-system disorder that affects many brain regions. To recover function in memory, the implanted stem cells would have to form intricate connections with neurons in an older, diseased brain. This does not seem plausible. Nor have scientists explained just how growing new neurons will help us regain old memories." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"L-carnitine, like coenzyme Q10, is a substance your own body makes in order to turnover triphosphate (ATP), the basic fuel that gives your cells their energy. These important substances decline with age and affect the ability of cells to carry out their specific functions. For ailing hearts, a shortage of these critical nutrients undermines the pumping action of the heart muscle. Supplementation helps restore energy and function to these starving cells, as well as to cells throughout the body. I also added fish oil and the enzyme nattokinase to help keep the blood thin and prevent clotting." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "When oxygen is added to the mix, fatty acids become the preferred energy fuel, giving an incredible 129 molecules of ATP! (While proteins, or amino acids, can also be metabolized to energy via these pathways, they are not preferred, and aren't considered here as primary sources of energy metabolism for hearts.) Cellular energy turnover, assisted by L-carnitine and coenzyme Q10, is vital to cellular health. Remember, however, that in addition to energy turnover the total concentration of energy substrates in the cell is equally vital. That is where D-ribose comes into play." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

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