Pharmacist Mike McInnes explores human energy metabolism and how this
is affected negatively by refined sugars and positively by honey.
Every human function requires energy, and no organ more so than the
brain which accounts for only 2% of body weight but consumes 20% of
total body energy production. Without a sufficient energy supply we lose
the ability to think clearly, react quickly or make good decisions. In
Honey Sapiens, pharmacist Mike McInnes explores human energy
metabolism and how this is affected negatively by refined sugars and
positively by honey. In particular, his more than 20 years of research
into sports nutrition have shown him the central importance of the
little-known enzyme glutamine synthetase and how this is degraded by
refined sugars, a key factor in memory loss, dementia and neurocognitive
problems in the young and old and in utero. Drawing on an
internationally diverse range of published findings, often ignored in
English-speaking countries, he explains this causal pattern and the
solutions, including the unrivalled part honey and the bioflavonoids it
contains can play in supporting brain function long-term and protecting
it from refined sugar degradation.
