Andrew Huberman· PhD
And the fact that GLP1 can regulate blood sugar in ways that keep your blood sugar in that we called euglycemic, not too high, not too low mode, is one reason why ingesting Mate is attractive to me.
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And the fact that GLP1 can regulate blood sugar in ways that keep your blood sugar in that we called euglycemic, not too high, not too low mode, is one reason why ingesting Mate is attractive to me.
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But GLP1, or glucagon-like peptide one, is increased by ingesting Mate and it acts as a pretty nice appetite suppressant.
Yerba Meta GLP1, can manage in healthy ways leptin levels, glucose levels, and glucagon levels in ways that if it serves you, that you might want to try.
Mate, also called Yerba Mate, is an interesting compound because unlike coffee, it has been shown to increase something called glucagon like peptide GLP1. And increase leptin levels.
Some people who don't like mate might prefer something like guayusa, which is spelled G-U-A-Y-U-S-A. G-U-A-Y-U-S-A, guayusa which is from Ecuador, despite the USA ending to it. It's from Ecuador. And it's a sweeter tasting tea. It doesn't have any sweetener in it, but the leaf of the guayusa plant is sweeter than the mate plant.
Most people, including myself, are not interested in taking a prescription drug to increase GLP-1, I do it through the ingestion of mate.
Mate increases GLP-1. GLP-1 is in the glucagon pathway. [...] Glucagon facilitates that process through increases in GLP-1. The short takeaway is mate increases GLP-1 and yes, increases the percentage of fat that you will burn. It increases fat burning.
One that I'm a particular fan of for entirely other reasons is yerba mate tea can stimulate the release of GLP-1. In South America, it's often used as an appetite suppressant, probably in large part because of its effect on GLP-1 release, but probably also because it does contain caffeine, which is a bit of a stimulant, which also can be involved in lipolysis, which is the utilization of fat stores for energy and so forth.
Now in terms of the yerba mate stimulation of glucagon-like peptide-1, that's going to be a much lower amount of glucagon-like peptide-1 that's released from drinking yerba mate as opposed to say, taking a drug that stimulates GLP-1 or taking a drug that is GLP-1.
First of all, I'm a big proponent and consumer of yerba mate. Yerba mate is a tea that can promote the release of glucagon-like peptide-1.
But yerba maté teas are known to stimulate significant amounts of GLP-1 release. And so they can be effective as a weight loss tool, mainly by blunting appetite.
as well as its ability to elevate glucagon like peptide 1 or glp1 which leads to a slight appetite suppressing effect as well as its ability to regulate blood sugar
as does in drinking yerbamate te but probably to a lesser degree and more transiently
mate also called yerba mate is an interesting compound because unlike coffee it has been shown to increase something called glucagon like peptide glp1 and increase leptin levels
This is something that can be triggered by the ingestion of yerba maté. Maté increases GLP-1.