114: Dr. Benjamin Bikman - The Driving Force Behind Chronic Diseases
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever wondered why some people get sick with chronic diseases, today’s guest, Dr. Benjamin Bikman, a top researcher, author, and lecturer, has the answer.
When you tune into this episode with Dr. Anthony Gustin and Dr. Bikman, you’ll hear more about how Dr. Bikman learned what was to blame, his simple yet effective framework for combating this issue and preventing chronic diseases from surfacing, and what diseases are connected to this issue.
You’ll also learn what tests you can have done to see if this is currently a problem for you.
Dr. Bikman also dives into how intermittent fasting is a great tool to use here but only when done correctly, which he’ll share more about.
If you’re not familiar with Dr. Bikman’s work, he received a doctorate degree in bioenergetics and a master’s degree in exercise physiology.
Since achieving those, he went on to study the causes of metabolic disorders like obesity, type 2 diabetes, and dementia as a leading researcher at Brigham Young University where he was also a professor for over a decade.
He publishes his work in peer-reviewed journals and presents across the globe (pre-Covid) at international science conferences and continues to study the role of insulin in the body.
On top of his academic achievements, Dr. Bikman recently published a book titled, Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease—and How to Fight It, which you’ll also hear more about in this episode.
Dr. Bikman also addresses why our current nutritional advice is outdated and causing more people to get sick and what can be done to fix it starting today.
Tune into this eye-opening episode now to learn more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Natural State Podcast. I'm your host Dr. Anthony Guestan. It is |
| 0:10.1 | my belief that the natural state of any living organism's health and that our artificial |
| 0:14.4 | habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. This show is my attempt to |
| 0:18.7 | dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement, relationships and more to help |
| 0:23.8 | you reclaim your natural state of health in a modern world and show you how to thrive |
| 0:27.8 | in an environment that's stacked against you. If you enjoyed today's show, you can find |
| 0:31.6 | out more details and information at Dr. Anthony Guestan.com. Today I welcome Dr. Benjamin |
| 0:37.4 | Bickman to the show who is a researcher, author and lecturer at BYU and recently wrote |
| 0:43.3 | the book Why We Get Sick, which is an excellent foray into tying together all of the chronic |
| 0:47.9 | diseases that are ravaged our society now, providing a framework around how we can think |
| 0:52.0 | about addressing them all at once and thinking about them from the root cause really. And so |
| 0:56.6 | a lot of his work has been done in insulin resistance and we dive into that topic in depth |
| 1:01.0 | today, but we also get into a lot of the nitty gritty and tactical things that you can do |
| 1:05.3 | to sort of hedge your bets against getting chronic disease. A lot of this stuff is really |
| 1:09.8 | dependent to in genetics. We don't really address that, but a lot of environmental things |
| 1:13.7 | can go a long way preventing chronic disease. Or so we both think. So tune into this one |
| 1:19.1 | we go back and forth a lot. It's heavy at some points, but then we pull back out and try |
| 1:22.6 | to summarize things and make it actionable for people as well. So tune in and I hope you |
| 1:26.0 | enjoy. This episode of The Natural State is sponsored by Ned. Ned is an incredible company |
| 1:35.7 | that makes a lot of CBD products. And you guys can probably go back to some of my episodes |
| 1:41.4 | and realize that I have been a CBD skeptic for a very long time. I think that it's really |
| 1:48.2 | hard in this industry that's exploding to have really high quality products that actually |
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