#261: Fasting Tips and the 2-Steps to Sustained Weight Loss with Dr. Ben Bikman

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Rupa Health. Most people are pretty confused when it comes to metabolic health. Fasting, macronutrient ratios, and blood glucose regulation are only a few of the topics that trip people up when it comes to managing a healthy weight and relationship to food. Naturally, I like to look to the latest research to find a clearer picture. And science has come a long way since the “eat less, exercise more” paradigm was first introduced. If you’ve wondered what aspects of your diet and lifestyle made the biggest impact on your metabolic health and how to make subtle tweaks for maximum impact, this episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast is for you. Today I talk to my good friend, Dr. Ben Bikman about all this and more. Dr. Bikman is a renowned metabolic research scientist and a popular speaker on human metabolism and nutrition. He is the author of the book, Why We Get Sick, which offers a thought-provoking yet real solution to insulin resistance and reversing pre-diabetes, improving brain function, shedding fat, and preventing diabetes. In this episode, we dive into: -The best approach to take when you start fasting (6:27) -Why eating fruit first thing in the morning is not the best thing for our health (9:00) -Dr. Bikman’s daily eating routine (11:40) -What Dr. Bikman feeds his kids (17:32) -The debate around fat metabolism and obesity (24:26) -The implications for following the advice of “eat less, exercise more” (35:13) -The two-steps to weight loss (36:44) -Weight loss and psychological addictions (40:51) -Dr. Bikman’s go-to snacks (46:23) -The unique metabolic state in pregnancy and physiological insulin resistance (54:52) For more on Dr. Bikman, follow him on Instagram @BenBikmanPhD, and through his websites http://bikmanlab.byu.edu/ and https://www.insuliniq.com/. Get his book, Why We Get Sick at https://benbellabooks.com/shop/why-we-get-sick/. Find Dr. Bikman's HLTH Code Meal Replacement Shake at https://gethlth.com/. This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Rupa Health. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 25% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount code and try it out for yourself. Rupa Health is a place for Functional Medicine practitioners to access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, Great Plains, and more. You can check out a free live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	that weight loss and improving insulin sensitivity would very much go hand in hand.
0:05.1	My view on it is it's a long journey that can start with one of two steps.
0:10.2	I won back on the podcast today. We have Dr. Ben Bigman, renowned metabolic health researcher
0:15.9	talking about best practices around fasting and how to achieve sustained weight loss. Stay tuned.
0:24.8	Have you ever gone to your doctor for your normal annual physical? And after sitting
0:29.4	with them for 10 minutes, they quickly look at your labs and tell you, hey, everything looks normal.
0:35.9	Keep it up and I'll see you again next year. Maybe even give you a nice little pat on the back.
0:40.4	I can't tell you how many listeners the podcast have told me that they've had this exact
0:45.0	experience and how honestly how frustrating it can be. Now, we all know that normal isn't always
0:52.4	optimal just because some things are not wrong doesn't mean that we feel great.
0:58.4	So traditional medicine is great at finding out when something is blatantly wrong, but they don't
1:04.3	always do the best job when we need to highlight how we can do better. So what if you could get
1:10.7	detailed nutritional and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs? That's what inside
1:18.5	tracker does. Inside tracker was founded in 2009 by top scientist from acclaimed universities in
1:25.5	the field of aging genetics and biometrics. Its mission is to help people live long healthy
1:31.8	productive lives by optimizing their bodies from the inside out. Inside tracker is cutting edge
1:38.0	technology and it looks at your blood DNA, lifestyle and it has fitness tracker data and they give
1:45.3	you science-backed recommendations for positive changes to your daily habits. It's all about the
1:51.9	daily habits. With their app, you can track your progress every day and they have an amazing
1:57.0	support team to help you with any questions you might have. Inside tracker looks at everything
2:02.2	for metabolic and inflammatory markers to top nutrients and hormones. It even tests your
2:08.2	cholesterol levels to help you better manage stress and you have the option to see how your
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