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Dr. Benjamin Bigman is the best-selling author of Why We Get Sick, which makes the case for

insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction as the underlying cause of many of our modern health

problems. Here in this PhD in bioenergetics, I was opposed to doctoral fellow with the Duke

National University of Singapore and metabolic disorders and is on the medical advisory board

of levels. Ben, welcome. Jason, thanks so much for the invitation. I'm delighted to be able to

talk all things metabolism. It's so great to have you on the show. It's taken way too long

to get you, but here we are. So at the highest level, why do we get sick? Well, I didn't want to be

too overreaching in my thesis for the book, why we get sick, and I wouldn't want anyone to believe

that I'm making the claim that insulin resistance is the only reason we get chronic disease,

but I wanted to present and make the case in the book and in virtually every other venue where

people will listen to me, that there is in fact a common soil to virtually every chronic disease,

and that is insulin resistance. My hope in presenting that kind of message is that at the end of

it all, someone who would be opening their medicine cabinet every morning and taking out their

medication for hypertension and their medication for migraines and their medication for infertility

would realize that while each of those diseases are seemingly totally distinct and unrelated,

and they might have various inputs or various causes, there is one cause that is common across

all of those three that I just mentioned and many, many more, namely insulin resistance.

So by kind of making the claim that insulin resistance is a primary reason for chronic disease,

I am very cautious in making that claim. I'm very deliberate,

but it is something that we can address. It is one thing that we can decide to do. We could say,

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