Happy Thursday. Welcome to Fifth Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we have Dr.

Ben Bickman on the podcast. Dr. Ben Bickman is a metabolic scientist and our topic today is insulin sensitivity and metabolism.

So in this episode we get into why it's important to be insulin sensitive.

He talks about improving insulin sensitivity, and we talk about some

myths around metabolism. I will say that we do talk about fasting and fat loss in this episode and he gives his

educated opinion on fasting and fat loss. I am not biased at all when it comes to this information. I am not an expert in

fasting. I'm not an expert in nutrition. My goal with this podcast is to just

bring guests on who are educated in their field and ask them questions

so that we can ultimately educate ourselves sometimes with different perspectives

so that we can make a decision that's really

truly best for our body. And I'm also not saying that you should or shouldn't

interminate fast or that you should or shouldn't eat high-carb or low-carb or

whatever because I will say that my shouldn't eat high carb or low carb or whatever.

Because I will say that my guess that I'm having on

in a few weeks does not recommend fasting

or low-carb for women.

And I just know there's endless debate

about fasting and all of this information

and whether or not you should do it.

And again, I'm not the expert when it comes to this.

This is all just information, so please don't take any of this information as specific advice for you.

But the one thing that I really do want to point out that I loved about this episode and where I can really tie my

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