Insulin: Everything You Need To Know - With Dr. Ben Bikman
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
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🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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This episode is about insulin, glucose, and your fasting questions.
Benjamin Bikman earned his Ph.D. in Bioenergetics and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Duke-National University of Singapore in metabolic disorders. Currently, his professional focus as a scientist and professor (Brigham Young University) is to better understand the role of elevated insulin in regulating obesity and diabetes, including the relevance of ketones in mitochondrial function.
Outside the lab, Dr. Bikman is a devoted husband and father and enjoys nothing more than traveling and adventuring with his wife and three children.
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| 0:00.0 | Glugagon is a hormone of the fasted state and I like to talk about it because in a way it's such a wonderful opposite to insulin that essentially whatever insulin wants to do, Glugagon wants to oppose it. |
| 0:19.7 | Resetters, Dr Mindy here, and I am on a mission to teach you just how powerful your body was built to be. |
| 0:21.2 | This podcast is about giving you the power back and helping you believe in yourself again. Let's jump in. |
| 0:30.0 | On this episode of the Reseter podcast, I bring you Dr. Ben Bickman. |
| 0:37.0 | Okay, you all loved this episode the last time we did this one last year with him. it has been the highest performing episode of the |
| 0:47.6 | resetter podcast on our YouTube channel and for a good reason we are going to go down the path of insulin resistance. |
| 0:56.0 | But here's the really cool part about Dr. Ben Bickman. |
| 1:01.0 | For starters, he's so great at giving us the science in a very chunked down way. |
| 1:08.2 | So if you are confused on things around insulin resistance, like how can you be in ketosis with your ketones |
| 1:16.5 | going up but your blood sugar is going up at the same time and another really |
| 1:22.2 | popular question we get is why does my blood glucose change with |
| 1:26.9 | my hormones is that bad or do I need to add more muscle to my body to become more insulin sensitive? |
| 1:35.2 | These are the questions so many of you have asked us. |
| 1:40.0 | So we brought Ben back so that he could not only answer them, but we can go into a little deeper discussion on insulin resistance |
| 1:50.2 | specifically to make it very applicable for you. |
| 1:54.0 | So I absolutely loved doing this interview. |
| 1:58.0 | I think you all are going to find great insight in it. |
| 2:01.0 | You're going to, those of you that are fasting and have been fasting with me |
| 2:05.0 | oh my gosh he has some really cool things in here about why glucose goes up for a longer period of time after you have been fasting. |
| 2:16.0 | So many mysteries of the fasting world will be resolved in this episode and if you are not familiar with Dr. Ben Vikman. this is a |
| 2:27.0 | off his Instagram. He, I love this, this is off his Instagram. He is a metabolic scientist. He is a |
| 2:30.0 | professor. He's a father. You will hear that in here we talked about children and |
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