This is the Gatsy Health podcast with Janique and Tristan Roney.

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I have my co-host, Gina Warful.

Hi, everybody. You guys, we have Benjamin Bickman here. He is the author of Why We Get Sick. And I need to give you guys a little bit of backstory before he introduces himself and all of his credentials and all that jazz. But I don't know how I, someone was talking about his book that

was going to come out and it was called Why We Get Sick. And it's all about how the root cause to

disease is like blood glucose and glucose monitoring and insulin. And I about died. I'm like,

I can't believe there's a book that's coming out about this. And I actually bought your book the day it came out. I ordered died. I'm like, I can't believe there's a book that's coming out about this. And I

actually bought your book the day it came out. I ordered it. And I love it. And it's the one that I

refer to like so much. And every time I read every page, I'm like, yes, yes, yes. People need to

memorize this, this book is Bible to me it is complete Bible so one please buy the

book you guys to please share this podcast with your friends because why we get sick is so

important for all of us to unpack and stop skirting around we can't keep taking this subject

and like sweeping it under the rug. We have to have

this like come to Jesus moment with all of us, with our entire nation and say we have a problem

and it's sugar and it's metabolic syndrome issues. So Ben, welcome. Please introduce yourself.

Tell everyone why you're so phenomenal. How you got into writing your book, what you research, where you work, et cetera.

Yeah, sure.

What a wonderful introduction.

Thank you so much for the invitation.

I'm delighted to be able to talk about these things.

The premise of the book is maybe a good way to start.

The idea is that metabolic health essentially underlies good health or disease,

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