The Science of Midlife Fat Gain: Hormones, Insulin & GLP-1 with Dr. Ben Bikman

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Ben Bikman explores blood sugar, weight loss, and hormonal health, sharing his expertise on how blood sugar imbalances contribute to chronic diseases. He clarifies the weight loss process, focusing on glucose, ketones, and GLP-1 hormones, particularly for women in midlife. Ben demystifies the ketogenic diet and explains how ketones impact men and women differently while offering practical tips for optimizing metabolism naturally. This episode provides valuable tools for anyone looking to improve their health and manage midlife weight gain.

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Dr. Benjamin Bikman is a renowned metabolic scientist and professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on the role of insulin and its impact on metabolic health, particularly insulin resistance and its association with chronic diseases. In his book Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease—and How to Fight It, Dr. Bikman explores the underlying causes of metabolic dysfunction and offers insights into maintaining metabolic health. Dr. Bikman has discussed the metabolic challenges women face during perimenopause and menopause, emphasizing the role of hormonal changes, particularly the decline in estrogen, which can lead to increased insulin resistance and fat accumulation.

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0:00.0	On this episode of The Resetter podcast, I am bringing back for the third time one of my favorite
0:10.7	guests, Ben Bickman.
0:13.7	So Ben and I met when I first started this podcast, and he and I were amongst a handful of people that were out there in the world
0:23.6	talking about blood sugar. And what's really surprising as I'm reminiscing about that was that was
0:29.6	about five to six years ago. And in that short time, this idea that our blood sugar is contributing to so many chronic disease
0:40.5	challenges has become almost mainstream in just five years.
0:44.7	But what I love about Ben and what you're going to realize as you listen to this is that
0:48.9	he just makes sense.
0:51.9	So the fact that he is not just a professor and is actively teaching all aspects of
0:58.6	hormonal health at the university level, but he's a scientist. He's a prolific podcast guest.
1:06.8	The man is in high demand. And what you're about to listen to is a very detailed conversation on
1:16.6	glucose, ketones, and fat. And what I wanted to do in this conversation for you all is I really
1:25.0	wanted to talk a lot about the process of losing weight because so many of you are struggling with that.
1:33.0	How do we simplify this for people? So we started the conversation off there. Then we went to this journey into GLP1 hormone. What were her thoughts? How can we change our behaviors to improve
1:45.1	GLP-1 hormone and not have to spend money on the expensive medications? Then we went to
1:52.1	keto and we went to ketones and how do they affect women differently than men? Why are they
1:58.9	necessary for the aging woman? I think this is a lot of what's
2:03.0	happening in the space right now, in the health space, is some of you are getting confused around
2:09.3	should you be doing a ketogenic diet? Should you be fasting? Should you not? And so I really wanted to
2:15.4	bring the man himself, the scientist himself, to discuss the power of ketones
2:19.9	so you can make your own educated opinion.
2:22.7	And then at the end, we had a ton of fun of talking about some hunger hacks.
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