The Secrets To Overcoming Insulin Resistance - Dr. Benjamin Bikman
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
// R E A D Y • S E T • R E S E T
This episode is all about overcoming insulin resistance, accelerating weight loss, and the most significant signs of insulin resistance.
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 understand better the role of elevated insulin in regulating obesity and diabetes, including the relevance of ketones in mitochondrial function.
Outside lab, Dr. Bikman is a devoted husband and father and enjoys nothing more than traveling and adventuring with his wife and three children.
In this podcast, we cover:
- Why a majority of people are not metabolically flexible
- How to truly know if you are insulin resistant
- Ways to overcome insulin resistance
- Why only twelve percent of Americans are metabolically fit
- Which is worse: sugars or bad fats?
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| 0:00.0 | Insulin matters. If I can look back in my career and say I have helped people understand the clinical |
| 0:05.4 | relevance of insulin resistance, then I will finish, I will retire very, very happy. |
| 0:20.0 | I am a woman on a mission that is dedicated to teaching you just how powerful your body was built to be. I like to do that by bringing you the latest science, the greatest thought leaders, |
| 0:24.4 | and applicable steps that help you tap into your own internal healing power. |
| 0:29.2 | The purpose of this podcast is to give you the power back and help you believe in yourself again. |
| 0:35.7 | My name is Dr. Mindy Pells and I want to thank you for spending part of your day with me. |
| 0:41.3 | Okay, resetters, have I got a podcast for you? |
| 0:45.0 | So my next guest is Dr. Ben Bickman, |
| 0:50.0 | and I just got done interviewing him and this is the episode that those of you who have |
| 0:57.0 | been trying to lose weight you've been trying to overcome insulin resistance you're |
| 1:02.0 | trying to figure out what foods to eat, how long to fast, |
| 1:04.8 | you want hacks to accelerate weight loss. Dr. Ben Bickman, he's going to bring it to you and |
| 1:11.3 | he does it in such a clear way. |
| 1:15.0 | This is really one of the most enjoyable conversations |
| 1:17.7 | I've had with this podcast. |
| 1:20.4 | Let me give you a little bit of a background on him as you're listening to him so you know who you're talking to because you're going to hear that he has a love for science. |
| 1:30.0 | He is a professor at BYU in Utah and his specialty is insulin resistance. |
| 1:38.0 | He is a scientist, he's a professor, he's an author, his book is Why We Get Sick, which is a phenomenal book if you haven't |
| 1:46.3 | listened to it. And he is so good at explaining what happens to our body when we get spikes in insulin and how we can |
| 1:56.5 | keep insulin down. |
| 1:58.5 | So on this episode, everything you wanted to know about insulin resistance, we unpacked, we went through the microbiooms effect. |
| 2:06.0 | One of the things I wanted to know was if we took a round of antibiotics, |
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