Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make

informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and in this episode, I'm going to be doing something a little

bit different.

So I'm going to be doing something a little bit different.

So I'm going to be publishing an episode where I was interviewed about the topic of insulin resistance. This was from the Where Optimal Meets Practical Podcast. This was my friend Jordan

Lips who was interviewing me. I think it was a good episode. We covered a lot of ground when it comes to insulin resistance.

This is a topic that I definitely plan to discuss in the future.

But I think this episode gives a really good overview.

Jordan asked great questions.

And I'm confident that this is going to be a very valuable episode.

So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and clip to the episode. Adrian, what's going on, man? Welcome to the show. Happy to have you. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited. I have been a recent new follower of yours over the past maybe a couple of months, and you put out some seriously, really, really good content. I first started following you for some of the gut related content. And I feel like when you and I were talking in DMs, that that's something that people often want you to come on the podcast and talk about. We're going to talk a little bit more about insulin resistance and how you become insulin resistant. Why you become insulin resistant? How can we become more insulin sensitive? How much do we have to worry about it? And this like crusade of like normal people wearing CGMs. But give us a little backstory. I don't know too much about you other than you put out really good content. You're a smart dude. So give us a little backstory of like, you know, whatever, your academic background and how you got to be where you are now. Yeah. So it started with me getting a bachelor's and master's degree in exercise science.

And I was primarily focused on exercise science, wanted to train athletes.

You know, nutrition was a part of that.

So I read a lot of nutrition.

I thought I knew a bit about nutrition at that point, but I definitely didn't.

And there was a point during my master's degree that I had some health

issues and I just got more into nutrition from a health standpoint instead of like a

performance standpoint. And I was really fascinated by how complicated nutrition really is,

how much information is there. And I saw that as like a more interesting pursuit for my PhD.

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