We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast, Cancer,

Alzheimer's, Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Fertility.

While these prevalent and dreaded diseases are caused by multiple factors, my guest says

they also all share a common thread, a ubiquitous and too little understood condition, called

insulin resistance.

His name is Dr. Benjamin Bigman, professor of biology and physiology, expert in obesity

and metabolic disorders, and the author of Why We Get Sick, the hidden epidemic at the

root of most chronic disease and how to fight it.

Ben begins our conversation by explaining insulin's role in the body, how it goes

awry when it comes to type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and how giving type 2 diabetics insulin

to treat their disease actually makes them in Ben's words, fatter and sicker and kills

them faster.

We then turn to the fact that even if you don't have diabetes, you very likely still have

insulin resistance.

Now something to tell people to keep in mind during this conversation is that insulin resistance

is bad and insulin sensitivity is good.

We also talk about the conditions three primary causes.

Ben then unpacks how insulin resistance correlates with cancer, obesity, cardiovascular

disease, reproductive health problems, including the fact that erectile dysfunction isn't a

function of low testosterone, but insulin resistance.

We then talk about the role of insulin resistance and someone's susceptibility to COVID-19.

We enter conversation with the four pillars of reversing insulin resistance, including

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