The Insulin & Glucose Doctor: This Will Strip Fat Faster Than Anything! ⁠The Fastest Way To Alzheimer’s! The Link Between Sugar & Cancer! Dr Benjamin Bikman

**Benjamin Bikman** (0:00)
When we're looking at smoking vs. vaping, vaping is probably worse in terms of the damage to the airway and the insulin resistance that comes from it. But this gets worse because we know that insulin resistance is the core for most chronic diseases that are killing us, and there's a handful of other lifestyle habits that's contributing to it.

**Steven Bartlett** (0:15)
That's horrifying. So tell me everything.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:18)
Dr. Benjamin Bikman is a leading metabolic scientist whose research focuses on the hidden epidemic of insulin resistance and its devastating consequences. And by regaining control of your insulin levels, he says you can regain control of your life.

**Benjamin Bikman** (0:29)
Insulin is a hormone that affects literally every single cell of the body. But if those cells become insulin resistant, you start to spread the disease. For example, they call Alzheimer's insulin resistance of the brain. And even the most common forms of infertility, erectile dysfunction and PCOS, insulin resistance is a heavy contributor. Now, 88% of adults in the US have some degree of insulin resistance. And people hear this and think America is just fat and metabolically sick. But we're not actually the worst country when it comes to this. And part of it is because of how different ethnicities store fat. And I'll come back to that, but there's two roads to insulin resistance. So there's the fast lane and I could make you insulin resistant in six hours with either of these common three things. But if I removed them, your resistance would go away just as quickly. Now the slow lane, that's a problem. And there's certain lifestyle habits and problems with our diets that are massively contributing to slow insulin resistance. Now thankfully, this can be resolved through four pillars, which are very simple.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:18)
We'll get into that. But why don't we just sack all this off and just take a zempet?

**Benjamin Bikman** (1:22)
Well, because people may not know about the negative side effects. For example, 40% of the weight that people are losing on these drugs is coming from...

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What is the mission that you're on?

**Benjamin Bikman** (2:24)
My mission is to help people appreciate that much of chronic disease, we look at them as these siloed, individual distinct disorders with totally distinct origins, and yet much of them share a common core. It's as if their branch is growing from the same tree. And the conventional clinical care will look at these branches and give someone a prescription for a medication, which is only going to prune the branch back a little bit, never actually solving the problem. It can just grow right back. And so we can look at most of these chronic diseases that are killing us globally and then say, okay, there are in fact some simple lifestyle changes that can be implemented that will help reduce the risk of not only one or two, but all of the top killers from things like Alzheimer's disease to heart disease to type 2 diabetes to liver failure or fatty liver disease. All of them share a common metabolic core. That's my mission.

**Steven Bartlett** (3:27)
And what is that common metabolic core?

**Benjamin Bikman** (3:30)
Yeah, it's a little known problem called insulin resistance. In fact, when I first started this topic, I stumbled on one paper that documented how when fat tissue is growing, it increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. That was this concept in the early 2000s that was really getting a lot of attention. Diabeticity, this kind of dual epidemic of wherever we see obesity, we see more type 2 diabetes. And this manuscript outlined something that was to me a revelation at the time. It was so fascinating where when fat tissue is growing, it starts releasing pro-inflammatory proteins. That inflammation caused a problem called insulin resistance. And then that got me into this realm of understanding that other tissues of the body, as they become insulin resistant, then you start to spread the chronic disease. And essentially, coming to the conclusion that something like hypertension, high blood pressure, which is the most common cardiovascular problem and the main contributor to heart disease. Well insulin resistance is the main cause of hypertension. They call Alzheimer's disease type 3 diabetes, or more accurately, insulin resistance of the brain.