Benjamin Bikman
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Benjamin Bikman fits The Catalyst because he treats scientific insight as something meant to provoke action, not merely publication. A metabolic scientist at BYU, he leads by translating laboratory understanding into arguments urgent enough to change behaviour.
“And yet, it's possible that I'm healthier metabolically than you. And that's because it's not the mass of fat that matters most. It's the size of the fat cell that matters. This is why women, despite universally being fatter than her male counterparts, are healthier with regards to insulin resistance in every single metabolic problem.”
“That tells the blood vessels that it's time to expand is actually insulin. And so this is what I said earlier, where insulin does so many things in the body, and we only think of it as being relevant to glucose, and that's not fair. Insulin does a lot of stuff, again, including telling blood vessels to expand.”
“Something interesting starts happening at Deliver. So the liver with insulin being low is burning a lot of fat, including its own fat that the liver can store, the liver can store fat, but also fat coming from fat cells. Because if insulin is low, the fat cells are just leaking out fat to be burned by the body.”
“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, while insulin resistance is the main cause of hypertension.”
The Diary of a CEO: “Top Insulin Expert: Insulin Is More Dangerous Than Sugar! This Will Strip Fat Faster Than Anything!”
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