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Dr. Benjamin Bikman

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“I would have. I love her and respect her enough and even rely on her insight that I would have done it. But she just really believed that, okay, Ben, you're not dumb. I didn't marry you for your looks. I think you've got something I'm going to trust you, and that trust was it was both humbling and scary, but also very empowering, and it's given us a beautiful life.”
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“married husband, I was anticipating a future where I would be the sole provider for the family, and it was very daunting, a very scary for me as a 23-year-old. That's how old I was when we got married. And I worried, how am I going to provide for my family? And I would look at the trust that my beautiful wife had in me and I felt inadequate. And I have moments where I remember young Ben in his early twenties as a newly wed and how scared I was in how my wife's ongoing devotion put us in a position where I both make a wonderful amount of money to provide for the family and help secure our future. For the kids, and we've had some family time, so much of all of it is just the support of my wife, because at any moment, if she would have said, no, I'm done, you got to go get a job right now.”
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“What a fun question. Thank you. Probably my wife, frankly, I just adore her. I think about so when we were newly weds, we got married quite young, if you'll allow me to be a little personal for a moment. We both really wanted a family. We knew that we wanted to be mom and dad. And she really wanted to be an at-home mom, just full-time mom, which I loved. I benefited my mother who died when I was quite young. She was a full-time mom. And most of my memories come from her being home when I would come home from lunch or I had a tummy ache and she would come pick me up. For my mother, of course, but also for the time I had with her because I had so little. And we both really wanted Cheryl to be able to be full-time mom. Mom is just that special. That meant, as a young newly...”
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“Increasing the burden that the remaining fats have to carry, not only does that result in a change in where she's storing fat, namely storing more on her abdomen, but all the fat cells will get bigger, and thus metabolic health can get worse.”
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“And he would say well, you have six kilos of less fat, clearly you're healthier, and yet they're not at all. Nothing has gotten better. And then if you follow them over the years, they cannot gain that fat back on their buttocks and hips because it was literally sucked out and adults have a hard time making new fat cells. So it's no surprise that they start storing more fat in an area that wasn't sucked out, namely their belly. And so a woman who's gone through liposuction, yes, she will have lost fat by liposction at her buttocks and hips, but if she doesn't change her lifestyle habits, the body will take the six kilos and say, well, I need to store those now somewhere else, because you're eating in a way that makes me want to store that much fat. And so her remaining fat cells that are intact get bigger and store a bigger burden. And so over time, it's no surprise that health outcomes can start to get worse by having fewer fat cells.”
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“And say there's more than I want. I'm going to suck it out. So they do. But they don't change their habits. So they're still eating the same way they were before. Essentially, now they have fewer fat cells, but the body wants to store that same amount of fat based on how they're eating. In other words, there's enough insulin telling the body to store a certain amount of fat, and there's enough calories to fuel that fat storage. But the fat would be saying, hey, we don't have all these fat cells in the buttocks and hips like we used to. Let's go somewhere else. And so it's no surprise that over the ensuing years after she's had liposection, not only does she not experience any improvement in any health marker. Nothing gets better with regards to her health, and that is again reflective of the fact that it's the size of the fatsal that matters. Maybe she has lost ten kilos of fat. That might be a little much for liposection. Six kilos.”
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“The best way to help reduce that fat is to shrink your fat cells. So that's very important for people to realize when you lose weight, you're not killing fat cells. You're not getting rid of them. You're shrinking them. And small fat cells are very healthy fat cells. They are literally anti-inflammatory. They're releasing hormones that fight inflammation in the body. And they're very insulin sensitive, which helps the body by extension be very insulin sensitive. So very healthy. Small fat cells are healthy fat cells. The problem with liposuction is that you are going in and rather than shrinking the fat cells, you are sucking them out. Now, let's say, like a study that was done in the US in women, they found that when women had liposuction from their buttocks and hips area, which is where most women gain their weight, which is because of sex hormones, telling her body to store that weight there, they may look at that fat on their buttocks and hands.”
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“I do, from a metabolic perspective, I absolutely do. Liposuction is not dangerous to fit into the clothes you want to wear, but it's deeply problematic for metabolic health, and that's because as a reminder, it's not the mass of fat we have that matters most when it comes to metabolic health. It's the size of our fat cells. So let's imagine an individual who has more fat than they want in some particular part of the body.”
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“So, I actually think it's an artifact. That's a term that we would use as a scientist to say that it's an effect that's happening without being a main effect. So I don't believe the GLP1 drug is attacking the bone. I think it's because the person has just stopped eating and stopped moving. Remember what I said earlier, people find that they're just less interested in doing stuff, like going to the gym, for example. And so that is probably combining where a little bit of malnutrition combined with a little less physical activity means you're accelerating some lean mass loss.”
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“Yourself, something you know you shouldn't be doing. There's life lessons to learn there. And so enough of the drug that makes it a little easier for you to overcome your carbohydrate addiction at the same time, you're learning how to eat well, you're learning how to eat properly by managing your macronutrients and lifting weights, and then over time, ideally, I would say, you find that you are able to reduce the dose of the drug and then eventually get off of it entirely.”
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“Sweet cravings goes down significantly within six months of the person taking a drug. So I think in addition to getting proper education, and if I may be so bold, I would say it's those pillars I mentioned earlier, control carbohydrates, prioritize protein, and don't fear fat. All the more reason prioritize protein and fat to help preserve your muscle and bone. Muscle and bone are not made of carbohydrate. They're made of protein and fat. Eat protein and fat. Lift weights to keep any of that lean mass you can keep the integrity of your bones intact. But take advantage of the drug helping reduce your cravings for sweet things especially. I would say find the lowest effective dose you can where you are able with a little bit of self discipline, where you're not assigning all of the self discipline to the syringe that you're going to inject into your tummy. There is value in learning.”
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“And then might be something more. Yeah. But we do know Based on one report that 40% of weight loss is coming from fat free mass, and so it is in people's best interest to be mindful of that tendency and that if they're going to explore the use of the drug to do so responsibly. And I want to mention that kind of caveat or angle to everything because I don't want someone listening to me thinking, all right, Ben says I should never touch this and it is uniformly evil and bad. I'm not saying that. I find that I have to speak a little more boldly about the negative consequences because nobody talks about them. What would she have done if she knew about them, for example? No one knows about these kinds of negatives because people want to sweep them under the rug. Now, I believe there is a use case for these drugs, although different from how it's being used currently. In my mind, the best use of these drugs is to help someone learn how to control their carbohydrate addiction because it will help you control your addiction.”
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“When they begin the drug, their risk of suicidal thoughts doubles, it goes up by over one hundred percent, and their risk of major depression triples. And this so as much as we talk about these drugs and we say the drug helps you control your cravings, what it's doing is perhaps reducing your craving for everything, that while you are eating less food, which is resulting in the weight loss, you also are not interested as much in exercise as you used to be, which is going to make it even easier for you to lose your muscle and bone. You're also less interested in hobbies like going to play pickleball with your friends or going out and drinking with the boys. So there is this kind of what's reflected across all of their interests is that their cravings for everything start to decline.”
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“But see, this is what people are doing, they're basically using it to facilitate a eating disorder in the people who are lean. This has become so common that there are complaints saying that lean, healthy people are getting the prescription and people who are obese and diabetic aren't because of shortages, the more the leaner I've seen this. I know someone personally who is already a perfectly lean healthy woman, and then she now looks sickly. And what caused it? Well, she wasn't lean enough. And when you take enough of that drug that you just have no more hunger because of how it's acting at your brain, you do just stop eating. And the malnutrition, at least in part, is going to cause a loss of lean mass. But that also play, it is even further exacerbated by the mental health problems where there was a paper recently published with the use of these drugs finding that people.”
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“I wonder she's so lean. I wouldn't be surprised if she had it even worse than normal because we see it has become, I don't mean to suggest this is the case for her, but you do see people using these weight loss drugs who are already very lean”
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“that she is lost is gone forever probably at that age, because after the age of sixty, good luck developing new muscle and bone. But what can come back rapidly is the fat mass. And so at two years she decides to get off the drug, which again about seventy percent of people do, they're going to gain that fat back, but they're not going to gain their muscle and bone back. That is a significant loss that may be, depending on their age, gone forever.”
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“Yeah, so 40% of the weight that people are losing on these drugs appears at these high doses is coming from lean mass. So fat free mass including muscle and bone. The reason I find that so troubling is that in the UK at two years on the drug sixty nine percent of people get off the drug. They don't want to be on it anymore. And now imagine this individual. Imagine if you will a sixty year old woman who's been on the drug. I take that age and that sex on purpose because it's so hard for her to grow new muscle and bone. Let's say she's been on this drug for a year and she's lost twenty kilos. Well, forty percent of that will have come from her lean mass, and sixty percent of it came from her fat. And then when she gets off the drug, now all of a sudden her lean mass, her muscle and bone, that's never coming back.”
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“Person was losing on these drugs, they were losing four pounds of fat free mass or lean mass. So forty percent of the weight they were losing on these drugs is coming from lean mass, like including muscle and bone. So there are now case reports of young healthy women who were overweight, who go on the drug for some period of time and after they get diagnosed with osteoporosis, where they have eroded their bone health, their losing lean mass. So again”
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“In other words, they would eat the same amount of carbohydrate as their lean counterpart and then just say, okay, what's next? I'm still hungry. And so it is prudent to focus on GLP1. GLP1 is a powerful hormone that does have an effect on human health. What I feel inclined to comment on is the negative side effects, because the only thing we hear about is social media influencers extolling the benefits. And hey, I'm on this weight loss drug and I've lost fifty pounds. Someone has to be the voice that says yeah, but what about this? And there are some significant but whatabouts when it comes to these weight loss drugs. One of them is the loss of muscle mass or lean mass. You've mentioned a couple papers from the New England Journal of Medicine, a paper a couple years ago from what was called the step five trials looking at these drugs. They found that for every six pounds of fat.”
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“More satiety. Yeah, yeah, more GLP, one, less hunger, which is very impactful. In fact, I would be remiss if I didn't mention a study that was published in humans a while ago. They took obese humans and lean humans and had them eat fat, and found that like pure fat, and they found the GLP1 response was the same, whether you were lean or obese, you had the same amount of GLP1. That would suggest that whether you're lean or obese, both of your brains in both of these populations will have the fat and have the same sense of I'm full. Because it was matched with GLP1. However, when they had these same groups eat pure carbohydrate, the lean group had a robust GLP one response, big GLP one. In other words, they would eat the carbohydrate and say I'm full, because GLP one would tell them so, however, in the obese group, they ate that exact same amount of carbohydrate”
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“Yes, so then the bet, so what's the point? Who cares about GLP1? One of GLP1's main effects is to tell the brain that we're full.”
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“Ah, yeah, great question. So I have kept my finger on the pulse of the whole field of gut derived hormones, which is what we talk about with these weight loss drugs almost since their beginning. My dissertation work was in a lab, one of the first funded labs to look at these drugs, although in the context of diabetes, and then it's blossomed into the context in the use of obesity. This is the class of drug. GLP1 receptor agonist. First of all, what is GLP1? GLP1 is a hormone that we all make from our guts. Our small intestine will make GLP one. We're making it all the time to varying degrees. Some things we eat will result in a higher GLP one, sometimes it'll be a lower GLP one, like for example a paper just published a few months ago found that if you have people eat the exact same meal of calories but lower carb or higher carb, the lower carb version of the meal will increase.”
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“We eat comes from what we don't need, why not put the focus on the things we do need? There are such things as essential fatty acids. Let's eat fat. There are such things as essential amino acids. So let's eat protein and make sure we get what we need. And then on any remainder of the plate, we can get some other things that we want to nibble on, like plants.”
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“That is the one that has the biggest insulin effect. And that's a problem for all the reasons we've discussed. But two, carbohydrates are not essential. This is controversial. People don't like to acknowledge it, but there is literally no biological need that humans have for carbohydrate. In the United States, a report decades ago from the Department of Agriculture looking at the needs of human nutrition, there's a quote there, and I'm not going to get it exactly right, but I'll get it pretty close. It's stated in this document that the lower limit of carbohydrate consumption in humans is zero. In other words, there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. Now, I'm not saying, well, let us not eat any of them. No, but I am saying, why is that the one we focus the most on as seventy percent of all calories globally are coming from that one? You're telling me that most of us”
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“What's your take on that? Yeah, I am unabashedly in favor of carbohydrate restriction. I would say for two reasons that one reason I think that carbohydrates should be the macronutrient that is most scrutinized is”
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“Its muscle and strength that predicts longevity for multiple reasons, including just the very act of living and moving, but also because if you have more muscle, you're going to control your glucose better, which means you're going to control your insulin better, then you're back to these variables that people use to predict, or what are the most accurate indicators of longevity. It's who has the best glucose control. More muscle helps that happen.”
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“When the muscle is exercising, it has its own way of opening those doors. So there's an insolent, independent method where the muscle cell essentially tells insulin insulin I know normally I have to wait for you to come and open these doors, but I'm so hungry during this exercise that I'm not going to wait. And so the door's just open. So the contracting muscle has its own way to rush, to pull the glucose in, which means, of course, that a person is going to have an easier time controlling their blood glucose, which in turn would mean a better time controlling insulin. But the more muscle a person has, the easier it is. And this could be one of the reasons why if you look at longevity and look at the markers of muscle strength versus the markers of cardiovascular aerobic fitness, the aerobic fitness markers are terrible predictors of longevity.”
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“We talked about how insulin kind of comes and knocks on the door of the muscle cell. And then the muscle cell will open the door and allow the glucose to come in, thereby lowering blood glucose, unless the muscle is exercising. When a muscle is exercising, and I'm kind of mimicking the contraction and relaxation of a muscle,”
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“Yeah, yeah, I'm really glad you brought up exercise. I'm an enormous advocate of exercise. The best exercise to improve insulin sensitivities the one you'll do. And so if someone listening to this is an eighty-year-old grandma, if her form of exercise is walking around the street, down around the block with her girlfriends, but then if someone else has the ability to go cross-country skiing or crossfit do it. So the best exercise is the one you'll do. Now, having said that, the better exercise is the one that you'll do that keeps muscle. Muscle building work is going to be minute for minute, a more effective way of improving insulin sensitivity than any kind of aerobic activity. And that's because muscle is the great consumer of glucose. In fact, not only does muscle eat the most glucose from the blood, but it's also how it eats the glucose when it's exercising.”
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“So those are the four pillars. It will be an extraordinarily effective way to address insulin resistance. But the problem, as I started, that I mentioned, is that while these concepts are simple, that does not mean they're easy, because humans show addictive tendencies to only one macronutrient, not fats, not proteins. All of the evidence of the neurobiology of addiction in humans points to carbohydrates. And so as much as I lay out this simple plan, it can be difficult. And this is why this self-discipline required is difficult enough that it's why people find that they have to result in relying on drugs for these kinds of things.”
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“You don't need to do it as much because you're already lowering your insulin. So if a person's already in ketosis, in fact, if a person were in ketosis and frequently fasting, Depending on how lean they are, it's going to become extremely difficult to retain muscle.”
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“When a human eats pure protein, there is some degree of muscle growth, albeit microscopically, minuscule, but when we eat protein with fat, we have significantly greater muscle growth than we do with the protein alone. So that is the three pillars that encompass the macronutrients or the big parts of our diet. But once a person has done that, then they are well positioned to adopt a strategy, a structured strategy of fasting. And that can be there are as many ways to fast as there are people who want to do it. There's no right way or wrong way. My goal by invoking that fourth principle, and I do think it should come last once you've learned how to eat better food, your body has adapted to burning its own fat for fuel. But it can take intermittent fasting where it's one meal of the day. You're fasting through. It can do where people do alternate day fasting.”
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“Be spiking your glucose and your insulin. Keep that on the shelves at the grocery store. Focus on Whole Fruits and Vegetables. That's going to be the key for number one control carbs. Now, while you're eating fewer carbohydrates, you need to eat something, and so prioritize protein. I would say particularly animal source protein, which is the best source of all of the amino acids that humans need. And then with those proteins will come fat. Don't fear that fat. That's number three. Fat is very satiating when combined with protein. When fat and protein come together, we digest it better. Sometimes people will find that if they just have a scoop of whey protein, it can be very upsetting on their stomach. It's because we're not supposed to eat protein alone in nature that never happens. In nature protein always comes with fat. That's how we should eat it. We digest it better, and human studies have shown”
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“Yes, so when it comes to controlling insulin resistance, the key is to manage macronutrients. And the best way to manage macronutrients is going to be a strategy that helps lower insulin. Lowering insulin is the key to both slow insulin resistance and fast insulin resistance. So the more the strategy lowers insulin, the more effective it's going to be. And there are four pillars. So the first one, control carbohydrates. Second, prioritize protein. Third, don't fear fat. And then fourth, after the first three have been taken care of, four, frequently fast. So with the first one very briefly, by control carbohydrates, I mean that it is time to focus more on whole fruits and vegetables, eat them, don't drink them, and then don't get your carbohydrates from bags and boxes with barcodes, that the more you are opening up the package and getting your chips or your crackers or your cereal or your bread, the more you're going to”
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“And so it starts retaining salt and water more in order to try to offset the lack of salt coming in, and while insulin is going higher and higher, the body's becoming more and more insulin resistant. So salt restriction can cause insulin resistance in humans.”
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“So take a healthy group of humans, say you need to eat less salt, and they do so if you measure them a week later while they're adhering to this, they will be significantly more insulin resistant than before they ever cut back their salt. It's one of the ironies of the whole scenario where a physician may be telling a patient with high blood pressure you need to cut back your salt, and they end up eating less salt, and yet their blood pressure gets worse. It's because the main contributor to high blood pressure is insulin resistance, and by telling them to cut back on their salt, you made them more insulin resistant. And that whole mechanism is because one of insulin's many, many effects is to want the body to hold on to salt and water. And so if you start cutting your salt, all of a sudden insulin says, well, there's little salt coming in.”
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“And when they found that when people adopt a dash diet, it's amazing their blood pressure goes down. However, unfortunately, they also tell people to do lots of other things with the dash diet, like when they tell someone to go on the dash diet, they also tell them to eat less sugar and less refined starches and sugars. Well, it's possible, indeed, I would say it's absolutely the case, that what's actually lowering their blood pressure isn't that they cut their salt back, it's that they were cutting their refined starches and sugars back, and it's that had the main effect, and the cutting the salt was just some innocent bystander. But to put a fine point on it, in human studies, if you have humans cut back their salt considerably, they become insulin resistant.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's because salt is not a key contributor to blood pressure. It's actually insulin resistance. Insulin resistance will force the body to hold on to salt. Insulin resistance will force the blood vessels to be very constricted, all of which play together to make for a very high blood pressure, so as much as we have been telling the world that we should be cutting back salt, no, we should have been telling them to cut back on what spikes your insulin, refined starches and sugars. But with regards to salt, it's interesting for me to note where did that whole view come from? Within the United States decades ago, there was a study that was published, and they called it the Dash Diet. Dietary approaches to stop hypertension the Dash Diet. And in the Dash Diet, one of the critical changes was to tell people to eat less salt.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so that could be reflected by an elevated blood pressure. However, multiple huge studies have found that if you go to a population of humans that have high blood pressure and you tell them you need to cut your salt in order to correct your blood pressure, they may at most move their blood pressure by one or two points. It has an absolutely negligible, irrelevant effect on”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yep, yep. And they could have measured sodium, and that could have been higher. They absolutely could have. It's just not common. So salt has earned a terrible reputation because of a series of studies that implemented salt consumption as a cause of high blood pressure. And really briefly as a momentary physiology professor, that is a real effect. If you and I were to go eat salt, our body for the next several hours afterwards would retain its water in order to balance out the salt so that we didn't get too salty, so we would retain water in order to keep our salt at a normal level.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so I'm interested to hear that your physician would have said your salt is too high. That is very rare that that gets measured.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“which is one called sucralose, and while sucralose is generally not a problem with insulin, it is a sweetener that has been shown to cross the blood brain barrier. And so the reason I avoid the zero drinks and refer or go to the diet drinks is that aspartame does no such thing. Aspartame just gets divided into amino acids. We just digest it and absorb amino acids. Sucralose will go can cross the blood-brain barrier and I don't know what it's doing there, but I don't want it there. And so I avoid the zero drinks because I don't want that sweetener. But personally, when I'm adhering to this diet, a diet soda is my actual indulgence, where I want something sweet, and yet I don't want the metabolic effect of it.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so often you can get Manitol in artificially sweetened chocolate sometimes for reasons that I don't know. I don't know why the food formulator puts them in some things and not other things. The problem I chuckle because it becomes so apparent with some of those artificial sweeteners like the sugar alcohols is that as you eat them, you taste it sweet in your mouth and it doesn't have any caloric value in the body because it stays in the intestines. And this is something that is largely unique to the sugar alcohols. Whereas it stays in the intestines, it starts pulling in water from the body, which starts to create a fairly inconvenient degree of flatulence and diarrhea. And so a person will know if they've eaten too many of those types of sweeteners because their intestines will tell them so. But also on that spectrum, kind of in the middle is the one that's in the zero.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I personally go to diet rather than zero, but that's because aspartame is the sole sweetener in the zero, in the diet, and it has no effect on insulin, so too erythritol, sorry, erythritol is a little right around aspartame is generally a good one, but monk fruit extract, stevia, and especially allulose, those are inert when it comes to insulin. You know, allulose, stevia, monk fruit extract, aspartame, no effect, erythritol, no effect. But erythritol, that ending OL, is reflective of a class of sweetener called a sugar alcohol, and that does not mean it's alcoholic. That just refers to the actual chemical structure that puts it in the alcohol family. Once you get into the sugar alcohols, you start to get a little problematic, where erythritol is a good one. And xylotol is generally a good one, but then you get to things like.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, great question. There is such a breadth of diversity when it comes to sweeteners from artificial to natural to... Spectrum of molecules that we have developed or found that taste like sugar but don't have the effective sugar. So on the good end are things like that have been shown to have no insulin effect. And so, you know, I appreciate everyone listening, letting me kind of stay with that as my framework because people are going to go on and criticize all kinds of other things about other sweeteners. And that's just too broad. That's a topic for a whole book. With regards to just insulin, on the good end, where they have no effect, it would be one as common aspartame. So like diet drinks, not the zero drinks, but the diet drinks will have aspartame as the sweetener.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Forms of epilepsy. So depending on the person, they would benefit from being in ketosis forever. For everyone else who's just sort of a normal individual who wants to be lean and keep their brain healthy and happy, etc., I would say it's generally prudent to just control your carbs, be mindful of the type of carbohydrate you're eating. And as I said earlier, just try to focus on the carbs that don't come from bags and boxes with barcodes. I'm actually quite liberal in my view when it comes to whole fruits and vegetables. I'd say eat them, enjoy them liberally, but then also make sure you're getting some good protein and fat, because there's no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. That sounds controversial, but humans do not need, we have no requirement for carbohydrate. We do have requirement for fat and protein.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A little bit, and yeah, yeah, maybe sometimes my thought on it is that a person would benefit from some state of ketosis on a frequent basis if for no other reason than to really give the brain a heavy dose of just straight energy. Not that everyone needs to be as strict as perhaps you and I are being at the moment, but I would say the more a person has a disorder or a disease that benefits from ketosis, the more than they ought to focus on it. Like if someone has type 2 diabetes, if they adopt a ketogenic diet, they will be off all of their diabetes medications in months, all of them. If someone has epilepsy or migraine headaches, if some of the from nineteen thirteen, I think was the first published report on this, if there's someone who suffers from migraines, as long as they're in ketosis, they may never have another migraine again. I mean, it is completely curative or preventative for the same with epilepsy.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's entirely possible. Yeah, yeah. I would just ask that we be careful with the assumptions that if there is an increase in diversity with more plant matter, that's an if. Is that change beneficial? Are the bacteria that we're now promoting the growth of, are they better for us or are they just bacteria that exist in order to handle more fiber? And again, the outcome being that it perhaps is just making more gas. The more plants you eat, the more gas you have to produce by fermenting more fiber. What if those bacteria are only existing to just eat the fiber and not actually improve the human host at all?”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Simpler diet, and yet every clinical marker gets better. And so if someone were to say, yeah, but sure, you've reversed your diabetes and your hypertension, but your poor microbiome, I would say, well, I don't care about my microbiome. I care about the human. And so if there's less diversity, but every single clinical marker has gotten better, perhaps more diversity is not what we want in our bacteria. And I'm speculating, but sore is the person who states that.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was one man it was a case report, which is not a randomized clinical study So, but even still, with my speculation heavily handed here, I would say probably more plants would result in a more diverse microbiome, but I would say, but then the next step is a harder one, which is, is that good or bad? I don't know. Maybe all you're doing is promoting the growth of bacteria that make more gas because they're fermenting the fiber and you just have more flatulence as a result of it. People, dieticians will say, well, a diverse microbiome is a good microbiome. We'll prove it. How do we know that? How can you prove that to me as a basic scientist? I want to see the hard evidence because what I can prove is that we can take humans who are overweight and diabetic and hypertensive, eating a standard American or global diet, and put them under a ketogenic diet, which is going to be much simpler.”
2025-02-06 · The Diary of a CEO · 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT