124: Why We Get Fat, How to Fix Insulin Resistance, IGF-1 and Cancer | Benjamin Bikman, PhD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Benjamin Bikman earned his PhD in Bioenergetics and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Duke-National University of Singapore studying metabolic disorders. His professional focus is to better understand the origins and consequences of metabolic disorders, including obesity and diabetes, with a particular emphasis on the role of insulin. He is the author of Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease—and How to Fight It.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up family, it's episode 124 of The Genius Life. |
| 0:19.4 | What's going on everybody? |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome to another episode of The Genius Life. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your host Max Lugovier of Filmmaker, |
| 0:24.8 | Hilton Science, Sharnals, and the author of The New York Times, |
| 0:26.6 | best selling book, Genius Foods, and The Genius Life. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm so excited for you to listen to this episode of The Show You Guys, |
| 0:34.4 | because I am in the zone. |
| 0:36.0 | This is like one of my favorite topics to talk about. |
| 0:38.8 | I couldn't be more thrilled to welcome Benjamin Bigman, PhD, |
| 0:43.8 | to the show. |
| 0:45.0 | Dr. Bigman has earned his PhD in Bioenergetics, |
| 0:48.6 | and was a post-doctoral fellow with the Duke National University of Singapore, |
| 0:53.0 | studying metabolic disorders. |
| 0:55.2 | His professional focus as a scientist and professor |
| 0:58.0 | is to better understand the origins and consequences of metabolic disorders, |
| 1:02.0 | including obesity and diabetes, |
| 1:04.2 | with a particular emphasis on the role of insulin. |
| 1:08.0 | You may have heard the term, it's a hormone, we all start out making it, |
| 1:13.0 | and it's an important hormone. |
| 1:15.0 | It's involved in everything from brain energy metabolism, |
| 1:18.4 | to fat storage, to fat burning, to indirectly, |
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