520. Is Your Diet Killing You? | Dr. Benjamin Bikman

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Jordan Peterson sits down with bestselling author and bioenergetics Ph.D., Dr. Benjamin Bikman. They discuss the epidemic of insulin resistance in America and its profound effects on health, the sugar addiction crisis, how dopamine hijacks your brain, how to navigate the American diet, and the potential to fix it invitationally from the top down over the next four years. Benjamin Bikman earned a Ph.D. in bioenergetics at East Carolina University with a focus on the adaptations to metabolic surgeries in obesity. He continued to explore metabolic disorders, with a particular focus on insulin resistance, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Duke-National University of Singapore. As a professor at Brigham Young University and the director of its Diabetes Research Lab, Dr. Bikman has continued to study insulin, including its role as a regulator of human metabolism, as well as insulin’s relevance in chronic disease. In addition to his research and teaching, Dr. Bikman actively serves as a research mentor to undergraduate and graduate students. He and his students frequently present and publish their findings. This episode was filmed on January 27th, 2025. | Links | For Dr. Benjamin Bikman: On X https://x.com/BenBikmanPhD?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/benbikmanphd/?hl=en On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@benbikman Read Dr. Bikman’s most recent book, “How Not to Get Sick: A Cookbook and Guide to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance, Lose Weight, and Fight Chronic Disease” https://a.co/d/iPrxgTE

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0:00.0	If only, people were sitting around on a Friday night listening to us chat and thinking,
0:04.2	oh, I really want to stick of butter.
0:06.0	They want something sweet and gooey.
0:08.0	We crave carbs, and they have myriad metabolic effects, one of which is to spike insulin.
0:14.0	What happens to type 1 diabetics if they eat nothing but fat?
0:17.0	The fat cells get big, they get so big that they have to tell insulin, I'm done.
0:21.7	A government issues a mandate telling its people what to eat, and boy, they got it wrong.
0:25.8	All those vegetables and fruits have been genetically altered to a degree that's just beyond
0:29.7	comprehension. A purely plant-based diet is so deficient in nutrients, it is utterly
0:34.6	incompatible with human survival. Studies in men have shown that if man stops eating meat, his testosterone plummets, his sperm
0:41.0	production plummets.
0:42.0	Listen to that, man.
0:44.0	Man. Hello, everybody.
1:01.0	The first thing I think I'll tell you is that I'm on tour again
1:05.0	from February through June, through the out of the United States, in Canada and in Europe.
1:10.5	And if you want more information about that,
1:13.0	go to Jordan B. Peterson.com and check it out
1:15.6	so that you can come and see me and my wife,
1:19.1	and if you're inclined to do that.
1:21.1	I'm talking today to Dr. Benjamin Bickman,
1:23.7	who's a professor of cell biology at Brigham Young University,
1:27.3	and a lecturer at
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