Thanks for your teachings on high insulin , none of my doctors through the years ever told me about insulin. It was always more meds,now iv'e been on OMAD for 6 months ,fasting insulin is 8.8,A1C 5.5 Down 50 LBS ,get new blood work next week. You have changed the way i l;ook at food. Now that i understand how the body works and how bad Fructose is. i do not fear fat,thanks to you. 65 years old
Yup, the facts Prof. Bikman discusses should be common knowledge but through propaganda the food industrial complex has pushed mega poisons into every part of the food supply to the point where it’s extremely hard to get out and eat completely healthy foods.
This is always the best and most educational lecture. I learn so much from truly listening, taking notes, re-listening like I did in college. I did family practice for over 50 years and I wish this knowledge had been known when I was studying back in the 1960's and early 70's. So much more to assimilate. I feel like I'm back at the University learning amazing and useful biochemistry and pathophysiology again. THANK you for this FREE and generous education. I wish I could get CME and another degree from all that I'm learning. ❤
Dr. Bikman, thank you for your kindness in educating us about the topic. And I need to learn! 67yo female, bmi 30 - all started with a pregnancy 34 years ago. My body is still not responding to healthy and moderated meals. Many doctors that I consult with are absolutely hopeless! So, the info you provided here is gold!
Thanks for your kind comment, and for reaching out. Many people benefit from becoming part of our Insulin IQ Community. Perhaps you would find value there, through group coaching and like-minded people working on their metabolic health: www.insuliniq.com/insulin-iq-community-membership-signup
I’ve had a persistent 20 lb of belly and man boob fat that will not go and I’ve done sports my whole life including marathons, ultras, Ironman, weight lifting and working out doors. I’m finally getting my fasting insulin and a 3 hr OGTT done but was never had it explained to me the way Prof. Bikman and others on YT have. Finally gone OMAD carnivore as even small amounts of carbs throw my fat burning off at 58 years young.
I do look forward to these teaching sessions. You have a unique gift. I know what you are teaching your students in school and out of school will be a benefit to them for a lifetime.
❤Can’t wait for the new book to come out (how not to get sick). I have preordered it on Amazon and I can’t wait to meet you again (hopefully in Boca next year) so you can sign it for me! Thank you for what you do!!❤
I’ve lost around 500 lbs on the carnivore diet (yes! Not a typo). This is fascinating info. I would love to learn more about Lipoedema fat which I have in arms and legs. Diet is not helping this. Would love some insight. Thank you!
Hi Dr Bikman thank you for sharing your intellectual property to all of us for free.! I have Lipidemea. It’s not regular cellulite. I have been Carnivore for several months and am loosing weight all over… except my legs…however my legs are still having this Lipademea. Any chance you could do an episode on what you know about Lipademea.?
And oh… forgot to mention… most importantly this Lipademea started to show up when I had both of my knee surgeries for torn meniscus within 8 weeks of each other… then the fluid got weird above my knees. Now… no matter how much weight I loose or how much I work out I still have this type of cellular cellulite looking stuff at the back of my legs just above my knees and to the buttocks and it hurts so much to touch. My primary doctors just say it’s a inflammation of the fat cells and there is no cure. I am strict Carnivore for several months and am very healthy otherwise and have started to follow sprinting coaches online for stretching and sprinting preconditioning
Well, I'm going to disagree with your ending comments about the irrelevance of exercise, or it being for strength only. For me, a big, high meat-protein, high raw-greens dinner may not be "keto", but my 50mile bike ride the next morning with no breakfast gets me deep into ketosis. And then, I continue the fast till dinner (24 hrs total). That is a deep workout, combining diet and exercise, to train a whole bunch of valuable metabolic, fat-burning machinery.
Exercise appears to be irrelevant when it comes to weight reduction, but no way is it a dead-end for improving strength and overall wellness. As I was told years ago on a YMCA course for prospective personal trainers, “Most things that get worse with time, get better with exercise.” So much of what I was taught on that course smells like BS now, but my faith in the value of exercise remains…! 😅
So far so good. I just subscribed. Third year of my paleo journey, low carb diet and activity. I'm 68 years old, down 30 lbs, 2X gym and OMAD. I love my 🍻 every night. I have fluffy belly fat, great metabolic blood work, A1C 5.2, triglycerides 44, plus feel strong, no limitations, no pain, no Rxs. I'm curious IF you're the messenger I'm seeking. 💪🙏
Whenever you refer to Type 1 diabetics being able to lose weight, it sounds -- um, uninformed, which I know you aren't. Because a Type 1 diabetic not taking insulin will suffer horrible, terrible damage from head to toe over time from glycation and swelling. In the more immediate, term, they will become dehydrated from both enormously high glucose snd high production of acidic ketones. They will start having belly pains and vomiting uncontrollably, and shallow rapid breathing to try and expel the high ketones. The Type 1 diabetes patient is typically overweight or obese because injected insulin comes with no predictable on or off switch, their energy levels Re usually subpar and they likely have more than one autoimmune condition and are developing a number of complications. So, to partially inform your audience that T1D have some kind of "option" to not take insulin to lower their fat mass -- it is an insane notion, that too many younger people are engaging in foolishly. So, I know you have said it comes with consequences in the past, but you would be wise to always explain the devastating ravages of not being able to produce insulin, and to not be able to have insulin due to affordability, and to be mistaken to believe it is healthy to lose fat by denying insulin. That is crazy that people will receive this message from wherever they hear it and not get the flip side of the tragedy that is about to happen to them. They'll be so much worse off for not taking insulin.
I need to read his book entitled as how not to Get Sick: A Cookbook and guide to Prevent and reverse insulin resistance, Lose Weight, and Fight Chronic Disease. But I don't have any platform to purchase it here in my country Ethiopia. How I could get its PDF form?
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Hello, Dr. Bikman. At 3:47 or so, you mention that, "humans are the only land based mammals that are obese". I was thinking of some examples of other mammals that are obese. Domestic animals, particularly dogs and cats, can become quite obese, either because they are fed human food or they eat crappy high carb pet food. Hibernating mammals (bears, marmots, etc.) also become quite obese in the fall. In addition, one can visit any rural landfill near bear habitat to view obese bears gorging on human garbage any time throughout the year. So, I think that the occurrence of obesity is possible in other animals as a means of survival and, if available, when they eat crappy human food. 😀
thanks Ben - very informative. I need to understand a related issue - how does the lipid enter the muscle cell to be used as fuel? Assume for now you eat zero carbs .. in which case what causes the cell to ingest the hydrocarbon? As i understand it, eating fat does not cause an insulin response .. is it th related food (eg meat protein) that makes insulin go up .. or is it concurrent consumption of some carbs .. or is it a different hormone that opens the door to the cell?
3:113:113:12 WHYYYYY😢😢😢 MU GLUCOSE MEADURES 5.9 OR SO....BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP..AND JUMPS TO 7.2 AS FASTING GLUCOSE AFTER NOT EATING FOR 10 OR MORE HOURS?. HOWWWW FRUSTRATING
Last time I've restricted myself for three months and gained back 80% of fat lost in two weeks of 2MAD eating beef, eggs and chicken. And NO it's not muscle! What is wrong with me. I don't understand how the carnivore ladies including myself gain fat... What I see in common is a period of caloric restriction beforehand and more or less normal weight (24-26 BMI) Smth more than just excess energy and insulin are involved in fat storage.
Thanks for commenting and sharing your story. Many people benefit from becoming part of our Insulin IQ Community. Perhaps you would find value there, through group coaching and like-minded people working on their metabolic health: www.insuliniq.com/insulin-iq-community-membership-signup
@@insuliniq oh i wish... I'm from Russia, no way to pay for it. I would have joined Stake and Butter Gang long ago ( still moving through my carnivore journey alone
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is just that, a theory. It is however the best conjecture we have so far. And who can say what intelligence might have devised evolution, which seems to me a miracle in itself…? 🤔
Professor Bikman, these MC episodes are pure gold for lifetime learners everywhere, especially us anglophones. Any interest in making your material available in, say, Spanish? In any case, since I probably shouldn’t offer you a shiny apple, here’s a steak instead: 🥩 BTW, I love the unpretentious canning jar you use for water.
@@1timbarrett your using theory incorrectly. you and i and other non scientists use theory incorrectly in our everyday ordinary language. however, scientifically "theory" is an explanation. theory is not equivalent to guessing. Theory is not a hypothesis.
Hahahaha…. I store fat every where including top of my bald head and all over my face and the rest of the body including hands and arms. Worst is the torso including the pits. Been working hard at getting rid of this life robing garbage (4years). Already 70 so only have a short time to get stuff done.
Bikman some corrections, LPL on fat cells is active during periods of eating & postprandial period (mainly absorb TG from Chylomicrons from the intestine; ONLY chylomicron remnants gets absorbed by the liver. LPL on muscles is active during fasting which allows to take TG from VLDL(secreted from the liver).
Humans being overweight is a modern phenomenon. There is no way that Palaeolthic humans could ever afford to carry too much weight. Satiation is a balance whereby even in times of abundance we ought not get too fat to run. In antropology all "pristine" cultures had an absence of obesity. Masai consume blood, beef and milk with no greens; heart disease, objecity and diabetes were unknown to them until they urbanised and ate the Modern Diet. Even Innuit do not carry more wieght than is practical for living. Obesity is more likely to be a response to agriculure that we are not yet adapted to cope with. Starches and sugars are storage generating substances. In the last few thousand years what small adaptivity we might have gained in that time, has been lost to food processing and food designed to encourage more eating.
This could not have been posted at a better time. I just had a dexa scan done yesterday and while my numbers were good, they can be improved, in my opinion. Hoping to learn some ideas on tipping the numbers in the right direction. Always great info. Thank you
Amazing lecture ! So do you think ketosis ability to convert fat into metabolically more active form is due to ketosis itself or does to low insulin levels? As you said in one earlier lecture how high insulin stimulates hypertrophy of fat cells, could we assume that lack of insulin itself changes morphology of fat cells even in isocaloric diet, assuming that person did not change the total amount of fat?
Diet, Metformin & insulin have historically been my only treatments for T2D. Because of your teaching on Metformin, I gave that up. I keep my carbs below 10 grams/day but my blood glucose still goes up to 150 for several hours during the day -- I'm guessing because I can't sleep much. I wish I knew how high to let my blood glucose go before I have to shoot insulin. I know that excess insulin is bad for me, but so is high blood glucose.
Have you come across you tube channel ‘Pottengers Human’. His talks are on fasting to reverse many conditions including T2D. Dr Bikman also talks of fasting. Have you considered this as an option. Regards
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Doc, thanks for all you do on helping others understand the journey of fat loss. I was wondering if anyone could provide some advise. I'm 8 months into ketovore (around 10 carbs a day) with 18 to 21 hours none eating and 3 to 6 hour eating window. On start i was 6'2" tall weighing 270 lbs now down to 188lbs. BMI still measures outside the metabolic healthy range due to belly fat. I was not a muscular man when i was heavy. All my weight was mostly fat. Now I'm skinny fat as they say. The fat is on my lower belly and sides. Should i now only eat when my body says it is hungry or should i increase meals? Should i try to stay in ketosis for longer periods of time? Dont know how to proceed to get this belly fat to burn off without getting really hungry.
I would like to know about caloric deficit. Everyone keeps telling me that I need to count calories. I am following a ketogenic diet and was under the impression that while in ketosis we aren’t producing insulin and that excess energy is excreted as ketones and not stored? Is this the case or is there a limit to how much fat we can consume before it starts getting stored. Can fat be stored without the presence of insulin?
I would like to know about caloric deficit. Everyone keeps telling me that I need to count calories. I am following a ketogenic diet and was under the impression that while in ketosis we aren’t producing insulin and that excess energy is excreted as ketones and not stored? Is this the case or is there a limit to how much fat we can consume before it starts getting stored. Can fat be stored without the presence of insulin?
Been waiting for this one.👍👍👍👍👍😁 If we drive glucose lower by taking Berberine or Metformin will that lower insulin or will it only lower glucose levels. I am in the UK so my readings may seem strange to some. However my fasting glucose hovers around 4.8 to 5 mmol and after a 25 mile hike they are 3.9:with ketones at about 6. Would this regime drop my insulin faster?
Dr. Bickman, As a biomedical research engineer and a recovering obese person having lost over 170 pounds, I am now at a normal BMI thanks to yours and other's metabolic health information. Suffice to say now that I have burned all those pounds of Lipid fat out of my body can you please speak to the condition of my relatively empty fat cells now. It is my understanding that fat cells are immortal and they will still be with me forever and yes ready to swell again should I "fall off the wagon" so to speak. What signals are these empty fat cells sending to my body.
Thank YOU! I am absolutely loving this series. I would like to ask you about the role of Stearic Acid (C:18) and it's affect on mitochondrial function? I will be looking forward to your future installment with regards to coupling and uncoupling. I have read there have been some studies done on Stearic acid and it's impact on those who have Alzheimer's. As a veteran with multiple TBI's these topics are super important to me. Right now I am following a Carnivore/Ketovore diet plan working on getting quality fats in my diet daily. Anyway, THANK YOU!!!
Wow! Extraordinary! I personally liked it a lot! Articulate, high level vocabulary and still easy to understand! I liked how you mentioned about fat cells experimenting in your lab! So very interesting! Thank you!
Dr Bikman, you don't believe the government or scientists about dietary guidelines, so why do you believe them about how life happened? They're just guessing on that too, at best. Considering what is known about the human body now, they're DEFINITELY lying about dietary needs for best health longest life.
You are The Metabolic Professor! Sorry to be off topic, but Mercola is at it again. See his recent article about Understanding the Randle Cycle. Would appreciate some clarification on how this all fits together. Perhaps a unified theory?
I don’t presume at all to know more than you - but I did hear a Levels podcast about how muscle acts as a glucose sink, in that it pulls glucose out of the bloodstream thereby reducing insulin. Therefore, wouldn’t exercise and muscle mass be protective against high insulin?
Prof., please explain to me how come when young adults develop diabetes type one even when they are massive people with good storages of fat and muscle. Once they start taking insulin and eating more or less the same diet without all the sugar when they get older, they lose the ability to put on weight, even though they keep eating. What to say about lean people whose fat sells cannot get enough signally to gain weight, but they may be fat on the inside and thin on the outside.
Dr Ben, my fasting insulin was 22.2 and ha1c was 5.3, glucose was 109. How horrible is that fasting insulin level? I know it's out of range, but am i pre diabetic? Why is ha1c normal?
Stanford dr.said their study found ketosis was almost impossible to achieve because their subjects couldn’t get enough fat in their diet to produce ample ketones.so how can we know definitively that we are in fact in ketosis?
@garycox6169 ketines can be detected with ketone urine strip's or ketone blood sticks that are used in an appropriate glucose meter. I'm on a carnivore diet and I am constantly in ketosis. If I fast my ketines sky rocket, so I don't understand how they could not measure them.
I was born with skin tags all over my body - nearly 100 up and down both arms, under my armpits, and on the back of my neck. And I have struggled with my weight, pretty severe hypoglycemia, and a series of random health issues that doctors can't seem to figure out the cause of. With this in mind, can babies be born with insulin resistance? And can reactive hypoglycemia be caused by insulin resistance?
Thank you for this. I have subscribed!! You mentioned that fat storage can only happen with sufficient energy and insulin. I understand that fructose can also contribute to fat accumulation, without triggering insulin, but rather through a low energy state created by uric acid. Will you be discussing that topic in future episodes? Thank you!
@@insuliniq Excellent! Your presentations have affected me in the same way that reading biology texts - I have to set the books down and shake my head at the amazing complication of our bodies.
Question, let's say that you are eating in a way to have an acceptable A1C for a few weeks but then you have a few very bad high sugar intake/high blood glucose days. How will those few days affect your A1c over a 3 month period? In my case, it seems that a few very bad days over a three month period tend to cause a high A1C reading even though when I eat in a way to cause my blood sugar to be normal/good as being shown when I test my blood sugar via strips my pancreas and cells seem to be working properly.
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Your totally wrong about working out it is your workout that creates the need for burning and then muscle continues to burn calories and then fat . Your way off on the science of working out and it affect on muscle and fat loss
Professor Bikman, some time could you speak on the seriousness of being diagnosed with pre diabetes? It's rarely mentioned and I don't think people that have been diagnosed with it understand it.
Thanks for your teachings on high insulin , none of my doctors through the years ever told me about insulin. It was always more meds,now iv'e been on OMAD for 6 months ,fasting insulin is 8.8,A1C 5.5 Down 50 LBS ,get new blood work next week. You have changed the way i l;ook at food. Now that i understand how the body works and how bad Fructose is. i do not fear fat,thanks to you. 65 years old
Yup, the facts Prof. Bikman discusses should be common knowledge but through propaganda the food industrial complex has pushed mega poisons into every part of the food supply to the point where it’s extremely hard to get out and eat completely healthy foods.
This is always the best and most educational lecture. I learn so much from truly listening, taking notes, re-listening like I did in college. I did family practice for over 50 years and I wish this knowledge had been known when I was studying back in the 1960's and early 70's. So much more to assimilate. I feel like I'm back at the University learning amazing and useful biochemistry and pathophysiology again. THANK you for this FREE and generous education. I wish I could get CME and another degree from all that I'm learning. ❤
You’re kind, @meatdog Thanks.
"Eat smart to be lean, but you exercise to be strong." - Dr. Ben Bickman. I love it!
Dr. Bikman, thank you for your kindness in educating us about the topic. And I need to learn! 67yo female, bmi 30 - all started with a pregnancy 34 years ago. My body is still not responding to healthy and moderated meals. Many doctors that I consult with are absolutely hopeless! So, the info you provided here is gold!
Thanks for your kind comment, and for reaching out. Many people benefit from becoming part of our Insulin IQ Community. Perhaps you would find value there, through group coaching and like-minded people working on their metabolic health: www.insuliniq.com/insulin-iq-community-membership-signup
I look forward to the lecture about mitochondria❣️🌞
I love this technical stuff keep on teaching us 👍😊
I’ve had a persistent 20 lb of belly and man boob fat that will not go and I’ve done sports my whole life including marathons, ultras, Ironman, weight lifting and working out doors. I’m finally getting my fasting insulin and a 3 hr OGTT done but was never had it explained to me the way Prof. Bikman and others on YT have. Finally gone OMAD carnivore as even small amounts of carbs throw my fat burning off at 58 years young.
Have you checked into estrogen dominance as your testosterone levels get lower as you age?
@@solutions4tenants141 funny you should ask, I’m going to an endocrinologist today.
I read somewhere that man boobs happen with an unhealthy liver.
I do look forward to these teaching sessions. You have a unique gift. I know what you are teaching your students in school and out of school will be a benefit to them for a lifetime.
Thanks for your kind comment.
❤Can’t wait for the new book to come out (how not to get sick). I have preordered it on Amazon and I can’t wait to meet you again (hopefully in Boca next year) so you can sign it for me! Thank you for what you do!!❤
Thank you for pre-ordering the book. I appreciate it.
I’ve lost around 500 lbs on the carnivore diet (yes! Not a typo). This is fascinating info. I would love to learn more about Lipoedema fat which I have in arms and legs. Diet is not helping this. Would love some insight. Thank you!
Thanks for your question. You may want to go to our website and ask my team: www.insuliniq.com
Yes I was asking if their team can do an episode on Lipademea. I have it on the back of my legs above my knees and it’s so painful to touch.
I am going to do an episode on that in April.
Hi Dr Bikman thank you for sharing your intellectual property to all of us for free.! I have Lipidemea. It’s not regular cellulite. I have been Carnivore for several months and am loosing weight all over… except my legs…however my legs are still having this Lipademea. Any chance you could do an episode on what you know about Lipademea.?
And oh… forgot to mention… most importantly this Lipademea started to show up when I had both of my knee surgeries for torn meniscus within 8 weeks of each other… then the fluid got weird above my knees. Now… no matter how much weight I loose or how much I work out I still have this type of cellular cellulite looking stuff at the back of my legs just above my knees and to the buttocks and it hurts so much to touch. My primary doctors just say it’s a inflammation of the fat cells and there is no cure. I am strict Carnivore for several months and am very healthy otherwise and have started to follow sprinting coaches online for stretching and sprinting preconditioning
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Thank you for this excellent MC series, Professor Bikman! 🙏
Thanks Ben I appreciate your teaching on insulin
Thank you for watching and commenting.
Well, I'm going to disagree with your ending comments about the irrelevance of exercise, or it being for strength only. For me, a big, high meat-protein, high raw-greens dinner may not be "keto", but my 50mile bike ride the next morning with no breakfast gets me deep into ketosis. And then, I continue the fast till dinner (24 hrs total). That is a deep workout, combining diet and exercise, to train a whole bunch of valuable metabolic, fat-burning machinery.
Exercise appears to be irrelevant when it comes to weight reduction, but no way is it a dead-end for improving strength and overall wellness. As I was told years ago on a YMCA course for prospective personal trainers, “Most things that get worse with time, get better with exercise.” So much of what I was taught on that course smells like BS now, but my faith in the value of exercise remains…! 😅
Great content!
you should post the Q&A portion too.
So far so good. I just subscribed. Third year of my paleo journey, low carb diet and activity. I'm 68 years old, down 30 lbs, 2X gym and OMAD. I love my 🍻 every night. I have fluffy belly fat, great metabolic blood work, A1C 5.2, triglycerides 44, plus feel strong, no limitations, no pain, no Rxs.
I'm curious IF you're the messenger I'm seeking. 💪🙏
Whenever you refer to Type 1 diabetics being able to lose weight, it sounds -- um, uninformed, which I know you aren't. Because a Type 1 diabetic not taking insulin will suffer horrible, terrible damage from head to toe over time from glycation and swelling. In the more immediate, term, they will become dehydrated from both enormously high glucose snd high production of acidic ketones. They will start having belly pains and vomiting uncontrollably, and shallow rapid breathing to try and expel the high ketones.
The Type 1 diabetes patient is typically overweight or obese because injected insulin comes with no predictable on or off switch, their energy levels Re usually subpar and they likely have more than one autoimmune condition and are developing a number of complications. So, to partially inform your audience that T1D have some kind of "option" to not take insulin to lower their fat mass -- it is an insane notion, that too many younger people are engaging in foolishly. So, I know you have said it comes with consequences in the past, but you would be wise to always explain the devastating ravages of not being able to produce insulin, and to not be able to have insulin due to affordability, and to be mistaken to believe it is healthy to lose fat by denying insulin. That is crazy that people will receive this message from wherever they hear it and not get the flip side of the tragedy that is about to happen to them. They'll be so much worse off for not taking insulin.
I need to read his book entitled as how not to Get Sick: A Cookbook and guide to Prevent and reverse insulin resistance, Lose Weight, and Fight Chronic Disease. But I don't have any platform to purchase it here in my country Ethiopia. How I could get its PDF form?
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Hello, Dr. Bikman. At 3:47 or so, you mention that, "humans are the only land based mammals that are obese". I was thinking of some examples of other mammals that are obese. Domestic animals, particularly dogs and cats, can become quite obese, either because they are fed human food or they eat crappy high carb pet food. Hibernating mammals (bears, marmots, etc.) also become quite obese in the fall. In addition, one can visit any rural landfill near bear habitat to view obese bears gorging on human garbage any time throughout the year.
So, I think that the occurrence of obesity is possible in other animals as a means of survival and, if available, when they eat crappy human food. 😀
I love your lectures! 👏
Thanks for your kind comment, Klaudia.
For a person with normal metabolic function, what is considered elevated or sufficient insulin for the purposes of storing fat?
thanks Ben - very informative. I need to understand a related issue - how does the lipid enter the muscle cell to be used as fuel? Assume for now you eat zero carbs .. in which case what causes the cell to ingest the hydrocarbon? As i understand it, eating fat does not cause an insulin response .. is it th related food (eg meat protein) that makes insulin go up .. or is it concurrent consumption of some carbs .. or is it a different hormone that opens the door to the cell?
Great information. I was hoping to get some information on lipedema fat also.
Very good lecture thanks
32:19 Thank you!
What is the optimal range of ketones? I once had a 10.
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Thank you Ben.
Thanks for commenting, and for watching.
If one is on a low carb diet and the weight is stable, what happends to insulin when they quit smoking? Why do they gain weight?
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What about a bear before hibernation? I guess they build fat with carbs and insulin but then in hibernation they must go in to ketosis ?
3:11 3:11 3:12 WHYYYYY😢😢😢 MU GLUCOSE MEADURES 5.9 OR SO....BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP..AND JUMPS TO 7.2 AS FASTING GLUCOSE AFTER NOT EATING FOR 10 OR MORE HOURS?. HOWWWW FRUSTRATING
Thanks for your question. You may want to go to our website and ask my team: www.insuliniq.com
Last time I've restricted myself for three months and gained back 80% of fat lost in two weeks of 2MAD eating beef, eggs and chicken. And NO it's not muscle! What is wrong with me. I don't understand how the carnivore ladies including myself gain fat... What I see in common is a period of caloric restriction beforehand and more or less normal weight (24-26 BMI) Smth more than just excess energy and insulin are involved in fat storage.
Thanks for commenting and sharing your story. Many people benefit from becoming part of our Insulin IQ Community. Perhaps you would find value there, through group coaching and like-minded people working on their metabolic health: www.insuliniq.com/insulin-iq-community-membership-signup
@@insuliniq oh i wish... I'm from Russia, no way to pay for it. I would have joined Stake and Butter Gang long ago ( still moving through my carnivore journey alone
Well, stay in touch. Also, there is a free Basic Membership. Check that out.
@@insuliniq Oh, thanks! I didn't notice it the first time)
Ben I' m pretty sure that you realize evolution is a myth
🤔
I'm with you. Evolution has always seemed like an unbelievable fairy tale just to try to escape moral accountability to a perfect creator
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is just that, a theory. It is however the best conjecture we have so far. And who can say what intelligence might have devised evolution, which seems to me a miracle in itself…? 🤔
Professor Bikman, these MC episodes are pure gold for lifetime learners everywhere, especially us anglophones. Any interest in making your material available in, say, Spanish? In any case, since I probably shouldn’t offer you a shiny apple, here’s a steak instead: 🥩 BTW, I love the unpretentious canning jar you use for water.
@@1timbarrett your using theory incorrectly. you and i and other non scientists use theory incorrectly in our everyday ordinary language. however, scientifically "theory" is an explanation. theory is not equivalent to guessing. Theory is not a hypothesis.
Dr. Bikman and Prof. Tim Noakes are my two go-tos for unbiased, cutting edge metabolic science.
Thanks for your comment. You’re kind.
I'm very much looking forward to the next episode which will show the mechanisms of where fat is stored.
Thanks.
Hahahaha…. I store fat every where including top of my bald head and all over my face and the rest of the body including hands and arms. Worst is the torso including the pits. Been working hard at getting rid of this life robing garbage (4years). Already 70 so only have a short time to get stuff done.
Bikman some corrections, LPL on fat cells is active during periods of eating & postprandial period (mainly absorb TG from Chylomicrons from the intestine; ONLY chylomicron remnants gets absorbed by the liver. LPL on muscles is active during fasting which allows to take TG from VLDL(secreted from the liver).
Best content on youtube period, am sure am not the only one feeling that way.
Humans being overweight is a modern phenomenon. There is no way that Palaeolthic humans could ever afford to carry too much weight. Satiation is a balance whereby even in times of abundance we ought not get too fat to run. In antropology all "pristine" cultures had an absence of obesity. Masai consume blood, beef and milk with no greens; heart disease, objecity and diabetes were unknown to them until they urbanised and ate the Modern Diet. Even Innuit do not carry more wieght than is practical for living. Obesity is more likely to be a response to agriculure that we are not yet adapted to cope with. Starches and sugars are storage generating substances. In the last few thousand years what small adaptivity we might have gained in that time, has been lost to food processing and food designed to encourage more eating.
Ben you are simply AMAZING for sharing all your wisdom and knowledge for absolutely free online.
Thank you so much.
New come back. If someone thinks my stomach is still big, I'll tell them I'm fermenting stuff in my stomach.
I really like the way these lectures are organized with the summary at the end that pulls it all together and reinforces the central ideas. Thank you.
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Such a helpful thing, and one that not many teachers on here are doing.
This could not have been posted at a better time. I just had a dexa scan done yesterday and while my numbers were good, they can be improved, in my opinion. Hoping to learn some ideas on tipping the numbers in the right direction. Always great info. Thank you
Thanks for watching. Glad it helped you.
If insulin receptors are once downregulated then can they be normalized again?
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Who is this guy??? And where has he been all my life 😂
Fantastic class!! Thank you professor👍
Very interesting. If you post every day Utube will expose you to more viewers.
Amazing lecture ! So do you think ketosis ability to convert fat into metabolically more active form is due to ketosis itself or does to low insulin levels? As you said in one earlier lecture how high insulin stimulates hypertrophy of fat cells, could we assume that lack of insulin itself changes morphology of fat cells even in isocaloric diet, assuming that person did not change the total amount of fat?
Спасибо, профессор.
Diet, Metformin & insulin have historically been my only treatments for T2D. Because of your teaching on Metformin, I gave that up. I keep my carbs below 10 grams/day but my blood glucose still goes up to 150 for several hours during the day -- I'm guessing because I can't sleep much. I wish I knew how high to let my blood glucose go before I have to shoot insulin. I know that excess insulin is bad for me, but so is high blood glucose.
Have you come across you tube channel ‘Pottengers Human’. His talks are on fasting to reverse many conditions including T2D. Dr Bikman also talks of fasting. Have you considered this as an option. Regards
Thanks for your comment, and sharing your experience. Because your specifics are fairly complex, you may want to consider doing an online consultation with our Medical Metabolic Health Director, Lindsay Venn. You can learn more about doing that here: www.insuliniq.com/medical-consultations
@@Tee667 I have done 24 to 72 hour fasts -- I loose a few pounds but my blood glucose levels are still 135 - 150 during the day
@@insuliniq Thank you, I will seriously consider it 👍
Doc, thanks for all you do on helping others understand the journey of fat loss. I was wondering if anyone could provide some advise. I'm 8 months into ketovore (around 10 carbs a day) with 18 to 21 hours none eating and 3 to 6 hour eating window. On start i was 6'2" tall weighing 270 lbs now down to 188lbs. BMI still measures outside the metabolic healthy range due to belly fat. I was not a muscular man when i was heavy. All my weight was mostly fat. Now I'm skinny fat as they say. The fat is on my lower belly and sides. Should i now only eat when my body says it is hungry or should i increase meals? Should i try to stay in ketosis for longer periods of time? Dont know how to proceed to get this belly fat to burn off without getting really hungry.
I would like to know about caloric deficit. Everyone keeps telling me that I need to count calories. I am following a ketogenic diet and was under the impression that while in ketosis we aren’t producing insulin and that excess energy is excreted as ketones and not stored? Is this the case or is there a limit to how much fat we can consume before it starts getting stored. Can fat be stored without the presence of insulin?
I would like to know about caloric deficit. Everyone keeps telling me that I need to count calories. I am following a ketogenic diet and was under the impression that while in ketosis we aren’t producing insulin and that excess energy is excreted as ketones and not stored? Is this the case or is there a limit to how much fat we can consume before it starts getting stored. Can fat be stored without the presence of insulin?
I have low fasting insulin 6 . But my blood sugar never drops below 100 and I have visceral fat. Why?
How much protein consumed gets converted into glucose from gluconeogenesis?
Been waiting for this one.👍👍👍👍👍😁 If we drive glucose lower by taking Berberine or Metformin will that lower insulin or will it only lower glucose levels. I am in the UK so my readings may seem strange to some. However my fasting glucose hovers around 4.8 to 5 mmol and after a 25 mile hike they are 3.9:with ketones at about 6. Would this regime drop my insulin faster?
Thanks! I hope it is helpful for you.
Dr. Bickman, As a biomedical research engineer and a recovering obese person having lost over 170 pounds, I am now at a normal BMI thanks to yours and other's metabolic health information. Suffice to say now that I have burned all those pounds of Lipid fat out of my body can you please speak to the condition of my relatively empty fat cells now. It is my understanding that fat cells are immortal and they will still be with me forever and yes ready to swell again should I "fall off the wagon" so to speak. What signals are these empty fat cells sending to my body.
Hi Nancy. You may want to watch this coming week’s classroom episode entitled “Aging, and the Life of Fat”. It may help answer some of your questions.
@insuliniq Excellent! Looking forward to it.
Cats can get fat too lol
Great thumbnail! And a great new episode! Keep up the excellent work!
Thanks a ton!
Greetings from Idaho. I really love your videos and the work you do for humanity to thrive.
Thank you!
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Thank YOU! I am absolutely loving this series. I would like to ask you about the role of Stearic Acid (C:18) and it's affect on mitochondrial function? I will be looking forward to your future installment with regards to coupling and uncoupling. I have read there have been some studies done on Stearic acid and it's impact on those who have Alzheimer's. As a veteran with multiple TBI's these topics are super important to me. Right now I am following a Carnivore/Ketovore diet plan working on getting quality fats in my diet daily. Anyway, THANK YOU!!!
Wow! Extraordinary! I personally liked it a lot! Articulate, high level vocabulary and still easy to understand! I liked how you mentioned about fat cells experimenting in your lab! So very interesting! Thank you!
Thanks for watching, and for your kind comment. I appreciate it.
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Fascinating information. Much appreciated.
Dr Bikman, you don't believe the government or scientists about dietary guidelines, so why do you believe them about how life happened? They're just guessing on that too, at best. Considering what is known about the human body now, they're DEFINITELY lying about dietary needs for best health longest life.
You are The Metabolic Professor! Sorry to be off topic, but Mercola is at it again. See his recent article about Understanding the Randle Cycle. Would appreciate some clarification on how this all fits together. Perhaps a unified theory?
I don’t presume at all to know more than you - but I did hear a Levels podcast about how muscle acts as a glucose sink, in that it pulls glucose out of the bloodstream thereby reducing insulin. Therefore, wouldn’t exercise and muscle mass be protective against high insulin?
Prof., please explain to me how come when young adults develop diabetes type one even when they are massive people with good storages of fat and muscle. Once they start taking insulin and eating more or less the same diet without all the sugar when they get older, they lose the ability to put on weight, even though they keep eating. What to say about lean people whose fat sells cannot get enough signally to gain weight, but they may be fat on the inside and thin on the outside.
Thanks for you time and efforts. Excellent presentation.
Please stop touching your face………
Wow I’m not a scientist, but Ben is so clear and makes it easier to understand thanks
Not gonna lie. Its hard to give you a pass for saying "Orangatangs"
Phenomenal!
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Dr Ben, my fasting insulin was 22.2 and ha1c was 5.3, glucose was 109. How horrible is that fasting insulin level? I know it's out of range, but am i pre diabetic? Why is ha1c normal?
Thanks for your questions. You may want to go to my website and ask my team: www.insuliniq.com
Stanford dr.said their study found ketosis was almost impossible to achieve because their subjects couldn’t get enough fat in their diet to produce ample ketones.so how can we know definitively that we are in fact in ketosis?
@garycox6169 ketines can be detected with ketone urine strip's or ketone blood sticks that are used in an appropriate glucose meter. I'm on a carnivore diet and I am constantly in ketosis. If I fast my ketines sky rocket, so I don't understand how they could not measure them.
I feel like i am back to University . I am taking down notes! Thank you for this priceless lectures. my first class.
Thanks for being here, Victoria.
Where is BROWN fat stored/located in the adult body?🔬
I believe it is between the shoulder blades. In and around that area.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge ❤
Thanks for watching and for your kind comment.
I was born with skin tags all over my body - nearly 100 up and down both arms, under my armpits, and on the back of my neck. And I have struggled with my weight, pretty severe hypoglycemia, and a series of random health issues that doctors can't seem to figure out the cause of. With this in mind, can babies be born with insulin resistance?
And can reactive hypoglycemia be caused by insulin resistance?
Start Carnivore lifestyle add iodine (watch Dr David Brownstein ) and watch the skin tags fall off daily after approximately a month.
Thanks, Robin, for your questions. You may want to go to our website and ask my team: www.insuliniq.com
Thank you for this. I have subscribed!!
You mentioned that fat storage can only happen with sufficient energy and insulin. I understand that fructose can also contribute to fat accumulation, without triggering insulin, but rather through a low energy state created by uric acid. Will you be discussing that topic in future episodes?
Thank you!
Thanks. Yes, we will be.
@@insuliniq Excellent! Your presentations have affected me in the same way that reading biology texts - I have to set the books down and shake my head at the amazing complication of our bodies.
I wonder what’s happening when someone goes carnivore and their brain isn’t thriving on fat?
It takes a while to get “Fat Adaptive” so the body and brain can learn to use more fat effectively
So that can be a lot longer than several months?
Thank you, Dr Bickman. I sso appreciate your teaching! Learning how to come back to the healthy body I am meant for.
Question, let's say that you are eating in a way to have an acceptable A1C for a few weeks but then you have a few very bad high sugar intake/high blood glucose days. How will those few days affect your A1c over a 3 month period? In my case, it seems that a few very bad days over a three month period tend to cause a high A1C reading even though when I eat in a way to cause my blood sugar to be normal/good as being shown when I test my blood sugar via strips my pancreas and cells seem to be working properly.
Be a test study of One and test yourself!
Thanks for sharing your story. Many people benefit from becoming part of our Insulin IQ Community. Perhaps you would find value there, through group coaching and like-minded people working on their metabolic health: www.insuliniq.com/insulin-iq-community-membership-signup
Dont understand peoples obsession with this guy...he never answers any questions...pushing membership only
Your totally wrong about working out it is your workout that creates the need for burning and then muscle continues to burn calories and then fat . Your way off on the science of working out and it affect on muscle and fat loss
Professor Bikman, some time could you speak on the seriousness of being diagnosed with pre diabetes? It's rarely mentioned and I don't think people that have been diagnosed with it understand it.
Thanks. Great suggestion, to talk more about that specifically.