As an non believer i must say this presentation is utterly amazing. Dr Bikman is very very clear about the truth of methabolic sindrome and modern life style excesses. This presentation is one of the most lucid speech about this epidemic.
Tick Tox when I read this comment for the first time I was only 10 minutes in so I was confused. Now after having seen the whole thing it’s more clear what he meant 😂. And I didn’t know it was mormon faith, thanks for clearing that up
Agreed! 🙂 In my experience, the same application of study in the spiritual has afforded me the same clarity as this talk on the physical. I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the continuation of Christs church in our day. As grateful as I am for the brilliant information in this talk, I am eternally grateful for my testimony through study and prayer. If you still aren’t a member, I encourage you to visit the church website and invite some missionaries to come study with you. I promise that you will find that information as compelling as the info presented in this talk. 3 years since your comment, hopefully you see this. Best to you and yours. 🙂🙏🏼
I had growing ldl cholesterol levels as I went through menopause and my doctor wanted me to go on a statin. I had followed several medical professionals about our rush to do so. Dispite my efforts to drop weight and my cholesterol... I was not able to do so. I asked my doctor what we could do to prove I was at risk of heart disease ... she had me get a coronary calcium score (ct scan) to see buildup in my arteries. My score was 0. I continue to eat a Mediterranean type diet, exercise daily and manage stress. This talk is awesome....needs to get out into our society.
This man is amazing. I am a phisician and i totaly submit to is view of insulin as the root of most "chronic" disease. Just wish i had a professor like him when i was in college, istead of the AHA guidelines and so forth. I really hope his and other great researchers in this field gets known and we can see a change in the dogmatic ideas the general public and the medical community have about nutrition and disease. As always, fantastic talk, straight to the point, simple way of conveying complex ideas, a master at his craft.
There is hope in the medical field. Thank you for expanding from the traditional dogma. I drive and hour and a half each way to see a MD that understands. I live in a HUGE city but drive to a small town to see Dr. Mabry.
What an exquisitely constructed talk. Exceptionally profound and almost anti dogmatic. To truly grasp the magnitude of concepts here one must be open minded and have focus and clarity of thought. I have watched hundreds of videos on the same subject. This is by far the best. As a 35+ years type 1 diabetic and nutritional scientist, well done for such as great speech.
As a physician, I absolutely see the I’ll effects of insulin resistance daily in my practice. This talk should be required viewing for everyone over the age of 12. Thank you Dr. Birman.
I wish this were mainstream practice. I have had this same experience and I am reversed as a result of diet changes and understanding what was happening to me. I feel very lucky to have been awakened to the dangers of sugar and spiked insulin. Great explanation of the topic. Thanks!!!
I'm sick & this has been the most enlightening speech of my concerns & wisdom I have ever heard. I have heard & seen you sir on many occasions as I try to fix & research my problems with diabetes. Also myself a Christian as yourself know the greatest physician is our Lord. I need help, located in Corpus Christi Texas searching for a Dr that knows exactly what you present. Thank you very much from my heart to yours, God bless you !
Dr Ben is simply truly amazing.He must be awarded a Nobel laurette for this fascinating presentation. A complete shift from the conventional nonsense and dogma pushed on us for over 50 years.Doc , in your field, you are the best of the very best.God bless you.
Human nature is against us: tell any highly educated and experienced professional that what he's been regurgitating for decades is wrong. How would you feel if someone told you that your own emperor had no clothes?
Doctors know how diabetes works. And doctors get a lot of criticism for not just prescribing better diet and exercise, but people come in expecting a quick fix. They don’t want to pay money to be told to do what they already know they should be doing.
“Data, not dogma” should inform our decisions. Never has this simple advice been more relevant to those of us who are resistant to opposing views. Brilliant talk.
I love listening to these speeches; they inspire me spiritually and cognitively, as well as help me prepare to attend college and go on a full time mission. I'm glad this speaker helped increase my knowledge on this subject as well, as I am interested in how to help keep my body healthy
The way man has altered our foods with all kinds of processing, insecticides and other things have changed our ability to live the word of wisdom effectively.
This is a wonderful message on how we can improve our body and our soul for our journey in mortality and on by wise study and application of things we learn. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I’ve been eating a Keto diet for 6/7 months. Amazingly I’ve had few migraines. I was tempted by sugary treats over Christmas + had migraine on and off for 3/4 days. I started Keto to reduce weight, but having no migraine is amazing, it’s Keto for good health for me!
Fantastic message. I strongly think that this message on insulin resistance is tied at the hip to addiction; and the combination of the two is killing us physically, emotionally, socially and even spiritually.
I have had T2 for at least 10 years and my kaiser doctor never had the idea of of this until tis year, my first exposure was with dr. K Bectman and later on througt this person. I had a stroke about 18 months ago and this was caused by T2 and also my evesight and fat. Now i dont have T2 , the stroke had knock a part of my brain and my right side was affected. Now i can say i am getting movement back. My sight and mind are coming but not yet there. I thank my recovery to the doctors and sctentist who brought this to my awareness.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Thank you, thank you, thank you! It’s crazy that I know so many people with T2D that don’t understand these basic principles. Thank you for your clear message. Keep on keeping on!
@@joanmerrell5212 Well, not for me...i had to use more and more insulin when i was a vegatarian. I did not gain weight but did not lose it eighter. No body is the same and everyone should find out for themselves what the best diet is. For me that means: more animal fats / meat / fish / chicken and so on and very few carbohydrates.
@@joanmerrell5212 Sorry Joan - but a plant food diet is so nutritionally incomplete when you compare it to a high protein meat based diet - in my opinion which well forumulated studies prove out time and time again.
This is an amazing presentation! I’m still not done listening and I Have already forwarded it to several important people in my life. It Also is important to me. Wow, this message needs to get out
I've been studying this kind of research information since I became a type1 diabetic and your research is top, right on the mark, information! Many, close to healing this disease, research programs have been taken out of view!? Truly eating foods from off the earth out of my garden and other's natural farming I'm living life with health and strength.
So much of this speech is fascinating and pertinent and rings true to me. I'm glad D. Bikman opens this important discussion of how to treat our bodies. However, I'm wary of those who say we shouldn't take the word of wisdom (scripture) literally or delve further than the short list. Why did God reveal those verses if not for us to apply them? Just because some view them as vague doesn't mean they're void of importance. Dr. Bikman wisely encourages us to find out for ourselves and not just believe him, but he only says to search in scientific articles and use our own judgement and experimentation. While those aspects are very important and part of my searches for truth, I expect a BYU professor and fellow member of the church to also encourage learning by study AND faith. Especially in terms of health, it would be foolish to not turn to the Creator of the human body and to only rely on the arm of flesh to tell us how to eat. Right now there are very conflicting scientific findings on this subject of macronutrients, and its rather impossible to know which of all the theories is correct without turning to God. I feel that the doctrine of the gospel is to let answers from God dictate our decisions, not only data, which is often flawed as we later find out. The dietary advice in this speech is not the main concern for me, but the admonition that we should ignore the details of scripture and that we should find answers in science alone. We should use science and must be learned. However, my heart tells me to cling to the wisdom of God more than the wisdom of men, and find answers to this great debate not on Google Scholar or PubMed but mainly in gospel study and personal revelation.
I would humbly suggest the science is clear. It is humans that are conflicted driven by pre-conceived notions and dogma... and why he made a point of learning to read scientific papers with no pre conceived ideas. The (scientific) truth has always been there.
Your faith is admirable. In this case, I would liken turning to the Lord for dietary advice (when there is a wealth of scientific literature on the topic) to being unwell and relying solely on prayer and not availing ourselves of modern medicine practices such as antibiotics, blood transfusions, and other treatments. He has given us the ability to reason and discover. For philosophical questions such as the nature of suffering and the basis of morality, divine inquiry is a perfectly legitimate method. However, for matters of physical practicality such as building a rocket, formulating a chemical compound, or fueling the human body, it only stands to reason that the beauty of the scientific model can help us to find the answers for ourselves. After all, every good parent and/or teacher strives to build a child/student who diligently finds the answer on his/her own, rather than simply being told what to do.
You must have listened to a different talk than I did, because he never told us to "ignore the details of scripture and that we should find answers in science alone."
Great talk from one of my new favorite experts. Not so sure about the title. Poor people increasingly wind up eating a lot of junk carbs throughout the world.
Just had my 90 year old rural neighbor over last night. She said they only ate what they grew or raised growing up and nothing else. Think about how prosperous even the poorest person with access to commercial industrial farming is. Our global productivity has us drowning in carbs, with little cost or effort. Consider how long you'd have to work to grow wheat to net a barrel of flour. Now it costs a couple bucks, the equivalent of just a days labour even at the poorest level globally. Let that sink in. What used to take months of labor can now buy the same amount of flour in seconds, minutes, or at the absolute "poverty" level, take a day or two. Yes, we are much more prosperous than the vast majority of every human who ever walked the Earth for tens of thousands of years.
@@christianwilliams6499 All well and good except the grain that yeilds the flour we now consume has been so bastardized it's not in anyway like the grains that our ancestors grew, ground and ate -- It's pure garbage. IT IS however true that people who suffer economically and cannot afford good food & fall prey to eating the processed JUNK - seed oils and all (you know, the most affordable "food". Read Dr. Robert Lustig's book, "Metabolical" - perhaps you will have a clearer understanding of what is done to our food and how it is produced.
The visual of heart tissue thickening and therefore needing to work harder under conditions of continuous high insulin/ high blood sugar is just the visual I needed to get my sugar intake down under the accepted 6 teaspoons per day for female. I already can easily eat low carb during the day but that after dinner dessert was the last domino that needed to go down. Thank you.
I just hope more and more people get the message. It took me 68 years to have the truth hit me in form of T2 Diabetes. I am fortunate to be "forever" curious about natural methods of healing, and alternatives to prescription drugs. I found Keto on TH-cam, and I found Dr. Bickman (my fave) and others that are good as well. I trust Dr. Bickman's research better than anyone's, thanks Dr. Bikman
Although we may be relatively prosperous it is quite obvious in the UK that diseases related to insulin resistance are more common in the relatively poor . Low incomes will inevitably be spent on foods that will cause insulin resistance. Often the poor are criticised for not ' cooking from scratch ' but fuel poverty is also an issue . It has been for a generation and that is before the present fuel cost crisis !
So true - you have such a good point here!!!!! Our poor are overworked, underpaid, and just too tired to either care or have energy to get home to cook a well balanced meal thus perpetuating the low energy cycle with increasing poor health. So sad. So sad. So sad. Education is what they need along with food stamps for our poor.
In our family we understand the Word of Wisdom to describe a low-glycemic diet, with seasons when we eat fewer vegetables and more meats. We don't do our "cold/famine" high-meat seasons only in the actual winter or dry season, but we've developed a looser cycle that's still influenced by the actual seasons and seems to work.
This is wonderful. Thank you for providing and sharing this highly valuable information and for giving it the title provided! I hope it reaches far and wide and helps MANY! Praying others will be ready to hear and receive this as well.
I have been trying very hard to get doctors to check mine and my daughters insulin levels and all I get back is we don’t do that I have totally lost faith in the medical field and now we struggle to find your own paths. How do we get doctors to listen to us and then a day and age for doctors interview us to see if they want us as a patient I should say client. I have thoroughly enjoyed this
I ordered my own fasting insulin test through Ultalabs. Insulin plus fasting glucose (you need both) cost around $50. They contract with local blood withdrawal places; Quest Diagnostics’s in my area. Or, you can order your own through Quest. You can look up “ The Blood Code” online to see how to calculate your HOMA Index from fasting insulin and glucose. Most doctors don’t have a clue about insulin.
Knowing what I know about heart disease, diabetes, and cancer based on my parents' health issues, I have decided that the Word of Wisdom is where the truth is, and it is time for me to start living it. I've eliminated all animal products, and I eat a high protein plant-based diet with no processed foods, very little refined sugar, and no oil. My own health issues have improved significantly, and I've lost weight. I'm pretty sure our heart surgeon prophet follows the WOW, too.
Dr. Bikman makes it clear there is no stipulated WOW diet. Yet, we can decern from the WOW that we can survive and live on meat [in times of cold or famine]. That meats are given to us to use. Of course, a more seasonal way of eating is ideal, as omnivores some of us need to eat like it's the dead of winter for awhile in order to burn off those unnaturally accumulated fat reserves we've amassed. I really like the tail end of this talk and find it applicable. It's cued up to the right spot. th-cam.com/video/Jd8QFD5Ht18/w-d-xo.html
That was so beautiful, and I am not even a Mormon. I am so glad that they got the message. I can imagine that Mormons are or will be ahead of the curve on this one.
I would be cautious about going so far as to say that they "got the message". Look at many of the comments in this thread. Benjamin's talk was very carefully worded and specifically targeted to his audience because his ideas can be considered radical as compared to conventional doctrinal thinking.
I'm guessing TH-cam will eventually have automatic audio translation in the same voice of the speaker eventually... I've already seen or heard of AI demos doing this. Once it's viable I don't see what it won't be implemented everywhere.
"Many so-called experts give advice for the body-without thought for the spirit. Anyone who accepts direction contrary to the Word of Wisdom, for example, forsakes a law revealed to bring both physical and spiritual blessings." - Russell M. Nelson
Dr Bikman is Peerless and this speech is a tour d force and vital to the health of the world’s populace. Please Listen and save your life and share with all in your circle , friends and family.
This video and his book saved my life. Thanks to him I was able to ask my doctor for a fasting insulin test and bingo, it was high. I was pre diabetic and had many health problems. Fast forward 10 months later, my insulin is under 5 and I’m feeling a lot better. Doctors should read his book and apply what it teaches. Thank you dr Bikman.
Copisetic 1 - full stop. Eggs are healthier than MCT oil in every conceivable way. MCT is purely energy it has no nutrition. Dr Bickman himself says that drinking oils is a bizarre way to eat.
Dr. Bikman is medically correct but Biblically off the path imo of course. It is possible to like and agree with a scholar on one aspect of their knowledge and disagree spiritually… discernment is key. Myself being Ketovore, my health is restored and very thankful to people like Dr. Bikman.
This is by far the best information for the Human race today. It was broken out in simplicity. Lower carbs to reduce insulin. For some with diabetic issues (quite a lot of us), we need to go fairly low. Get ad reasonable amounts of protein. fill the rest with fat. Does it get any simpler? Do you the medical field and Doctors will get this??? Have you Doctors see this video! Thanks so much for the clarity.
I don’t have the original reference but I have read that Cache County Utah at one time was the most healthy county in the country. My belief is that something went wrong when tradition was abandoned.
Wow! Excellent presentation! Life-altering, Life Enhancing, Life extending! Thank you so much! Suggestion? Can someone in Behavioral Health Science follow up and give a speech on how to make the psychological and behavioral changes needed to implement this incredible new insight? Addiction to sugar & quick carbs can be so difficult to break. Add to that, emotional eating and food-as-reward, and you have a set up for repeating failure. For some, like me... its not knowing what to eat, but how to survive the transition, what to replace it with, and implementing it over the long haul. (Or, am I the only one?) 🤔
I found the answer for me, I started OMAD (One Meal A Day) with cutting carbs, so no bread, sugar, and most veggies. Then I really started increasing good fat and meat. I lost 20 lbs rather quickly and I lost the cravings that were keeping me eating all waking hours! Plus, I never count calories per se. I focus on how much protein and fat. I'm now eating 1/3 of what I used to. Just a thought.
As an non believer i must say this presentation is utterly amazing. Dr Bikman is very very clear about the truth of methabolic sindrome and modern life style excesses. This presentation is one of the most lucid speech about this epidemic.
I believe it, only because I've seen it and live it.
@@emh8861 Pretty sure he meant non-believer of the Mormon faith not metabolic syndrome.
Tick Tox when I read this comment for the first time I was only 10 minutes in so I was confused. Now after having seen the whole thing it’s more clear what he meant 😂. And I didn’t know it was mormon faith, thanks for clearing that up
Agreed! 🙂 In my experience, the same application of study in the spiritual has afforded me the same clarity as this talk on the physical. I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the continuation of Christs church in our day. As grateful as I am for the brilliant information in this talk, I am eternally grateful for my testimony through study and prayer. If you still aren’t a member, I encourage you to visit the church website and invite some missionaries to come study with you. I promise that you will find that information as compelling as the info presented in this talk. 3 years since your comment, hopefully you see this. Best to you and yours. 🙂🙏🏼
We are all in various stages of "unbelief"
I had growing ldl cholesterol levels as I went through menopause and my doctor wanted me to go on a statin. I had followed several medical professionals about our rush to do so. Dispite my efforts to drop weight and my cholesterol... I was not able to do so. I asked my doctor what we could do to prove I was at risk of heart disease ... she had me get a coronary calcium score (ct scan) to see buildup in my arteries. My score was 0. I continue to eat a Mediterranean type diet, exercise daily and manage stress. This talk is awesome....needs to get out into our society.
This man is amazing. I am a phisician and i totaly submit to is view of insulin as the root of most "chronic" disease.
Just wish i had a professor like him when i was in college, istead of the AHA guidelines and so forth.
I really hope his and other great researchers in this field gets known and we can see a change in the dogmatic ideas the general public and the medical community have about nutrition and disease.
As always, fantastic talk, straight to the point, simple way of conveying complex ideas, a master at his craft.
There is hope in the medical field. Thank you for expanding from the traditional dogma. I drive and hour and a half each way to see a MD that understands. I live in a HUGE city but drive to a small town to see Dr. Mabry.
I wish I had a doctor like you.
Where are you located if I may ask? Your name suggests you may be in portugal
I went to BYU but he wasn't there yet. ☹️
Can you imagine how many patients physicians are slowly killing with ignorance?
What an exquisitely constructed talk. Exceptionally profound and almost anti dogmatic. To truly grasp the magnitude of concepts here one must be open minded and have focus and clarity of thought.
I have watched hundreds of videos on the same subject. This is by far the best.
As a 35+ years type 1 diabetic and nutritional scientist, well done for such as great speech.
I've never agreed with a TH-cam comment so completely...
The style is modeled after a lds general conference.
Faith is not blind belief or dogma, rather its trust.
@@David_Brinkerhoff93 well he is a professor at BYU, so it's logical he would be asked to speak at a LDS conference.
As a physician, I absolutely see the I’ll effects of insulin resistance daily in my practice. This talk should be required viewing for everyone over the age of 12. Thank you Dr. Birman.
I wish this were mainstream practice. I have had this same experience and I am reversed as a result of diet changes and understanding what was happening to me. I feel very lucky to have been awakened to the dangers of sugar and spiked insulin.
Great explanation of the topic.
Thanks!!!
Way to go!
Profoundly objective truth of a perennial disposition. As a ketogenic lifestyle practicing Zen Buddhist, I applaud you Dr. Bikman and BYU.
I'm sick & this has been the most enlightening speech of my concerns & wisdom I have ever heard. I have heard & seen you sir on many occasions as I try to fix & research my problems with diabetes. Also myself a Christian as yourself know the greatest physician is our Lord. I need help, located in Corpus Christi Texas searching for a Dr that knows exactly what you present. Thank you very much from my heart to yours, God bless you !
@janis duncan You may have luck if you look for a functional physician. They typically have this same approach. Best of luck to you.
Dr Ben is simply truly amazing.He must be awarded a Nobel laurette for this fascinating presentation. A complete shift from the conventional nonsense and dogma pushed on us for over 50 years.Doc , in your field, you are the best of the very best.God bless you.
Have every Doctor you can watch this .They should understand this insulin/carb dynamic. People are dying!
Human nature is against us: tell any highly educated and experienced professional that what he's been regurgitating for decades is wrong. How would you feel if someone told you that your own emperor had no clothes?
Russell Bateman If I could save people’s lives I’d welcome it as they should.
and every diabetic!
Doctors know how diabetes works. And doctors get a lot of criticism for not just prescribing better diet and exercise, but people come in expecting a quick fix. They don’t want to pay money to be told to do what they already know they should be doing.
Beautiful 🙏🙏🙏
Not the talk I was expecting. But incredibly the talk I have been waiting for.
“Data, not dogma” should inform our decisions. Never has this simple advice been more relevant to those of us who are resistant to opposing views. Brilliant talk.
Yes we also should understand the difference between dogma and faith. Dogma is a blind belief where faith is an enduring trust.
BB it is a Rock Star in the world of the Insulin and mitochondria.- thank you for your lectures
I love listening to these speeches; they inspire me spiritually and cognitively, as well as help me prepare to attend college and go on a full time mission. I'm glad this speaker helped increase my knowledge on this subject as well, as I am interested in how to help keep my body healthy
This is perhaps the most relevant, most urgent practical talk I’ve ever heard in this series. I am rewatching and sharing this!
Glad you enjoyed it, Dan!
The way man has altered our foods with all kinds of processing, insecticides and other things have changed our ability to live the word of wisdom effectively.
If only this video were required viewing by general practitioners many lives saved and much suffering avoided.
Been following Ben for over a decade and applied in my own life about 3 years ago. Keep preaching the truth
I am a family physician and I agree 100% with his view about the rood of most chronic diseases.
One of my favourite research Professors! Thank you for giving this vital truth a platform x
Simply amazing. I assume the 57 people who gave a thumbs down are sitting in front of their TV plowing down sodas, chips and chocolates.
67 now. All employed by Big Sugar lol
@@SnapographyAP Two people removed their thumbs down. Interesting.
artincorona possibly vegans opposed to meat would find his conclusions objectionable.
There are also regular ex-members that habitually thumbs down anything related to the church instantly without listening.
Dr. Bikman is a ray of light.
This is a wonderful message on how we can improve our body and our soul for our journey in mortality and on by wise study and application of things we learn. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Anything with Dr. Bikman is going to be extremely valuable information.
Dr Bikman is a wonderful caring researcher! I thank him for all he has done and is doing to help people life healthy vibrant lives!
I’ve been eating a Keto diet for 6/7 months. Amazingly I’ve had few migraines. I was tempted by sugary treats over Christmas + had migraine on and off for 3/4 days. I started Keto to reduce weight, but having no migraine is amazing, it’s Keto for good health for me!
Well done 👏
I would like your books available. Is there a link for the purchasing process?
Fantastic message. I strongly think that this message on insulin resistance is tied at the hip to addiction; and the combination of the two is killing us physically, emotionally, socially and even spiritually.
Cannot like this enough, share it whenever I think about it.
"Hunger usually wins." Thanks for the reminder.
I have had T2 for at least 10 years and my kaiser doctor never had the idea of of this until tis year, my first exposure was with dr. K Bectman and later on througt this person. I had a stroke about 18 months ago and this was caused by T2 and also my evesight and fat. Now i dont have T2 , the stroke had knock a part of my brain and my right side was affected. Now i can say i am getting movement back. My sight and mind are coming but not yet there. I thank my recovery to the doctors and sctentist who brought this to my awareness.
Way to go Ben, couldn’t agree more man!! Hope all things are well with you and your family!!!
So grateful for your presentation. I’m so thankful for the body God blessed me with. I will treat it better.
The most beautiful and most powerful presentation I have ever heard. Wow!
This should be on mainstream TV channels!!!!
Wow, profound doesn't describe this speech! Eat well guys😊
Jason Fung is my favorite. This guy is great.
Hear Hear Sir !! What an amazing speech with so much truth. Needed to hear this
Our bodies are tied to our spiritual side. This forum address was exceptional.
Keep up the great work Benjamin and your team. Great talk
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Thank you, thank you, thank you! It’s crazy that I know so many people with T2D that don’t understand these basic principles. Thank you for your clear message. Keep on keeping on!
And yet eating whole food plant based diet has repeatedly been shown to relieve type 2 diabetes completely.
@@joanmerrell5212
Well, not for me...i had to use more and more insulin when i was a vegatarian. I did not gain weight but did not lose it eighter.
No body is the same and everyone should find out for themselves what the best diet is.
For me that means: more animal fats / meat / fish / chicken and so on and very few carbohydrates.
@@joanmerrell5212 Sorry Joan - but a plant food diet is so nutritionally incomplete when you compare it to a high protein meat based diet - in my opinion which well forumulated studies prove out time and time again.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!
This is an amazing presentation! I’m still not done listening and I Have already forwarded it to several important people in my life. It Also is important to me. Wow, this message needs to get out
This is so so amazing. Thank you BYU and Dr Bikman
Love this splendid talk.....l shall listen again....to learn ...then implement ......💕🇬🇧
I've been studying this kind of research information since I became a type1 diabetic and your research is top, right on the mark, information! Many, close to healing this disease, research programs have been taken out of view!? Truly eating foods from off the earth out of my garden and other's natural farming I'm living life with health and strength.
So much of this speech is fascinating and pertinent and rings true to me. I'm glad D. Bikman opens this important discussion of how to treat our bodies. However, I'm wary of those who say we shouldn't take the word of wisdom (scripture) literally or delve further than the short list. Why did God reveal those verses if not for us to apply them? Just because some view them as vague doesn't mean they're void of importance.
Dr. Bikman wisely encourages us to find out for ourselves and not just believe him, but he only says to search in scientific articles and use our own judgement and experimentation. While those aspects are very important and part of my searches for truth, I expect a BYU professor and fellow member of the church to also encourage learning by study AND faith. Especially in terms of health, it would be foolish to not turn to the Creator of the human body and to only rely on the arm of flesh to tell us how to eat. Right now there are very conflicting scientific findings on this subject of macronutrients, and its rather impossible to know which of all the theories is correct without turning to God. I feel that the doctrine of the gospel is to let answers from God dictate our decisions, not only data, which is often flawed as we later find out. The dietary advice in this speech is not the main concern for me, but the admonition that we should ignore the details of scripture and that we should find answers in science alone. We should use science and must be learned. However, my heart tells me to cling to the wisdom of God more than the wisdom of men, and find answers to this great debate not on Google Scholar or PubMed but mainly in gospel study and personal revelation.
In modern terms the Word of Wisdom describes a low-glycemic diet with intermittent fasting. This is pretty close to what Bikman is describing.
I would humbly suggest the science is clear. It is humans that are conflicted driven by pre-conceived notions and dogma... and why he made a point of learning to read scientific papers with no pre conceived ideas. The (scientific) truth has always been there.
Your faith is admirable. In this case, I would liken turning to the Lord for dietary advice (when there is a wealth of scientific literature on the topic) to being unwell and relying solely on prayer and not availing ourselves of modern medicine practices such as antibiotics, blood transfusions, and other treatments. He has given us the ability to reason and discover. For philosophical questions such as the nature of suffering and the basis of morality, divine inquiry is a perfectly legitimate method. However, for matters of physical practicality such as building a rocket, formulating a chemical compound, or fueling the human body, it only stands to reason that the beauty of the scientific model can help us to find the answers for ourselves. After all, every good parent and/or teacher strives to build a child/student who diligently finds the answer on his/her own, rather than simply being told what to do.
You must have listened to a different talk than I did, because he never told us to "ignore the details of scripture and that we should find answers in science alone."
Great talk from one of my new favorite experts. Not so sure about the title. Poor people increasingly wind up eating a lot of junk carbs throughout the world.
Just had my 90 year old rural neighbor over last night. She said they only ate what they grew or raised growing up and nothing else. Think about how prosperous even the poorest person with access to commercial industrial farming is. Our global productivity has us drowning in carbs, with little cost or effort. Consider how long you'd have to work to grow wheat to net a barrel of flour. Now it costs a couple bucks, the equivalent of just a days labour even at the poorest level globally. Let that sink in. What used to take months of labor can now buy the same amount of flour in seconds, minutes, or at the absolute "poverty" level, take a day or two. Yes, we are much more prosperous than the vast majority of every human who ever walked the Earth for tens of thousands of years.
@@christianwilliams6499 All well and good except the grain that yeilds the flour we now consume has been so bastardized it's not in anyway like the grains that our ancestors grew, ground and ate -- It's pure garbage. IT IS however true that people who suffer economically and cannot afford good food & fall prey to eating the processed JUNK - seed oils and all (you know, the most affordable "food". Read Dr. Robert Lustig's book, "Metabolical" - perhaps you will have a clearer understanding of what is done to our food and how it is produced.
The visual of heart tissue thickening and therefore needing to work harder under conditions of continuous high insulin/ high blood sugar is just the visual I needed to get my sugar intake down under the accepted 6 teaspoons per day for female. I already can easily eat low carb during the day but that after dinner dessert was the last domino that needed to go down. Thank you.
Lilly’s chocolate chips are stevia sweetened and are low carb friendly!
Thank you for all your diligence and hard work in sharing this message.
Thank you for a wonderful presentation Dr Birman 🙏
I just hope more and more people get the message. It took me 68 years to have the truth hit me in form of T2 Diabetes. I am fortunate to be "forever" curious about natural methods of healing, and alternatives to prescription drugs. I found Keto on TH-cam, and I found Dr. Bickman (my fave) and others that are good as well. I trust Dr. Bickman's research better than anyone's, thanks Dr. Bikman
BB has such a marvelous and engaging way of teaching.
I loved this talk, this was amazing. Thank you Dr. Ben.
Although we may be relatively prosperous it is quite obvious in the UK that diseases related to insulin resistance are more common in the relatively poor . Low incomes will inevitably be spent on foods that will cause insulin resistance. Often the poor are criticised for not ' cooking from scratch ' but fuel poverty is also an issue . It has been for a generation and that is before the present fuel cost crisis !
So true - you have such a good point here!!!!! Our poor are overworked, underpaid, and just too tired to either care or have energy to get home to cook a well balanced meal thus perpetuating the low energy cycle with increasing poor health. So sad. So sad. So sad. Education is what they need along with food stamps for our poor.
Absolutely spot on...love the way he handled the low-carb community by "adding his voice"
Thank you Brother Bikman for a very informative talk.
Thank you Doctor ! You have enlightened me and made my life better!
Wow! I love this. Thank you, Brother Bikman!
Thank-You!
Love this presentation...the knowledge I gained from this
Super talk and information Ben. Many thanks for disseminating this information and your knowledge so freely.
In our family we understand the Word of Wisdom to describe a low-glycemic diet, with seasons when we eat fewer vegetables and more meats. We don't do our "cold/famine" high-meat seasons only in the actual winter or dry season, but we've developed a looser cycle that's still influenced by the actual seasons and seems to work.
I really like the tail end of this talk and find it applicable. It's cued up to the right spot. th-cam.com/video/Jd8QFD5Ht18/w-d-xo.html
Wow the imperative of metabolic health! Thoroughly informative! Finding truth within our life style & health!
Just knew your where one of us, when I bought your book online. My spouse died from this disorder at 56
This talk is AMAZING!!!! How inspiring and factual of how we can better understand and hopefully care for our bodies!
Thanks dr Benjamin God bless you 💚🙏
🎯❤️👊Exceptional and illuminating talk! Thank you🙏
This is wonderful. Thank you for providing and sharing this highly valuable information and for giving it the title provided! I hope it reaches far and wide and helps MANY! Praying others will be ready to hear and receive this as well.
Awesome talk sir. Always enjoy hearing you speak.
I have been trying very hard to get doctors to check mine and my daughters insulin levels and all I get back is we don’t do that I have totally lost faith in the medical field and now we struggle to find your own paths. How do we get doctors to listen to us and then a day and age for doctors interview us to see if they want us as a patient I should say client. I have thoroughly enjoyed this
I ordered my own fasting insulin test through Ultalabs. Insulin plus fasting glucose (you need both) cost around $50. They contract with local blood withdrawal places; Quest Diagnostics’s in my area. Or, you can order your own through Quest. You can look up “ The Blood Code” online to see how to calculate your HOMA Index from fasting insulin and glucose. Most doctors don’t have a clue about insulin.
Knowing what I know about heart disease, diabetes, and cancer based on my parents' health issues, I have decided that the Word of Wisdom is where the truth is, and it is time for me to start living it. I've eliminated all animal products, and I eat a high protein plant-based diet with no processed foods, very little refined sugar, and no oil. My own health issues have improved significantly, and I've lost weight. I'm pretty sure our heart surgeon prophet follows the WOW, too.
Dr. Bikman makes it clear there is no stipulated WOW diet. Yet, we can decern from the WOW that we can survive and live on meat [in times of cold or famine]. That meats are given to us to use. Of course, a more seasonal way of eating is ideal, as omnivores some of us need to eat like it's the dead of winter for awhile in order to burn off those unnaturally accumulated fat reserves we've amassed. I really like the tail end of this talk and find it applicable. It's cued up to the right spot. th-cam.com/video/Jd8QFD5Ht18/w-d-xo.html
Glad you feel happy with your diet but remember what he just said in the talk which is that there isn't really a word of wisdom diet.
That was so beautiful, and I am not even a Mormon. I am so glad that they got the message. I can imagine that Mormons are or will be ahead of the curve on this one.
I would be cautious about going so far as to say that they "got the message". Look at many of the comments in this thread. Benjamin's talk was very carefully worded and specifically targeted to his audience because his ideas can be considered radical as compared to conventional doctrinal thinking.
I wish there is a talk like this one in spanish, to show it to my friends.
L A Translate and put subtitles. So your wish becomes reality
I'm guessing TH-cam will eventually have automatic audio translation in the same voice of the speaker eventually... I've already seen or heard of AI demos doing this. Once it's viable I don't see what it won't be implemented everywhere.
Most enlightening...still over my head just yet...🇬🇧
Listen to this presentation again in 2021, still amazing. Benjamin Bikman at his very best, Thank you.
"Many so-called experts give advice for the body-without thought for the spirit. Anyone who accepts direction contrary to the Word of Wisdom, for example, forsakes a law revealed to bring both physical and spiritual blessings." - Russell M. Nelson
Azsister Johnson Amen.
Thank you for sharing such important information!
A truly inspired message!!
Whoa! I listened to this because it came up on my YT algorithm. I was not expecting the sudden religious turn!! (Did not realize the context.)
BYU 99% Mormon!
Yeah. As an atheist I bristle against religious turns but I ignored it in this case. This guy is spot on, at least as regards the science.
Dr Bikman is Peerless and this speech is a tour d force and vital to the health of the world’s populace. Please Listen and save your life and share with all in your circle , friends and family.
Thank you. It is a lot of information. I'll need to listen to it many more times.
Excellent overview of causes and cure of diabetes and diseases of modernity. Bikman’s research and well-documented claims are reliable.
This video and his book saved my life. Thanks to him I was able to ask my doctor for a fasting insulin test and bingo, it was high. I was pre diabetic and had many health problems. Fast forward 10 months later, my insulin is under 5 and I’m feeling a lot better. Doctors should read his book and apply what it teaches. Thank you dr Bikman.
My smoothies are 6 eggs, 1 chicken liver, 2 ounces of melted butter, salt to taste, and blend. Not all smoothies are created equally.
Roger Bird, I hope you are joking.
@@karenbarnes5107 why would you hope he's joking? That's an extremely nutritious and non-insulingenic smoothie
@@karenbarnes5107 Watch the talk again. The smoothie may be an acquired taste, but it ideally nutritious.
Roger, cut down on the eggs and add some MCT, and go to beef liver, better nutrition. Rock on!
Copisetic 1 - full stop. Eggs are healthier than MCT oil in every conceivable way. MCT is purely energy it has no nutrition. Dr Bickman himself says that drinking oils is a bizarre way to eat.
Dr. Bikman is medically correct but Biblically off the path imo of course.
It is possible to like and agree with a scholar on one aspect of their knowledge and disagree spiritually… discernment is key.
Myself being Ketovore,
my health is restored and very thankful to people like Dr. Bikman.
This is by far the best information for the Human race today. It was broken out in simplicity. Lower carbs to reduce insulin. For some with diabetic issues (quite a lot of us), we need to go fairly low. Get ad reasonable amounts of protein. fill the rest with fat. Does it get any simpler? Do you the medical field and Doctors will get this??? Have you Doctors see this video! Thanks so much for the clarity.
Thank you for the summary. I thought I heard that advice, but couldn’t be sure. Thank you for your summary of his advice.
Truly instructive. Thank you.
I loved what he said about blessing treats. It honestly just feels like hypocrisy.
He has some good points!
thx Doc..excellent speech..
I don’t have the original reference but I have read that Cache County Utah at one time was the most healthy county in the country. My belief is that something went wrong when tradition was abandoned.
Excellent presentation ‼️
In a nutshell. Control your insulin and you control your metabolic health. Point well taken.
Love this thank you 🙏
A truly clear explanation
Well spoken, sir!
A thing of great beauty.
Wow! Excellent presentation! Life-altering, Life Enhancing, Life extending! Thank you so much!
Suggestion? Can someone in Behavioral Health Science follow up and give a speech on how to make the psychological and behavioral changes needed to implement this incredible new insight? Addiction to sugar & quick carbs can be so difficult to break. Add to that, emotional eating and food-as-reward, and you have a set up for repeating failure.
For some, like me... its not knowing what to eat, but how to survive the transition, what to replace it with, and implementing it over the long haul. (Or, am I the only one?) 🤔
You are not the only one 💐
I’m there too - you’re not alone
I found the answer for me, I started OMAD (One Meal A Day) with cutting carbs, so no bread, sugar, and most veggies. Then I really started increasing good fat and meat. I lost 20 lbs rather quickly and I lost the cravings that were keeping me eating all waking hours! Plus, I never count calories per se. I focus on how much protein and fat. I'm now eating 1/3 of what I used to. Just a thought.
Thank you I really appreciate your input👍🏻💪🏼🙏🏼
WOW, great talk Dr Bikman, this is jaw dropping stuff, i feel like I just saw my first Tonka Truck lol, thank you!