Being a chronic "fat burner" is a metabolically defective state. Lol, this keto/carnivore fad is like the Vegan nonsense. Both completely confused by basics

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Why we get sick…

Thank you Dr. Ben.

How about the association of uric acid with hypothyroidism - or iodine deficiency. I've been keto for several years, and now carnivore. Uric acid still high.

Which foods are there who don't spike insulin except meat????

Answers a lot of questions I had. Thank you Dr. Bikman!

I really appreciate your work I am always frustrated for new mothers as I fed on demand for 2+ years with each of my children Which I believe is appropriate for our species So what are we supposed to do for mothers?!

Good God I could have used this info 12yrs ago. I was still working the programs...eat less and move more, calories in calories out, no red meat or saturated fats. I llived in spite of these horrid directive from doctors. Milk causes my blood sugar to rise and remain at 140 for 8-10hrs and nothing brings it down. I am healing slowly.

I take herbs for cortisol. I make my own tinctures and take licorice powder.

Your lecture would have been much easier to understand if you drew diagrams of all the chemical reactions you were talking about.

I am a nurse and I would have loved to have been in your pathophysiology class!

So….i have lost 100 pounds with no fats other than lean meats, vegetables and low glycemic fruit. I used stevia as a sweetener. Also I stopped eating at 7 pm and began eating at noon the next day. So why is my cholesterol 290, ldl 200, hdl 38, and my fasting blood glucose 105 and A1c 5.8. I’m looking at insulin resistance but how can I correct this. Is the stevia still spiking my insulin levels?

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I eat fermented foods every meal... thanks to Dr Seam O'Mara

a coritsol CGM would be handy.

Dr. Bikman - we need more info as to skinny postmenopausal woman who can’t sleep solely due to high ketone levels eating fatty carnivore. I am hardly the only one, eat this way to tamp,down late onset psoriatic arthritis (from stress, not heritage). And, so, heck yes, lifetime of high cortisol - but got it under control until keto carn woe .

Deep ketosis eventually ramps up cortisol, etc, esp in thin folks and females (i’m a thin f 65yr old, I get into too deep a ketosis if i’m not putting down some carb ‘bait’ - for Mr. Sandman to nibble on …. Zzzzzz’s)

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Who is the gentleman in the yellow glasses? The descriprion says rick millerrd couldn't find him on yt

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Any additional or different advice for someone who is steroid-dependent from Adrenal Insufficiency caused by immunotherapy for breast cancer? I do not produce my own ACTH and therefore do not produce Cortisol. Chemo also has acutely put me into menopause. My naturopath tested my hormones and LH & FSH are high, 3 estrogens, progesterone, pregnenolone almost nothing. Fasting Insulin (which I requested) is 22 (my hbA1C is 5.5). I have not had a recent lipid panel (last one 2022). I need to take extra steroids if I exercise or have any stressors. I’m still in cancer treatment. I am eating a carnivore / ketovore diet. I eat less than 20 carbs per day, meat and eggs are my primary diet, sometimes tuna or shrimp, some dairy. Fasting is very scary to me, as I need to take steroids with food or milk, and I need to take them at least 3x/day, starting 1/2 hour before I get up (6am).

40:38 THANK YOU!:) this has been a question/query/concern of mine for a while. When you said Aspartame does not cause an insulin response, I immediately had conflict as I remember the results of a study graphing the insulin response on different artificial sweeteners and sugar. They all had a response, it’s just that sugar was by far the greatest. I would love to know more about how the “cerfalic? response” (not sure of the spelling here) interacts with the addiction centre of the brain. I would love to see the results of studies to see what I can learn. It also proves to me why when on a Lion diet that if I tested eating only schnitzels only for at least 2 days (with the 3rd giving the strength of the cravings), I noticed the carb cravings coming back. It all makes sense. Can anyone point me into the right direction on this? Cheers

Been carnivore for a while and fasting glucose keeps rising and I can’t get my daytime numbers out of the 200’s. Soooo frustrating! I wish I could figure out why!

Question: I also go to bed around 10pm and I’m up and wide awake around 4am. Could this be because the hours before midnight are worth twice as much (in quality) as the hours after midnight? So although it’s literally 5-6 hours of sleep, in terms of quality, it’s more like 8? Is that true about the quality before midnight etc? Thanks!

Minute 13:30…. My BMI is normal I can easuliy go for 14 hours without eating I have good energy. My tryglycerides always ride a bit high. Even when i did classic. low carb my lowest trigs were 158. But you say when insulin is low fatty acids (trigs) are high. So why is high trigs a bad thing? I might have to join just to ask.thx.

It seems that whenever I eat, I immediately need to go to bed with my Bi-pap on for a 2 hr nap. Its getting rediculous. Its like clock work. I seem to sleep way too much in a 24 hr period

What happens if you are 178cm tall and weigh 60 kg's and have no fat to lose and have diabetes ? Thanks

If the circadian rhythm governs the dawn phenomenon, what is the cortisol variation like around the clock? One source indicate the cortisol level rises from 3 am to 8am. This would mean we evolved to wake up 3am? I would reason daylight stimulates our light sensing cells in the eyes ( on top of cones and rod cells) which triggers directly or indirectly the release of cortisol and epinephrine to prepare us for the day. Following this logic I would expect negros (living in the tropics, produce more melanin, stable day/night ratio) should evolve to have different circadian rhythm (low melanin, wide day/night ratio variation from Summer to Winter) from Caucasians. Are there any sleep studies to investigate the effect of lighting, racial origins and seaons on diurnal rhythm?

What if your in a calorie deficit on some carbs too. One will lose weight

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Hi Dr. Bikman, could you do a video lesson on sleep apnea and tongue fat and insulin resistance?

Dr. Bikman, I noticed your book, and to the left, what I wonder is your scriptures? Can you comment on how you feel low carb / diets to lower insulin relate to the Word of wisdom? “Wheat for man, eat meat sparingly.” However, to control glucose and insulin, I try and avoid wheat/wheat products, Included fermented wheat products. Thoughts?

Do naps help at all?

QUESTION: Can you address how iodine impacts metabolism?

You put a lot of emphasis on sleep hygiene, but I suspect that lots of sleep problems are caused by medications. I went carnivore a year ago, and have gradually been taking myself off of my 14 different medications -- on my own, of course, because none of my doctors are interested in stopping any medications. When I dropped the triamterene + HCTZ pill, amazing things happened. For one thing, instead of waking up to pee every hour all night long, I now sleep through the entire night, sometime as long as 7.5 hours! Perhaps just as a consequence of not having to wake up to pee every hour, I'm no longer facing the problem of not being able to get back to sleep after only 4 hours of sleep. I used to think I had to get up to pee so often because I'm an old man with a tiny bladder, and now I realize it was just because of undesired effects of the meds. (I that the term "side effects" because it implies that these are rare and unimportant effects, which they often are not.) Another thing that happened -- somewhat off topic, but I mention it because it's so amazing -- my morning fasting blood glucose dropped from around 120 to around 80. That's a huge drop! My keto-mojo now shows that I'm now finally producing ketones, and my GKI is usually in the high therapeutic range. I did lose 25 pounds when I first went carnivore, but my weight loss stalled for a long time. After dropping those two meds, I'm finally losing fat again! (My percent body fat is falling faster than my weight, perhaps because I'm doing more weightlifting recently.) My guess is that the HCTZ was keeping my glucose high, which was keeping my insulin high, and insulin suppresses using fat for energy, which stalls fat loss. From now on, whenever any doctor suggests that something might be going wrong with my body, perhaps due to aging, I'm no longer going to assume they know what they are talking about. Instead, I'm going to ask what medication might be causing that as a side effect! I've have weaned myself down from 14 meds to just 3, and the journey continues. Now that I'm finally losing fat again, I expect to be able to drop my last blood pressure medication soon!

Type2 diabetic. If i try to keep bloods low i have to inject insulin. But if i dont, eat or eat low or no carb, my blood rises higher by about 3-4 (63 ish U.S) and steadies and i lose weight. Its a quandry.

First, Thank You Dr. Bikman!! I have been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea and was prescribed a Bi-pap. Of course I am overfat etc, and not in very good condition. I have noticed how my glucose shoots up when I am stressed, tested via a finger stick monitor, and it is elevated in the morning as well. All this to say I have a lot of personal experience with the impacts of poor sleep on my health. I also believe my decades or rotating shifts while in the military has really exacerbated my sleep challenges. I now am very much on a low carb lifestyle, for about 110 days now, and I am trying to get 8hrs of sleep each night. But, I do experience a number of poor sleep nights, especially if I eat a lot, or if I eat too late regardless of how much I eat. So I am working to dial in what and when I eat, and getting my sleep schedule normalized. I just wonder how long it will take to see my insulin resistance go away?

Unfortunately I learned about elevated cortisol late (in my 50s). By then I slept 4-5hrs a night if lucky and up by 5:30am to do it again. I compare my daily stress as equal to a car accelerator being floored 80% of my waking hours. I became very ill with no help from my doctors except the "eat less-move more" willful ignorance. But I lived to understand enough of the what and why to heal thanks to three doctors with the latest being Dr. Ben Bikman and his book Why We Get Sick and Insulin IQ. I'm grateful to be alive at this time because of Dr. Bikman and the other two doctors I understand what was happening to my body/mind. I don't have to die stressed, sleep deprived, obese with multiple diagnosis on 8 medications. I am healing reversing all but the two issues 💪. Thank you!

For several years I was the main caregiver of my husband. I had previously dieted to go from 60 units of insulin at 180 pounds down to 140 pounds on metformin. and for a brief period off of metformin .He died nearly two years ago --the stress of grief is much less, and I realized I was not automatically waking up at 2 ( to check on him). I am now 120 pounds which used to be my normal weight and no meds.. Sleep and stress. Thank you Doctor Bikman!!!!!!!!!!!.

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I'm curious what effect, if any, will a nap during the day do to insulin if our night time sleep is shortened sometimes. Even after a low-carb lunch I get real sleepy. I think I'm turning into my dad. After a short nap he'd jump up and get back to work, he did a lot of physical labor.

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So this is why people with type 2 diabetes are feeling tired, as the brain says, "Go to sleep to allow insulin come down "( lol).

I'm female, 5'3", 66, fell pray to food pyramid, gained 40lbs over 30 years. Arrived from England at 108lbs. Fasted list weight, now 127, need to lose 12 more pounds. Discovered I'm Celiac, can't eat lectins or Oxalates due to kidney stones, born Cesarean, now eat fish, beef, eggs, dairy (yoghurt made from raw milk), goat kefir made from grains daily, purple cabbage homemade sauerkraut daily, cut off eating by 4pm otherwise wake up in the night. However, if this happens I count down from 5 and it puts me back to sleep. Tried many things this works for me, also staying in my Circadian rhythm. No help from docs, use Medcalc app to calculate ratios, very useful. Fav docs, Dr Bikman, Fung, Noakes, Harcombe.

Dear Mr. Bikman, when is someone going to make a home insulin meter? hint,hint. Thanks Bob the welder

Have been a diagnosed DIABETIC for 6 years, oh after today I have to go on this diet for six months. I cannot take metformin very bad side effects .. so I was put on 50 units of humulin 3 (isophane) KwikPen BD..9am & 4pm daily before I eat two meals a day.. IF after 7pm-9am. Can I come off insulin immediatly, continue on Low carb keto diet, eating below 50 grams of carb..I have gained weight (10 kgs in two years..

*TIMESTAMP:* 4:24 What do you do when you find yourself wide awake after only five hours of sleep? Is your general thought to try to go back to sleep? Any particular strategies for that? I've been very-low-carb forbalmost three years now. Seems like the more time that passes, the fewer and fewer hours I sleep before I feel like I could get out of bed as if I had slept a full night. Sometimes it's only been four hours.I find it very easy to just get up and start my day, but I do get very sleepy by 4:00 p.m. I'd love to get more information on this sort of thing.

Dr. Aikman, Thank you sir for providing this information. I am type 2 and I have leaned more from your talks than from my health care providers. Again, thank you. Loved your book, straight forward and easy to understand. If I would of had this inf 25 yrs ago, maybe I could of helped myself more in delaying full onset.

No matter how much sleep I get, I'm still tired in the morning...even three years later on keto. I suspect my cortisol level remains too active at night..and/or the dawn phenomenon is to blame.