"when we're looking at smoking versus vaping vaping is probably worse in terms of the damage to the airway and the insulin resistance that comes from it but this gets worse because we know that insulin..."

"Benjamin what is the mission that you're on my mission is to help people appreciate that much of chronic disease we look at them as these siloed individual distinct disorders with totally distinct Ori..."

"question here is what is insulin resistance and can you explain this to me like I'm a 10-year-old oh yeah for sure insulin resistance is it's kind of a it's a disorder that has two parts it's like a c..."

"want to be insulin resistant no no one does no one does so so tell me how it happens yeah right yeah so the origins are so important because it helps us understand why we've gotten into this situation..."

"can't take it away does it become sort of chronic yeah so that especially all of these can contribute to a more lingering insulin resistance but especially insulin where I focus on that one the most b..."

"something people don't really understand and I actually discovered it from during this podcast and speaking to so many experts about this that that we pretty much especially as an adult have the same ..."

"it's worth before we talk about how to keep my levels low so that I can benefit from all the health benefits we've talked about it's probably also worth just spending a little bit of time trying to un..."

"so in pregnancy insulin's playing a role in growing the placenta sure is the breasts yes so in the woman after she's finished puberty the only other time of growth she'll never have will be pregnancy ..."

"what is gestational diabetes yeah it's a great question gestational diabetes is essentially type 2 diabetes of pregnancy so it's perfectly timed question because if you look at the average woman um wh..."

"does that then impact the future baby oh for sure it does yeah so think about it's almost like the baby is devel literally developing in a hyperglycemic hyperinsulinemic environment so the baby's get ..."

"one of the things that that I saw the other day on social media which I wanted to ask you about was this I got a picture of it here um it was someone online that posted this photo and they said well t..."

"as you guys know whoop is one of my show sponsors it's also a company that I have invested in and it's one that you guys asked me about a lot the biggest question I get asked is why I use whoop over o..."

"touched on at the start was the was Alzheimer's and Dementia yes and I have heard several people on this podcast tell me that they think of Alzheimer's as type three diabetes worldwide there is a new ..."

"distribution also matter here because it does different races this research is telling me have different fat distribution it's saying that Africans have better fat distribution lower visceral fat and ..."

"have I don't know him personally but you've seen the documentaries and stuff made about him and the the work that he's doing what do you make of what he's doing to extend his age because you know one ..."

"found that some of the longest living humans had high cholesterol levels that's right that's what the Sweden study found for example the paper just published a year or so ago what were some of the mos..."

"when I was reading your work is there was a study done in Bulgaria which proved that smoking causes in insulin resistance in humans by having seven healthy nonsmokers smoke four cigarettes over an hou..."

"that's a a great question it doesn't because it replaces other interests so if the cigarette smoker ate the way everyone else was eating it would but because the cigarette smoke satisfies a craving th..."

"pounds into this company Perfect Ted and they're also a sponsor of this podcast I switched over to using matcha as my dominant energy source and that's where perfect Ted comes in they have the matcha ..."

"ketones um the diet the keto diet is becoming increasingly popular from what I've seen it's actually the diet that I'm on at the moment how does that play into everything we've talked about yeah yeah ..."

"I've seen these keto drinks little they're almost like little shots well there's a bunch of different types if you look at the Spectrum ketones you on one end you have the cheapest most readily availa..."

"problems it's one of the I ask this in particular because as my team know because I've said it to them a lot over the last couple of weeks since I've been on the keto diet and I've been literally pric..."

"this with my own sort of anecdotal experience so I every year do a keto diet for usually for about 8 weeks M this time it's going to go on for a little bit longer um in the reason in part why it's goi..."

"downsides of following a ketogenic diet that we need to be aware of the only downside I can articulate so in fact I didn't even finish because I distracted myself mentioning some of the benefits of ke..."

"gut microbiome oh yeah CU cuz I tell someone who is a nutritionist that I was doing a keto diet at the moment and they said oh you're poor gut ah yes well what a naive um thing to say if I may gently ..."

"what about artificial sweetness one of the things that I am tempted by when I'm on a ketosis diet is like the soda zeros of the world or the diet sodas of the world what impact does that have on my in..."

"earlier which I've been thinking a lot about is salt and I think a lot about salt because I went to the doctor many years ago and I think I was using this like Maggie seasoning that I put on my food a..."

"physical activity exercise useful for keeping my insulin levels in check yeah yeah I'm really glad you brought up exercise I'm an enormous advocate of exercise the best exercise to improve insulin sen..."

"happen there's a big debate around whether we should be calorie restricting and low fat diet whether we should be calorie restricting in a moderate fat diet or calorie restricting and a low carb diet ..."

"don't we just sack all this off and just take as zek then ah yeah great question so the the I have uh I have kept my finger on the pulse of the whole field of gut derived hormones which is what we tal..."

"what I feel in to comment on is the negative side effects because the only thing we hear about is social media influencers extoling the benefits and hey I'm on this weight loss drug and I've lost 50 p..."

"also search to see if there was a link between a zenek and bone density and there was no clear Link in the studies that have been done I I don't know whether there's been a lot of studies done but it ..."

"knowing who they're leaving it for and the question that's been left for you Ben is who in your life gave you a chance or believed in you when no one else did what a fun question um thank you um proba..."