My granddaughter is headed off to medical school after having just graduated from BYU. I’m so happy that Dr. Bikman was her endocrinology professor. She’ll be a better doctor for having had his instruction.
I watched this three times in a row to understand everything you were saying and the third time I started crying because our human body is so unbelievably beautiful. I understand now what’s happening, and the complexity of it is so mind-boggling. At the end we are simply left with only one thing to do, and that’s to treat our body with the respect it deserves ❤
@@shinola228 For all of this to evolve this way suggests that there is an intelligence behind Creation - evolution is likely an expression of that Creative Intelligence.
Dr David Unwin gave the advice to his patients to eat plenty of saturated fat, meat, eggs and salt but avoid carbohydrates (bread, rice pasta, bananas, apple etc). Hundred patients lost weight, improved liver and kidney function, came off diabetes medications saving £70,000 in medicine costs for ten years. He recorded all stats over several years and published them in journals. If only every Doctor would do their job and above all first do no harm (conventional practice results in amputations, heart/kidney failure etc).
About 2 1/2 years ago when i was diagnosed with T2 Diabetes my A1C was 10.4. I went on the lowest dose of metformin possible and went on a low carb high fat diet. 3 months later my A1C was 5.4. The only time it went up was when I was eating Mission Low Carb Tortillas regularly (they're a lie; a glucose test showed my blood glucose spiked to 154 just from eating one). My A1C went to 5.7, but more relevant to this conversation is that my Triglycerides spiked to 320. Cutting those out, 3 months later my A1C was 5.4 again and my Triglycerides were 128. 3 months after that they were 99. I didn't change anything else about my diet. Today I'm at 5.4-5.5 with no medication at all, and I'm not super-militant about my diet but I do avoid GPS (Grains, Potatoes, and Sugars) pretty heavily.
Next time you eat any kind of tortilla brand, keep some in your pantry and see how long it will last. It will stay fresh for months, meaning super high amounts of preservatives, let alone, bunch of unnecessary ingredients. It's just BS. Any type of bread you buy at your local grocery store are just all BS.
@@JohnSmith-zs1bf I also do a lot of Zone 2 exercise to improve MItochondrial function, which has been tied to any number of metabolic diseases, including T2D. When I stopped that because I was walking every day my A1C went up a tenth.
@@JohnSmith-zs1bf Biking. I can't get out of one 1 walking, and I can't not be in zone 3 or 4 jogging as I'm a terrible runner. Biking for me is the easiest activity to control my zones. Even with hills so long as I leave my ego at home I have enough gearing to not leak out of zone 2 more than a minute or so.
And speaking of Calgary... Hi from Calgary! Now, can you give my doctor a call? He's in a PANIC because my LDL is through the roof since I went all Keto last August. In my lifetime, I've lost more than 300 pounds. After being treated for t-2 diabetes for 30 years, I almost lost my foot in Nov 2022. The following August, I came across Dr. Pradip Jamnadas, who eloquently explained it. I did everything he and so many others have said, I cut out high carbs, processed food, and seed oil, lost 70 pounds, triglycerides way down, HDL up and LDL really up a complete reversal of t2 diabetes A1C of 5.7... after all of that. He wants me on a staten and to stop consuming saturated fat. Hello, news desk, I think I found the problem.
@@nevillegoddard4966 I know, right. Unfortunately, it's not just my doctor. Sadly, I think it's the majority of them, especially in Canada. I spent more than two hours explaining the relationship between triglycerides, HDL, LDL and VLDL and how they relate, especially with a low-carb diet. I gave him a couple of links. I think he's gonna be alright, but it took 40 years of sales and marketing experience to bring him around. The sentence that hit him the hardest was "You treated me for diabetes for more than 30. years and I almost lost my foot. Three weeks on a low-carb high-fibre, moderate protein diet and I was off all diabetic drugs in two weeks and a perfect A1c 6 months later." Now that's medicine.
You don’t need doctors in your life. Take responsibility for your health fully. Don’t let them gaslight you. 2 of my brothers had heart attacks and have stents and claim it’s theirs genetics lol. Ones wife is medical doctor specializing in treatment of diabetes and his daughter is big harma rep. Younger brother’s is medical doctor and his wife worked for big harma now retired in the early 70’s. Statins since at least 20 years and other meds. Now fully injected with the newer marvels of pharmaceutical technology of nano lipids and synthetic modified RNA. They have other problems to. And they blame their genes because doctors determined they must have bad genetics. That twisted lol
Let your your doctor panic all he likes! Not your job to worry about that. You have done so well, get a supportive doc for where you are now. Good luck from Australia !
Thanks a million times over. I am down this rabbit hole and cannot get enough of this education you are providing. I wish I could turn back my clock and pursue this research as my lifes work, also. Your contribution is priceless and I hope you are able to continue for a very long time. I read your book from cover to cover on Saturday and just could not put it down. I will be studying and subsuming it until the pages wear out. Sincerely.
I feel like a superstar now.. vldl is 14, ldl is 191, hdl 102.3 and my triglycerides are 71.. this was after 1 year on carnivore. This diet works and improves nearly every single thing. Even my car is running better.
@@Primetime_dads I don't count anything..I just eat.. I eat a good amount of fat.. today I am having pork belly, butter, eggs, and sausage.. tomorrow it's steak and beef fat trimmings and eggs.. I eat a lot of beef fat trimmings..
Dear Dr Bikman Thank you for clearing up all the falsehoods and proving that millions of people have suffered for decades due to the greed of big pharma
What upsets me the most is people who should be curious about this kind of information don't care one bit. I just shared this on my Facebook page. I'm an RN many of my Facebook friends are in the healthcare field. I won't get one comment, but if I post a picture of my cats. Katy bar the door!
This has been my exact thought! When I see the amount of views , I wonder where the other 5.9 billion people doing. LOLZ. If people were aware of the damage being done to their bodies, they would make better choices and (there would be no poverty in the world also, ny eating less and healthier too), but that is in a world of utopia, not reality. People will always feel they either too young to get sick, nothing will happen to them, they have good genes ( I once had a friend who was obese , diabetic, thyroid etc, all this in her 30s, and she used to say her family doesn't have cancer so she wouldn't get that, but many of her relatives died young due to diabetes. What a sad health world we live in.
Yep! I helped one of my clients completely reverse his T2 diabetes by going keto, mostly carnivore. His sister is studying her RNs and is constantly telling him he's going to have a heart attack etc. He's back on carbs again now, and his brain fog and depression are back and his motivation has dropped back to zero. He's showing all the signs that his insulin resistance has returned...
@19jacobob93 maybe your client will come back to it. Just be ready if they do. As for the sister, point her in the direction of the trials that have been done and hidden until recently. She also should know what they teach in school is heavily biased towards pharmaceutical interventions.
As a cell biology major in college and a med school dropout, I have thoroughly enjoyed this lecture. Thank you, Dr. Bikman. I have subscribed to your channel.
What an irony! Saturated fats are to blame after all, but not dietary saturated fat, rather saturated fat made from excess carbohydrates as a result of dietary guidelines! My ‘model’ of insulin resistance has just taken a couple of steps forward thanks to learning this 😊
Fat Tuesday is the BEST day of the week!! Thank you Dr. Bikman. Oh and the glasses ROCK! I'd like to say you DASH'd my hopes, but in truth you have once again reinforced the idea of how a proper human diet includes saturated fats. Well done, and THANK you for providing links to the quoted studies.
Dr.Bickman, I'm not a MD but your Speeches are so easy to understand!! My son is about tof fnish to study medicine ad University, in Italy, and I can't talk with him about ketogenic diet, saturated fat...I think that many of the things you explain n your videos are not yet aknowledged by general pratictioners and/oe ininternationalguide lines... Thank you so much!!!
THANK YOU! I now kind of follow what's happening with my lipid numbers (all fine) in the transition to low carb (now 4weeks into strict BBBE). Still pending for me the matter of weight. In due time it'll come off, I hope.🤔 Nonetheless, other health concerns are arrested already or improving.😃
Dr Bikman - Thank you, so much, for all the research you do, and the care you take to keep me informed of the truth of the matter! If I had to figure this out myself, I’d be lost. I appreciate you!
Thank you for explaining this in a way that I can actually understand! You are truly a skilled professor and researcher, and your videos are a joy to watch.
Someone need to inform Ms Charmaine Dominguez about these studies. She's a plant based dietition been all over youtube making shorts telling ppl that sat fat causes IR. When I asked her to explain the mechanism she said she will once I join her free training programme. Unless she knows something Dr Bikman doesn't which I highly doubt.....
I remember those days in the 70s when professionals were quoted in women's magazines calling Dr. Atkins a "quack." And the years of not eating eggs, especially the yolks, eating oat bran muffins and taking Niacin, trying to lower cholesterol (not that mine was high, but because I didn't want it to get high). I remember, in the 1990s, when they were pushing near zero fat consumption, reading in an article in a women's magazine that we could eat as many as 3000 calories per day and not gain weight as long as there was zero fat. We always ate meat at dinner, so I struggled trying to get extremely lean meats. I remember boiling and rinsing meats, even hamburger, and trying to rinse off as much fat as possible. To this day I cannot tolerate skinless boneless chicken breast. If only I could have back those moments and the dollars and my health spent, or lost, while trying to follow bad health information.
In summary, combining high carb high saturated fat is dangerous; high saturated dietary fat on very low carb diet (e.g. Eskimos) provides zero insulin resistance worries.
Two years ago I consulted a "preventive" cardiologist for my diabetes and known coronary artery disease. He just about threw me out his office when I told him I was considering a "ketogenic" diet. Then he went on to say I needed to be on a "plant based" diet, preferably the "Mediterrranean" diet, and that I needed to immediately embark on regular injections of PCSK9 inhibitors. Unfortunately, I believe that my experience is NOT rare. Thank goodness we have great scientists like Dr. Ben Bikman to set the record straight and help us progess toward better metabolic health!
I was more fortunate than you. I had a heart attack during my stress test at age 46. My cardiologist was doing thr test. When itcsll settled out he told me to immediately stop being a vegan because it caused my heart issue. That was in 1998! He was way ahead of his time and I am eternally grateful. Now as a carnivore, at age 73 I'm super healthy with no heart problems and perfect blood pressure, blood sugar, weight and no joint pain. They are few and far between.
That's the same advice a woman who suffered a heart attack was given to. Now she's gorging on bread, croissants, jam and coffee loaded with sugar every morning. She is high every day from so many carbs and confident in her doctor's advice. A friend of her already passed away and was eating an extremely hypocaloric diet based on carbohydrates and veggies. She had more wrinkles than a raisin.
@@meatdog Wait. You had a heart attack 25 years ago which meant you actually had cardiovascular disease. You subsequently got off your disastrous vegan diet and went keto. Got it - makes sense. However, are you saying your keto diet stopped the progression of your CVD or the gold standard scenario, reversed it? The one instance where I've heard even keto and carnivore based physicians and influencers consistently agree is that if you've had an event is if not a statin you at least need to be on a baby aspirin even if you're keto. The CVD is still there?
Great information. Where is the reference for the paper that he mentions at 17:44? It looks like it's not in the show notes, maybe because it was so new when he made the video?
Your comments about high-carb-high-fat diets being terrible reminds me of mechanisms in the Randle Cycle. I'd love to see an episode dedicated to that topic and its relationship to insulin resistance, assuming the Randle Cycle is indeed a valid mechanism in the cells. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it works and whether its even valid.
Great subject 👌 Dr . I'm on my ketogenic way of eating (once again.) This time around is significantly different because I need to make this my lifestyle. **I am adding more fat this time. I'm adding more marbled red meat, also, extra butter to my meals to achieve longer lasting saity. I'm rarely hungry and losing about 2 lbs per week. Im 68yrs old and pretty much sedentary because of agressive, widespread osteoarthritis. I really enjoy your podcasts and shares. 🎉
I love nerding out with your videos; they inspire me to continue my weight loss, health journey in the most educated way. I feel 20 yrs younger with this lifestyle change. Thank you for providing us with the science. ❤
Thank you for such a well presented talk, the bravery to critique your own work and explain its misinterpretation by others. As a T1D I now better understand why, if my bsl happens to be higher than ideal, that avoiding intake of both carbs and saturated fat is best avoided, until blood glucose levels return to my normal range say, 70 to 120 mmg/dl (or 3.8 to 6.7 mmol/l. The wisdom of doing so for carbs is self-evident bot was not so much for saturated fat as perversely a highish blood glucose level sometimes makes me feel hungry. I also have found out that really those with T2D or T1D are likely to become insulin resistant to some degree- - in T1D because combating blood glucose rise with peripheral insulin administration cannot match the input and intricacy of insulin infused into the portal vein as a meal is arriving from eating, higher doses are needed. At 57 years on insulin; since age 13, and 5 years on a ketogenic diet with insulin injections (scar tissue making insulin absorption too unreliable for insulin pump infusions of insulin) consistent HBA1cs of 5.2% have made life so much better. I wish that diabetes education about low and very low carb diets included the caution about not eating carbs and saturated fats when blood glucose levels are elevated.
Ben there is a study that compared DASH to low carb in Type 2 diabetics. Low carb reduced blood pressure twice as much as DASH. If you put DASH into the search on Dr Berry's channel he talks about it. The study not that old.
Because Big Pharma basically are the Mafia of the health systems. Sick people are repeat customers for medication. Big Pharma has a hold over Dietician, nutrition and educational bodies, to get them to manipulate what civilians are told to make temhem stay unwell. Fortunately many like Prof Bikman and bringing truth to the forefront. I suggest if you have heart issues, follow cardiologist Dr Philip Ovadia. He is helping heal his heart patients by getting them on high fat, low carb diets. He has an amazing book, "Stay off my operating table", its a very easy read for the every day person 😊
i created a 50 s 8:20 clip where you zeroed in on emulsification / reesterification. i realize that even if it were possible to measure FFA unlike TG it's variance would be all over the map, but the energy model does seem to be the only way to think about TriGs. At some point i would like to hear discussion on ApoB 100 vs 48 which as of now i understand to be the liver's return path from the liver along the portal vein.
I'm exteemely curious about ceremides. Are the ceremides advertised in skin lotion dangerous as they are absorbed through the skin??? And do they contribute to insulin resistance. And are they molecularly the same as blood ceremides? I have lots of questions about this process.
1988 was a great year, not only did Calgary, AB host the Winter Olympics I was giving birth to my first child during the event in Fort Mc Murray, AB. Great memories and as well , great video.
Hi Dr. Ben. In the study you mentioned where sat fat in blood caused IR, what was the composition? Was it myristic? palmitic? stearic? lauric? capric? caprylic? caproic? All of the above? I couldn't find the study. Thanks!!!
@@jobrown8146 About 2 years. I noticed some xanthomas on the tops of my hand and on my elbow. I reduced my egg intake, thinking it was the amount of saturated fat causing it. It took about a year for the xanthomas to reverse, but then a few new ones appeared near my eyes. I also added some carbs back into my diet. Not much info available online, besides "familial hypercholesterolemia", which I don't have. My current strategy is to lower my LDL, which skyrocketed eating low-carb/near-carnivore. I do have higher HDL and low triglycerides, like a "hyper-responder".
@@jobrown8146 After eating low-carb/near-carnivore for around 2 years, I noticed some xanthomas on the top of my hand and on my elbow. I reduced the number of eggs I was eating and added some carbs back into my diet. The xanthomas reversed after about 1 year. However, a few new ones appeared near my eye. One reversed, but the others are still there, as of yet. I wish I knew the causality, so I could address this problem!
I have a problem where I have some belly fat but I’m almost underweight. What can I do? I’ve had to add back in some carbs. So around 150grams a day to stop losing weight. I eat 2 slices of seeded toast, 50grams of white rice or wholemeal pasta , 1 banana, 1 kiwi and an apple. Plus 1cup full fat milk, 3 eggs , 1 Avocado, 100 grams chicken breast, 100 grams minced beef 5%.
And what about saturated fats effect on flora which also affects insulin resistance? And Insulin resistance multifactorial? Ultraprocessed foods with refined carbs big factor in my view
I’m curious about your thoughts on total parenteral nutrition (TPN) feeding as when in the hospital and u r unable to eat by mouth. These bags have approx 15%amino acid, 65% carb, and 30% fat along with vitamins, electrolytes, etc. and are delivered via a port…so, very much like your direct infusion of saturated fat studies. I think they induce insulin resistance in the patient. My BIL, who is also a T2D is on this regimen and 1 hour after the end of a TPN cycle they check his glucose. It is always high, and if over 150, they give insulin. And the cycle repeats. Thoughts? It seems like the formula should be adapted for a T2D, perhaps. Nevermind the woefully low amino acid concentration and SAD levels of carbs for a sedentary hospital patient. Thank you, this was a really insightful and clarifying discussion.
I ate keto for quite a long time. I frustratingly never met my weight loss goals. In fact never lost much weight at all. I am now insulin resistant to the point of T2D. I recently have been trying to figure out if my homozygous APOA2 and MTHFR genetic defects could have been undermining my efforts. I don’t understand the mechanism that would change the body’s ability to deal with sat fat. Any insights?
@@aristidesaint-jean2322 thank you! Yes, I have followed all those folks and more for… a decade (? Not sure how long, but a long time). But it’s only been recently that I learned about the APOA2, which supposedly can contribute to weight gain if you eat more than 20 mg Sat Fat/day. Of course on keto I was freely eating satfat. Not sure if that’s what has tripped me up but my weight is quite resistant and I’m scared to cut calories too low for fear of permanently screwing up my metabolism.
Once again another excellent talk. Could you please comment on saturated fat and Apo B. The big argument now with saturated fat is it causes an increase in Apo B.
So great to get these nuances explained - thank you - will be seeking out your books. It's almost like that WITHOUT the nuances, everyone can sometimes be right
Absolutely amazing episode. Your science and teachings helps me to navigate through the realm where much conflicting information is disseminated. Thank you!
The last study where saturated fat is combined with hypercaloric high carb diet brings to mind the Randle cycle where there’s a danger in combining fat and sugars together.
I hope he does one on how sat fat eating people are heterogeneous, there are different types. In the low carb community for instance there's plenty of people that have issues with 80g of sfa but do fine on 30g, and others who can't get enough. Our ability to digest sat fat easily seems to vary from person to person even among the fit, I would like Ben to tell us why
In an earlier video, you told us that saturated fat boosts glucagon production and that glucagon production inhibits insulin production. From that I concluded that eating saturated fat alone would strongly reduce the bodys insulin level and thereby letting the body rest from the insulin burden and start healing the insulin resistance. I have a severe type 2 diabetes and I am about to put this to the test. I have fasted for over a week and have regained my blood sugar control. But any intake of either carbs or protein will make my blood sugar go through the roof again, it did so the lat time I tried this. The only thing I can eat is lard. I will for a while eat only lard "soup" with a little heavy cream to make it more palatable. After a while, I will try reintroducing protein slowly. Do you see any faults in my logic?
Lard can be as much as 30% polyunsaturated fat. Don’t know the answer but something to consider. If you want saturated fat, beef Tallow and or butter would be a better choices.
@@davefit-areyousaturated9830 Lard is predominantly Monounsaturated fat (as in Olive Oil) Generally, 45% MUFA, 40% SatFat, and 15% PUFA although it does fluctuate. When you cook with Lard there are few unstable double bonds to break and form more dangerous compounds. (Certainly fewer than cooking in seed oil) And is technically delicious.
@@davefit-areyousaturated9830 unfortunatly I cannot get enough tallow, the price is way too high in Norway. I will try butter, I am a bit sceptic about the carbs and protein, but the levels are low enough to try.
I am happy to report that butter seems to work well. Last night I went for a short but very hard walk in a long steep hill, so my legs really felt the burn for about 15 minutes. Before bed I ate all the butter my body felt like having. I went to bed with a glucose level of 158 and woke up with 99🤩 I know from experience that the exercise alone could not make such a massive difference.
On a keto diet I eat huge amounts of saturated fat through bacon, red meat, eggs etc. and my triglycerides are ROCK bottom at 43 and HDL is a VERY healthy 84 and my waste circumference is 34. Take that food industry that's forever trying to hook me on carbs!
I LOL when you said miserable diet. You NEVER complain, judge harshly, or made jokes. You are so very straight up. I was so surprised when you used the word miserable that it got me. Not to encourage you too much but that little Segway from your usual personality was great. Excellent work. This is an important topic and you are the first I’ve seen tackle this saturated fat in so much detail. I watch because I have stubborn high trigs. They do go down on low carb but I worry about the fat. My gene report from FYF by Dr. Rhonda Patrick says I might have trouble metabolizing saturated fat. I’m supposed to increase monounsaturated fat. I think better outcomes like Bp,sleep, trigs might be more important.
Dr. Bikman is very good at making jokes in his lectures. I wouldn't say this is done rarely. He's commented on being a freckled bald guy, working out to keep his wife attracted to him, being unable to control his urges when there is cereal in the house, etc. He's a very humble man with a gift from God to teach in a way that we all stay engaged and actually learn the complex concepts while being entertained.
Thanks for your videos. If I can ask a couple of questions: Why do some people need several 100 units of insulin per day -- so much more than others? And why do some Type 2 report that they lose a noticeable amount of weight before diagnosis?
Hi Prof Bikman. Re: your last point (hypercaloric diets), have you considered the role of MASLD, which will be almost always present in this population? In such cases, the liver is overdressed and has too much other higher priority task load, than processing fat properly?
In the case of carb free diet do the consumed saturated fats simply burn or they are actually used by the body in a construction of hormones and other anabolic processes thereby increasing energy demand and burning fat stored in fat cells?
@@redneckcoder thank you. what does it mean to be in an anabolic state? I thought metabolism implied a state in which both anabolic and catabolic processes happen all the time.
My blood pressure is high, my fasting insulin is good, A1c good, triglycerides 141, ldl a little high 109, HDL low. Shbg high. I know it can be a million things, but my Dad says drinking more water will probably help the high blood pressure, but does anyone else got any suggestions? I’d rather not take meds if I don’t have to. Thanks!
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?
A large number of people today have had their gall bladders removed and the trend is now moving into the younger generation (perhaps due to the consumption of seed oils in the diet). However, those who do not have a gallbladder often don’t have the concentration of bile necessary to break down (emulsify) those fats adequately. Could this be a contributing factor in insulin resistance similar to putting the fatty acid directly into the blood stream or a petrie dish?
I had this exact same question. I had mine removed when I was 28 after having my daughter. I’m wondering if the undigested saturated fats would cause problems only if the person continued to eat a certain threshold of carbs. If there isn’t a need for as much insulin due to being keto for example, maybe the effects of undigested saturated fat are mitigated. I would love if Dr. Bikman would weigh in with his great deal of knowledge on this topic.
I eat about 70g of saturated fat a day and I'm lean my triglycerides are half that of my HDL. my fasting blood sugar is about 60-70. blood pressure is 100/60 on average etc
I have a question that is not directly related to the topic of this video. A year or so ago, you delivered a talk on the effect of ketones on mitochondrial biology. You stated that evidence from cell cultures and rodent studies revealed that ketones have a beneficial effect on mitrodondria by stimulating their biogenesis and promoting fusion. You mentioned that human studies were being done to validate these findings or something along these lines, and I am wondering if there has been such a thing? If not, how would you go about validating these results, and what barriers are preventing researchers from doing so? Thank you!
Your primer on the digestion of fat is by far more complete than any I have ever heard. Including the lymphatic system has never been included and so I imagine can explain so much auto immune issues.
I was under the impression that saturated fat led to high LDL (and APOB) which then led to plaque buildup. Should the discussion of saturated fats include the full impact it has?
At around minute 14 he’s talking about the saturated fat diet experiment where the plasma levels of saturated fat didn’t go up, even though the people were eating more much more. However, he mentioned it was a ketogenic diet and DoctorEran Elianiv,MD an Israeli micro biome researcher stated that they found that the worst diet was saturated fat combined with refine carbohydrates. Now most people don’t eat a ketogenic diet, so I didn’t hear Ben state that the experiment was also done with increasing saturated fats with people eating the standard American diet, which contains a lot of refined carbs. that may make All the difference.
Professor Bikman, please answer this question for me. What amount of insulin is produced within the body when on a carnivore diet? How much insulin is stored for use at whatever time went on the carnivore diet? Dr. Robert Lustig alluded in one of his lectures for the levels podcast that the body simply stores up All sorts of insulin when on a carnivore diet and when you eat carbs, the body digest and stores those carbs as fat with massive amounts of stored insulin. That did not make sense to me with what I have learned about carnivore and insulin production. Thank you for the informative lecture series, they are wonderful.
Thank you dr Bikman from Ireland. I'm doing keto not for weightloss, always been active with running and exercise, but for general health, joint pain, menopause symptoms and 3 weeks in feeling much better with less pain and headaches and leaner. Had to pare back running as struggled with energy but looking into z2 training to build it up again as I get more used to the fat/protein. Started keto when researching interventions for my adult daughter who has asd/adhd, unfortunately she has had enough of trying diets over the years gluten free dairy free GAPS(version of keto) as her mental health makes her very food insecure. I was looking into exogenous ketones for her while she eats a standard healthish diet, to use to bypass the glucose system but after listening to how carbs and fats together are not a good idea I'm back to square one with that. Going to watch your video on the randke system again. Also looking into supplementing bhb. I'll continue with keto myself, struggled a bit with the meat part and getting the calories in as a nearly lifelong vegetarian at age 55, but getting there and using dairy to bulk my diet if i cant stomach as much meat. Thanks so much for such well researched and well presented information dr Bikman, I really enjoy your videos🙌
I took these notes after listening to one of Ben Bikman‘s podcasts: “Triglycerides divided by HDL cholesterol. If that number is 1.5 or less, you are most likely insulin sensitive (favorable) If that number is higher, you are insulin resistant. (unfavorable) HDL to Triglycerides should be 1:1 or higher: 2:1, 3:1, etc. For good heart health. (Less chance of heart attack)” It sounds like your labs are good! From everything I’ve learned, statins are not a beneficial drug. They have not been shown to reduce mortality, and they have many serious side effects. Side effects include: muscle pain and weakness, sexual dysfunction, mental fogginess, gastric pain and upset, increased blood glucose, and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. From what I’ve been learning, statins are the most profitable drug for the pharmaceutical industry. So, it will take a while before the tide shifts from doctors prescribing statins and articles stop promoting them.
Thanks Dr Bickman for the valuable info. Do you or anyone else in comments have a link to the study that was mentioned in the video about 17:45 showing that low vldl and high ldl resulted in the lowest risk of heart attack ?
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My granddaughter is headed off to medical school after having just graduated from BYU. I’m so happy that Dr. Bikman was her endocrinology professor. She’ll be a better doctor for having had his instruction.
😯 She is a lucky lady … learnt from the best 😊
Wow, that's really good to hear.
Lucky little lady !!! I wish I could sit all day in his classroom
how wonderful!!!! you must be so proud!
I was just thinking after listening to another podcast when he explained he was teaching pathophysiology how I would of learned so much more.
I’m my 69 years on planet earth, I’ve never enjoyed learning so much. I’m very very grateful for having discovered you Dr Bikman. Thank you so much.
I watched this three times in a row to understand everything you were saying and the third time I started crying because our human body is so unbelievably beautiful. I understand now what’s happening, and the complexity of it is so mind-boggling. At the end we are simply left with only one thing to do, and that’s to treat our body with the respect it deserves ❤
Yeah and refuse the clot shots
Yeah I believe in evolution of course but sometimes the complexities of biology makes me wonder if there were other forces at work.
A crucial act of practical self love.
@@shinola228 For all of this to evolve this way suggests that there is an intelligence behind Creation - evolution is likely an expression of that Creative Intelligence.
Dr David Unwin gave the advice to his patients to eat plenty of saturated fat, meat, eggs and salt but avoid carbohydrates (bread, rice pasta, bananas, apple etc). Hundred patients lost weight, improved liver and kidney function, came off diabetes medications saving £70,000 in medicine costs for ten years. He recorded all stats over several years and published them in journals. If only every Doctor would do their job and above all first do no harm (conventional practice results in amputations, heart/kidney failure etc).
Thankfully Dr Unwin was one of the first videos I found after learning that I had diabetes and found out about the low carb lifestyle.
@@jobrown8146Keep it up. Congratulations! 🎉
I love Dr David Unwin, his journey is so inspiring.
@@jax9349 Yes, and I love the fact that he has documented the progress of his patients.
These doctors are persecuted by pharmaceutical industry
About 2 1/2 years ago when i was diagnosed with T2 Diabetes my A1C was 10.4. I went on the lowest dose of metformin possible and went on a low carb high fat diet. 3 months later my A1C was 5.4.
The only time it went up was when I was eating Mission Low Carb Tortillas regularly (they're a lie; a glucose test showed my blood glucose spiked to 154 just from eating one). My A1C went to 5.7, but more relevant to this conversation is that my Triglycerides spiked to 320. Cutting those out, 3 months later my A1C was 5.4 again and my Triglycerides were 128. 3 months after that they were 99. I didn't change anything else about my diet.
Today I'm at 5.4-5.5 with no medication at all, and I'm not super-militant about my diet but I do avoid GPS (Grains, Potatoes, and Sugars) pretty heavily.
Next time you eat any kind of tortilla brand, keep some in your pantry and see how long it will last.
It will stay fresh for months, meaning super high amounts of preservatives, let alone, bunch of unnecessary ingredients.
It's just BS. Any type of bread you buy at your local grocery store are just all BS.
So strange I'm fairly lean (like 14 to 16% bf) and even on keto for 6 months my a1c only drops to 5.6 at best
@@JohnSmith-zs1bf I also do a lot of Zone 2 exercise to improve MItochondrial function, which has been tied to any number of metabolic diseases, including T2D. When I stopped that because I was walking every day my A1C went up a tenth.
@@johnwoodard8717 cool. what do you do for zone 2? jogging?
@@JohnSmith-zs1bf Biking. I can't get out of one 1 walking, and I can't not be in zone 3 or 4 jogging as I'm a terrible runner.
Biking for me is the easiest activity to control my zones. Even with hills so long as I leave my ego at home I have enough gearing to not leak out of zone 2 more than a minute or so.
And speaking of Calgary... Hi from Calgary! Now, can you give my doctor a call? He's in a PANIC because my LDL is through the roof since I went all Keto last August. In my lifetime, I've lost more than 300 pounds. After being treated for t-2 diabetes for 30 years, I almost lost my foot in Nov 2022. The following August, I came across Dr. Pradip Jamnadas, who eloquently explained it. I did everything he and so many others have said, I cut out high carbs, processed food, and seed oil, lost 70 pounds, triglycerides way down, HDL up and LDL really up a complete reversal of t2 diabetes A1C of 5.7... after all of that. He wants me on a staten and to stop consuming saturated fat. Hello, news desk, I think I found the problem.
@@jigglesandwich You need to either educate your doctor or FIRE him!
@@nevillegoddard4966 I know, right. Unfortunately, it's not just my doctor. Sadly, I think it's the majority of them, especially in Canada. I spent more than two hours explaining the relationship between triglycerides, HDL, LDL and VLDL and how they relate, especially with a low-carb diet. I gave him a couple of links. I think he's gonna be alright, but it took 40 years of sales and marketing experience to bring him around. The sentence that hit him the hardest was "You treated me for diabetes for more than 30. years and I almost lost my foot. Three weeks on a low-carb high-fibre, moderate protein diet and I was off all diabetic drugs in two weeks and a perfect A1c 6 months later." Now that's medicine.
You don’t need doctors in your life. Take responsibility for your health fully. Don’t let them gaslight you. 2 of my brothers had heart attacks and have stents and claim it’s theirs genetics lol. Ones wife is medical doctor specializing in treatment of diabetes and his daughter is big harma rep. Younger brother’s is medical doctor and his wife worked for big harma now retired in the early 70’s. Statins since at least 20 years and other meds. Now fully injected with the newer marvels of pharmaceutical technology of nano lipids and synthetic modified RNA. They have other problems to. And they blame their genes because doctors determined they must have bad genetics. That twisted lol
Well done on reversing HbA1C! I did same with whole food, plant based. HbA1C normal, BP 110/70 and LDL normal.
Let your your doctor panic all he likes! Not your job to worry about that. You have done so well, get a supportive doc for where you are now. Good luck from Australia !
Thanks a million times over. I am down this rabbit hole and cannot get enough of this education you are providing. I wish I could turn back my clock and pursue this research as my lifes work, also. Your contribution is priceless and I hope you are able to continue for a very long time. I read your book from cover to cover on Saturday and just could not put it down. I will be studying and subsuming it until the pages wear out. Sincerely.
What wonderful comment.
It's interesting how we become scientists while learning about our physiology 😉👌
I feel like a superstar now.. vldl is 14, ldl is 191, hdl 102.3 and my triglycerides are 71.. this was after 1 year on carnivore. This diet works and improves nearly every single thing. Even my car is running better.
How much saturated fat a day do you eat,
I just did my macros and im at 100g a day. Im sure this is probably to much
@@Primetime_dads I don't count anything..I just eat.. I eat a good amount of fat.. today I am having pork belly, butter, eggs, and sausage.. tomorrow it's steak and beef fat trimmings and eggs.. I eat a lot of beef fat trimmings..
@@salobrena6442pls update to us 6 months later
Dear Dr Bikman
Thank you for clearing up all the falsehoods and proving that millions of people have suffered for decades due to the greed of big pharma
What upsets me the most is people who should be curious about this kind of information don't care one bit. I just shared this on my Facebook page. I'm an RN many of my Facebook friends are in the healthcare field. I won't get one comment, but if I post a picture of my cats. Katy bar the door!
This has been my exact thought! When I see the amount of views , I wonder where the other 5.9 billion people doing. LOLZ. If people were aware of the damage being done to their bodies, they would make better choices and (there would be no poverty in the world also, ny eating less and healthier too), but that is in a world of utopia, not reality. People will always feel they either too young to get sick, nothing will happen to them, they have good genes ( I once had a friend who was obese , diabetic, thyroid etc, all this in her 30s, and she used to say her family doesn't have cancer so she wouldn't get that, but many of her relatives died young due to diabetes. What a sad health world we live in.
Hahaa....same experience is here..i think ignorance is blessing in this world for most of the people
Yep! I helped one of my clients completely reverse his T2 diabetes by going keto, mostly carnivore. His sister is studying her RNs and is constantly telling him he's going to have a heart attack etc. He's back on carbs again now, and his brain fog and depression are back and his motivation has dropped back to zero. He's showing all the signs that his insulin resistance has returned...
@19jacobob93 maybe your client will come back to it. Just be ready if they do. As for the sister, point her in the direction of the trials that have been done and hidden until recently. She also should know what they teach in school is heavily biased towards pharmaceutical interventions.
You got that right. Sugar addicts just don’t want to know.
Thanks, Professor Bikman. You have expertly conveyed your message with your careful choice of words. You ROCK!
In an amazing way, you break down all that science and make it clear to everyone. I love your podcasts. keep going, Dr.
All respect 🙏
As a cell biology major in college and a med school dropout, I have thoroughly enjoyed this lecture. Thank you, Dr. Bikman. I have subscribed to your channel.
I’m following you from 2021, and my health improved dramatically since then, thank you so much. You’re my best messiah !! Greetings from France 🇫🇷
Dr... I absolutely love the way you dig in and truly teach, you are a refreshing breath of medicine . Thank you.
What a fantastic way to start a Tuesday.
For me it's a fantastic way to start a Thursday😊
What an irony! Saturated fats are to blame after all, but not dietary saturated fat, rather saturated fat made from excess carbohydrates as a result of dietary guidelines! My ‘model’ of insulin resistance has just taken a couple of steps forward thanks to learning this 😊
Fat Tuesday is the BEST day of the week!! Thank you Dr. Bikman. Oh and the glasses ROCK! I'd like to say you DASH'd my hopes, but in truth you have once again reinforced the idea of how a proper human diet includes saturated fats. Well done, and THANK you for providing links to the quoted studies.
Dr.Bickman, I'm not a MD but your
Speeches are so easy to understand!! My son is about tof fnish to study medicine ad University, in Italy, and I can't talk with him about ketogenic diet, saturated fat...I think that many of the things you explain n your videos are not yet aknowledged by general pratictioners and/oe ininternationalguide lines...
Thank you so much!!!
it is a Privilege to listen to Mr. Bikman 🍀👍
Eating a Tasty Ribeye at this very moment with a couple Eggs too
That's the way to do it from a former plant based eater and now carnivore.
❤
Indeed! Carnivore is the PHD
There's No Carb or Sugar that Tastes as Awesome as I Feel and just keeps getting Better every Day 💪
THANK YOU! I now kind of follow what's happening with my lipid numbers (all fine) in the transition to low carb (now 4weeks into strict BBBE). Still pending for me the matter of weight. In due time it'll come off, I hope.🤔 Nonetheless, other health concerns are arrested already or improving.😃
That is so kind of you, @cruz5511. Certainly not expected, but much appreciated. Thank you.
Dr Bikman - Thank you, so much, for all the research you do, and the care you take to keep me informed of the truth of the matter! If I had to figure this out myself, I’d be lost. I appreciate you!
Thank you for explaining this in a way that I can actually understand! You are truly a skilled professor and researcher, and your videos are a joy to watch.
I study nutrition, but you and Dr Lustig are my real professors. Thank you ❤
Someone need to inform Ms Charmaine Dominguez about these studies. She's a plant based dietition been all over youtube making shorts telling ppl that sat fat causes IR. When I asked her to explain the mechanism she said she will once I join her free training programme. Unless she knows something Dr Bikman doesn't which I highly doubt.....
I remember those days in the 70s when professionals were quoted in women's magazines calling Dr. Atkins a "quack." And the years of not eating eggs, especially the yolks, eating oat bran muffins and taking Niacin, trying to lower cholesterol (not that mine was high, but because I didn't want it to get high). I remember, in the 1990s, when they were pushing near zero fat consumption, reading in an article in a women's magazine that we could eat as many as 3000 calories per day and not gain weight as long as there was zero fat. We always ate meat at dinner, so I struggled trying to get extremely lean meats. I remember boiling and rinsing meats, even hamburger, and trying to rinse off as much fat as possible. To this day I cannot tolerate skinless boneless chicken breast. If only I could have back those moments and the dollars and my health spent, or lost, while trying to follow bad health information.
In summary, combining high carb high saturated fat is dangerous; high saturated dietary fat on very low carb diet (e.g. Eskimos) provides zero insulin resistance worries.
Two years ago I consulted a "preventive" cardiologist for my diabetes and known coronary artery disease. He just about threw me out his office when I told him I was considering a "ketogenic" diet. Then he went on to say I needed to be on a "plant based" diet, preferably the "Mediterrranean" diet, and that I needed to immediately embark on regular injections of PCSK9 inhibitors. Unfortunately, I believe that my experience is NOT rare. Thank goodness we have great scientists like Dr. Ben Bikman to set the record straight and help us progess toward better metabolic health!
It sounds like my same cardio. Does the last name starts with K?
I was more fortunate than you. I had a heart attack during my stress test at age 46. My cardiologist was doing thr test. When itcsll settled out he told me to immediately stop being a vegan because it caused my heart issue. That was in 1998! He was way ahead of his time and I am eternally grateful. Now as a carnivore, at age 73 I'm super healthy with no heart problems and perfect blood pressure, blood sugar, weight and no joint pain. They are few and far between.
That's the same advice a woman who suffered a heart attack was given to. Now she's gorging on bread, croissants, jam and coffee loaded with sugar every morning. She is high every day from so many carbs and confident in her doctor's advice. A friend of her already passed away and was eating an extremely hypocaloric diet based on carbohydrates and veggies. She had more wrinkles than a raisin.
@@meatdog Wait. You had a heart attack 25 years ago which meant you actually had cardiovascular disease. You subsequently got off your disastrous vegan diet and went keto. Got it - makes sense. However, are you saying your keto diet stopped the progression of your CVD or the gold standard scenario, reversed it? The one instance where I've heard even keto and carnivore based physicians and influencers consistently agree is that if you've had an event is if not a statin you at least need to be on a baby aspirin even if you're keto. The CVD is still there?
Great information. Where is the reference for the paper that he mentions at 17:44? It looks like it's not in the show notes, maybe because it was so new when he made the video?
Does anyone have the citing for the “low VLDL high LDL lowers risk for heart attack” paper that he references around 18:00?
I looked for it as well - couldn't find it.
Your comments about high-carb-high-fat diets being terrible reminds me of mechanisms in the Randle Cycle. I'd love to see an episode dedicated to that topic and its relationship to insulin resistance, assuming the Randle Cycle is indeed a valid mechanism in the cells. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it works and whether its even valid.
Excellent explanation. Dr. Bikman sets the example of properly done science, and simple, easily understood concepts for the lay person.
Great subject 👌 Dr . I'm on my ketogenic way of eating (once again.) This time around is significantly different because I need to make this my lifestyle. **I am adding more fat this time. I'm adding more marbled red meat, also, extra butter to my meals to achieve longer lasting saity. I'm rarely hungry and losing about 2 lbs per week. Im 68yrs old and pretty much sedentary because of agressive, widespread osteoarthritis. I really enjoy your podcasts and shares. 🎉
Once more a metabolic lecture which is so well organized & conceptually progressive that following along & learning is a joy. Well done!!
I love nerding out with your videos; they inspire me to continue my weight loss, health journey in the most educated way. I feel 20 yrs younger with this lifestyle change. Thank you for providing us with the science. ❤
Thank you for such a well presented talk, the bravery to critique your own work and explain its misinterpretation by others. As a T1D I now better understand why, if my bsl happens to be higher than ideal, that avoiding intake of both carbs and saturated fat is best avoided, until blood glucose levels return to my normal range say, 70 to 120 mmg/dl (or 3.8 to 6.7 mmol/l. The wisdom of doing so for carbs is self-evident bot was not so much for saturated fat as perversely a highish blood glucose level sometimes makes me feel hungry. I also have found out that really those with T2D or T1D are likely to become insulin resistant to some degree- - in T1D because combating blood glucose rise with peripheral insulin administration cannot match the input and intricacy of insulin infused into the portal vein as a meal is arriving from eating, higher doses are needed. At 57 years on insulin; since age 13, and 5 years on a ketogenic diet with insulin injections (scar tissue making insulin absorption too unreliable for insulin pump infusions of insulin) consistent HBA1cs of 5.2% have made life so much better. I wish that diabetes education about low and very low carb diets included the caution about not eating carbs and saturated fats when blood glucose levels are elevated.
This is great!!! Thank you for you work and sharing this information. You are helping the world be healthier and better informed!
Have you seen or considered the studies showing C15 fatty acid deficiency as the cause of insulin resistance?
Thanks
Hi Rod. Thanks for your kind contribution. Certainly not expected, but appreciated. Thank you.
Ben there is a study that compared DASH to low carb in Type 2 diabetics. Low carb reduced blood pressure twice as much as DASH. If you put DASH into the search on Dr Berry's channel he talks about it. The study not that old.
Thank you very much for this presentation. Do you by chance have the cite for the paper at 18:00 regarding outcomes of low vldl vs ldl? Thank you
So why does the AHA recommend limiting or avoiding saturated fats then?
Their big fat ego won't allow them to admit they are wrong.
And they are still going by Ancel Keys outdated and poorly conducted research
Because Big Pharma basically are the Mafia of the health systems. Sick people are repeat customers for medication. Big Pharma has a hold over Dietician, nutrition and educational bodies, to get them to manipulate what civilians are told to make temhem stay unwell. Fortunately many like Prof Bikman and bringing truth to the forefront. I suggest if you have heart issues, follow cardiologist Dr Philip Ovadia. He is helping heal his heart patients by getting them on high fat, low carb diets. He has an amazing book, "Stay off my operating table", its a very easy read for the every day person 😊
i created a 50 s 8:20 clip where you zeroed in on emulsification / reesterification. i realize that even if it were possible to measure FFA unlike TG it's variance would be all over the map, but the energy model does seem to be the only way to think about TriGs.
At some point i would like to hear discussion on ApoB 100 vs 48 which as of now i understand to be the liver's return path from the liver along the portal vein.
I'm exteemely curious about ceremides. Are the ceremides advertised in skin lotion dangerous as they are absorbed through the skin??? And do they contribute to insulin resistance. And are they molecularly the same as blood ceremides? I have lots of questions about this process.
please identify the study you refer to at 18:00 - you state that it just came out a few weeks ago. Thank you!
1988 was a great year, not only did Calgary, AB host the Winter Olympics I was giving birth to my first child during the event in Fort Mc Murray, AB. Great memories and as well , great video.
Hi Dr. Ben. In the study you mentioned where sat fat in blood caused IR, what was the composition? Was it myristic? palmitic? stearic? lauric? capric? caprylic? caproic? All of the above? I couldn't find the study. Thanks!!!
Would you please address the causality of xanthelasma on a low carb or carnivore diet? Especially when eating large amounts of eggs? Thank you!
How long have you been eating this way?
@@jobrown8146 About 2 years. I noticed some xanthomas on the tops of my hand and on my elbow. I reduced my egg intake, thinking it was the amount of saturated fat causing it. It took about a year for the xanthomas to reverse, but then a few new ones appeared near my eyes. I also added some carbs back into my diet. Not much info available online, besides "familial hypercholesterolemia", which I don't have. My current strategy is to lower my LDL, which skyrocketed eating low-carb/near-carnivore. I do have higher HDL and low triglycerides, like a "hyper-responder".
@@jobrown8146 After eating low-carb/near-carnivore for around 2 years, I noticed some xanthomas on the top of my hand and on my elbow. I reduced the number of eggs I was eating and added some carbs back into my diet. The xanthomas reversed after about 1 year. However, a few new ones appeared near my eye. One reversed, but the others are still there, as of yet. I wish I knew the causality, so I could address this problem!
Thank you, Dr. Bickman . I always look forward to watching.
I have a problem where I have some belly fat but I’m almost underweight. What can I do? I’ve had to add back in some carbs. So around 150grams a day to stop losing weight. I eat 2 slices of seeded toast, 50grams of white rice or wholemeal pasta , 1 banana, 1 kiwi and an apple. Plus 1cup full fat milk, 3 eggs , 1 Avocado, 100 grams chicken breast, 100 grams minced beef 5%.
And what about saturated fats effect on flora which also affects insulin resistance? And Insulin resistance multifactorial? Ultraprocessed foods with refined carbs big factor in my view
I’m curious about your thoughts on total parenteral nutrition (TPN) feeding as when in the hospital and u r unable to eat by mouth. These bags have approx 15%amino acid, 65% carb, and 30% fat along with vitamins, electrolytes, etc. and are delivered via a port…so, very much like your direct infusion of saturated fat studies. I think they induce insulin resistance in the patient. My BIL, who is also a T2D is on this regimen and 1 hour after the end of a TPN cycle they check his glucose. It is always high, and if over 150, they give insulin. And the cycle repeats. Thoughts? It seems like the formula should be adapted for a T2D, perhaps. Nevermind the woefully low amino acid concentration and SAD levels of carbs for a sedentary hospital patient. Thank you, this was a really insightful and clarifying discussion.
I ate keto for quite a long time. I frustratingly never met my weight loss goals. In fact never lost much weight at all. I am now insulin resistant to the point of T2D. I recently have been trying to figure out if my homozygous APOA2 and MTHFR genetic defects could have been undermining my efforts. I don’t understand the mechanism that would change the body’s ability to deal with sat fat. Any insights?
Are you really doing a keto diet? Please follow dr berg, Dr ekberg, Dr fung for more info. All the best!
@@aristidesaint-jean2322 thank you! Yes, I have followed all those folks and more for… a decade (? Not sure how long, but a long time). But it’s only been recently that I learned about the APOA2, which supposedly can contribute to weight gain if you eat more than 20 mg Sat Fat/day. Of course on keto I was freely eating satfat. Not sure if that’s what has tripped me up but my weight is quite resistant and I’m scared to cut calories too low for fear of permanently screwing up my metabolism.
Once again another excellent talk. Could you please comment on saturated fat and Apo B. The big argument now with saturated fat is it causes an increase in Apo B.
Thank you, Dr. Bickman, for clear and understandable way of explaining complex issues!
What about the effect of genes on this, like FTO, FABP2, PPM1K, ACE, polymorphism?
Insulin Resistance is a protection mechanism of the cell against glucose. All by the beautiful mechanisms of the Randle Cycle
Thank you! This video brought together everything I’ve learned in the last year about diet and cellular metabolism.
So great to get these nuances explained - thank you - will be seeking out your books. It's almost like that WITHOUT the nuances, everyone can sometimes be right
Could you comment on your thoughts about the Randal Cycle.
Absolutely amazing episode. Your science and teachings helps me to navigate through the realm where much conflicting information is disseminated. Thank you!
Fantastic!! I wish you were able to debate those that miss speak on this subject
Thanks!
That is very kind of you, Carlos. Not at all expected buy appreciated. Thank you.
Eating fish and butter while watching this episode..
Scandalous.😅
Eggs and bacon 🎉
Fatty beef patty with salt and extra tallow for me.
Whatever you do don’t batter it!
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What the name of article/paper that was recently published that showed Higher LDL & Lower VLDL was protective?
Thank you for all you do! ❤
Excellent presentation. Thanks for sharing your helpful information.
Dr. Bikman, I say it again, you are my hero ! Your info makes my work so much better, keep it comming!
Thank you for taking the time to help all of us who aren’t doctors understand and therefore benefit from factual information.
The last study where saturated fat is combined with hypercaloric high carb diet brings to mind the Randle cycle where there’s a danger in combining fat and sugars together.
I hope he does one on how sat fat eating people are heterogeneous, there are different types. In the low carb community for instance there's plenty of people that have issues with 80g of sfa but do fine on 30g, and others who can't get enough. Our ability to digest sat fat easily seems to vary from person to person even among the fit, I would like Ben to tell us why
Great video! Thank you for demystifying the subject
In an earlier video, you told us that saturated fat boosts glucagon production and that glucagon production inhibits insulin production. From that I concluded that eating saturated fat alone would strongly reduce the bodys insulin level and thereby letting the body rest from the insulin burden and start healing the insulin resistance.
I have a severe type 2 diabetes and I am about to put this to the test. I have fasted for over a week and have regained my blood sugar control. But any intake of either carbs or protein will make my blood sugar go through the roof again, it did so the lat time I tried this. The only thing I can eat is lard.
I will for a while eat only lard "soup" with a little heavy cream to make it more palatable. After a while, I will try reintroducing protein slowly.
Do you see any faults in my logic?
Lard can be as much as 30% polyunsaturated fat. Don’t know the answer but something to consider. If you want saturated fat, beef Tallow and or butter would be a better choices.
Lard in from pork fat. Tallow is from beef.
@@davefit-areyousaturated9830 Lard is predominantly Monounsaturated fat (as in Olive Oil) Generally, 45% MUFA, 40% SatFat, and 15% PUFA although it does fluctuate. When you cook with Lard there are few unstable double bonds to break and form more dangerous compounds. (Certainly fewer than cooking in seed oil) And is technically delicious.
@@davefit-areyousaturated9830 unfortunatly I cannot get enough tallow, the price is way too high in Norway.
I will try butter, I am a bit sceptic about the carbs and protein, but the levels are low enough to try.
I am happy to report that butter seems to work well. Last night I went for a short but very hard walk in a long steep hill, so my legs really felt the burn for about 15 minutes.
Before bed I ate all the butter my body felt like having.
I went to bed with a glucose level of 158 and woke up with 99🤩
I know from experience that the exercise alone could not make such a massive difference.
On a keto diet I eat huge amounts of saturated fat through bacon, red meat, eggs etc. and my triglycerides are ROCK bottom at 43 and HDL is a VERY healthy 84 and my waste circumference is 34. Take that food industry that's forever trying to hook me on carbs!
How many grams a day?
I just started this diet and im at 100g a day, 200g total fat
Are yall sure this isn’t to much saturated fat 100g
What is the required role for insulin resistance and how & when is that a benefit?
I LOL when you said miserable diet. You NEVER complain, judge harshly, or made jokes. You are so very straight up. I was so surprised when you used the word miserable that it got me. Not to encourage you too much but that little Segway from your usual personality was great. Excellent work. This is an important topic and you are the first I’ve seen tackle this saturated fat in so much detail. I watch because I have stubborn high trigs. They do go down on low carb but I worry about the fat. My gene report from FYF by Dr. Rhonda Patrick says I might have trouble metabolizing saturated fat. I’m supposed to increase monounsaturated fat. I think better outcomes like Bp,sleep, trigs might be more important.
Dr. Bikman is very good at making jokes in his lectures. I wouldn't say this is done rarely. He's commented on being a freckled bald guy, working out to keep his wife attracted to him, being unable to control his urges when there is cereal in the house, etc. He's a very humble man with a gift from God to teach in a way that we all stay engaged and actually learn the complex concepts while being entertained.
There has been talk about that odd chain saturated fatty acid are more beneficial vs even chain ones. What's Dr. Bikmens opinion about that?
Thanks for your videos. If I can ask a couple of questions: Why do some people need several 100 units of insulin per day -- so much more than others? And why do some Type 2 report that they lose a noticeable amount of weight before diagnosis?
The more carbs and sugary foods ysoneone eats they need more insulin .
When pancreas gets very weak and insulin production drops so much causes the person to loose weight.
Not sure what you mean, but I am interested! Could you clarify .
Some people are mistakenly diagnosed as T2 when they are T1.
Hi Prof Bikman. Re: your last point (hypercaloric diets), have you considered the role of MASLD, which will be almost always present in this population? In such cases, the liver is overdressed and has too much other higher priority task load, than processing fat properly?
In the case of carb free diet do the consumed saturated fats simply burn or they are actually used by the body in a construction of hormones and other anabolic processes thereby increasing energy demand and burning fat stored in fat cells?
@@redneckcoder thank you. what does it mean to be in an anabolic state? I thought metabolism implied a state in which both anabolic and catabolic processes happen all the time.
@@vadimkravets9209 Both!
What amount of carbohydrates per day, are considered low?
My blood pressure is high, my fasting insulin is good, A1c good, triglycerides 141, ldl a little high 109, HDL low.
Shbg high.
I know it can be a million things, but my Dad says drinking more water will probably help the high blood pressure, but does anyone else got any suggestions? I’d rather not take meds if I don’t have to.
Thanks!
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?
A large number of people today have had their gall bladders removed and the trend is now moving into the younger generation (perhaps due to the consumption of seed oils in the diet). However, those who do not have a gallbladder often don’t have the concentration of bile necessary to break down (emulsify) those fats adequately. Could this be a contributing factor in insulin resistance similar to putting the fatty acid directly into the blood stream or a petrie dish?
I had this exact same question. I had mine removed when I was 28 after having my daughter. I’m wondering if the undigested saturated fats would cause problems only if the person continued to eat a certain threshold of carbs. If there isn’t a need for as much insulin due to being keto for example, maybe the effects of undigested saturated fat are mitigated.
I would love if Dr. Bikman would weigh in with his great deal of knowledge on this topic.
Good question!
Thanks for such good information, Dr Lustig ngave proof that only sucrose is converted into fats in the liver and not glucose ,, kindly elaborate
What about the fact that saturated fat raising ApoB and Lp(a)?
I eat about 70g of saturated fat a day and I'm lean my triglycerides are half that of my HDL. my fasting blood sugar is about 60-70. blood pressure is 100/60 on average etc
I believe all this. But what explains the high correlation between red meat intake and CVD?
I have a question that is not directly related to the topic of this video. A year or so ago, you delivered a talk on the effect of ketones on mitochondrial biology. You stated that evidence from cell cultures and rodent studies revealed that ketones have a beneficial effect on mitrodondria by stimulating their biogenesis and promoting fusion. You mentioned that human studies were being done to validate these findings or something along these lines, and I am wondering if there has been such a thing? If not, how would you go about validating these results, and what barriers are preventing researchers from doing so?
Thank you!
Thank you❤ so much for all your hard work and wisdom ! Greatly appreciated!!
Your primer on the digestion of fat is by far more complete than any I have ever heard. Including the lymphatic system has never been included and so I imagine can explain so much auto immune issues.
I was under the impression that saturated fat led to high LDL (and APOB) which then led to plaque buildup. Should the discussion of saturated fats include the full impact it has?
That involves the decades of lies about LDL and saturated fat. Another rabbit hole lol
One question, what happens if you had your Gall Bladder removed?????
Storage is smaller. Liver still makes gall to digest fat.
At around minute 14 he’s talking about the saturated fat diet experiment where the plasma levels of saturated fat didn’t go up, even though the people were eating more much more. However, he mentioned it was a ketogenic diet and DoctorEran Elianiv,MD an Israeli micro biome researcher stated that they found that the worst diet was saturated fat combined with refine carbohydrates. Now most people don’t eat a ketogenic diet, so I didn’t hear Ben state that the experiment was also done with increasing saturated fats with people eating the standard American diet, which contains a lot of refined carbs. that may make All the difference.
Professor Bikman, please answer this question for me. What amount of insulin is produced within the body when on a carnivore diet? How much insulin is stored for use at whatever time went on the carnivore diet? Dr. Robert Lustig alluded in one of his lectures for the levels podcast that the body simply stores up All sorts of insulin when on a carnivore diet and when you eat carbs, the body digest and stores those carbs as fat with massive amounts of stored insulin. That did not make sense to me with what I have learned about carnivore and insulin production. Thank you for the informative lecture series, they are wonderful.
Hi Professor Bikman, does the "Randle Cycle" explain the danger of combining fats and carbohydrates?
@@jamestdingle7963 Yes.
Thank you dr Bikman from Ireland. I'm doing keto not for weightloss, always been active with running and exercise, but for general health, joint pain, menopause symptoms and 3 weeks in feeling much better with less pain and headaches and leaner. Had to pare back running as struggled with energy but looking into z2 training to build it up again as I get more used to the fat/protein. Started keto when researching interventions for my adult daughter who has asd/adhd, unfortunately she has had enough of trying diets over the years gluten free dairy free GAPS(version of keto) as her mental health makes her very food insecure. I was looking into exogenous ketones for her while she eats a standard healthish diet, to use to bypass the glucose system but after listening to how carbs and fats together are not a good idea I'm back to square one with that. Going to watch your video on the randke system again. Also looking into supplementing bhb. I'll continue with keto myself, struggled a bit with the meat part and getting the calories in as a nearly lifelong vegetarian at age 55, but getting there and using dairy to bulk my diet if i cant stomach as much meat. Thanks so much for such well researched and well presented information dr Bikman, I really enjoy your videos🙌
My doctor thinks I should go on statins, LDL 150, HDL 74, triglycerides 61. Please give me your opinion Dr. thank you!
I took these notes after listening to one of Ben Bikman‘s podcasts:
“Triglycerides divided by HDL cholesterol. If that number is 1.5 or less, you are most likely insulin sensitive (favorable)
If that number is higher, you are insulin resistant. (unfavorable)
HDL to Triglycerides should be 1:1 or higher: 2:1, 3:1, etc. For good heart health. (Less chance of heart attack)”
It sounds like your labs are good! From everything I’ve learned, statins are not a beneficial drug. They have not been shown to reduce mortality, and they have many serious side effects. Side effects include: muscle pain and weakness, sexual dysfunction, mental fogginess, gastric pain and upset, increased blood glucose, and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
From what I’ve been learning, statins are the most profitable drug for the pharmaceutical industry. So, it will take a while before the tide shifts from doctors prescribing statins and articles stop promoting them.
Thank you so much, I have had sleepless nights over this.
Thanks Dr Bickman for the valuable info. Do you or anyone else in comments have a link to the study that was mentioned in the video about 17:45 showing that low vldl and high ldl resulted in the lowest risk of heart attack ?
I believe my team put the links at the bottom of the notes.
@@benbikman None of those links are to papers from 2024, which is when you said the paper came out.