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124: Why We Get Fat, How to Fix Insulin Resistance, IGF-1 and Cancer | Benjamin Bikman, PhD

The Genius Life

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Overweight Breakdown: Hyperplastic vs Hypertrophic

This chapter explores the classification of overweight individuals into hyperplastic and hypertrophic categories and speculates on the percentages of each based on available data. It discusses the alarming statistic that only 12% of people are metabolically healthy and challenges the conventional wisdom of eating less and exercising more as a solution to obesity.

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