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Achieving Longevity and Healing through Food: A Deep Dive | Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Md

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Effects of Obesity on Metabolic Health

There has been this idea that's become more prevalent or certainly has got more exposure metabolically healthy obesity so I wanted to get your view on whether being overweight is always unhealthy. Does it have to do with the fat distribution whether it's subcutaneous or visceral how would you sort of recommend someone navigates this? You see higher rates of insulin production before the glucose starts to become metabolically determined to be high even if a normal glucose big fat on the body makes you insulin resistance and you have to produce more insulin to keep the glucose in the normal range now that pancreas is working overtime rightSo you're working overtime and higher levels of insulin are metabolically and lifespan unfavorably they

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