
261: How to Prevent Insulin Resistance and Reverse Chronic Disease | Benjamin Bikman, PhD
The Genius Life
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The Fat Cell and Insulin Resistance
The body has an ideal amount of fat storage above which when the threshold is surpassed, now the body starts to become insulin resistant. Triglycerides are metabolically inert and do not cause insulin resistance. The problem with that kind of lipotoxicity, ectopic fat storage idea is that when we store the fat in other tissues, we store it as triglycerides.
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