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#162 Low Insulin the Key to Everything | Conversation with Influential Health Leader & Metabolic Researcher Dr. Benjamin Bikman

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What's So Important About Insulin Resistance?

When the fat cell becomes hypertrophic Yeah, it starts releasing a lot of free fatty acids into the bloodstream and at the same time these pro-inflammatory Signaling molecules that I again that I said are cytokines. The combination of those Results in other cells all around the body like everywhere from top to bottom Starts creating within the cell. So when ceramides are accumulating in a cell when insulin comes to the cell to try to tell the cell to do something Then it gets disrupted basically ceramides kind of block that effect.

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