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What Diary of a CEO says about nutrition & diet

Everything Diary of a CEO and guests said about nutrition & diet across 45 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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A new paper links non-nutritive (diet) sweetener consumption to dementia via reactive oxygen species.
00:15:36Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Lustig debuts his theory that Alzheimer's stems from a mitochondrial ATP energy crisis, not just genetics - 95% of risk is environmental.
00:16:41Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Reveals he secretly re-engineered 18 products for a Kuwaiti food company (Gratus/KDD) to be metabolically healthy without hurting sales or profits.
00:35:38Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Discloses a private half-hour December 2024 phone call with RFK Jr. that was supposed to be about food but was entirely about vaccines.
00:46:33Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Says he was asked to serve in the administration four times and declined each time because his views clash with RFK Jr.'s.
00:39:51Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Claims only one-third of people respond to GLP-1 drugs and that the weight lost is half muscle, half fat - essentially induced starvation.
01:14:13Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Testified before Congress to get soda removed from SNAP/food stamps.
01:25:36Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Names ketchup, white rice and orange juice as foods he wrongly believed were healthy until using a glucose monitor.
01:41:42Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
There are 262 different names for sugar, and the food industry uses all of them.
00:00:31Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
About 73% of items in the American grocery store are effectively poison.
00:00:31Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Caffeine works by blocking the adenosine receptor, preventing the sleep signal.
00:17:45Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Only about 5% of Alzheimer's is genetic; 95% of the risk is environmental.
00:26:43Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Pipedrive claims teams using it close on average three times more deals.
00:55:27Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Serotonin is made from tryptophan, the rarest amino acid, found in eggs, chicken and fish - not ultra-processed food.
01:06:26Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
About 90% of the body's serotonin is made in the gut and travels to the brain via the vagus nerve.
01:07:58Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
A can of Coca-Cola contains about 39 grams of sugar - roughly 40% sugar.
01:21:57Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Heinz ketchup is about half high-fructose corn syrup.
01:41:12Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Psychedelics act as serotonin mimics that can 'fill in the ruts' and rewire belief systems on MRI.
01:42:12Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
70% of all hip fractures happen in women, and 30% of the time a hip fracture leads to death within one year.
00:01:02Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Each expert reveals their own training; Wright, firmly postmenopausal, still does all of it and punches the treadmill to 11 to hit a heart rate of ~186.
01:14:49Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Choosing to be a caregiver for a parent with dementia carries a 60% increased risk of death even after genetics are removed.
01:21:34Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Bartlett discloses he is a co-owner and investor in Ketone IQ, the exogenous ketone product he then promotes.
02:00:25Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Wright reveals she personally supplements with NMN and measures her own intracellular NAD+ levels for longevity.
02:08:15Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
The panel warns GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic don't burn fat — they stop you eating, so without lifting and protein you lose muscle and bone ('Goodbye biceps').
01:33:25Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
A study found women who were sexually abused, and whose children were abused, went through menopause about nine years sooner — implicating chronic emotional stress.
02:16:32Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
More than 50% of women with sleep apnea go undiagnosed because they present differently than men, leading to shorter lives and more Alzheimer's.
02:28:25Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Hormones and the gut are a two-way street: your hormones influence your gut and your gut influences your hormones.
00:04:09Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Pilates and yoga build control, balance and core strength but won't build the muscle and bone density that true heavy strength training does.
00:17:12Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Women can lose 15-20% of their bone density during perimenopause from loss of estrogen alone.
00:38:00Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Dr. Beck's 'Lift More' study had osteoporotic women safely lift heavy (5 reps near failure) under supervision — none broke and they built bone.
00:45:17Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
A weekly plan: knee-dominant squats one day, push/pull upper body another, posterior chain (deadlifts, hip thrusts) a third, plus jumps and sprints.
00:53:00Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Sprint intervals can be just 30 seconds all-out with 2-3 minutes full recovery, repeated four times — and a 4x4 VO2 max session needs doing only once a week.
00:55:05Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Experts recommend roughly 1 gram of protein per ideal pound of bodyweight, far above the RDA 'survival dose' of 0.8 g/kg.
01:42:18Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
You'd need to eat about 22 chicken breasts to get the creatine that a 3-5 g daily supplement provides.
02:02:30Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Multi-day and water fasts mostly benefit men; for women they can promote visceral fat, inflammation and shut down hormones — and the autophagy benefits can be gained from exercise instead.
02:09:48Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Soy products can be protective: people with higher soy intake had the lowest BPA levels and better reproductive performance.
02:17:35Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright & Dr. Natalie Crawford · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Izadi developed a binge eating disorder, using food as a drug without realizing it at the time.
00:03:36Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
She secretly got a gastric band fitted, then had to have it removed by emergency surgery.
00:04:07Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
Her therapist asked 'what if you never change?', which triggered her breakthrough to stop putting life on hold.
00:09:21Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
She kept having the band tightened on purpose because she didn't want to be allowed to overeat, viewing it as self-punishment.
00:42:22Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
When told the band had to be removed, she burst into tears of joy because she hated the lying, shame and guilt.
00:43:56Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
Her mission is for diet-driven binge eating, powerlessness and lack of trust to 'die with my generation'.
00:55:24Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
Her stammer was a trauma response from childhood, and self-compassion work has largely calmed it.
00:48:39Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
She did an undergrad in psychosocial sciences in Norwich, a postgrad in psychology, then worked for the NHS in substance misuse in Northwest London.
00:01:33Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
Born in North London to Iranian parents who came during the revolution; her first language is Farsi.
00:02:36Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
In the 1990s, GPs would put bullied overweight children on diets as standard practice.
00:06:42Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
A key reason people fail at change is fixating on the long-term outcome instead of the in-the-moment conversation with themselves.
00:12:25Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
She uses the analogy of denying a child a daily treat: expect the crying, hold compassion and firmness, repeat until it's easy.
00:33:06Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
To resist late-night Deliveroo orders she deletes the app and removes saved card and address details to add friction.
00:35:42Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
She used to sleep in her gym kit to remove friction from exercising.
00:36:13Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
She writes down anxious predictions and reviews them later as evidence that feared outcomes rarely happen.
00:48:39Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
Before big podcasts she writes herself a letter preempting the post-event second-guessing, 'playing the tape forward' as in addiction work.
00:50:11Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
During lockdown she gained weight without judgment and saw it as a valuable lesson that body fluctuation didn't matter.
00:51:43Shahroo Izadi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2023
Allen says research shows blue light from digital screens does not increase the risk of aging eye diseases and blue-light glasses may just be placebo.
00:00:42Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Recounts catching a Roth spot in a healthy 20-year-old's eye that revealed a life-threatening platelet disorder; she later said he saved her life.
00:07:48Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
States myopia cannot be truly reversed because it stems from elongation of the eyeball, and people claiming otherwise are usually selling something.
00:21:16Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Describes the first-ever whole-eye transplant, which connected to the optic nerve and shows brain activity but no eyesight yet.
00:30:44Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Warns against sungazing, citing a patient with permanent solar retinopathy blind spots from staring at the sun.
00:59:24Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Cites a 2024 study: 2.7+ servings of leafy greens a week plus oily fish cut macular degeneration progression risk by 41%.
01:05:18Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Reveals the 'carrots improve eyesight' belief was WWII British propaganda to hide radar from the Germans.
01:07:22Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
About 30% of the world is nearsighted now; by 2050 it is projected to be 50%, and 80-90% in parts of East Asia.
00:01:00Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Just 1mm of eyeball growth shifts your glasses prescription by about three diopters.
00:16:06Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Studies suggest 90 minutes to two hours of outdoor time a day can offset near-work and delay myopia onset.
00:18:41Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
The eye holds the highest concentration of vitamin C in the body, bathing the lens to slow oxidation.
00:33:50Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Moving your phone back to twice the distance cuts blue-light exposure by about 75%.
00:36:30Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Studies show poor sleep and stress don't objectively change under-eye dark circles, only your subjective perception of them.
00:44:52Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Roughly 50-60% of the fatty acid in retinal photoreceptors is DHA omega-3.
01:09:59Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Your chance of developing eye floaters rises about 10% per decade of life, reaching ~80% by age 80.
01:27:43Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Looking at the sun for just a few seconds can burn permanent holes in the retina's macula.
01:00:32Dr. Joseph Allen · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Says for the first time publicly he believes the COVID vaccine has had a 'catastrophic net negative effect' on society.
00:00:00Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Claims a whistleblower told him a research team buried vaccine-linked artery inflammation findings to protect drug-industry funding.
00:21:18Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Reveals the Royal College of Physicians accused him of spreading 'anti-vax misinformation' and threatened sanctions.
00:27:28Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Cites a reanalysis claiming a 1-in-800 serious-harm rate from the vaccine, higher than COVID hospitalization risk early on.
00:29:33Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Says the BMA chairman told him senior policy doctors got their vaccine information mainly from the BBC.
00:50:48Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Alleges his critic Prof Mark Dwek and the UK regulator MHRA are heavily pharma-funded (MHRA 86% industry funded).
01:03:12Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
States statins extend life by only about 4.2 days over five years per industry-sponsored trials.
01:28:05Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Describes an Indian study where Raj Yoga meditation was the only independent factor reversing artery blockages.
01:44:17Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
By 2030 an estimated 23.3 million people will die yearly from heart disease globally.
00:09:21Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Around 80% of a person's LDL cholesterol is genetically determined.
01:18:18Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Insulin resistance is described as the most important biological driver of arterial plaque.
01:30:42Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
The WHO max added-sugar limit is six teaspoons a day; one famous soft drink can holds about nine.
01:33:21Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Ultra-processed food makes up over 50% of UK calories and over 60% in the US, linked to 32+ conditions.
01:38:05Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Only one in eight US adults has all five metabolic-health markers in the normal range.
01:40:39Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Chronic stress carries a heart-disease risk comparable to smoking, diabetes or high blood pressure.
01:42:11Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Roughly 11% of elite athletes by age 50 show severe arterial blockages; excess exercise can harm the heart.
01:51:36Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
In cold-virus inoculation studies, only one in three socially connected people developed colds versus two in three lonely people.
01:55:12Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Szal reveals her own ACE childhood-trauma score is 6 out of 10.
00:13:36Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Recounts that her doctor pushed Prozac and birth control, so she ordered her own labs and found cortisol three times normal and pre-diabetes in her 30s.
00:16:43Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Claims high cortisol shrinks the brain in women but not men, starting in midlife.
00:23:28Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Discloses she had anorexia as a teen and bulimia through her 20s and 30s.
01:01:46Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Argues birth control pills can shrink the clitoris by up to 20% and that women rarely get full informed consent.
01:16:21Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Shares that she divorced two years ago after 20 years of marriage and started psychedelic-assisted therapy hoping to save it.
01:17:58Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Says in her 50s she is having the best sex of her life and talks candidly about polarity and domination.
01:41:34Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Bartlett highly recommends her newest book, The Autoimmune Cure.
01:55:05Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Around 90% of the 40,000 patients she has tested have a cortisol problem.
00:00:32Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
About 70% of the diseases we face are preventable with lifestyle medicine.
00:10:58Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
There are more than 700 known endocrine disruptors, including BPA, parabens, and flame retardants.
00:26:03Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Roughly 70-80% of people are deficient in vitamin D, which has about 400 jobs in the body.
00:32:14Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Testosterone is the most abundant hormone in the female body, higher than estrogen or progesterone.
00:47:05Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Liverpool University research suggests barefoot-style shoes can increase foot strength by up to 60% over six months.
00:58:35Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
The average American gets about 14g of fiber a day versus a recommended 30-40g; paleolithic ancestors got 50-100g.
00:59:07Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Perimenopause has more than 100 symptoms and typically begins between ages 35 and 45.
01:12:41Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Women are about 14 times more likely to be raped and have four times the rate of autoimmune disease compared to men.
01:35:22Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Only about 2% of the population carries the 'short sleep gene'; everyone else needs to optimize sleep.
01:50:27Dr. Sara Szal · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2025
Claims there is a 'canyon' between what science knows about pregnancy nutrition and what mothers are actually told.
00:14:29Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Argues the 'bun in the oven' metaphor is a lie because a baby is co-created during pregnancy, not set at conception.
00:15:30Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
States 90% of mothers do not get enough choline during pregnancy and only 6% of doctors mention it.
00:21:43Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Cites the 1940-1953 UK sugar ration as a natural experiment: babies in the womb during it had 15% lower lifetime type 2 diabetes risk.
00:27:30Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Reveals she was on the cusp of prediabetes at 25 and suspects roots in her mother's high-sugar pregnancy diet.
00:29:36Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Shares she had a silent miscarriage in 2024, finding out at the 3-month scan that the embryo had stopped developing a month earlier.
01:00:34Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Says if she could change one thing, she'd outlaw food marketing and health claims like 'no added sugars'.
01:31:38Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Compares a baby to a seed and the mother's body to soil that co-creates how the baby 'grows'.
00:48:45Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
A study using voodoo dolls found spouses with the most glucose lows stuck the most pins in dolls of their partners.
00:03:04Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
A glass of orange juice and a can of Coke contain about the same 25g of sugar, the WHO daily maximum.
00:07:13Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Four eggs a day (about $7 for 28 eggs) supplies the ~450mg of choline a baby needs to build its brain.
00:22:47Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
In a Cornell study, babies of high-choline mothers had 10% faster reaction times, a marker correlated with adult IQ.
00:24:52Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
You form your roughly 100 billion neurons in the womb and never replace them; they're made at 250,000 per minute.
00:32:42Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Calf raises engage the soleus muscle, which soaks up glucose and reduces a spike after eating something sweet.
00:40:29Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Alcohol crosses freely to the baby, so a glass of wine while pregnant means the baby is effectively drinking too.
00:50:48Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
One in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage, usually in the first trimester.
01:02:37Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Stanford research shows just 5 hours of sleep raises hunger hormone ghrelin by ~15% and lowers satiety hormone leptin by ~15%.
01:14:31Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
An avocado and a donut can both be 200 calories yet have vastly different effects, so calories are a poor measure of food.
01:28:34Jessie Inchauspé · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Claims the original papers blaming amyloid plaques for Alzheimer's were based on fabricated, fraudulent data, undermining billions in research.
00:53:34Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Cites a Swedish study finding the longest-lived people had good glucose control AND high cholesterol, challenging the war on cholesterol.
01:18:38Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
States a type 1 diabetic who skips insulin literally cannot get fat even eating 10,000 calories, calling it proof insulin, not calories alone, drives fat.
00:28:07Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Says step-five trial data show 40% of weight lost on GLP-1 drugs comes from lean mass including muscle and bone.
02:26:57Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Claims cutting salt makes people more insulin resistant and that salt restriction can worsen blood pressure.
02:14:18Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Cites a book titled to the effect that 'vegetarians have smaller brains,' arguing the brain depends on animal-sourced nutrients.
00:39:02Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Argues liposuction is metabolically dangerous because removing fat cells forces remaining cells to enlarge and worsen health.
02:35:53Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Around 88% of US adults have some degree of insulin resistance.
00:00:30Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Women are universally fatter than men but metabolically healthier because they have more, smaller fat cells.
00:23:55Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
The 'expensive tissue hypothesis' holds that eating meat shrank our intestines and grew our brains, which thrive on ketones.
00:36:56Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
A six-month-old baby reaches deeper ketosis in two hours than an adult does after two days of fasting.
00:37:29Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Breast tumor tissue can have seven times more insulin receptors than the healthy tissue beside it.
00:49:25Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Bikman's lab found belly fat's metabolic rate was three times higher when subjects were in ketosis.
01:35:47Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
In the UK, 69% of people quit GLP-1 drugs within two years, often regaining fat but not lost muscle or bone.
02:32:48Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
The longest verified fast was a UK man who went 384 days without eating, under medical supervision, and lived healthily.
02:52:58Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Many people with insulin resistance have normal blood glucose; it is high insulin levels that reveal the problem.
01:01:22Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
A study found GLP-1 drug users' risk of suicidal thoughts doubled and major depression risk tripled.
02:31:13Dr. Benjamin Bikman · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Claims he is 'absolutely convinced' nitric oxide will eradicate and cure Alzheimer's because it addresses every root cause of the disease.
00:00:00Dr. Nathan Bryan · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2025

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