Podcast
The Big Middle
Hosted by Susan Flory · EN
Conversations about living healthier, happier, longer
Health | Nutrition Science | Longevity | Demography
#EatRealFood #OlderNotOver
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Ben Bikman
Mar 25, 2021Tap to summarizeMany thanks for your emails, reviews and tweets of appreciation of my latest run of episodes on maximising your metabolic health with Prof Tim Noakes, Graham Philliips and Tucker Goodrich.I’m delighted to spoil you now with none other than Ben Bikman, bioenergetics PhD, superstar scientist.He is it when it comes to researching the role of insulin and fat cells in what he calls the Plagues of Prosperity - "The human race is eating itself into metabolic disarray".He has his own obesity and metabolism research lab at Brigham Young University. We get into all of it - the Prof Ben Bikman motherlode and then some. He kindly goes off piste, giving me a hugely personal masterclass on menopause, pregnancy, puberty, miscarriage, estrogen and metabolic rates.You'll learn:How insulin resistance is the root cause of modern chronic diseases"The key to metabolic flexibility is getting insulin sensitive and allowing the body to shift between [sugar-burning and fat-burning] fuels"Why we all need to care about our insulin levels, even in our 20s and 30sHow insulin fertilizes fat cells and those secrete problematic hormonesWhy "hunger always wins" if your get-healthier strategy is eating lots of carbs and counting caloriesGlucagon and why protein doesn't mean trouble if you keep your blood sugar lowWhat fat and leptin have to do with infertility - "Fat is essential to human fertility"We also talk puberty, pregnancy, menopause, estrogen, metabolic rates, vegan ideology - "A purely vegan diet is incompatible with human survival" - and the "absolutely laughable and harmful" push to manufacture protein alternatives from plants and from animal cells - "I grow muscle cells in my lab.. that is a shockingly intensive process that involves a myriad of chemicals, hormones included"What a guy. So much knowledge shared with so much clarity, charisma and humility. You'll understand why his students adore him and why you'll want to listen to this one more than twice. Enjoy! LinksBen's new book Why We Get SickBen on "Insulin v Glucagon: The relevance of dietary protein" - from 2018's Low Carb Down UnderPCOS in young women + mild insulin resistanceFasting respiratory exchange ratio and resting metabolic rate as predictors of weight gain: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on AgingThat "moment of weakness" Cold Cereal Lesson videoInsulinIQThe Clean Label ProjectBen on Twitter Support The Big MiddleSponsorDonate for a dedication Follow The Big MiddleWebsite I Twitter I Facebook I InstagramHosted + produced by Susan FloryMusic: “Beautiful Day” by Sahin Koc
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David Sinclair
Jan 17, 2019Tap to summarizeWill 2019 be the year we get closer to reaping a longevity dividend? How do we make the most of our ageing society when inequality, inertia and ageism skew the experience of living healthy, longer lives? I put these questions and more to David Sinclair, director of the UK's International Longevity Centre, a think tank exploring the impact of longevity on society. Hear what when: Work of the International Longevity Centre, funding, process The global challenges and opportunities of healthy, longer lives New stage or stages of life emerging during classic midlife retirement years “We’ve got no plan over what this stage is for. Governments are terrified about trying to tell people what it’s for, probably quite rightly, individuals haven’t planned for it… and our lives are going to be different to how our parents and grandparents did live.” How encourage positive attitudes towards ageing, culture change and redesign age-specific policies and expectations I question the need for innovation to specifically target older consumers. Do they really want/need different things? Don’t your passions dictate what you want to buy, no matter your age? While olders spend less than youngers, makers are missing a trick by not catering to discerning over-50s who don’t mind paying for a bespoke service / experience His biggest concerns around general lack of preparedness to deal with ageing populations Economic imperative for corporates to retain / hire older workers How address general complacency of all sectors of society to meet need to redesign jobs recognising and valuing greater empathy levels of olders? There’s a big advocacy gap in UK, suggests follow Norway’s example and appoint a minister of the future Startling statistic showing historic decline in UK deployment of older workers: “While we’ve seen growth in the proportion of people working longer, it’s still only 12 or 13 percent of people 65 working. A hundred years ago, seven in 10 men worked until 65. Now, it’s 12 in 100.” How happened? If he were minister of everything, how deliver significant societal change and fight ageism? Takeaways from ILC’s Future of Ageing conference last November? The importance of injecting some fun and lightness into the heaviness around discussion of ageing - nothing is age-inappropriate Reasons to be hopeful? Corporates ahead of governments when it comes to adapting offerings and services to match reality of demographic shifts On the ILC agenda this year? Links International Longevity Centre website ILC call for more government engagement on ageing David on Twitter ####Follow The Big Middle Website I Twitter I Facebook I Instagram Hosted + produced by Susan Flory Music: “Beautiful Day” by Sahin Koc
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