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Why We Get Sick

The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease - and How to Fight It

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Why We Get Sick

By: Benjamin Bikman PhD
Narrated by: George Newbern
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A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease, to a common root cause - insulin resistance - and shares an easy, effective plan to reverse and prevent it.

We are sick. Around the world, we struggle with diseases that were once considered rare. Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes affect millions each year; many people are also struggling with hypertension, weight gain, fatty liver, dementia, low testosterone, menstrual irregularities and infertility, and more. We treat the symptoms, not realizing that all of these diseases and disorders have something in common.

Each of them is caused or made worse by a condition known as insulin resistance. And you might have it. Odds are you do - more than half of all adults in the United States are insulin resistant, with most other countries either worse or not far behind.

In Why We Get Sick, internationally renowned scientist and pathophysiology Professor Benjamin Bikman explores why insulin resistance has become so prevalent and why it matters. Unless we recognize it and take steps to reverse the trend, major chronic diseases will be even more widespread. But reversing insulin resistance is possible, and Bikman offers an evidence-based plan to stop and prevent it, with helpful food lists, meal suggestions, easy exercise principles, and more. Full of surprising research and practical advice, Why We Get Sick will help you to take control of your health.

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©2020 Benjamin Bikman (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
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This book is so well presented and argued! The basic thesis, now widely taken up, researched and written about, is that the key to becoming healthy is recognising insulin and the presence or reduction of insulin in the blood, not glucose, as a marker of our health. Further, Dr Bikman shows that a high fat diet that radically reduces or eliminates carbohydrates from the diet is necessary and is virtually the only healthy way to combat and reverse insulin resistance. What he has to say is life changing and ought to be a must-read for all health workers, nutritionists, doctors and anyone involved in health care and those involved in promoting dietary advice from the government down.

A brilliant book with an incisive and life changing analysis.

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I found this book not only had a lot of useful information, but generally is very motivating to do the changes and I am already seeing the impacts on the scale and on my mental health. I found so much useful, research supported information, that I will be going back and re-reading this book again.

An absolute treasure trove!

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Very good and informative information on Insulin.

I will be putting this into practice from now on.

Very Good Book

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Loved it, I e will need to revisit it many times to refresh my memory of some of the facts and figures but very enlightening.

Very informative

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Great eye-opening book that gives deep knowledge about how the body works and how it get fat and sick. Things that the old nutritional "science" never answered (and also made all my older relatives sick)

Super interesting from first to last page

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