[Dr. Bikman]
88% of adult Americans are metabolically unhealthy. It’s the epidemic that almost no one is talking about, but it’s making us sicker and fatter.

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Leading metabolic scientist and best-selling author, Dr. Ben Bikman, has conducted extensive research over the last decade to finally crack the code to lasting weight loss, improved metabolism, enhanced brain and gut health and more.

[Dr. Bikman]
My research has shown that you can safely lose weight, keep it off and improve your health with just a simple, yet powerful shift in your diet.

[Dr. Bikman]
We’ve all heard questionable information and advice about health and weight loss over the years. It could be from well-intentioned friends, a story on the Internet, celebrity statements on social media, or the latest news story.

Some of this misinformation is from a basic misunderstanding, some of it is willful deception to push an agenda, but almost all of it has absolutely no basis in human clinical research, and it’s hurting a lot of people’s health and weight.

Let’s explore the four worst myths when it comes to health and weight loss:

Myth #1 – You have a slow metabolism

Myth #2 – Exercise can make up for a bad diet

Myth #3 – Just reduce calories to lose weight

Myth #4 – A low-fat diet is the best for weight loss

Let’s explore these one at a time.

Myth #1 – You have a slow metabolism

Many people believe that as we age, our metabolism (the rate at which we utilize calories for energy) decreases. Not so. Contrary to popular belief, our metabolic rate doesn’t change as we age. Instead, metabolism is almost always coupled to our body weight. In other words, when someone starts to gain weight, their metabolic rate will actually go up. And if they lose weight, their metabolic rate will go down.

Instead of metabolism slowing down, far more people “break” their metabolism by following poor advice. You’re probably aware of a popular weight loss reality show where people starve themselves and exercise like crazy to lose an incredible amount of weight in a relatively short period of time. That can certainly work in the short-term, but there’s a reason you never see reunion shows on these weight loss programs – they don’t work long-term. As these people inevitably get back in the real world, they start gaining weight again and their metabolism doesn’t match it; it doesn’t come back up as body weight goes up.

They’ve effectively broken their metabolic rate, and that makes all the weight, and then some, come right back. Fortunately, by carefully managing the three macronutrients [protein, fats and carbohydrates], you can help get things back to normal.

Myth #2 – Exercise can make up for a bad diet

You’ve probably heard that a good workout can compensate for a bad diet. That you can “burn off” that treat or poor food choice. That’s simply not the case for almost anyone.

While everyone should exercise, it’s less for weight loss than it is for overall health including heart and brain health, and maintaining strength and balance as you age.

But that doesn’t mean you can outrun, or out-exercise a bad diet. Even the heaviest workouts will only burn a few hundred calories, while eating the wrong kinds of food are not only resistant to being ‘burned’, they actively encourage your body to store fat.

While your diet likely got you into the shape you’re in, the good news is that it also can help get you into much better shape now and in the future.

Myth #3 – Just reduce calories to lose weight

You’ve been told that you simply need to eat fewer calories to lose weight. While this can work and is technically true, it’s something that has been proven time and again to not be an effective approach that you can live with for the long-term. The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly, hunger always wins. You can starve yourself for a period of time, but as I shared earlier, it will harm your health, and you’ll eventually cave into hunger. The second reason is even more important: you’re eating the wrong calories. The body doesn’t treat all calories the same. 2,000 calories of soda pop are NOT treated the same within the body as 2,000 calories of properly balanced proteins and fats. One essentially kills the body and makes you fat and sick, while the other sustains life and helps you thrive.

Further, the calories you eat tremendously impact your body’s systems and hormones. Depending on what you eat determines if you’ll burn calories, store calories, or even efficiently waste or eliminate calories. By consuming the right kinds of food, you’ll not only have much more sustainable energy, you’ll help accelerate your metabolism, help strengthen your immune system, and even aid in gut and brain health. Without having to count a single calorie!

Myth #4 – A low-fat diet is the best for weight loss

If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, there is a good chance that you’ve at least considered a low-fat diet due to the fact that fat has higher calories.. I’ll talk more about healthy fats in a minute, but our general war on fat has clearly never worked. Case in point, let’s look at what has happened since the low-fat diet was first recommended in the 1970’s.

According to the Centers for Disease Controls (the CDC) the average American today weighs nearly 30 pounds MORE than an average American did in 1977. Clearly the low-fat approach hasn’t worked.

These four popular myths show us that there is a great deal of misunderstanding and misinformation out there.

We have dozens of new diets introduced constantly that are backed by celebrities and so-called experts. We have comprehensive food programs, support groups, food- and calorie-tracking apps on our phones, plus all kinds of over-the-counter pills and other drugs that are supposed to help. We have aisles full of diet foods in the stores. And more of us than ever are working out, spending hours in the gym to lose weight.

Yet, as a nation, we are fatter and less healthy than almost any population in recorded history.

The scary thing is… some of it isn’t your fault.

You see, all of the diets, programs, diet foods, pills, and drugs are not getting to the underlying issue.

My decades of research have led me to a breakthrough discovery that ties dozens of health concerns, including fat loss, healthy blood glucose management, brain health, gut health and much more …to a simple change that almost anyone can make that will provide profound results to your weight and health.

I’m Dr. Benjamin Bikman. I’m a metabolic scientist and am both an active lab scientist and a professor who teaches undergraduate and graduate university classes on metabolic health and disease. You should know that metabolism is far more than just about burning body fat. Put simply, metabolism includes all the chemical processes that occur within the cells of a body in order to maintain life. It involves every body function, including aging, brain health, immunity and more. My interest and study in this field stems from some of the health issues within my own family. Watching these loved ones suffer with debilitating health problems encouraged me to learn more about how they’re caused, and how to help others NOT have to deal with similar health challenges by preventing them from happening in the first place.

Here’s the good news. The changes you need to make are simple and doable. Millions of people around the world have already made significant improvements to their weight management and overall health with this health breakthrough.

You do not need to starve yourself or worry about counting every calorie.

In fact, most people don’t feel hungry, but are naturally satiated and feel content and full.

Your cravings for sweets can be dramatically reduced.

You don’t need to eat a bunch of weird foods at specific times of the day.

You don’t need to punish yourself with endless exercise.

You really just need to make a change to the way you look at food.

What I’m going to share with you in this video is based on my many years of research, including research that I’ve highlighted in my best-selling book “Why We Get Sick”.

There is a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to healthy weight loss and weight management. After years of research, I’ve come to this conclusion…a lot of the health and weight problems that people are struggling with, aren’t really their fault. Actually, a good part of the blame is due to what we’ve been told…

For a variety of reasons, the US Department of Agriculture had been on the search for a way to “fix” the American diet since the 1950’s. With the backing of one severely flawed study, and ignoring others that challenged it, the government decided that the culprit was dietary fat and later introduced the infamous “food pyramid” that vilified these natural healthy fats-that our ancestors treasured-in favor of an increase in the consumption of refined carbohydrates. The impact on the nation’s health and weight couldn’t have been worse.

In fact, from the time that the US government first set dietary guidelines in 1977, the food industry has completely shifted the types of foods they produce, mostly to our overall detriment. (show fat gain chart again)

And for the first time in modern history, we had a government telling us what to eat. And our weight and health have only suffered for it ever since.

It’s time for a change to a much better, simple, science-backed solution.

My doctorate degree is in bioenergetics. That discipline studies how the cells of the body store and use energy. The more I learned about energy use in the body, the more I was convinced that most people were missing something big with their health and wellbeing. My doctoral research left me so interested in energy use, that I followed up on it by pursuing postdoctoral work with a prestigious university.

Since that time, I’ve had dozens of research papers published in scientific journals. I’ve been asked to speak at scientific conferences around the world. I’ve been invited as a featured guest on television and radio, been interviewed for newspapers and magazines, and have been a guest on dozens of podcasts.

My years of research and having studied dozens of health conditions led me to a single root cause and underlying condition that affects the majority of American adults.

It’s called insulin resistance, and I, along with many other scientists and healthcare practitioners believe that insulin resistance is the most significant health epidemic we’re facing today.

You’ve undoubtedly heard of insulin, but you may think it’s just something that diabetics take to help control blood glucose. But it’s an incredibly important hormone. At its most basic level, insulin tells our body what to do with energy. While insulin is responsible for the support of hundreds of systems in the body, it is primarily known to regulate glucose levels in the blood. Our bodies desperately require insulin to operate properly, but our modern diet is so rich in sugars and other insulin-spiking processed carbohydrates, that it leaves us flooded with glucose and insulin almost nonstop. And when that happens, you become insulin resistant, which is catastrophic for our health and weight.

It may surprise you to learn that more than half of American adults are already insulin resistant, which is growing rapidly throughout the world. In fact, you are likely already insulin resistant and may not even know.

In general, insulin resistance makes almost anything that could go wrong with your body much, much worse. Worsening metabolic health, brain health, heart health and more; insulin resistance turns things tragic in your body in short order.

How is this possible? We’ve been told to eat low-fat diets, yet we’re fatter than ever. We’ve been told to eat more refined carbohydrates, yet we’re increasingly unhealthy. We now eat more calories, yet get less nourishment. Yes – most people are overfed and undernourished. And we’re so busy that much of our food comes from the coffee shop, vending machine or from fast food restaurants.

Our modern diet and terrible advice from so-called experts have negatively impacted our weight, our health, and has driven this epidemic of insulin resistance.

Do you think you or a loved one might be insulin resistant? Answer the following questions:

1. Do you have more fat around your belly than you’d like?

2.Do you have a family history of heart disease?

3.Do you have a family history of type 2 diabetes?

4.Do you have high blood pressure or does eating salt affect your blood pressure?

5.Do you have high levels of blood triglycerides?

6.Do you retain water easily?

7.Do you have gout?

8.Do you have patches of darker colored skin or little bumps of skin (called “skin tags”) at your neck, armpits, or other areas?

9.Do you have or have you had gestational diabetes or PCOS (for women) or have “low testosterone” (for men)?

If you answered yes to any two questions (or more), you almost certainly have insulin resistance and need to make a major change for the sake of your health and weight.

Now for some good news: My research has found that we can effectively reverse this issue and improve your insulin sensitivity fairly quickly.

The solution is simple, and it involves a different way of looking at our daily diet…one that doesn’t involve counting calories, starving yourself, eating weird foods, or signing up for expensive programs.

In 2012, an important study found that people with insulin resistance can lower their insulin levels by almost half by adhering to a diet that is lower in carbohydrates, but higher in fat and protein. In fact, it showed that if fed a high-carbohydrate diet, the people’s insulin levels remain high. At the same time, these people could lose more than twice the amount of body weight on a low-carbohydrate diet than they could on a high-carbohydrate diet.

My lab published a scientific paper recently where we found that people with Alzheimer’s disease are less able to use glucose as a fuel in their brains and that this might be a result of brain insulin resistance.

We’ve also found recently in a separate scientific paper that insulin, which is elevated with insulin resistance, dramatically slows the metabolic rate of our fat cells, making fat cell growth much easier. Interestingly, we followed up on this study by conducting another that found that by lowering insulin through dietary changes, fat cell metabolic rate actually increased by 2-3 times over normal.

The common theme across these, and the hundreds of studies I’ve reviewed and conducted is that improved insulin sensitivity and reduced insulin resistance is the key to weight loss, improved energy, enhanced brain health, gut health and more.

So how can we improve insulin sensitivity? As I mentioned earlier, it’s a simple change to the nutritional balance of your daily diet.

The first step is to prioritize protein. Now let me clear up some of the confusion over protein. Some people advocate for consuming very little protein, some consume it to excess, while others simply make poor protein choices.

There are competing mindsets on protein, with very little legitimate science behind the arguments. Protein is essential, especially as you age, but it needs to be consumed in conjunction with fat, just as is found in nature.

The best sources of protein are beef, eggs, salmon, along with dairy and collagen. These have the highest biological value, are utilized easily by the body, offer the most complete essential amino acid profile, and support lean and toned muscle, healthy joints, cartilage and bone health. Protein is also very satisfying and naturally will help you feel more satiated.

The second step in improving insulin sensitivity is to control carbohydrates.

As mentioned earlier, we now eat more refined carbohydrates than ever before in human history. Now I’m not talking about fruits and vegetables. We all could certainly eat more of them. I’m talking about the shelves and restaurants that are filled with foods and products that are extremely high in refined carbohydrates. These harmful foods make up most of the calories in the American diet, they spike your glucose and insulin, and make you fatter, sicker and insulin resistant.

What you should know is that while there are essential amino acids from protein, essential fatty acids from healthy fats, there are no essential carbohydrates! In other words, of the three macronutrients, carbohydrates are the least necessary for the average person and are the most problematic for those struggling with metabolic problems. The health and weight challenges we’re seeing today are largely because of that misguided shift in diet to consuming far more refined carbohydrates.

The third step may be the most surprising, but it’s definitely the most important. To help lose weight and improve your overall health, you need to increase the amount of healthy fats that you eat. Yes, you heard me right: to get healthier and lose weight, eat more fat!

Our ancestors knew that fatty foods were the most nutrient-dense substances they could eat. They provide you with needed nutrition in the form of essential fatty acids, they are vital for a healthy brain, they help you feel satisfied, curb your desire for sweets, and even help train your body to burn fat. However, not all fats are created equal. Most of the fats we all eat today are extremely unhealthy and damaging fats that come from heavily processed seed oils, such soybean, corn, and canola. I call these “fake fats” because they require an incredible amount of processing and are terrible for your health. Instead, focus on fats that naturally come with preferred sources of protein. Like from beef, pork, eggs, butter, and fatty fish like salmon. Consuming these types of protein with their naturally healthy fat helps your body to truly thrive

Additionally, fruit fats from olives, coconut and avocado are wonderful, healthy sources of fat. They require no processing, because the fats separate with just a little bit of weight or pressure.

Now, you may be saying, “If I eat these fats, I’ll get fat.” Or, “eating fat will harm my heart.” Both have been proven time and again – for decades – not to be true

Saturated fats, in particular, have been vilified, but there’s no absolutely no science to support limiting the consumption of saturated fats. In fact, the American College of Cardiology (these are people that actually train heart doctors) recently came out with a paper that clearly showed the benefits of saturated fats. The key point from that paper is found in the first sentence, “The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary.”

It’s a bit of an oversimplification, but remember this saying, “Fat doesn’t make you fat, it makes you lean.”

Now, most people eat plenty of what are called long-chain fats. These are the most common types of fat and are found in lots of foods like meat and eggs. The body can readily use long-chain fats for energy. But it can also be stored as additional body fat if insulin is elevated.

What not nearly enough people consume are medium-chain and short-chain fats. These are found in less-common foods like coconuts, goat dairy and fermented foods, like apple-cider vinegar. To help you become as healthy as possible, I tell people to “eat the rainbow” of healthy fats from short-, medium- and long-chain sources. In contrast to the longer fats, medium- and short-chain fats aren’t stored; only burned. In fact, they’re so readily burned for energy that they actually stimulate the production of more mitochondria within a cell, the site of fat burning.

It’s not about eating a bunch of bacon or adding a big pat of butter to everything and calling it a day. You need to be more careful and deliberate with your diet.

So, the solution to addressing insulin resistance, and to enjoy better health and lasting fat loss is to 1. Prioritize protein, 2. control carbs, and 3. fuel up with healthy fats. Sounds simple, right?

At the same time, what you’re not doing is depriving yourself. If you are hungry, eat the right kinds of food! You can also stop counting calories. Just intentionally look at what you eat and ask yourself: does this have more protein and more healthy fats than carbs? If you make this one change, you’ll end up looking and feeling much better. It’s that simple.

Even with all of the information that I share in my scientific studies, speeches and interviews, I’m constantly asked by people around the world what they should do for their health.

Ideally, we all would have the knowledge, time, discipline and budget to plan, purchase and prepare perfect meals based on what I’ve shared. But for many people, it simply doesn’t happen. We get busy, we get stressed and we make unhealthy choices that derail our health goals.

As a result, I’ve been asked many times over the years about specific products people can use to help them.

Unfortunately, as I looked for existing products in the market that I could recommend, I quickly found that most products were deficient, or were taking short cuts and compromising quality to increase profits.

I found so-called health products that are packed with sugar and carbs, or use artificial sweeteners, artificial flavors and filler ingredients.

I found products that use incomplete and inferior sources of protein and didn’t have any of the essential healthy fats.

I even found products that are irresponsibly promoted as “meal replacements” yet only had cheap protein in them and nothing else. And some of these only had 100 calories. How could that be considered a meal, let alone something healthy?

I realized that I could do more to help people than just do clinical tests in my laboratory and publish in scientific journals. I knew that I could use my knowledge to be part of the solution to help people achieve their best health more quickly, and especially to assist those that don’t always have the time, knowledge or discipline to eat healthy.

In response, I partnered with a team of nutrition and industry experts to create the most nutritionally complete food possible based on my research.

I’m very proud to introduce HLTH Code Complete Meal.

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HLTH Code Complete Meal is based on research, not fads. An incredible amount of work went into making this nutritionally balanced and optimized.

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[Testimonial 1]

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[Testimonial 2]

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[Testimonial 3]

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[Dr. Bikman]

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[Testimonial 4]

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[Testimonial 5]

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[Testimonial 6]

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[Testimonial 7]

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[Testimonial 8]

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