Dr. Ben Bikman

Like someone listening could say, well, it's my mitochondria.

All right, well, good luck getting any marker of your mitochondria.

I could do it in my lab if you're willing to give me a sample of your muscle tissue or something.

But it's not a clinically...

kind of supported focus.

So I don't mean to ever suggest other variables don't matter.

We know insulin matters.

You saw it in the work with the worms and aging.

I've seen it in the context of neuron bioenergetics and fat cell dynamics and everything else we've been talking about.

And it's just a variable.

It's a lever.

When you mentioned lever earlier that you can grab and immediately start to turn down.

Yeah.

Yeah.

My first one would be fasting insulin.

If I could change health care policy and practice in the United States, my one thing would be to have insulin be a standard measurement on every blood test.

As much as the average individual is going to go in and get their annual checkup, they're going to get their glucose.

They're going to get their A1C.

They're going to get all their lipids and uric acid.

Those can be great, and there's some worth revisiting in a moment, but to me...