Dr. Rhonda Patrick

And, you know, it, from my understanding, had to do with the adipocyte cell and this sort of spillover

Of ceramides that are then attacking.

It all had to do with the AKT signaling pathway.

Yes.

You know, stopping basically the insulin receptor.

Well, it's just one of those things that, you know, when you do experiments, and especially when it's, like, something – one of your first projects, you kind of remember it.

And so, you know, as I became interested in nutrition, you know, later on down the line, and it's like, well –

It always stuck with me.

There's a role for fatty acids in causing insulin resistance.

Oh, there is.

So that was something that kind of stuck in my head.

And I think we're going to get into some of the dietary causes in just a minute.

But beyond, we're talking about, you kind of hinted at this earlier, insulin has many roles.

And oftentimes, the general public thinks about its role in just regulating blood glucose levels.

Mm-hmm.

But maybe you could just talk about some of the other roles insulin plays, for example, in fat accumulation.

Okay.

Well, we're really getting into this sort of underlying cause of what's causing the insulin resistance.

I mean, obviously the...

what's causing the high insulin as well.