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Question: Insulin resistance from fat invading muscle cells? I think increased free fatty acids in the blood. That’s going to be a normal reaction to dietary fat and I think that if you have increased fatty acids than increased glucose, that you have more energy to dispose off. And if you have more energy to …

Question: Is there an optimum number of meals or insulin spikes per day for optimizing thyroid function? Assuming that you’re controlling for the level of insulin sensitivity on the thyroid gland — I guess if I had to throw out a wild guess, the free fatty acid concentration is probably mostly relevant when the free …

Question: Why AGEs and deficient insulin signaling are the main problem in diabetes. The reason that methylglyoxal, which I did my doctoral dissertation on, the reason that methylglyoxal, which is quantitatively the most important form of advanced glycation end products in diabetics, the reason that it is elevated is not because of hyperglycemia. It’s because …