What Chris Thompson has said about Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 21, 2026
Chris Thompson, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham, has been quoted on Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome once in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on September 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Thompson cites the Whitehall II study showing elevated fasting insulin predicted diabetes up to 15 years earlier, yet it is rarely checked.
“They could detect this thing 15 years earlier. They could do something about it, right? But no one does because no one looks for fasting insulin”
Huberman Lab: Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:07:16
Episodes
Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris ThompsonHuberman Lab · Sep 21, 2026 · 2 h 28 min
Andrew Huberman and gastroenterologist Chris Thompson discuss gut anatomy, fiber and the microbiome, GLP-1 drugs, early metabolic testing, gut permeability, and endoscopic and gene-therapy obesity treatments.
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