Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss with Dr. Jason Fung

Dr. Jason Fung speaks with Vinnie Tortorich on today’s Angriest Trainer podcast concerning the effects of diet and insulin.

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DR. FUNG

• Kidney specialist
• Works often with type 2 diabetics — biggest cause of kidney nephropathy
  • Type 2 linked closely with obesity
  • Insulin has negative effects
• Visit his website here 

DONALDSONVILLE

• People all on tons of meds
• All have a sugary drink and some awful food in their hands

MISUNDERSTANDING OF WEIGHT GAIN

• Obesity links tons of diseases together
• Dr. Fung started by asking: What causes obesity?
• The Aetiology of Obesity Lectures 
• Sugar is the enemy, not calories
  • When you eat less calories, your energy expenditure (and thus fat/fuel usage) goes down
    • You simply get hungrier
• Takes time to lose the weight
• Cortisol is a stress hormone — encourages getting fat
• Leptin — produced by fat cells, regulates how much fat is in the body
  • If you have lots of fat, leptin is released and tells your brain to stop gaining more weight
  • When you are quite fat, your body stops responding to leptin
  • Secondary hormone — doesn’t pass the causal test
  • Ghrelin is another one of these secondary hormones
    • No lasting effect so doesn’t pass the causal test

FASTING

• People always ask Vinnie about IM fasting
• Intermittent fasting should happen every day
  • 3 meals a day — fast in between
  • literal “break – fast”
• Snacks don’t allow your body to process everything
  • Shorter fasts are not enough
  • Insulin levels not sustainably down
• We obsess to much about what we are eating, we need to think about when we are eating