467: Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Weight Loss | Dr. Jason Fung
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drjasonfung467
Dr. Jason Fung (IG: @drjasonfung) is a physician, researcher, New York Times bestselling author and currently practices as a nephrologist (kidney specialist).
He is the co-founder of The Fasting Method, which provides the education, tools and community needed to successfully implement intermittent fasting.
If you’re looking to shed some extra pounds - this conversation is for you!
In this episode, we discuss:
- What causes weight gain?
- Our misguided obsession with calories
- Why a calorie-restricted diet doesn’t work
- How to reduce your metabolic rate
- The truth about exercise and weight loss
- Do genetics play a role in weight gain?
- Eliminating processed foods and sugars
- Carbohydrates aren’t essential
- Stop eating 6-10x a day!
- How insulin works in the body
- Green tea & coffee have minimal insulin effect during fasting
- Should you add MCT oil into your morning coffee?
- Artifical sweetners have appetite stimulating effects
- Getting your body into ketosis
- Jason shares his diet & what he does on a typical day of fasting
- Top 2 ways of combatting an insulin spike
- How to reverse type 2 diabetes
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Related links:
Dr. Jason Fung - The Obesity Code (book)
Follow Dr. Jason Fung on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Dr. Jason Fung - Life In The Fasting Lane (book)
Dr. Jason Fung - The Diabetes Code (book)
Listen to Dr. Jason Fung previously on TUHP (episodes #369 and #380)
Dr.Jason Fung - The Obesity Epidemic, Explained (YouTube)
Related episodes:
The Complete Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women | Cynthia Thurlow (#465)
A New Take On the Keto Diet With More Benefits & No Deprivation | Dr. Steven Gundry (#461)
Dr. Valter Longo on How to Get All the Health Benefits of Fasting Without the Hunger (#442)
Dr. Amy Shah Shares a Proven Plan to Boost Your Energy Today! (#431)
Gary Taubes – Are Carbs Making You Fat? (#387)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast, it's about the hormonal response to those calories because |
| 0:06.8 | our body responds on hormones. So the hormones that you set off with the foods that you eat |
| 0:12.6 | make a difference to what your body does. So it's sort of a, you know, it's not, it's both |
| 0:19.9 | number and also hormonal response, whereas the prevailing sort of a paradigm is sort of, |
| 0:27.5 | it's purely about the numbers and they're so adamant about it, right? A calories, a calorie, |
| 0:32.5 | a calories, a calorie. It was like a mantra, right? So you had the entire world saying that |
| 0:38.0 | it's calories or calories, you know. So and therefore what they did was they transformed |
| 0:45.1 | weight gain and weight loss from this sort of, hey, what are we doing wrong in terms of a diet |
| 0:51.5 | to it's all your fault because you didn't get your calories strictly enough or you didn't |
| 0:57.4 | exercise enough. Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 467. I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm |
| 1:10.3 | here to take your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations |
| 1:14.8 | with health and wellness leaders from around the world. This week Dr. Jason Fung is back on the show. |
| 1:20.0 | Jason's a physician, researcher, New York Times bestselling author and currently practices |
| 1:25.7 | as an effrologist, aka a kidney specialist. He's the co-founder of the fasting method which provides |
| 1:31.1 | the education, tools and community needed to successfully implement intermittent fasting. |
| 1:36.4 | If you're looking to shed some extra pounds, stick around this conversation is for you. |
| 1:40.9 | Highlights include what causes weight gain or misguided obsession with calories, |
| 1:46.6 | the truth about exercise and weight loss, Jason shares his diet and what he does on a typical day |
| 1:52.3 | of fasting and how to reverse type 2 diabetes. As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, |
| 1:58.8 | this full conversations available over on YouTube, you can get there by going to |
| 2:02.8 | ultimatehealthpodcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe while you're there so you |
| 2:07.2 | don't miss any of the action. If you get to the end of this episode, you find the information |
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