Episode 6: Dr. Jason Fung

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Medicine, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, where we seek progress, not perfection.
0:07.0	Hi guys, this is Dr. Trocolaian. I'm here with Dr. Brian Lenskies and Dr.
0:18.9	Jason Fung. We are here for another episode of our podcast, Low Carb MD, where we are bringing you
0:26.9	information to help you on your weight loss journey.
0:30.0	And we're so happy to have Jason Funk here today. He's going to be talking about insulin resistance.
0:34.6	Hopefully we can take some of these, some of his knowledge and apply it to our weight loss journeys.
0:42.2	So thank, so happy to have you on, Jason. our weight loss journeys.
0:42.5	So thank so happy to have you on Jason.
0:45.0	Hey, great to be here, trial.
0:47.4	So help me you know one of the things that really
0:51.3	impressed me was reading your book and really provide clarity for me was reading your book
0:58.5	the obesity code and the complete guide to fasting and and how you described insulin resistance as being at the crux of a lot of issues regarding
1:10.2	chronic health in this country and particularly for its impact on weight gain and weight
1:16.4	loss. Can you talk to me a little bit about your thoughts about insulin resistance?
1:20.7	Yeah and I think that's really important and tends to be a little bit more complex so a lot of the doctors like yourself really get it, but it's a little bit harder to wrap around some people's thinking because the insulin resistance, you hear this term a lot and it's because
1:38.0	it's sort of what's considered the bottom line of the metabolic syndrome which includes type 2 diabetes and high
1:46.3	blood pressure and so on and the term itself is merely refers to the fact that insulin, so insulin is a hormone and it's a
1:57.7	normal hormone when you eat, insulin goes up assuming you eat a blend of the
2:02.3	three macronutrients, protein, fat, and carbs.
2:05.6	So insulin goes up and your body really should be storing that food energy.
2:10.3	So what happens is that the glucose goes into the cell, the cells start to use the glucose,
2:15.0	and you turn on machinery to store glucose, so you turn on the making of glycogen in the liver and also the making of fat if you have excess
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