Obesity, type 2 diabetes, and insulin, with Dr Jason Fung

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Since 1980, the number of people around the world with type 2 diabetes has quadrupled. Kidney specialist Dr Jason Fung joins Liz for this episode of the podcast to cover the rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes - and what can be done about it.

In this episode, Jason explains how dietary interventions such as intermittent fasting or low-carb eating may be able to reverse the dietary disease, plus why all calories aren't equal.

Liz and Jason discuss how we can avoid spiking our blood sugars, how hormones such as cortisol and insulin can cause weight gain, and why fats shouldn't be considered the enemy when it comes to eating well.

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0:00.0	If you look at what causes weight gain, it's really a hormonal issue.
0:04.6	It's not a caloric issue.
0:06.4	Remember, when you take food energy, which is calories,
0:09.1	into your body, your body has a choice of what to do with it.
0:12.4	It can burn it off, generate body heat, that kind of thing,
0:15.8	or it can store it as body fat, right?
0:17.7	Which one it does depends on your hormones.
0:19.9	So insulin, which is one of the key hormones in metabolism,
0:23.1	basically tells your body to store it.
0:25.6	So if your body is storing it,
0:28.3	then you have a problem.
0:29.9	If your body is burning it, you don't have the problem.
0:32.1	This is for the same calorie.
0:36.3	Well, that is the voice of Dr. Jason Fung,
0:39.2	and I'm having a bit of a fangirl moment
0:41.6	because I stalk him on social media.
0:44.0	He's absolutely brilliant.
0:45.4	Go look him up and you'll see what I mean.
0:47.1	Well, as a kidney specialist,
0:48.6	he knows that type 2 diabetes is, by far,
0:51.8	the biggest cause of kidney disease.
0:54.1	And so he began questioning everything we'd previously
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