The INSANE BENEFITS Of Fasting For Weight Loss & PREVENTING Disease! | Dr. Jason Fung
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Jason Fung, New York Times best-selling author, The Obesity Code. |
| 0:04.6 | This distinction between chronic caloric restriction and fasting, that I find really interesting. |
| 0:14.7 | And let us, for the sake of this discussion, assume that we have a person who is willing to endure an unlimited amount of |
| 0:22.1 | suffering. |
| 0:23.4 | And you even, you've talked a lot about the book Unbroken that you read about World War |
| 0:28.4 | to people in Japanese concentration camps and they were literally being starved. |
| 0:34.1 | And obviously, all of them got lean. |
| 0:37.1 | So what I want to understand is, okay, fasting seems to have all these tremendous benefits. |
| 0:41.6 | Chronic caloric restriction has some, but also has like this really damaging psychological |
| 0:45.3 | component. |
| 0:46.2 | If there was no damaging psychological component, would they be equal or is there still some |
| 0:52.8 | difference? |
| 0:54.3 | It all depends on how you do the caloric restriction. |
| 0:58.3 | So because it's not just about the calories. |
| 1:01.6 | It's about the hormones, right? |
| 1:03.3 | So you have to sort of take it not to sort of this two compartment problem. |
| 1:08.4 | You have to take it to like a three compartment problem, right? |
| 1:10.5 | There's what's coming in. There's what's stored, and there's what's being used. |
| 1:15.4 | Okay, so most people only think of sort of the two compartments and then the storage is sort of left over. |
| 1:21.6 | That's not the way the body works. |
| 1:23.9 | If insulin is high, your body is going to store calories. |
| 1:27.9 | Remember, insulin is a nutrient sensor. |
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