Hey guys, today we're going to talk about what is missing in the calorie theory.

So every so often, you'll hear an individual parrot back this concept of weight loss

is merely a matter of balancing your calories.

It's a matter of calories in equals calories out.

Taking you more calories than you're using, you're going to gain weight.

If you exercise or add exertion, you'll lose the calories, okay?

But how do you explain this skinny guy that eats like a horse and never gains any weight?

Or the overweight person that goes on a 500 calorie diet is exercising every day,

and they're not losing even one pound.

So what's missing in this concept is this, the hormonal effect over your macros,

over carbohydrates, fats, and protein.

Different macros respond to hormones differently.

And that right there explains that there is a huge difference in how the body responds to calories, okay?

The main hormone that we're going to talk about is insulin, okay?

Insulin is the dominating hormone that determines whether you're going to store or use your fat, okay?

Or stored glucose.

So if insulin is high, you're going to use glucose as your primary fuel.

And if insulin is low, you're going to use ketones, which is the byproduct of fat burning.

Now what's interesting about a ketone is that ketones stimulate metabolism.

Too much insulin will slow your metabolism.

And when your body isn't actually burning fat because there's low insulin,

and some of this is turning into ketones, you're going to be peeing out some of this ketone

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