I have my own theory on why we are getting fatter. Perhaps more and more people are acquiring the "FAT FETISH" gene, so we all got fatter to satisfy that dominant sexual gene!

Thanks for sharing your story. I am happy you found the video useful.

I think for the vast majority of cases, it comes down to one simple reason - they don't want to put in the work to lose the weight. They're much more comfortable eating what they like and how much they like instead of eating better or taking care of their bodies. It's kind of sad, when it's really not much effort at all, just a little bit each day every day. But I agree, Sabine is great 👍🏻

@@SabineHossenfelder Thank you for delivering quality content that consistently proves to be accurate enough that it can be taken at face value without hesitation. I'm looking forward to your video specifically about treatment options for obesity like you suggested doing toward the end of this video. I find it near impossible to lose the last 10 or so kilograms so I'm sure it would be helpful.

@@jamesduncan6729 weight loss and fitness are hard, and I don't say that as a complaint just as a fact of life. They're definitely worth achieving.

The medical profession is pretty adamant that diabetes does not "go away". Type 2 diabetes can be controlled with diet, exercise, and medication, but that's different from "going away".

@@jeffryphillipsburns Well, that is how he put it. I expect that the real situation is that his blood sugar levels are normal, and no treatment is required. The effect is the same.

​@@jeffryphillipsburns The medical profession claims all kinds of ludicrous nonsense to sell treatments. Where T2 diabetes is caused by constantly high insulin levels, it's only natural that it reverses once you drop the levels. My neighbor had this problem, I told him to try IF, biomarkers improved promptly. This isn't rocket science.

How did you manage to find enough food to make a diet out of? I try to eat healthier, mostly limiting snack foods to fresh fruit and dinner to rice, vegetables and chicken, but there's very few breakfast and lunch foods that don't require food preparation while still not being processed

@@CSDragon Well, for breakfast I have oatmeal with butter and cinnamon. For dinner I have vegetables (I usually get frozen, which are more nutritious and convenient), then I might make a soup with lentils with the veggies. I will have a snack most, but not all, days. This will be olives (sometimes with some feta cheese) or nuts. I only drink water (usually with a splash of lemon juice), brewed coffee and brewed tea. Sometimes I will have red lentil pasta. I buy it made, but now have an attachment for my KitchenAid to make it myself. I am also pescatarian and will have fish a couple times a week. Hope that helps.

Imagine drowning in oil. At least you'd be glistening after.

@JZ's BFF Look up "Obesogenity of caseine coagulate induced trauma in lower extremities" by et Al. :-P

God dude you made me laugh my ass off

It's when you're chasing the cheese down a steep hill FATALITIES and BROKEN SPINES occur...I'm amazed the Health & Safety nuts didn't ban the annual Cheese Rolling Festival just down the road (and up a hill) from me. I was meaning to win it some day but never even got round to entering.. But I would have won, no doubt, in my younger days! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9CDiM5q1JOoZnk.html

@@siquod I don't know who Al is, but he sure does a lot of research.

Very good point indeed.

Thank you! I've done the working poor thing for most of my life, and I can assure you that most of us engage in self-destructive behavior like overeating and smoking because we fricking WANT to die! If we could plug our brains directly into a machine that would make us forget our worry, stress, debt, humiliation, exhaustion, shame, and hopelessness for a few moments before putting a bullet through our brains, we would do it in a second! Many of us are fully aware that the only reason we're even kept alive is to make our employers rich and to buy property for someone else. So, yeah...

PS: I love these videos - they make me LoL all the time. Sorry for the off-topic rant.

@@AmanoJack , You're right. Though I believe in most cases the self-destructive behavior has the purpose to temporarily forget some problem we've had, and keep the hope for the tomorrow. I don't think that anyone have kept alive just to make our employers rich :) But most of us are not stupid, and when we start to go to extremes in our self-destructive behavior we usually notice it and can quickly extrapolate where it leads. From that moment on we're knowingly playing on the edge of that fragile balance act. And for me personally having hope and some (realistic imo) plan for the future is what used to keep me from going over the edge. Sometimes I had to invent that hope from scratch and chase it. But sometimes some people just get robbed of it, and potentially all future attempts to rebuild their life. I would say that no matter how hard it seems if you're in normal health it's up to you to push ahead and grab some piece of happiness (even if you've had to give up on some of your dreams already) - there's a sort of bargaining that we do in order to get at least part of what we want (even if we have to redefine what we want). But I have no idea what one can do to keep pushing ahead when the deck is stacked against him/her :/

That's very close to what I fell into over the last year+ Gained back all the weight I managed to lose before, in a brief period where I had a clear goal and confidence in myself, heh. And even a bit more. My body mass index is just a little over the normal range, but it does feel worse... Among many other things that I experience in my current state. Self-sabotage and lack of self-value due to seeing no way to achive the future I was dreaming of, and going towards, anymore.

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And perfectly executed.

Yes, I entirely agree. It's very much baked into society, and it affects some demographic groups more than others.

Yeah no, citing work culture is really not convincing, Japan is a very large highly developed country with a relatively low obesity rate for its level of economic prosperity and toxicity of working culture.

Japan has an abundance of healthy fast options that the West just doesn't. Also, their society doesn't have "the car is king" attitude. Their neighborhoods are much more walkable and bikable than most.

@@UniquelyCritical see 10:15

@@SabineHossenfelder The proper use of the word affect! M eh zing. I should have known, coming from you.

@d.robertdigman1293 I have some similar struggles to yours - multiple meds for bipolar and more meds to counter ill effects of first meds plus weight gain that seemed uncontrollable, etc. I have lost 20 lbs in less that a year and continue to loose with improving health ‘indicators’ (blood pressure, BMI, cholesterol, etc) and no ill effects or even adjustments to medication. NO ONE SHOULD FOLLOW ANY OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WITHOUT FIRST CONSULTING THEIR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER Based on the information in the book I list below I eat: vegetables (mostly greens & some roots), nuts & seeds (oily ones: walnut, pecan, almond, sesame, peanut - tuber not a nut, sunflower…). fruits (LOTS of apples - older less sugary varieties, avocados, olives, figs…). meat/fish in small portions, ~3 oz.(grass fed meats with the fat, some organs, cheeses, sardines-because the fat isn’t removed). water 4 qt+ /day (a lot of very weak teas with whole milk & very little sweetening) and NO GRAINS except I have a small portion of ‘cake’ every evening & 4-6 crackers with hummus when ‘peckish’. NO RESTRICTIONS on quantities except for the cake and crackers. I live in a northern temperate zone - 4 seasons, temperatures range from 100F to -10F and my ‘physiological adaptation’ to this climate has not been noticeably affected by this diet. I have studied biochemistry & physiology and read many books about “nutrition” or diet (all claiming to have the ‘answer’, ‘magic bullet’ or whatever) to “fix” poor health. Most of the books had some value but none of them address the fact that nearly every human has something about their physiology and their ‘situation’ (ie: ancestry, geographic location, life style, medications) that must be allowed for in order for the “diet program” to work. Recent research (the last 10-12 years) has revealed much that is contrary to what the ‘medical establishment’ has to say (including the “food pyramid” so often displayed). Also, I can say from personal experience that doctors of medicine receive little training in ‘nutrition’ and whatever they get is at least 10-15 years out of date. SO HERE IS WHAT I HAVE FOUND THAT MAY HELP YOU: “Nourishing Diets - How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate.” by Sally Fallon Morell, 2018. Her research reveals that humans ‘evolved’ eating plants, fruits, animals, all the fats they could find and almost no grains. She shows that the “Paleo” and “Mediterranean” diets are dumbed-down or even fake representations of what was actually in the ancient /traditional diets. PLANTS & FRUITS= wild herbs & greens, wild tubers & roots, wild fruits that could be reached/found. ANIMALS, vertebrates & invertebrates= fat, organs, skin, bone marrow and muscle with all of its fat content. SOME wild grains were consumed but there is no evidence they were important food until ‘villages’ begin to appear and the grains were ‘domesticated’. (many10s of thousands of years into Homo sapiens’s evolution) My reading decades ago lead me to understand that ‘modern first world’ diets are lacking in sufficient vitamins and minerals to sustain health. So I have been taking supplements for decades. Within a year of beginning to take various ‘vitamins’ I stopped getting colds and flues every few months so I knew I was on to something. We typically can’t eat enough food and the food isn’t nutritious enough to get all the ‘micro-nutrients’ we need. I take a MULTI-VITAMIN(any brand will do until you learn enough to choose one that ’suits you’ best) and add to that some “boosters” for those ‘vitamins’ the multi’s skimp on or don’t include. VITAMIN C with bioflavonoids (2 doses/day @ 500mg each) boosts the immune system, VERY IMPORTANT vit’ D3 (2+ doses TOTALING 4000 IU that’s 100mcg =micrograms) aids the immune system and assists fat metabolism, VITAMIN K2 (MK-7 =menaquinone-7 totaling ~200mcg, MK-4 is metabolized very fast so must be ‘dosed’ several times a day with greater quantities but can be substituted for MK-7, ie: better than nothing. K2 is very lacking in our diets and is VERY IMPORTANT working with vit’ A to move cholesterol and other fats out of our ‘soft tissues’ into our bone marrow where it should be. There are other supplements I take and other books to recommend but I’ll stop there. If you want more references to follow this up, respond to my comment with a way to reach you and I’ll get in touch. You can “fact check” some of this in Wikipedia.com NO ONE SHOULD FOLLOW ANY OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WITHOUT FIRST CONSULTING THEIR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.

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Green beans is an example of an extremely low density food. I used to open a can when I was insatiably hungry. To be honest, reading the rest of your comment makes me want to be fat instead. I would rather die a happy fatass than a miserable fit person. Suggesting they have to have a miserable existence to be fit is precisely why most are discouraged from even trying. I suggest nothing other than eating fewer calories(not even eating less, just fewer calories). After losing the initial weight, the energy will come, and they can put that towards getting more fit if they want. It's their life, not someone elses.

@@rich1051414 You're pointing out two extremes and claiming one is more happy than the other, they're both miserable.

I lived the exact same nutrition path, but with a significant difference in weight. I lose like 40 lbs, and only do a bit of cardio. HIIT is for the insane

HIIT cardio just sounds unpleasant: "what happened to you? you look awful!" "I was doing HIIT cardio" (breaks into tears).

I visited there in 2019. They are very health conscious. On their menus in restaurants there are warning for sugary beverages like side. Everybody walks or bikes it was fascinating!

Brits are beyond saving now. Millions visit countries with amazing food just to comment how they miss Greggs sausage rolls for lunch. This country is a joke.

I don't think working out at the gym once/twice a week beats cycling/walking to work each day. I normally get about 12.000 steps / day by commuting with bus, more if I run errands on my way home. I started doing this about a year ago and have lost 18 kg since. Before I had to take my car to work. Walking every day is far more enjoyable than going to the gym so I'll take it :-)

Ok, then you just have to colour your food.

As a dane I agree, around 50% of personal traffic im copenhagen is done by bicycles, otherwise we would have to tear down a lot of the city

That's a very good question and indeed I've been wondering the same thing. I don't know the answer unfortunately.

I guess the necessary condition is: if they put back weight. If not, then there is no new fat to store. If yes, then they may (if this hypothesis is true, for which we do not have an answer to) indeed.

Yes, yes, yes.

The odds are that post liposuction weight will be put back on. The question is when - months, years or decades later. If the added fat eventually goes to fatty liver instead of subcutaneous fat; then it is doing more harm than good. Sabina raises a good question - there isn’t enough research to know if fat cells would grow back post liposuction or post freeze therapy.

Sorry Kelly. That was your comment I was applauding.

And the jokes! Education and humor at the same time.

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Why are you lying about being a doctor? :-)

Timing of eating is quite important as you've found out. I've found that eating after 5pm wasn't good for me. Going from 225 to 189, exercising, meal timing and only two meals a day worked for me. As a test, I stopped the exercise, timing and number of meals to see what would happen. Zoom, back to 225 in no time. Now that I know what the problem is, for me, I'm starting on heading back down. I feel better too.

Another possible explanation: Because you don't eat anything after 4 p.m., your brain was forced to rebuild the enzyme production for metabolizing ketone bodies. In other words, your brain is now also connected to fat metabolism, as it should be for a healthy person, and as it was for all people during the Paleolithic era.

Intermittent fasting promotes autophagy.

Digesting food takes energy and might affect sleep.

@@petermersch9059 i only eat from 4-11pm daily, im skinny, and ive been skipping breakfast and lunch since i was a kid. Intermittent fasting is the way to go. I do think i eat to late at times i would cut that down to 8 or 9 if i didnt get busy and not notice time though.

Oh wow, thanks for sharing your story!

@@SabineHossenfelder well, you know... I had other issues as well because of the surgery... Like, I lost 75% of my field of view (I'm absolutely blind of the left eye and the right half of the right eye)... But I'm alive. You know? I can't complain. 😊

Of course this is not going to cover every individual circumstance

@@jamesduncan6729 Of course not. Only my case.

I think you are totally right. Notoriously issues with the thyroid causes people to gain weight. Those people are really unfortunate, because there is hardly anything they can do to lose the weight. And I mean really not even with an inhumane amount of effort. Their body just looses the ability to do that. And I suppose some of the proplems mentioned in the video, like wrong food or stress, cause obesity through the hormonal changes. But hopefully for most obese people their body is still able to loose weight if the right cause of their obesity is found.

Good comment, however I have a couple of things to point out. One is that there are plenty of independent studies done on obesity that are not biased by the food industry. The other thing is that the calorie argument is fundamentally correct, but what someone is eating and their genetics/age etc will all influence how much energy is extracted and consequently stored from food. At the bottom line, if you are in a calorie defecit each day, there is physically no way you won't lose weight. Like I said before however, this will happen at different rates for different people based on the aforementioned factors.

@@HolyMith many disagreements - but I am not gonna waste my time trying to convince you. Except the calorie argument is bull shit. The human body is not a linear system. It's 'what' calories you eat that is important. Not how many as per convention. cheers

Oh yes, 100%. After having been on and off various of those types of meds for the last several years, I can say with confidence that they have those effects (never got diabetes though). The worst part was the partial muscle paralysis feeling while taking them. It was impossible for me to fully contract any muscles, which made exercise next to impossible, and I got exhausted almost immediately. So I quit them all. Instead, after several years of being fat and sedentary, I changed my diet to high fat/protein and low carb, and the weight started melting off. The lighter I got, the more I naturally wanted to move and exercise... something I couldn't do before. This accelerated the loss even more. In the last 9.5 months, I went from 275 lbs to 204 lbs (as of this morning). Funnily enough, fixing my body caused all of the medical problems that made me take those other meds in the first place, to simply vanish. Meds keep you fat, which keeps you sick, which keeps you on meds. Just like the pharmaceutical industry wants.

Unfortunately, there is an unholy alliance between Big Pharma and the Food Processors. They profit from the poor health of the citizens of the developed countries !!

So there's still a question about cause and effect. The people who take these medications are already mentally distressed, and even before taking antipsychotics they may experience sensory and other wise bodily/somatic distress, so how could you tell them apart? From my experience, people with serious mental illnesses tend to be overweight or underweight, hardly anything in between. Now before you cancel me, I have schizophrenia myself and fall into the overweight category 😂 Add the medication on top and you have a perfect recipe for obesity; lethargy, exhaustion, lack of energy, hunger/appetite disruption, further depression, and so on

The current theory is that these medications impact the gut microbiome in multiple ways. In fact, there's one theory that much of the antidepressant activity alluded to SSRI's neurological Serotonin action-which, given the fact that the Serotonin theory of depression is DEAD, albeit it's zombie corpse still causes havoc, would explain why patients still often find these medications helpful, at least initially-actually stems from it murdering fungi in the gut which have negative psychiatric impacts. But perhaps they also murder microbes with more helpful activity.

The idea that the body doesn't product new adipocytes in adulthood was disproven a while ago. What actually happens is some fat deposits expand via hypertrophy and others expand via hyperplasia.

Hydrogen bonds are something different in chemistry. It would be better to say they didn't identify with the isomerism they were assigned at birth.

Yes, so great! Everyone had a great laugh about it. Greatest joke of all time.

Just came here to write that. 😆

Went right past me 🤠

@@DrSpooglemon Even better yet, that they didn't identify with the double bond isomerism they were assigned at birth.

Society is people and you are people. I have a brain which allows me to recognise and disregard stupidity. Headlines sell news. It's a business model for businesses to profit, which is the point of a business. That's not society that's capitalism.

It is a very long video for the simple fact that people eat more energy than their body consumes.

It’s carbohydrate

@@neuuser7071 I agree

there is a pretty much a single cause, consuming any amount of plants.

@@kapower06 No the cause is too much sugar. We eat 10 times more sugar than we did a hundred years ago. What do you think carbs turn into sugar.

Dont eat plants. Enough said.

+1

Eat less. Losing weight is a complicated thing and requires a lot of mental willpower besides technique. The math is pretty straight forward. First find out how much you wish to lose in weight. Each kilogram of body fat is around 7800 calories so it takes about of 4 days of total fasting (not recommended) to lose only one kilo. This is just to serve as a reminder that losing weight takes a lot of time. Compute your daily calorie consumption, online, apps, library, hard math, whatever and multiply by 0.75. It is a decent weight losing factor meaning you would need16 days for one kilo. Start a food diary and weight your food with a nice calorie table. Reduce portions, skip a meal, do whatever is necessary to be in line with that God given number you came up with, and this way you can literally eat anything you want, just not how much you would want. It is tedious at first but after a couple of weeks you will be able to ditch the diary and food scale to just eyeball calories in the portions you get served, a skill that will last you a lifetime. Continue until satisfied, remember as you are losing weight your calorie intake should reduce accordingly. Sport is useless unless you insist on it. Generally obese people have more muscles than their slim versions, because they carry weights everywhere they go. Micro-nutrients will adjust naturally, as a hypo-caloric diet will adjust your food cravings to get more nutritious food. If you insist get the minimal containing vitamin and mineral pills and take one form time to time. Do weigh yourself every so often, but be advised that weight can vary from a lot of things from, bowel movements to diseases (colds included), to giving your micro-biome less food and slimming it too down, so it is not good to fixate on anything other than an average. Edit: And give yourself a pause every weekend from this grueling diet, it does take a bit longer to lose weight, but it is necessary just to not give up completely.

@Toroidal Zeus Insulin is just a hormone. If you consume more than you stuff yourself with, insulin cannot do jack about it. Or you just found a way of creating infinite energy out of thin hormones. i am hoping for the later but am highly skeptical of it :P

Depending on your current weight trend, eating marginally less is likely the ideal path; It will avoid you developing cravings and facing the side-effects of strict dieting, making it possible to maintain long-term and quite possible flip your weight trend towards losing weight. It won't be a 1-week wonder, but it would likely end up as a solution you can keep yourself to. Of course, that only really works if you are only slowly gaining weight or are stagnant with it.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it´s fucking hard to have food delivered to the chicken coop, so they have to go to McDonalds!

But you dont want fat chickens, you want buff chickens...

That's a different order of cynicism - yes, I'll put money (and an upvote) on you being right.

I didn't think "they'll start". I thought "they already do". Fat chickens will develop some more muscle, and industrial chickens are so fatty it's ridiculous

It's the same with a lot of Pacific islands (Guam, Philipines etc), and it mostly relates to the end of WWII when their markets were suddenly flooded with goods from the US and cheap meat like "spam" which is high in fat and low in nutrition but with a long shelf life, there's a reason a generation of Baby Boomers from those islands knows how to make a spam and rice style dish. A lot of their diet consists of white rice, instant noodles, other imported Westernized foods and soda with very little fruits and vegetables. So yeah the "westernisation" of the food available that occurred during globalisation damaged their relationship with food.

That and the fact that obesity was traditionally seen as a status symbol.

Lol. Do Nauruvians sit around with bags of sugar stuffing their mouth? If not, they're not addicted to sugar. All people have a propensity to seek sweetness in food.

@@Yawgrimas Having spam should be a reason to eat less, not more...

We have e-bikes, e-scooters, e-books, why not e-fat?

Wouldn't it be great if we could charge our devices with the energy stored in our fat cells?

We're on track to e-bodies, no doubt, and maybe one day we'll also have e-snacks to stuff our digital avatars with. Unfortunately focusing on the care of our virtual bodies at the expense of our boring old physical husks will likely mean yet more cheap, ultra-processed food. After all, it's well known that obesity is positively correlated with low socio-economic status. Incdentally, I found it odd that this correlation isn't mentioned in the video; anectodally speaking, as a citizen of a first-world country that isn't the US, it seems to me the most immediately striking feature of the obesity phenomenon.

@@asdu4412 In developed countries, obesity is widely considered a condition that affects people of lower socioeconomic status (SES) more so than those of higher SES (1). In developing countries, however, the debate continues as to whether obesity primarily affects the poor or the rich. In their comprehensive review published in 1989, Sobal and Stunkard (2) found a positive relationship between SES and obesity in developing countries: obesity appeared to be a problem predominantly of the more affluent in those countries. Subsequent reviews covering publications from 1988 through 2003 found mixed associations (3,4): McLaren (3) found that a positive association between higher SES and obesity tended to turn into an inverse association as one moved from countries with lower human development index (HDI) to countries with higher HDI (3). HDI seeks to capture the level of socioeconomic development of a country by combining three indicators - income per capita, literacy rate and life expectancy - into one composite measure.

But if you solve the problem by purchasing more bookshelves, somehow or other more books gradually appear and you are back where you started.

CONFIRMED: Dr. Hosenfelder is thiccc.

I am going to need visual proof to support that claim. I can turn to landscape if needed.

@@shroud1390 ADENOVIRUS DOESN'T EXIST I RECENTLY FOUND OUT CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE THAT IT IS ACTUALLY A BACTERIA YOU CAN FIND ON THE GROUND AND ALWAYS YOU HAVE TO TOUCH IT TO GET IT INTERNALLY

@@PeachesCourage forgive me if I don’t put much weight into KZfaq comments and their conclusive evidence claims.

I can’t imagine. She looks slim, petite and athletic even.

Don't be trans-fat-phobic 🤣

How dare you rate her as < 3! She's a 10! 🤣

Yes the trans fats joke was genius it took me 5 sec ... thinking what is she talking about, and then i paused the video and burst into laughter :)

Had to play it another four times before I got it. Must be getting old and dumb.

@@soptereancosmin1041 Me too. I had to listen again to make sure I heard it right.

Impulse purchasing, baby! They know a whole bunch of people are gonna see those candies and impulsively buy one, because their ape brain says "I LIKE THAT" and it's already over, it's already in their hand ready to scan at the register 👌🏻

On the way home? Usually done by the time l get to the cashier!

@@jamesduncan6729 Jesus you have a dim view of humanity

A friend of mine looked into the viability of opening and alternative fuel station in our area. He did lots of research but the most telling came from interviewing owners of gas stations. They make very little money off of selling gas, their profits come from all the items they sell in the store. The gas price is just the hook of getting customers to stop at that store vs another one. One owner interviewed said that he owned a candy, beer and cigarette store that also happened to sell gas.

Also american versions of some snacks and beverages have more sugar than their international counterparts.

Exactly, fat people survived long sea vogages to breed more survival fatties. Now they are paying for it. Lots of islanders in my neighbourhood, not many skinny ones. Great rugby players though. Never pick a fight with one either, very tribal.

There is an alternative explanation: these two islands eat highly-processed foods that were introduced during the Colonial Era. Luncheon meat, evaporated milk, and pork flaps are all part of the diet and excessive consumption of these calorie-dense foods is implicated in the excessive weight gain. The Pacific Islands and Mexico constitute a natural experiment for studying the effect of the introduction of processed foods.

@@marcowen1506 In my suburb with islanders and African refugees, only the Africans have any skinny ones but they are tall too. Also some chubbies. The few whites skinnies are obvious smokers, nicotine not food addicted.

@@marcowen1506 Mexico?

@@anameyoucantremember One of the fattest nations around.

I can sympathize. At 12% bodyfat, the BMI chart says I'm borderline overweight. LOL

@@michaelblacktree Back in the day when i was 19-20 i was 'morbidly obese', i could bench twice my weight, deadlift 700lbs, i'd beach run about 5 miles a day, swim about as far, and bike about 20 miles a day in between skateboarding and other stuff. But since i'm like 250lbs and 6' tall, according to the chart i'm way over. But the chart doesn't account for large frames, i've got massive bones like tree trunks, size 16-17 feet, extra tendons, literally 'built different'. I skateboard downhill, once i had my buddy who is about 140lbs blow a line and run right into my shins at about 30mph. He wrapped around me like a tree trunk and ragdolled down the mountain a bit more while it didn't budge me a single bit. I felt bad, for him it was like hitting a concrete post planted in the road, zero give lol. The charts are an average taken like a hundred boomer years ago when the 'average' person was smaller and slimmer, now the average is like 40% body fat and diabetic, and the charts are pretty much unattainable goals for most unless they don't eat anything but a fresh, non poisoned and irradiated diet of nonprocessed foods, sensible portions, fresh air, clean water and exercise. But we all know y'all don't roll like that, that's why the 'average' is your walmart shopper.

About 10 years ago my GP looked at my BMI and said, "I've never told anybody this before, but you could stand to gain some weight." So I did. Got a little pudgy, but I didn't like how it felt, so kicked up the exercise and dropped my weight back down and won't listen to a doctor staring at a BMI chart about nutrition advice again 🙃

@@thefaboo Hmm... some of the old tables about mortality risk are distorted by a correlation between low weight and consumption (being the old word for tuberculosis). Actuarial science is about averages across all policyholders not about what is right for the individual. There is an old joke about the Actuary drawing a map by looking out of the back window of the car - in life the back window of the past is the only one with a big field of view.

@@andrewharrison8436 Yeah BMI is bollocks. It assumes you have a trivial amount of muscle mass. It's like talking of speed causing accidents on the roads. It's easy to measure and do demo stats. The reality is life is more complex and the thing to measure is probably not easily measurable, like the persons attention to the road while driving.

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. What was your fast like for that first day and the three after? How many hours did you fast and did you drink water, or consume nothing at all? And for carbs, did you just eliminate foods made with flour, or potatoes and fruits too? I've always avoided even trying keto because I'm not committed to eating that way for the rest of my life, but I might try your method of a few weeks and see how it works.

@@vanityshop5155 My reading on things suggests that keto is probably not, in the long term, healthy for most people. The reason is in the reliance on ingestion of trans fats, which counteract the benefits seen in keto after about three months (give or take). The diabetic community is a good one to look into as they have regular blood sugar level monitoring and insulin response metrics. You can do keto without trans fats... but that's just not economically realistic for most people. My first 24 hours was just water. It was rather odd, as I did not really feel hungry. I found myself waking up ahead of my alarm and being clear headed when doing so. The second day, I was mostly water, but got a can of V8 at work. By this time, I was starting to get a bit of hunger/crave for food. Because I hadn't prepared for this decision at all, I got some salami sticks out of the vending machine at work the next day. I basically set a target of less than 20 carbs per day and removed effectively all starches and grains from my diet. I tried a few keto bread alternatives and stocked up on mozzarella cheese. Even made a pizza with one (it wasn't too bad and the recipe had a cooking down of the sauce that my friends and I all agreed was a better way to go about making one). At first, I was mainly on water, but I expanded into some zero sugar offerings to keep myself sane. I deduced that Wendy's caesar salad was not breaking my carb budget and would get that when I needed fast food. When I worked at said wendy's several years ago, we used to have a lady come through an ask for a cheeseburger without the bun, and we served it in the half-salad container (not sure if they still have those). Though I didn't resort to that, myself. Technically, dietary fiber and carbs are supposed to cancel out in keto, so you can deduct dietary fiber from carb intake, but I just took aim at removing carbs in all forms. A point of caution - many artificial sweeteners are still likely to trigger an insulin response and therefore ne a bit counterproductive. I love tea and I like it sweet (I like a bit of tea with my sugar), so this was a challenge to resolve as aspartame both triggers a mild insulin response and blows out your gut microbes, but many of the others that don't damage your gut also trigger an insulin response. I ultimately settled on xylitol because it neither prompts an insulin response nor damages the gut biome.... but is a mild laxative. I couldn't ever get it to taste quite right with tea, but that could be because I was using too much. It is, however, toxic to dogs (and I have one) ... extremely so. She's a great pyrennes that gets into everything, so I made sure to keep it up and in a latched container as well as to rinse any dishes used with it. Cooking with it was out of the question because almost invariably, the dog would end up eating it when she destroys the trashcan or raids the sink. It just takes one moment of neglect, there. Xylitol does produce an extremely intense insulin response in dogs and they basically go hypoglycemic, comatose, and die as all the sugar gets pulled out of their blood. Not all sugar substitutes are zero calorie, either. Stevia, for example, comes with carbs. If you're like me and enjoy having a sweet liquid to consume in potentially unhealthy quantities - these can add up pretty quick. There are bread-like alternatives you can make with mozarella cheese, a bit of butter, cream cheese, baking powder, and either coconut flour or almond flour. You can use these for making a hamburger, pizza, etc. I wouldn't worry too much about the carb count of the veggies on a burger - but you do want to consider what sauce you're putting on a pizza. This pseudo-bread is extremely high calorie relative to normal bread and I mainly used it for the likeness of bread, functionally. IE - for a burger. You could use it as something like a biscuit or bread with a roast-like-thing - but its caloric density and cost are probably a bit much for that role. Pizza crusts, burger buns.... maybe some kind of taco or burrito shell (never tried making a hard shell with one) - but a dinner biscuit/roll, toast, etc is probably not on the menu, even though you can make it, it's not really what this type of bread is for. From my local diner, I'd order a hamburger steak and cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is one of those that can vary widely between brands as to exactly what it is, so I didn't go full ham on incorporating cottage cheese into my diet. Cheese is generally 'safe,' but lactose is a sugar and so dairy is not generally 'safe.' Fruits... generally a no. They usually have way too much sugar. We are talking -a- grape or -a- blackberry (well... mine are as big as grapes, but that's another story). Even -a- strawberry will put most people over budget for their keto diet. There is some research that shows after people enter a ketogenic diet for a period of time, they can avoid being kicked out of ketosis with carb intakes up to around 60 grams per day, possibly even higher - but most people can't afford to accurately test blood ketone levels to determine whether or not they are in ketosis, either... I did not experience the keto flu. My brother, who tried keto while in the marines under dietary supervision, could not get past the keto flu and always broke down. There is no definitive research I am aware of on exactly who experiences keto flu or what can be done to limit it, but I suspect it is coupled to weight. My brother has significantly greater fat reserves than myself and there was some research I ran across years ago that discussed how fat, particularly visceral fat (the type marbled into our muscles) releases hormones and other chemical signals when it is forced to remit its fat reserves. Effectively, fat gets upset when it shrinks and tries to convince the body to conserve calories. I suspect the keto flu is tied to this - people with more visceral fat are probably much more prone to the keto flu than those who are thinner or have cutaneous fat. I also can't say I really experienced strong cravings for "the real thing", either. After about 3 weeks, I did finally decide I wanted a zebra cake - but it wasn't as part of a craving so much as it was me having done what I set out to do and was tired of not allowing myself the option. It's worth noting that I don't think I am particularly normal in how I handle 'self control' in that regard. I'm not sure how to describe it - but when I do things like that, I just don't give myself the option to do the things I am not supposed to do. I'm not denying myself a thing I want, the thing I want does not allow me to choose certain options, even if I have a desire for them. If that makes any sense. I'm not sure if it is a learned ability that can be explained and passed along, or if it's somehow rooted in a gene expression. When I see the zebra cake, it's a thing I can't have, not something I want. The thing I want requires that to be excluded as an option. Or maybe that was normal and people just don't normally develop control? I dunno.

@@Aim54Delta Thanks for all of the information. Will be reading through this.

What is your opinion on the claims that keto diets in the long term can cause kidney complications?

@@psi9899 Generally skeptical. I have seen a number of studies indicate that a keto diet relieved liver damage from fatty liver diseases. Although I could understand how there could be problems over a long period of time or with a more "faddish" take on the diet for that period of time. Having someone eat steak and salad for 9 months is very different from having someone eat baccon and cheese for 9 months. Since the liver is responsible for processing fats into glucose as well as some ketones, it stands to reason that being on keto for a long period of time could cause some liver damage or see the liver skew toward being a fat store (which makes sense if it is now mediating your blood glucose and ketone levels). To put it into context, soda and sugar/hfcs consumption is probably the biggest contributor to non-alcaholic fatty liver disease, which is "a silent pandemic" according to health articles I am seeing in my review of some stuff to make sure I haven't missed anything glaring as a study. Also, it may not make sense to you... but does the number 7 or the ringing of a telephone have any particular meaning to you outside the mundane? Strange question if not, but ... sometimes things seem to happen and it's impossible to not connect dots. It's difficult to explain... but let's say you are reading a book... then, you get into a discussion on one part of the internet and see some references to something only a few people would know about you - or who seem to signal you. Then, someone named after a rather unique place in the book makes a comment. It is more interesting if it is not part of a witting plan than if it were, no?

It's not hard. It's extremely easy. What's hard is ignoring the advertising and brightly colored boxes. Anyone who tells you it's hard is selling you something. Changing your grocery list is free (and will save you money as you buy less)

@@punchkitten874 the simple answer is ‘move to Japan’ [Slime Mold Time Mold - A Chemical Hunger], but most people can’t do that. Food and eating are very tied to psychology & changing habits can be extremely hard for some people. Even doing the Potato Diet is hard for some people.

@@johnferguson4869 Sounds like you have all your excuses lined up...

@@punchkitten874 thankfully I’m not genetically or mentally predisposed to over-eat, but telling an obese person “just eat less!” is like telling a depressed person “just get out of bed!”

@@johnferguson4869 I never said eat less, I said eat differently. The reason you save money is because you're not trying to feed a carb habit anymore. When you get off the metabolic rollercoaster of carb-crash-carb-crash, you stop feeling like you gotta eat every two hours. Many low carb folks eat just once a day without hunger or nutritional issues. Buy the same amount of calories as you always do at the grocery store - just avoid filling that tally with carbs. Not hard. Not hard at all

She only has a straight face!

I did a double take when I heard it. Took me a second to realise it was a joke. I love scientists sense of humour.

@@markthomasson5077 She smiles sometimes, but yeah.

She would last 10 seconds as a stand up comedian, I started off thinking, heck she should not bother with the jokes….but now I rather like it ..maybe should could do stand up. (Mind you I am a lot worse…just ask my wife)

She's german🤣

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@Brad Armstrong can you please explain to me the difference between precision and accuracy?

This is what i have learned from Dr Ekberg's videos. I am convinced that with this knowledge i can control my weight en health for the rest of my life, maybe even extend my healthspan, live longer and with good health. I'm very grateful and empowered.

According to the Insulin Hypothesis, people with insulin resistance would lose more weight in a low carb diet compared to a high carb diet, but research indicates they lose the same amount of fat. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35088407/ And about HFCS, foodsciencebabe explains it well and even links some studies, but TLDW its all about marketing, making people scared about cheaper foods so we'll buy their expensive foods, same with "non-gmos" and "organic" foods kzfaq.info/get/bejne/er5gidtipt7Yc2g.html So maybe this is why Sabine didn't mention carbs as being the sole reason for us getting fatter, but rather processed foods (which tend to be denser in carbs and fats alike).

Oh yeah Dr Ekberg is awesome. Check out the channel "low carb down under" too. Really incredible long form presentations there. Some of their stuff is life changing.

drug addicts have it much worse, sadly. I depends on the drug but you could die from withdrawal.

"Eat less food: do more exercise"

I was sipping coffee when she mentioned a petri dish, and I almost stained whatever was in front of my face by the time she finished the sentence.

You must not have watched the video

It also gets harder to lose weight the more you keep it on....your body tends to gravitate to what it was before - if you're newly overweight, that helps you. If you've been overweight for decades, that works against you. Glad you were able to make a change early!

​@@rashkavar Physically speaking it's no different, losing 1kg of fat is exactly the same no matter how long someone's been in an unhealthy situation. It's that person living a lifestyle that puts them in a calorie surplus, they need to change the lifestyle to put themselves in a calorie deficit instead. That sucks because they've become addicted to the dopamine hit that happens whenever the stomach is full and there is a surplus of sugar in the blood. Or prehistoric brains do this to encourage us to retain as many calories as possible because we didn't know when our next mean would be.

@@palladin9479 That would be true if we didn't have an endocrine system, but we do. The body regulates metabolism to maintain weight at a set level over a long term. This is why dieters have their weight plateau and then go back up while keeping on their diet.

​@@rashkavar Again unless there is a white hole in the stomach spewing new mater into existence, the carbohydrates had to get inside you somehow. It really is just a matter of calorie in vs calorie out. Everything else is just why some folks feel hungrier then others or want to eat more then others. Super easy and time proven experimentation proves this. Take an overweight human, put them in a room and feed them lower calories then their BMR, observe the results over six to eighteen months. They always lose body fat, as observed from medieval dungeons.

I'm not sure why carbs didn't get more mention in this video. All the other things she talks about are peripheral at best. If you cut out the carbs, which by definition cuts out nearly all processed food, those other things simply do not matter.

@@BuckMulligan72 The difference is in this video she cited the major scientific studies that explored the various possible causes of obesity and to be fair she did say the scientific evidence linking excessive intake of sugars (or carbs if you insist) and obesity are so overwhelming. You on the other hand, claimed that those other factors that she mentioned were "peripheral at best" and your source is trust me bro. I understand that this is just a KZfaq comment but no one has ever won a Nobel Prize for this method of inquiry. But since you appear comfortable with anecdotal claims, I'd like to make one myself: for a lot of people (citation unneeded) "cutting out the carbs" would mean the woman in a traditional family will not be able to work because she has to spend time cooking for the husband and children 3 healthy unprocessed meals a day. Vegetables and fruits don't last long in your fridge (assuming you have one) and that means more frequent trips to the grocery store. Good breads (that meet the definition of breads per EU regulations) cannot be pleasantly consumed past the second day of purchase, so she has to rise earlier than everyone else every other day just to get that wholemeal sourdough from the baker. Shall we eat that bread with shelf-stable margarine? Yikes that contains trans-fat and it's "processed". So no jams and no Nuttella either. If hand-churned butter is out of the question too, then she shall need to prepare stew too. One without bacon for that extra umami because that's a lot of nitrites as preservatives. That's just for breakfast. If you'd like to make exceptions for bacon, Nutella or American sandwich loaf, then congratulations you're like most of us who don't really have realistic choices when it comes to "cutting out the carbs". And then you might begin to look at things which may worsen obesity in your family with a full awareness that you can't just cut out the carbs as a simple one-size-fits-all solution.

@@tetleydidley What a bizarre comment. I'm aware that she briefly mentions sugar. The actual science, not anecdote, is very clear that carbs are the cause of obesity. The other things she mentions are either peripheral (lack of exercise, genes, lack of sleep, stress), are actually caused by the intake of carbohydrates (microbiome issues, micronutrient deficiency), or they simply don't even matter at all (viruses, plastic). You (and she) are missing the forest for the trees.

Seconded

I'm a fat guy that is learning about fasting. I learned something just last week I found incredibly interesting. The body can be fooled. No calorie flavored water can fool the body to produce insulin and make you feel hungry. Diet pop can fool the body and make you feel hungry. The body gets keyed up to think more food is on the way. While fooled it won't burn fat. The information I read said that if you go cold turkey on food and just drink water, the body will not be fooled and burn fat after your stored fuel is depleted. I've been drinking diet pop for years. I found that tiny piece of information amazing. I hope they ain't lyin' again. (You also feel less hungry without the diet pop.)😊

Bad habits do cause obesity.

@@daniellarson3068 If you haven't come across it already, I highly recommend the book "The Obesity Code" - it's a quite in depth analysis of the insulin hypothesis that goes pretty much as technical as you can get without needing in depth medical training in order to understand it. Side note: if you're anything like me, it will make you incredibly angry at the traditional dietary establishment. There's a bunch of studies the author dug up that were unpublished because the results violated the calorie counting strategy that the medical community largely assumed was accurate...effectively burying the scientific evidence that calorie counting is a fool's errand.

That's a silly equivalency. Willpower is generally used as a catch all term for things like lifestyle choices, habits, the ability to build habits, and the priority one gives to their own health. All of which measurably affect weight gain and are necessary components to treat problems associated with weight gain.

@@La0bouchere But it's equally lacking in understanding and application in solving the problems that need to be solved. By your argument, willpower is equally an important part of treating heart disease or asthma. Technically it is, but it's the doctor's job to provide understanding of the condition and how to manage it, not just say "be better at managing it!"

More like 50 years - the obesity epidemic dates to the 1970s, and it's no longer 2000. Still way too short to be a variance in genetics - variance in generics might help predict which people get fat in a given population, but the cause of the increased obesity in the population as a whole is clearly not a sudden genetic shift.

I had to pause and find someone who also acknowledged that gem of a joke.

You cannot build up fat unless you are in a calorie excess - its physics. All the biological mechanisms int be world don’t change this.

@@marcdaniels9079 yes it's physics, so please don't make a closed-system-based argument for what is clearly an open system. You need to break away from calorie thinking. Do some research into why low calorie diets work, and you'll see how utterly wrong you are. Good luck.

She did mention stress as a factor. Social or psychological conditioning will absolutely affect a person's relationship with food. Over consuming was the first suggested cause though, even if it didn't get into the reasons why too much food is consumed. My best suggestion for your predicament is doing your best to make better choices when you are buying the food, or have your wife get the groceries. That way when the cravings/stressful emotional wants drive you to eating, you are at least making better choices for your body to try and sate those feelings. Fresh fruits, vegetables, beans, and other foods rich in fiber can both leave you feeling more satiety, and also boost your micronutrient consumption.

One theory regarding stress and eating is inflammation. Stress causes a sort of mild inflammatory stomach ache. Eating soothes that stomach ache. Some foods cause higher levels of inflammation and some temporarily reduce it. When I'm stressed I have 100% cooking chocolate. It doesn't taste great, but a few bites and it, for me, significantly reduces physical inflammation within a few minutes. It doesn't help with the psychological side of stress, but it helps when I have a mild stomach ache caused by stress or other causes. 100% chocolate is a lot like a bitter peanut butter, so it coats the inside of the stomach lining, and it's an antioxidant, an anti-inflammatory. Some foods (ultra highly processed and fast food) increase inflammation in the long term, but can reduce inflammation in the short term. This can turn into a cycle of eating to feel better.

Whenever I'm feeling down or stressed out, I isolate and sleep.. I just won't have an appetite and I would never have an energy to do anything. I would just lie down on my bed until feeling better. So instead of becoming fat, I've become a sleepy head lol. My reaction/response to a stressful stimuli is freezing and flight than fighting..

Yeah, I had the same issue as a kid. Facing the problems that were causing me stress helped. Not all stressors can be instantly removed from life so a therapist helps.

Try replacing the things you eat with healthier options. Replace sugary biscuits with vita weats or a savoury snack instead. It quells that sensation of needing to eat something while also not inducing extra sugar in your diet. When you go to the pub, instead of having a side of chips, ask for a side of salad instead. All these tiny little adjustments will have a large affect on your health and in 6 months time you'll start to feel better. Combine that with regular exercise (not always achievable depending on the weather and where you live etc) and you'll start to lose weight. It's also not a large change. If you try and completely eliminate every sugary food immediately you'll go into withdrawal

That in reality is what it is at the end of the day. You can claim many factors make you over-eat if you like. However at its basic form, the laws of thermodynamics apply 100% of the time. It is impossible to gain additional body tissue without extra energy to do so.

She didn't excuse it either. Too many calories, wrong type of calories, insufficient exercise and bad meal timing are within your reach to change.

@@SpaceCadet4Jesus For sure, what goes in, when it goes in, and how much goes in matters.

@@Ryan_DeWitt Yes, the laws of thermodynamics apply 100%. But one question remains: Why do even people who keep so many calories in their fat depots that they could supply their entire body with energy for more than 6 months still feel hungry, often even ravenously hungry? And the answer is: Because their brain is no longer connected to fat metabolism, the most powerful metabolism of the human organism. Their brain is no longer able to use ketone bodies for energy supply, even if they are offered by the organism.

Ha, ha, the "bottom" joke was at 5:30.

@@gordonquickstad well, I wasn't talking about what _time_ in the video it was at. I was talking about timing in reference to humor, to how to tell a joke ‐ _that_ kind of timing! 😄

my favorite joke was about the many-worlds believers being stressed out. that was real clever, and the smooth delivery really got me

Seasonal

Yeah nobody wants to eat a lot when super hot

I'm from further north and similarly have always wondered about central heating. Houses used to be cold & we burned calories to keep warm. Now we all have central heating turned up to tropical temperatures, we eat more but burn less to warm ourselves. I have observed that the worst central heating addicts tend to be the roundest.

There is not enough attention paid to the HFCS issue! Where I live, taxes are high, and I don't have to pay very much, as I am quite poor. However, my city has implemented a tax on "sugary beverages", which they define in terms of carbs per ounce. Sadly, this tax extends to unsweetened juices with no added sugar! Of course, fruit juices do contain a lot of naturally occurring fructose, and, as a diabetic, I avoid those. BUT what I really want to say here is that it would make more sense to tax beverages, and other items, containing HFCS! I believe that a significant factor in the obesity epidemic is the move from cane/beet sugar in products to High Fructose Corn Syrup. This seems to have a large impact on children. Children have always loved sugary treats, sodas, KoolAid, and such. The reason so many kids are coming down with Type 2 diabetes could be the relatively recent switch by snack/soda companies to HFCS. I would bet that a graph of the adoption of HFCS by large snack firms and the increase in Type 2 diabetes in American children would show a strong correlation! Why not just use sugar? HFCS is much cheaper, and in the USA profit is valued more highly than children, and money is our Supreme Being. Heaven help us. Thank you, Stewart, for bringing this up. Thank you, Sabine, for sharing your intelligence, knowledge, and humor! You shine.

No. The gut microbiome is there to help digest food. There is a different microbiome depending on what and how much you eat. I eat just meat. No veggies at all. My micobiome has adjust for this. I now rarely, get gas build up. I just never fart. When I was an omnivore though, I could clear a room. Regulation of hunger comes from the hormones Lepton and Ghrelin. One says you're hungry the other says you're satiated. Having high levels of insulin, throughout the day will seriously screw up those hormones (along with nearly all hormones). Don't eat plants. Have steadily low levels of insulin, and never be hungry again. Eat only meat. Real meat.

@@dr.robertjohnson6953 Extreme diets make no sense. Our ancestors ate whatever they could to survive, and what they ate probably depended on geography and the seasons. We are omnivores. The only thing just about everyone agrees upon is we eat to many refined carbs and not enough fiber, too many trans-fats and sodium and highly processed foods. Also most people do not eat sufficiently diverse diets. Only certain animals such as cats are true carnivores, and even they will occasionally eat plants.