I interviewed Dr. Jason Fung, a world-renowned expert on intermittent fasting and weight loss.
Timestamps:
0:00 How intermittent fasting can result in significant weight loss, even if you’re obese
2:49 Insulin causes weight gain; take it away, and you lose weight - but hardly anyone focuses on this fact
5:15 Lower insulin by avoiding refined carbohydrates, eating moderate protein and high natural fat, and intermittent fasting
8:35 Both high blood sugar and high insulin are destructive to your body
21:18 Dr. Jason Fung’s clinic helps patients with intermittent fasting, with many free resources available
25:55 Besides weight loss, intermittent fasting helps with type 2 diabetes, mental clarity, and increased energy
32:00 Intermittent fasting may help to treat Alzheimer’s by a process called autophagy
34:40 It may also be beneficial for cancer
37:05 For fasting, find a routine that works as part of your lifestyle
Dr. Fung explains that the cause of obesity is an issue of too much insulin. Intermittent fasting results in a significant drop in insulin levels. Take away insulin, and people lose weight. Conversely, give people insulin or insulin-raising drugs, and they gain weight. To a lesser extent, the same thing happens with cortisol.
However, most people still focus on calories in, calories out as the formula for weight loss. The problem is, this fails most of the time! Common sense also says that not all foods are equally fattening. Eating the same number of calories from kale as from cookies is very different. Every time you eat, insulin goes up. This is natural. But eating many times per day tells your body to store the food energy you’re eating as fat, because of the constantly raised insulin.
If you want to lose weight, do two things: stop eating high-insulin-provoking foods, and fast intermittently to give your body a break from constant insulin. High insulin and high blood sugar are very toxic to the body, so giving someone with type 2 diabetes insulin is counter-productive. You’re simply trading one toxicity for another.
Losing weight can help reverse type 2 diabetes. And type 2 diabetes is really a disease of too much sugar in the body. Taking insulin can lower blood glucose, but it simply forces the sugar out of the blood and into your body, causing your organs to rot away over the span of ten or fifteen years. This is why diabetes is a disease of everything!
Diabetes and obesity are both diseases of too much insulin. The solution is obvious: lower insulin. Type 2 diabetes is a reversible disease. Intermittent fasting also increases your energy, and it may be beneficial for treating Alzheimer’s.
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Dr. Jason Fung clearly explains how intermittent fasting brings substantial health benefits, including weight loss and reversal of type 2 diabetes.