Dr. Jason Fung

So if you're releasing less insulin, you're giving your body less instructions to store the fat.

Because remember, insulin is a hormone that tells your body to store more fat.

So the lower you can get your insulin, the better.

But it's not simply the food.

But the food order makes a difference.

The meal timing makes a difference.

certain foods that you eat with other foods, so vinegar and fermented foods, they will actually impact how quickly your blood glucose and your insulin go up.

So therefore, if you take bread versus bread with olive oil and vinegar, there's a big difference.

It's actually much better for you.

You can use things like resistant starch.

So if you take rice, you cook it, and then you cool it, and then you reheat it.

you get less of an insulin effect.

So that's another hack you can use because that's going to make it better.

If you have the rice, well, it's better to have this resistant starch working for you instead of against you.

Because I think that what we need to focus on is...

sort of the deeper reasons behind why we're eating right because if you think that we're overeating that's fine but if your advice is just eat less well that's not super helpful because you never understood why you're eating in the first place right so it's just like if you have an alcoholic and you say well alcoholism equals alcohol in minus alcohol out just drink less alcohol well it doesn't work like that right you can't just tell somebody you need to understand

why they're drinking more, right?

And it could be depression, could be, you know, addiction, and you have to treat that root cause, right?

So it's about getting to that sort of deeper level of understanding.

If you think about, say, calories and hunger, if you simply reduce your calories,