Dr. Jason Fung

It simply makes no sense to equate the two.

If you have a food that's triggering off all your dopamine receptors because it's an ultra processed food, like, you know, cheese puffs or something,

Well, once you start, it's very difficult to stop, right?

They tell you like in their advertisements, right?

So it's like, well, that's very different than eating a natural food like eggs where, you know, you eat them and then you're full and then you're done, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

Because if you think about calories, it's such a small piece of the whole puzzle.

Let's take an example.

So if you eat a breakfast of an 800 calorie three egg omelet with vegetables, right?

What's going to happen is that you're going to be full until lunchtime, right?

Maybe even longer because it's a pretty satisfying meal.

Why?

Because the hormones that you release.

So as soon as you eat the foods, your body's going to release a certain pattern of hormones, right?

So the eggs, there's protein, there's fat.

It's going to stimulate GLP-1, peptide YY, cholecystokinin.

Those are satiety hormones, right?

So you're going to feel full.

It's also not going to release a lot of insulin.

Insulin is a hormone.