Dr. Jason Fung

So what it tells you is that for each calorie that you eat, your body could either store it, right, body fat, or it could burn it.

But which one does it do?

That's the most important question.

Not the number of calories, but what your body does with those calories.

That's the information, right?

So if you eat, you know, donuts, insulin spikes way up, your body says, oh, you took like 50, 100 calories of that.

Let's shove it all into storage, body fat, because insulin's high.

If you eat, you know, an egg instead, insulin doesn't really go up, your body lets it float around and you're gonna burn it for metabolism.

But it's so critical because that's the important thing.

What does it do?

So we always think it's all about the calories you eat, but no, for each calorie you eat, there's two different, you know,

The results are so different, right?

You store it all, you get fat.

You burn it all, well, you're feeling good.

You have lots of energy and you're not gaining fat, right?

But it's not the number of calories.

That's not the only thing that's important.

What's much more important is sort of what your body does with that, right?

And the funny part is that in other circumstances, people understand this.

Like you could say money in the bank, right?