Dr. Jason Fung

But ultra processed foods plays a big role in the insulin response and so on and changing that whole thing.

But it goes beyond that, not just the homeostatic side of things, but also the emotional side of things and the social side of things.

Yeah, that's a great question because ultra-processed foods actually causes a lot of problems because the way you process the food impacts your hormonal response to that food.

You can take a food and if you process it in two different ways, you will have a different hormonal response.

And of course, the hormones is what drives it.

So people think that you go from calories to weight gain.

That's not the way the body works.

You have food, which contains calories, but it contains macronutrients, but also contains something called the food matrix, which is the way that it's structured.

And that's important because it affects digestion.

So after you eat the food, it has to be digested.

which means broken down into a way that's available for the body to use.

Then it goes into the stomach.

So what happens?

It goes into the stomach, it gets churned around, it gets held there for a while, and then little boluses get pushed out into the small intestines where it needs to get absorbed into the bloodstream.

When it gets absorbed into the bloodstream, that's going to affect your different hormones.

And there's a whole list of hormones I put in the hunger code, like 10 of them.

And that is what affects your weight, right?

And we know that this is an important thing.

So again, why ignore all these important pieces?

So if you disrupt the food matrix, and you can do that in different ways.