Dr. Jason Fung

So, you know, those tea and toasters definitely needed more protein, right?

But they also need to do the exercise, right?

Because so, you know, how much protein do you need?

Well, it might depend on how much exercise you do because the exercise is going to sort of break down your muscles, right?

As you exercise, you get these sort of, you put your muscle under stress

And then you rebuild the muscle to become stronger, right?

So as you rebuild, you're going to need protein.

And so maybe older people need it, but you realize that a lot of people are also, a lot of these people that are high protein, they also advocate a lot of resistance training, core stability, like a lot of this stuff.

And I get that.

I completely agree that that can definitely be

you know uh something that's useful but again to me i've always biased towards real foods as opposed to what we see now which is like oh we dumped a bunch of protein powder into your coffee or into your yogurt or into your whatever right it's like uh i don't know how good that really is but yeah i want to ask you just zooming out a little bit for the first time ever in america we saw i don't know if it was last year the year before that there was a dip in the obesity

I think what's good is that it's sort of putting focus on weight as a really important marker of health, because for years it was not even acknowledged.

So, for example, type two diabetes, which is the most it's like obviously weight and type two diabetes are highly linked.

Like that was obvious to anybody.

But it's only in the latest American diabetes guidelines that they said weight is a legitimate target to look at for type 2 diabetes.

It's like, duh.

Wasn't it obvious 20 years ago that if you have type 2 diabetes, weight loss is actually a really good thing for you?

But no, it wasn't.

It wasn't even in the guidelines.

So what it's doing is it's focusing in on what benefits...