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Dr. Jason Fung

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1902 total appearances

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Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

Just take the drug.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

It's like, okay, good luck.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

I hope you do well.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

But I know that in many cases,

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

they'll stop the drug, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

And then you don't get any benefits.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

So I call them the golden rules of weight loss.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

And what I'm trying to say is that they're sort of more important than, you know, some of the tips that I put in.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

So I've tried to keep them very, very practical.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

And the number one is sort of avoid ultra processed foods.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

Right.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

And that's because of what we talked about.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

It cuts across like multiple sort of levels of hunger.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

And second is, you know, make sure you incorporate a natural fasting periods because again, it cuts across several different types of hunger.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

Like if you set yourself a period of time that you're not going to eat, I'm not going to eat after seven and not before seven the next day or whatever it is, whatever you say.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

right?

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

Or I'm going to do 24 hours of fasting.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

You're going to do a lot because you're going to not only help yourself feel that hunger, but you're going to break a lot of the sort of hedonic hunger with like food addictions where you really have to deal with like cutting down a lot, but also things like the conditioned hunger.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

So what you're doing is you're doing all your daily activities and making sure that you're not doing it with food, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
A Doctor’s Argument For Why Most Diet’s Fail: The Hidden Hormone Problem Driving Weight Gain and What To Do About It with Dr. Jason Fung

So you're not linking