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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

It was a disaster.

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 now you go and it's like, you can barely find margarine on the shelf because nobody's buying margarine.

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, no, because of the Lindy effect.

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

What's been around will likely be around and likely because it has validity.

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

Same thing with the golden rules.

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're not new rules.

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're old rules, 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

But we got to listen to that sort of old ancient wisdom if you want to avoid these sort of modern diseases like obesity.

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

No, I don't disagree with that.

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 for sure, again, you have to go back to sort of which type of hunger are we really facing here, 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

Is it the physical homeostatic 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 I'll tell you, like when you do fasting for long periods of time, 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

If you do fasting for like four or five days, 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

You start to feel that physical 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 what I realized is that I actually don't feel it very often.

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 therefore, it's the other types of hunger that typically drive it, 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 that extra pour of extra virgin olive oil, it's like, what is it that's really...

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

What hunger is it that's really satisfying?

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

Is it the hedonic hunger or is it 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

Which one is it?