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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

And you find it in some medical literature.

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, you can find all this data on ultra-processed foods, food addictions, you know, differences in obesity rates, 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 can find it anywhere.

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 somehow, when it comes down to the end, they're always like, well, it's all calories and calories.

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 was like...

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

There's more.

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

There's more.

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

Let's know more so that we can do better, 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 to me, they're important books because The Hunger Code is actually the first book I've written in about six years.

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

Yeah, I was like, okay, I think I've said everything I need to 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

But then it's like, oh, no, but look at all this interesting new data, 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

It's like, oh.

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

Then I start to realize, hey, there's actually a lot more about 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

And so it's like, let's tell people so that we can keep moving forward on these discussions so that we're not stuck in this sort of rut about, you know, it's just calories.

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

Therefore, it's all within your control.

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

A lot of it is outside of people's control.

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 where you have to sort of

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

Identify it.

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 anything in medicine.

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

Identify the problem, then you reach for the right solution, right?