Dr. Jason Fung

So why would you want to eat all the time?

That makes no sense at all.

If you want to lose body fat, you actually need to extend the period of time that you're not eating.

In other words, extend your fasting period and get rid of all the snacks.

in order for you to have enough time that your insulin is low.

When insulin is low, it's going to allow fat burning, which is going to allow you to pull those calories back out.

Because in 2013, 2014, really nobody was talking about it from a medical standpoint.

Like what's happening in the body?

Why is it good?

Why is it bad?

And really I was for years, sort of this one voice in the wilderness that was saying like, hey, this is a tool for us.

If you want to lose weight because it's important, then-

you can just set aside a period of time that you don't eat.

At the time, people thought it was extremely bad for you.

And I looked through all the literature and I said, well, why is it bad for you?

And they had all these reasons.

There's all these myths about intermittent fasting and how it's gonna cause you to gain weight and be tired and hungry and all these sorts of things.

I said, well, no, there's actually a lot of data here over the last 2,000 years that we've used intermittent fasting.

And they're simply not true.

And I can go over a few of those,