Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Do you agree with her?

No.

Okay, tell me why.

Okay, so this is going to be a very...

long-winded answer.

Because there's a lot of components there to unpack.

Right.

So, there's a lot of things to unpack here.

First of all, there's no just obesity gene.

There are genes that are associated with predisposing someone to gaining fat easier.

And

affecting satiation and things like that easier right but it's not like there's just one obesity gene that makes you obese with that said okay what she's talking about here with with it wasn't my fault you have to realize that we have studies now where you can take there's healthy men okay they're not overweight they're not obese and you can put them on a high caloric

ultra-processed food diet for five days.

And what I mean by that is they're consuming 1,200 to 1,500 more calories per day predominantly from processed foods, the cereal you were talking about.

This is the food that's high in added sugar and saturated fat.

And what happens is it causes their brain to become insulin resistant.

Yes, you can cause your brain also to become insulin resistant.

We usually think about

you know, our cells in our body becoming insulin resistant.

What happens when your brain becomes insulin resistant is the following.