Mike Carruthers

It's been a real pleasure talking to you.

A lot of people struggle with their weight.

In fact, more than ever before.

And now, with the rise of these new weight loss drugs that help people eat less, it would seem we finally have a solution.

But if it were just about eating less and having more willpower, wouldn't this problem have been solved by now?

Because people have been dieting for decades, and yet the pattern is familiar.

You lose weight, you regain it, and then you start over.

So what's really going on?

Why does the body seem to fight back against weight loss?

And why has the problem gotten so much worse?

My guest says we may be asking the wrong question.

It's not just what you eat, or even when you eat, but why you eat.

Dr. Jason Fung is a medical doctor and best-selling author who studies the biology of weight and metabolism.

His latest book is The Hunger Code, Resetting Your Body's Fat Thermostat in the Age of Ultra-Processed Food.

Hey, Dr. Fung, welcome to Something You Should Know.

so it seems you know people talk about weight loss a lot like it's like it's very top of mind and yet the problem seems to be worse than ever before so what are what are we getting wrong well i think that people have focused on the wrong issue so for years and years decades really uh people focused on calories uh you know the

Right, sure.

But when you say there's different kinds of hunger, what do you mean?

Because when I'm hungry, I'm hungry.

I don't feel different.