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

0:00One of the most fundamental questions you want people to think about today is not why are we gaining weight, but rather why are we so hungry in the first place? What's the distinction

0:13between those two questions and why is it so important as the foundation of what we're getting into today? >> Cuz I think that what we need to focus on is sort of the deeper reasons behind

0:26why we're eating, right? Because if you think that we're overeating, that's fine. But if your advice is just eat less, well, that's not super helpful because you never understood why you're

0:36eating in the first place, right? So, it's just like if you have an alcoholic and you say, well, alcohol is a equals alcohol in minus alcohol out, just drink less alcohol. Well, it doesn't work like

0:46that, right? You can't just tell somebody. You need to understand why they're drinking more, right? And it's could be depression, could be, you know, addiction or and you have to treat

0:56that root cause, right? So, it's about getting to that sort of deeper level of understanding. If you think about, say, calories and hunger, if you simply reduce your calories,