First, I don’t usually say stuff like this but your hair looks awesome in this video, so that is fun! Okay when I clicked on this, I was drinking a 7.5 oz Pepsi that was left over from a party last weekend. Remorse. Thank you so much for this info! You are so research based I trust that your synthesis of data is credible! Thanks! For sharing and I hope you post more on this. It can save lives!
Hey Exulansic, long time no comment :) been watching all your stuff just busy with school!
Absolutely loved this video. I could listen to you talk about your preferred topics all day long. For some reason one of my favourite things is just extremely niche information on topics…
I really struggle with eating. People have asked me if I’ve had anorexia multiple times. I don’t think I do. I have a BMI of 16.5. It is extremely unhealthy. I am trying to work on getting better, but I think I’ve starved myself so much that I don’t have the same interest in food other people do. It’s not intentional starving. It just happens to me. Eating is a chore I am really not interested in half the time. Sometimes the starvation gets so bad that even the thought of eating makes me nauseous. I think the reason people thought I had anorexia was because I’m frequently sick after meals (no.. not in the vomiting way) I get horrible stomach cramps after eating dinner,! Usually because that would be my only meal of the day and I realize now I get sick because I eat it way too fast.
This is all to say I’ve always been freezing cold compared to my peers. My extremities are like ice. I just thought this was related to anxiety (as I do have an anxiety disorder) but after watching your video I realize it’s probably becauee my body doesn’t have enough energy to keep itself warm! I know this is a niche issue, but I’d love to hear you talk more about eating disorders or undereating and the phenomena behind that. Have a great night!
Anorexia just means loss of appetite. It doesn't always entail the nervosa part. Chemo patients with severe nausea are anorexic if they lack appetite even though it's not psychologically driven. If your BMI is 16.5, you either have a lack of appetite or malabsorption such as due to an inflamed small intestine or connective tissue disorder or gut biome issue. Or some combination (loss of appetite because eating has been painful for a long time and you feel better when you don't eat). Have you had a colonoscopy or been checked for celiac's or anything diagnostic in that direction? You may need some form of dietary supplementation regardless of the cause of the lack of nourishment.
Hmm. Maybe it’s denial on my part. Perhaps I should start labeling my struggle as anorexia. I always rejected the label as it felt “too serious” and the fact that I never tracked calories or attempted to lose weight. I am just really uninterested in food, especially when I’m stressed (which is unfortunately often for me)
Eating being painful is part of the reason why it feels like such a chore, though.
I want to add my comment assumes you are an adult. A 16.5 BMI can be normal for a child which is why growth charts have to be used. It shouldn't hurt to eat though. You deserve to know why you're having this pain.
Thank you for your reply. I am 22 year old female. 5’3, 93 pounds. I’ve been small all my life, and have been checked for a multitude of issues. The specialists usually say something along the lines of “anxiety related IBS”. Strangely enough, eating while laying down (like on a couch with my legs extended outward) can help the pain, but I don’t know why. I frequently have to lay down after eating (in an L Shaped position with my head upright, but still) I DEFINITELY have a lack of appetite, and have gone 2 days eating next to nothing in the past due to stress.
My appetite usually increases with the amount that I eat (ex, if I eat 3 meals a day for a period of a few weeks I will begin to feel hungry again) funny story. I actually had been gaining weight for a little while and did start to get hunger pains, but was genuinely confused what they were due to never having them before.
It only hurts to eat when I binge after going 24 hrs without eating. I usually don’t realize how hungry my body is and then eat WAY too fast and beyond my limit, causing cramps and nausea. At least, that’s how I’ve understood it doing my own investigation into the issue (tracking when I get sick after eating and what usually happens before then) my doctors are concerned but I haven’t been diagnosed with anything other than “anxiety related IBS”
They’ve given me antidepressants but no benzos or Xanax (I’ve been offered and declined since I know how addictive they are) I’m not sure if there is any non-addictive alternatives. I get the vibe they don’t really take it super seriously
They can be addictive but at the same time some people need them medically. This would be an experiment. Did the antidepressants help? Your gut makes a ton of serotonin as it is used for gut motility so I question if they did help, why. There are other meds used for anxiety that are non addictive including gabapentin and buspirone. I wonder also about MCAS or connective tissue disorder.
No, they didn’t help. The problem still persists and I’ve been on them for many years (albeit on and off). Another thing I should mention is whenever I get Ill after eating it’s almost always diahrea or unformed stool. I’ve got acid burns a couple times from the frequency… sorry for tmi 😂😅
Hello Dawn, reading your comments made me think of a story I read in an online forum in my country where these issues were being discussed. One young man shared that he had always been very skinny, and that authority figures around him growing up - parents, teachers, etc - had tended to say that "X just can't gain weight, some people are just like that". He had accepted this as true/correct. He did not enjoy eating and could often go for long periods with very little food, skip meals, have a coke for breakfast etc. He had been underweight his whole life until his early 20s. At that point he had to serve a brief term in prison (he wouldn't say what for but judging by other details that he shared it was clear that it was either speeding or drunk driving, likely the latter). In prisons here they serve three meals a day and the prison day is structured around these meals. All the inmates have to attend all mealtimes, there is no opting out, you have to sit down to breakfast, lunch and dinner. Since he was there and the food was there he started eating at all these mealtimes. He was in prison for 2 months and gained 10 kilos (about 25 pounds) in that time. He said that he came out of prison with an entirely new understanding of his issues with weight and eating and changed his life from that point forward, and had been normal weight since then.
I just wanted to share this story as what you have written here brought it to mind. I wish you the best of luck for your future and I hope you will get help to figure this out.
Loved this story. For me I definitely think it is a case of routine, if I get into eating 3 meals a day I know I’d get a lot better/healthier. Maybe I should try prison XD! Thank you for sharing, gave me some hope
Have you ever tried breath training? The Oxygen Advantage breath coach Patrick McKeown said his hands and feet were perpetually cold until he got his breathing pattern corrected. I practiced the technique while losing weight and it certainly didn’t hurt my efforts. Free to try on YouTube channel. The only product I’ve purchased from them is a special mouth tape for my partner with an opening in it for folks who have a reflexive dislike of having their mouth taped while sleeping. He was starting to snore in his early sixties, and this has corrected the issue. Anyway, hope your extremities warm up!
Definitely going to try this, thank you! The only way I have to warm up is to take a hot shower. It’s like a warmth-refill for my system. I’ve been told I have a tendency to hold my breath so I’ll definitely check this out
One more thing. I really love this sort of content because I am trying to help my mother lose weight! I recommended your strategies to her when you brought it up once before. It’s funny how my family is mostly obese as a result of anxiety and I am the complete opposite
Please allow me to recommend Dr. Jason Fung! He’s a nephrologist (kidney specialist) from the University of Toronto who has a clinic that helps people reverse obesity and diabetes mellitus through eating a whole food diet low in carbohydrate, combined with intermittent fasting. It worked great for me, I only purchased two of his books, and he now has subscriptions on his YouTube channel, which I subscribe to because I admire what he and his team of actual *health* professionals are doing to help people. You might want to check it out!
Ex, do you know much about autophagy? One of my big concerns with weight loss is excess skin and that’s what got me reading about it. I’ve had great success with keto but the pandemic got me back into my old ways and I gained it back.
Please allow me to recommend Dr. Jason Fung and his team of actual *health* professionals! They’re on YouTube and I made a comment elsewhere on this page that says more. Edit: They speak specifically about autophagy and why the excess skin remains on people who have lost weight without out it. I’ve also heard that intermittent fasting can simply be called ‘disciplined eating’ because it is eating with an understanding of how our bodies respond hormonally to what we eat. Apparently, Americans typically ate three times per day back in the Seventies, and now it’s constant snacking! Of course, the role of industrial food corporations and their advertising cannot be underestimated in having brought about this change. Good luck to you!
Thank you for this video. I am overweight and put on 20kg since menopause three years ago. I have yoyo dieted and felt desponded about dieting again only to lose weight and put it all back on again. I started to be seduced by the body acceptance movement. I still see value in it but it made me give up on losing weight. (Podcasts like Maintenance Phase were both illuminating and discouraging).
During the summer I started eating in a way to keep my blood glucose steadier and felt so much better. I didn’t lose weight but it changed my attitude. I have been intermittent fasting for the last two months and the weight is coming off. I’m trying to make changes to my lifestyle that I can live with permanently and relearn my hunger signals. I was so afraid of having a reactive hypoglycaemic response that I would eat to avoid future hunger.
I never trust anyone trying to make money from diet products. It must be the biggest snake oil industry. I see a lot of similarities to medical transition.
Hi Juju it's good to know that intermittent fasting is helping you. It's the only thing that has worked for me and I have dieted all my life. I was never too obese but put on a steady 2lbs every year till I was 165lb in my 60s.
I watched a TV program about fasting, in 2014, the 5 - 2 method, Michael Mosley was the presenter, and with not much effort got down to 140lb in a couple of months. I'm still the same weight 8 years later and though I'd like to lose a few more pounds I'm happy at this weight.
For anyone who’s curious, the Michael Mosley documentary is called Eat, Fast, And Live Longer. It came out around 15 years ago and may have information that is slightly out of date but it’s an inspiring watch nonetheless and a useful introduction to Intermittent Fasting. The stuff about IGF-1 growth hormone being associated with higher cancer risk is probably what stuck with me the most.
I hear this from folks who try keto and similar approaches to weight loss. They didn’t have a supposed “mood disorder” but noticed how much steadier emotionally they became, without their blood sugar levels doing a roller coaster ride! Thanks for sharing. ☮️❤️🐾
I'm really excited to see where this topic takes you, thank you very much for this introduction. HAES movement has become a bit of a special interest of mine too, I notice huge cognitive dissonance overlaps between trans rights activists and body positive HAES influencers. They are often consistently rooting for each other, especially on instagram in the Misinformation Olympics. I have a friend who is a relatively famous HAES influencer, and she puts out infographics about weight and weight loss constantly and how healthy she is, this fat girl can kinda thing. Unfortunately IRL she has major joint problems (that developed age 24) from weight, has 0 libido, hormone issues, hirtuism that started post weight gain, exceptionally painful skin with different patches of stretch marks that are sore to touch, eczema and some kind of skin rash/heat rash caused by perpetual rubbing. Makes me so sad because, like with the trans movement having 4 or 5x as many teenage girls going FTM, the main targets of this HAES movement are once again women. We're weakening and killing women with bullshit science, in a system that already doesn't take women's health seriously.
Hey Ex, if this gender craze ever ends (or if you just get tired of it, I certainly take breaks bc it's too demoralizing sometimes) I would definetely stick around if you talked about your preferred topics only (biology, medicine, linguistics, religion, do a book club, anything!). These little videos are great to spark my curiosity and have enough information/key words to start learning on my own :)
What do you think of the recent adoption of semaglutide injections for weight loss in non diabetic patients such as Saxenda and Ozempik? Since they target insulin resistance, wil they help obese people to return to a balanced state? What about use for ‘weight maintenance’ the 3-5 lbs weight loss for aesthetic purposes? everyone I seem to know is on it for that
Also, any idea why some women seem to carb crave from PMS? Is it just the psychological need for comfort foods or is there a possible chemical explanation?
I lost 30lbs over the past year and feel so much better for it. My husband had a diabetes scare and we decided to help each other by cutting out the sweet and sugary stuff we'd been eating over the COVID pandemic and it worked.
I really enjoy listening to you teach. We can all benefit from learning new facts and seeing alternative viewpoints. Thank you.
Hi Ex, thank you for the video! I'd definitely be interested to hear more about this topic from you! When you were talking about the perpetual motion machine and how it is not possible to gain weight without excess calories, it made me think of thyroid hormone. For myself, I've always had a consistent weight throughout my adult life until a couple of years ago I discovered I have a hyperthyroid condition. Since I've been treating it and trying to find an optimal level of thyroid hormone synthesis inhibition that will land me in a euthyroid state, my weight has been changing. As my thyroid hormone level drops, one of the first signs I will have is that I put on weight despite not changing my diet. I also had a boss who was hypothyroid and quite overweight, I don't know the details of his treatment (and he is dead now, of covid) but he always ate very restrictively at work events (no starches/sweets) and he told us at one point that his Dr had said he'd need to keep eating this way and would be lucky just not to gain more weight. Thought it was interesting as it seems thyroid hormone is one way to alter the efficiency of that metabolic fire in terms of its calorie consumption. I'm on the cusp of taking my thyroid out entirely (can't find a workable drug level, suspect inconsistent hormone production by the gland, and have ever-growing nodules) and am somewhat concerned about what will happen to my weight, lol. Anyway, you have inspired me to not eat breakfast this morning, I was going to out of habit but the truth is I'm not that hungry yet - thank you.
Yes I believe some conditions affect how we store fat by affecting basal metabolic rate as well as fatigue level and behaviors (i.e. secret eating that's forgotten and denied). I've been on drugs that made me balloon up by making it so much easier to eat. It's a very complex machine but the drugs made me gain wait by changing my behavior and affecting how I perceived and processed the calorie surplus. Any psychiatric condition or medicines will likely impact gut motility because neurotransmitters make the gut move or stop moving
This might be a wild suggestion, and I am not a doctor, but have you tried iodine supplements? We typically have a lot more exposure to bromine (in the same family as iodine) in the modern world, and not enough iodine. I've known several people at their wits' end with thyroid issues that iodine supplements really helped. I suggested an iodine/iodide supplement at a 1:1 ratio...Crow's, I believe it's called. It's a liquid supplement, which makes it easier to ramp up slowly than capsules. I take a tablet form myself. Just a suggestion from an internet stranger! :)
Thank you for the suggestion! I haven't tried iodine supplements. Actually a few days ago I crossed the rubicon and had my thyroid gland removed... For the rest of my life I'll be reliant on synthetic thyroid hormone, it's just starting to sink in. No future as a hermit in the woods for me!
First, I don’t usually say stuff like this but your hair looks awesome in this video, so that is fun! Okay when I clicked on this, I was drinking a 7.5 oz Pepsi that was left over from a party last weekend. Remorse. Thank you so much for this info! You are so research based I trust that your synthesis of data is credible! Thanks! For sharing and I hope you post more on this. It can save lives!
Hey Exulansic, long time no comment :) been watching all your stuff just busy with school!
Absolutely loved this video. I could listen to you talk about your preferred topics all day long. For some reason one of my favourite things is just extremely niche information on topics…
I really struggle with eating. People have asked me if I’ve had anorexia multiple times. I don’t think I do. I have a BMI of 16.5. It is extremely unhealthy. I am trying to work on getting better, but I think I’ve starved myself so much that I don’t have the same interest in food other people do. It’s not intentional starving. It just happens to me. Eating is a chore I am really not interested in half the time. Sometimes the starvation gets so bad that even the thought of eating makes me nauseous. I think the reason people thought I had anorexia was because I’m frequently sick after meals (no.. not in the vomiting way) I get horrible stomach cramps after eating dinner,! Usually because that would be my only meal of the day and I realize now I get sick because I eat it way too fast.
This is all to say I’ve always been freezing cold compared to my peers. My extremities are like ice. I just thought this was related to anxiety (as I do have an anxiety disorder) but after watching your video I realize it’s probably becauee my body doesn’t have enough energy to keep itself warm! I know this is a niche issue, but I’d love to hear you talk more about eating disorders or undereating and the phenomena behind that. Have a great night!
Anorexia just means loss of appetite. It doesn't always entail the nervosa part. Chemo patients with severe nausea are anorexic if they lack appetite even though it's not psychologically driven. If your BMI is 16.5, you either have a lack of appetite or malabsorption such as due to an inflamed small intestine or connective tissue disorder or gut biome issue. Or some combination (loss of appetite because eating has been painful for a long time and you feel better when you don't eat). Have you had a colonoscopy or been checked for celiac's or anything diagnostic in that direction? You may need some form of dietary supplementation regardless of the cause of the lack of nourishment.
Hmm. Maybe it’s denial on my part. Perhaps I should start labeling my struggle as anorexia. I always rejected the label as it felt “too serious” and the fact that I never tracked calories or attempted to lose weight. I am just really uninterested in food, especially when I’m stressed (which is unfortunately often for me)
Eating being painful is part of the reason why it feels like such a chore, though.
I want to add my comment assumes you are an adult. A 16.5 BMI can be normal for a child which is why growth charts have to be used. It shouldn't hurt to eat though. You deserve to know why you're having this pain.
Thank you for your reply. I am 22 year old female. 5’3, 93 pounds. I’ve been small all my life, and have been checked for a multitude of issues. The specialists usually say something along the lines of “anxiety related IBS”. Strangely enough, eating while laying down (like on a couch with my legs extended outward) can help the pain, but I don’t know why. I frequently have to lay down after eating (in an L Shaped position with my head upright, but still) I DEFINITELY have a lack of appetite, and have gone 2 days eating next to nothing in the past due to stress.
My appetite usually increases with the amount that I eat (ex, if I eat 3 meals a day for a period of a few weeks I will begin to feel hungry again) funny story. I actually had been gaining weight for a little while and did start to get hunger pains, but was genuinely confused what they were due to never having them before.
It only hurts to eat when I binge after going 24 hrs without eating. I usually don’t realize how hungry my body is and then eat WAY too fast and beyond my limit, causing cramps and nausea. At least, that’s how I’ve understood it doing my own investigation into the issue (tracking when I get sick after eating and what usually happens before then) my doctors are concerned but I haven’t been diagnosed with anything other than “anxiety related IBS”
Have they given you anxiety medication to see whether the problem goes away when there's no anxiety?
They’ve given me antidepressants but no benzos or Xanax (I’ve been offered and declined since I know how addictive they are) I’m not sure if there is any non-addictive alternatives. I get the vibe they don’t really take it super seriously
They can be addictive but at the same time some people need them medically. This would be an experiment. Did the antidepressants help? Your gut makes a ton of serotonin as it is used for gut motility so I question if they did help, why. There are other meds used for anxiety that are non addictive including gabapentin and buspirone. I wonder also about MCAS or connective tissue disorder.
No, they didn’t help. The problem still persists and I’ve been on them for many years (albeit on and off). Another thing I should mention is whenever I get Ill after eating it’s almost always diahrea or unformed stool. I’ve got acid burns a couple times from the frequency… sorry for tmi 😂😅
Hello Dawn, reading your comments made me think of a story I read in an online forum in my country where these issues were being discussed. One young man shared that he had always been very skinny, and that authority figures around him growing up - parents, teachers, etc - had tended to say that "X just can't gain weight, some people are just like that". He had accepted this as true/correct. He did not enjoy eating and could often go for long periods with very little food, skip meals, have a coke for breakfast etc. He had been underweight his whole life until his early 20s. At that point he had to serve a brief term in prison (he wouldn't say what for but judging by other details that he shared it was clear that it was either speeding or drunk driving, likely the latter). In prisons here they serve three meals a day and the prison day is structured around these meals. All the inmates have to attend all mealtimes, there is no opting out, you have to sit down to breakfast, lunch and dinner. Since he was there and the food was there he started eating at all these mealtimes. He was in prison for 2 months and gained 10 kilos (about 25 pounds) in that time. He said that he came out of prison with an entirely new understanding of his issues with weight and eating and changed his life from that point forward, and had been normal weight since then.
I just wanted to share this story as what you have written here brought it to mind. I wish you the best of luck for your future and I hope you will get help to figure this out.
Loved this story. For me I definitely think it is a case of routine, if I get into eating 3 meals a day I know I’d get a lot better/healthier. Maybe I should try prison XD! Thank you for sharing, gave me some hope
Have you ever tried breath training? The Oxygen Advantage breath coach Patrick McKeown said his hands and feet were perpetually cold until he got his breathing pattern corrected. I practiced the technique while losing weight and it certainly didn’t hurt my efforts. Free to try on YouTube channel. The only product I’ve purchased from them is a special mouth tape for my partner with an opening in it for folks who have a reflexive dislike of having their mouth taped while sleeping. He was starting to snore in his early sixties, and this has corrected the issue. Anyway, hope your extremities warm up!
Definitely going to try this, thank you! The only way I have to warm up is to take a hot shower. It’s like a warmth-refill for my system. I’ve been told I have a tendency to hold my breath so I’ll definitely check this out
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One more thing. I really love this sort of content because I am trying to help my mother lose weight! I recommended your strategies to her when you brought it up once before. It’s funny how my family is mostly obese as a result of anxiety and I am the complete opposite
Please allow me to recommend Dr. Jason Fung! He’s a nephrologist (kidney specialist) from the University of Toronto who has a clinic that helps people reverse obesity and diabetes mellitus through eating a whole food diet low in carbohydrate, combined with intermittent fasting. It worked great for me, I only purchased two of his books, and he now has subscriptions on his YouTube channel, which I subscribe to because I admire what he and his team of actual *health* professionals are doing to help people. You might want to check it out!
Ex, do you know much about autophagy? One of my big concerns with weight loss is excess skin and that’s what got me reading about it. I’ve had great success with keto but the pandemic got me back into my old ways and I gained it back.
Please allow me to recommend Dr. Jason Fung and his team of actual *health* professionals! They’re on YouTube and I made a comment elsewhere on this page that says more. Edit: They speak specifically about autophagy and why the excess skin remains on people who have lost weight without out it. I’ve also heard that intermittent fasting can simply be called ‘disciplined eating’ because it is eating with an understanding of how our bodies respond hormonally to what we eat. Apparently, Americans typically ate three times per day back in the Seventies, and now it’s constant snacking! Of course, the role of industrial food corporations and their advertising cannot be underestimated in having brought about this change. Good luck to you!
Thank you for this video. I am overweight and put on 20kg since menopause three years ago. I have yoyo dieted and felt desponded about dieting again only to lose weight and put it all back on again. I started to be seduced by the body acceptance movement. I still see value in it but it made me give up on losing weight. (Podcasts like Maintenance Phase were both illuminating and discouraging).
During the summer I started eating in a way to keep my blood glucose steadier and felt so much better. I didn’t lose weight but it changed my attitude. I have been intermittent fasting for the last two months and the weight is coming off. I’m trying to make changes to my lifestyle that I can live with permanently and relearn my hunger signals. I was so afraid of having a reactive hypoglycaemic response that I would eat to avoid future hunger.
I never trust anyone trying to make money from diet products. It must be the biggest snake oil industry. I see a lot of similarities to medical transition.
Hi Juju it's good to know that intermittent fasting is helping you. It's the only thing that has worked for me and I have dieted all my life. I was never too obese but put on a steady 2lbs every year till I was 165lb in my 60s.
I watched a TV program about fasting, in 2014, the 5 - 2 method, Michael Mosley was the presenter, and with not much effort got down to 140lb in a couple of months. I'm still the same weight 8 years later and though I'd like to lose a few more pounds I'm happy at this weight.
The best thing for me is I have stopped dieting!
I love the Michael Mosley fasting documentary! So glad IF is working for you.
For anyone who’s curious, the Michael Mosley documentary is called Eat, Fast, And Live Longer. It came out around 15 years ago and may have information that is slightly out of date but it’s an inspiring watch nonetheless and a useful introduction to Intermittent Fasting. The stuff about IGF-1 growth hormone being associated with higher cancer risk is probably what stuck with me the most.
Docu can be seen here:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3i983w
Thanks for posting the link. It certainly saved me from a lifetime about obsessing about what to eat or what not to eat. Moderation is key!
I hear this from folks who try keto and similar approaches to weight loss. They didn’t have a supposed “mood disorder” but noticed how much steadier emotionally they became, without their blood sugar levels doing a roller coaster ride! Thanks for sharing. ☮️❤️🐾
I'm really excited to see where this topic takes you, thank you very much for this introduction. HAES movement has become a bit of a special interest of mine too, I notice huge cognitive dissonance overlaps between trans rights activists and body positive HAES influencers. They are often consistently rooting for each other, especially on instagram in the Misinformation Olympics. I have a friend who is a relatively famous HAES influencer, and she puts out infographics about weight and weight loss constantly and how healthy she is, this fat girl can kinda thing. Unfortunately IRL she has major joint problems (that developed age 24) from weight, has 0 libido, hormone issues, hirtuism that started post weight gain, exceptionally painful skin with different patches of stretch marks that are sore to touch, eczema and some kind of skin rash/heat rash caused by perpetual rubbing. Makes me so sad because, like with the trans movement having 4 or 5x as many teenage girls going FTM, the main targets of this HAES movement are once again women. We're weakening and killing women with bullshit science, in a system that already doesn't take women's health seriously.
Hey Ex, if this gender craze ever ends (or if you just get tired of it, I certainly take breaks bc it's too demoralizing sometimes) I would definetely stick around if you talked about your preferred topics only (biology, medicine, linguistics, religion, do a book club, anything!). These little videos are great to spark my curiosity and have enough information/key words to start learning on my own :)
What do you think of the recent adoption of semaglutide injections for weight loss in non diabetic patients such as Saxenda and Ozempik? Since they target insulin resistance, wil they help obese people to return to a balanced state? What about use for ‘weight maintenance’ the 3-5 lbs weight loss for aesthetic purposes? everyone I seem to know is on it for that
Also, any idea why some women seem to carb crave from PMS? Is it just the psychological need for comfort foods or is there a possible chemical explanation?
I lost 30lbs over the past year and feel so much better for it. My husband had a diabetes scare and we decided to help each other by cutting out the sweet and sugary stuff we'd been eating over the COVID pandemic and it worked.
I really enjoy listening to you teach. We can all benefit from learning new facts and seeing alternative viewpoints. Thank you.
Obesity Code: Dr. Jason Fung. BEST book about diet/weight ever. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24945404-the-obesity-code
It explains all the details about insulin resistance and recommends intermittent fasting among other things.
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(I’ve been recommending him, too!)
Watching and learning from the UK. I appreciate your knowledge.
Very interesting, can you give the pitfalls of weight loss injections/surgeries and why they are ineffective if they are? Thanks
I would love to hear more from you on this topic.
Fyi: healthy people make their own glucose. It does not need to come from diet
Hi Ex, thank you for the video! I'd definitely be interested to hear more about this topic from you! When you were talking about the perpetual motion machine and how it is not possible to gain weight without excess calories, it made me think of thyroid hormone. For myself, I've always had a consistent weight throughout my adult life until a couple of years ago I discovered I have a hyperthyroid condition. Since I've been treating it and trying to find an optimal level of thyroid hormone synthesis inhibition that will land me in a euthyroid state, my weight has been changing. As my thyroid hormone level drops, one of the first signs I will have is that I put on weight despite not changing my diet. I also had a boss who was hypothyroid and quite overweight, I don't know the details of his treatment (and he is dead now, of covid) but he always ate very restrictively at work events (no starches/sweets) and he told us at one point that his Dr had said he'd need to keep eating this way and would be lucky just not to gain more weight. Thought it was interesting as it seems thyroid hormone is one way to alter the efficiency of that metabolic fire in terms of its calorie consumption. I'm on the cusp of taking my thyroid out entirely (can't find a workable drug level, suspect inconsistent hormone production by the gland, and have ever-growing nodules) and am somewhat concerned about what will happen to my weight, lol. Anyway, you have inspired me to not eat breakfast this morning, I was going to out of habit but the truth is I'm not that hungry yet - thank you.
Yes I believe some conditions affect how we store fat by affecting basal metabolic rate as well as fatigue level and behaviors (i.e. secret eating that's forgotten and denied). I've been on drugs that made me balloon up by making it so much easier to eat. It's a very complex machine but the drugs made me gain wait by changing my behavior and affecting how I perceived and processed the calorie surplus. Any psychiatric condition or medicines will likely impact gut motility because neurotransmitters make the gut move or stop moving
This might be a wild suggestion, and I am not a doctor, but have you tried iodine supplements? We typically have a lot more exposure to bromine (in the same family as iodine) in the modern world, and not enough iodine. I've known several people at their wits' end with thyroid issues that iodine supplements really helped. I suggested an iodine/iodide supplement at a 1:1 ratio...Crow's, I believe it's called. It's a liquid supplement, which makes it easier to ramp up slowly than capsules. I take a tablet form myself. Just a suggestion from an internet stranger! :)
Thank you for the suggestion! I haven't tried iodine supplements. Actually a few days ago I crossed the rubicon and had my thyroid gland removed... For the rest of my life I'll be reliant on synthetic thyroid hormone, it's just starting to sink in. No future as a hermit in the woods for me!