The Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight (Hormones and Obesity – a Masterclass)
Have you been told that losing weight is simply about "eating less and moving
more"? For decades, the "Calories In, Calories Out" model has been the gold
standard for weight loss. But what if it is completely wrong?
In this Masterclass, I break down the real reason you can't lose weight:
Hormones. We dive deep into the science of obesity and explore why calorie
counting fails 99% of the time, as proven by massive studies like the Women's
Health Initiative.
Weight gain is not a character flaw or a lack of willpower—it is a hormonal
imbalance. We will discuss exactly how hormones like Insulin, Cortisol, Thyroid,
and Testosterone control your body fat, and more importantly, how you can fix it.
In this video, you will learn:
● �� Why the 'Eat Less, Move More' advice is scientifically flawed.
● �� How hormones dictate whether your body stores or burns fat.
● �� The truth about weight-loss drugs like Ozempic (GLP-1).
● �� Why the 1977 dietary guidelines triggered the obesity epidemic.
● ✅ The ultimate, natural solution to lower insulin and lose weight
effortlessly.
� Join the Conversation: Have you struggled with calorie-counting diets in the
past? What hormonal changes have you noticed on your weight loss journey?
Let me know in the comments below!
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⏱️ Video Chapters (Timestamps):
00:00 – The Biggest Weight Loss Myth (Calories In vs. Calories Out)
01:29 – Proof That "Eat Less, Move More" Doesn't Work
03:29 – Causality: Why Hormones Control Body Fat
03:52 – Insulin: The Fat-Storing Hormone
04:45 – How Stress (Cortisol) Makes You Fat
06:51 – Testosterone, Estrogen & Menopause Weight Gain
09:56 – How Ozempic & GLP-1 Drugs Actually Work
12:10 – The 1977 Dietary Guidelines & Obesity Epidemic
14:12 – The Real Solution: How to Fix Your Hormone
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Check out my video on how to manage hunger – https://youtu.be/b3KbRvF_7Wg
Just need to ask – Do you have any idea as to why the ADHD/ADD stimulants do not work for some, perhaps up to 20%? Thanks and welcome back
I remember being in hospital a couple of years ago. I was on the ward for Anorexics etc. I was there because of internal bleeding caused by stopping using inulin too fast about 4 weeks into a ‘water only’ + supplements (NADH, Mangnesium L threonate, Ubiquone (CoQ10), B1, B12, Zinc, D3, 3:1 Sodium/Potassium Chloride etc) i wasn’t take Omega 3 or Ceratine.
And my gut bacteria ate my stomach wall.
I found out a number of things.
That my doctors (at an extremely prestigous teaching hospital) were utter idiots & didn’t know the difference between fasting & starving!
For those of you reading this who don’t know the difference
Animals such as us can cope with going without food for months. If a human goes without food, for about the first 2 weeks we enter a state called autophagy (look it up), after that we steadily lose fat over time. Until we run out of fat in the places we normaly store it.
After that we start to starve and the body takes fat from wherever it can – inside of your bones, your brain, your face, etc
When we run out all avaible fat we then start burning muscles as this the last desperate attempt to stay alive before death.
My idiot doctors thought fasting would cause me to lose Muscles????
I have enough fat to not enter starvation for about 9 months!
They also thought that I needed to worried about Re-Feeding syndrome, so they wouldn’t let me leave hospital until I was back on a ‘Nice, Safe, High Carbohydrate Diet’
You know the very thing that ’causes Re-Feeding Syndrome?!!
They kept telling me that I would be repeatedly coming back, because my internal bleeding would keep happening. It hasn’t!
None of them had ever even tried fasting????
Frankly I wouldn’t be suprised if they didn’t understand about how our brains work. That when someone with Anorexia looks on a mirror they might well see a fat person, because our brains lie to us. They show us a picture from our memories not the current data. Especially if we are lacking energy.
Nor did my doctors understand that whilst starvation makes you slow down due to lack of energy. Fasting gives you more energy! To help you go out and find some food and kill it!!
So they sent me a Dietician who was saying that I would do better if I wasn’t so extreme. That I should try cutting down what ate & ate less calories….
So I thanked her and said what said was such a huge example of her belief in me. That I alone could achieve something that Billions of people had tried and failed to have any effect wbatsoever
She was rather non-plused by that answer!!
Dr. Fung. Edit your YouTube commercials. One ad is talking about bloated belly parasites. Fyi
I’m wondering if any of the testosterone studies included a look at chromium III nicotinate intake at the same time.
I like that he’s not backing down despite the backlash. Bro is an MD and he’s actually helping people unlike shitty fitness influencers
He isnt dependent on craptube for his income. The influencers are just fools looking for a few bucks
He may well be an ‘MD’ but it doesn’t mean he has any great knowledge when it comes to diet/nutrition. He probably had 1 lecture at university on this at most!🙈
With this and the backlash it’s hard to settle on a opinion
@robwakefield4699hes been studying nutrition more than 15 years ago and he’s been saying the same thing until current day. The people who looks down on him bcause of the backlash is just too ignorant . I watched his videos 15 years ago. Its pretty much the same thing he’s been repeating today.
He’s been curing patients with diabetes long ago.
@LilyLovesAsmr1111could you please try that again as it doesn’t make sense?
As a young woman I was on a very low calorie medically supervised diet. 500 calories per day. I started gaining weight so I cut one of the bars out.. down to 400 calories per day. Still gaining weight I cut another bar and another bar until I was eating one 100 calorie bar a day, small bites throughout the day. I was still gaining weight. I asked the MD and she shook her finger in my face and said I was cheating somewhere and I should just admit it. I walked out at the appointment and never went back. But it did start my search for the truth, because I knew calories and calories out was not the issue.
This was in the mid 1980s.
Good for you!
No se puede subir de peso de manera espontánea, todo el tiempo estamos bajando de peso excepto cuando comemos
Don’t lie 400 calories a day. You better have the world’s top scientists examine you. Because you can cure world hunger.
This likely goes back to the 40s or 50s. Back in the day my mom told me of a some kind of cousin or aunt she had who was massively fat. Her doctor ended up putting her in the hospital for testing and they put her on a 250 caloric diet for some time and she still gained weight. After many weeks they finally found out that she had a serious Thyroid issue and Bingo.
Things that never happened for $600, Alex. There is no way in hell you put weight on with 500 calories per day. Unless you are 25 pounds in weight
When it comes to losing subcutaneous belly fat, I’m facing a mathematical riddle. I went from 123 kg down to 65 kg (at 181 cm tall), and now I’m around 73 kg. I’ve cut my daily protein intake by 30 grams and focused on resistance training and cycling.
Some fat is needed for the body so that the body does not feel insecured. You present body weight is below expected body weight I.e., 81 kg.
Thank you Dr. Fung! I read your Book”The Diabetes Code” when it first came out. I started reading it the day I got it and didn’t put it down until I finished sometime during the night and dove right in the next day with low carb high fat and Im still alive! I also weigh about 130 lbs less than I did then. It’s been quite a journey! There have been a lot of plateaus. But I’ve never given up. Yes it’s been 9 years and I’ve still got about 50 lbs to lose. But I’m determined to get there! You deserve a Nobel prize and every accolade there ever was!
Thank you Dr. Fung! You are a gift to humanity!
Ditto
Bingo
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The Diabetes Code was terrible. Just about any local endocrinologist is more knowledgeable.
@dan-qe1tbI think dr. Fung has saved many tens of thousands from sickness and lengthened lifespans for countless others.
Home run! This was so beautifully scripted and OK for the non-medical professional. I am a doc and sending this onto my personal doc to spread if he finds it helpful.
I hope he does, but don’t count on it. Most doctors get a attitude when you challenge what they have been taught and don’t want to learn new info!
They are also afraid of lawsuits if go beyond recognized guidelines.
Since discovering Dr Fung my life has changed. Thx
Same with me !!
I found you relatively early in my search to reverse T2D. Your advice along with other doctors and influencers in this space put me on a path that reversed my T2D in short order. Thanks for all the hormone info in this video. The more I learn the happier I am.
If you’re overweight and want to lose it and feel better overall, do what Dr. Fung suggests. It will work. If nothing else, at least give it a try for a bit.
Dr. Fung sets the record straight. You are greatly appreciated.
Another excellent video Dr. Fung! This is so very true. I am a post menopausal woman and started to entirely cut out highly processed foods about half a year ago while at the same time starting intermittent fasting. I have zero cravings left for those processed junk foods, I don’t sink in a hole after my meals, my brain is clear, I am energetic now. I did not need to lose much weight, but simply started for my health. Just feeling great!
So glad you’re out here sharing the science still!
Thank you Dr. Fang. Can you guide on cortisol and how to keep it low, post menopausal. And effect of fasting on cortisol
Sempre illuminanti le sue lezioni, dottore ❤
Excellent video! Thank you 🙏
This matter of FACT presentation is exactly how this gets tge point across hopefully even to tge most Stallworth denier! Thank you. This has been my approach to patients and it works.
Hope I learnt something? This is the most concise, fact filled, informative video I have ever watched! Well done to you & thank you so much!
Thank you for telling the truth
The truth is Dr Jason was reversing diabetes 15 years ago and other doctors all over the world were giving medicines to people…
And some clown are mocking him because if the backlash without making any background research
Thank you Doctor. I learned a lot.