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Should BMI be used? Measuring obesity at the individual level
This video clip is taken from Podcast #197 — The science of obesity & how to improve nutritional epidemiology with David…
Why is maintaining weight loss more challenging than losing weight?
This video clip is taken from Podcast #197 — The science of obesity & how to improve nutritional epidemiology with David…
#197 – The science of obesity & how to improve nutritional epidemiology | David Allison, Ph.D.
“How much does obesity kill you because it stigmatizes you and it creates some stress?” —David Allison
Nutritional epidemiology: abolition vs defending the status quo
A recent review argues for reform in the field of nutritional epidemiology — and recommends ways to improve it
#194 – How fructose drives metabolic disease | Rick Johnson, M.D.
“Fructose turns out to have been meant to be this wonderful system for survival, but in our culture with the amount of sugar in foods that we are eating (that either provide sugar or can be turned into fructose), this pathway has become hazardous.” —Rick Johnson
#184 – AMA #29: GLP-1 Agonists – The Future of Treating Obesity?
“Getting deeper into how this drug works has certainly made me appreciate its power.” —Peter Attia
#167 – Gary Taubes: Bad science and challenging the conventional wisdom of obesity
“Doing a background analysis is the hard, relentless, rigorous grunt work of science. It’s endless and thankless, because if you do it right, all you’ll do is prove that you were wrong all along.” —Gary Taubes
#110 – Lew Cantley, Ph.D.: Cancer metabolism, cancer therapies, and the discovery of PI3K
“If I get a result that suddenly doesn’t make sense, to me that’s more exciting. . .if you figure out why it didn’t work and what was wrong, then that’s where most breakthroughs come from.” — Lew Cantley
#87 – Rick Johnson, M.D.: Metabolic Effects of Fructose
“Fructose turns out to be used by animals as a mechanism to store fat.” — Rick Johnson
#69 – Ronesh Sinha, M.D.: Insights into the manifestation of metabolic disease in a patient population predisposed to metabolic syndrome, and what it teaches us more broadly
“The way we raise our kids early on might actually set a pattern for how much of an accelerated life, or how much of a stressed out nervous system they might have later on. . . a lot of the behavioral patterns that we’re instilling in our kids are kind of setting the foundation for insulin resistance and inflammation early on.” —Ronesh Sinha