Why “Eat Less, Move More” Fails…

Why eat less move more fails for so many people looking to lose weight. You know, fat storage is regulated independently from how much you eat and exercise. You know, your fat cells that make up fat tissue, they can’t tell how much you’re eating or exercising. So, they only see the fats in the blood. I mean, C is a, you know, metaphor. They’re aware of the fats in the blood and the hormones in the blood, the glucose and the triglycerides and all kinds of other molecules, but it’s not how much you’re eating and exercising. And by the 1950s it was pretty clear that they were responding primarily to insulin. So you raise insulin, you drive fat accumulation primarily. You inhibit the escape of fat, the mobilization of fat. We call lipolysis is the breakdown of fat. So basically it’s like a one-way turn style in a subway where the calories get stored in the fat tissue but they can’t get out. They can’t get out. They need this process of lipolysis. They need to be broken up into small pieces so they can get out of the fats. How an insulin prevents that from happening.

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