A Conversation with Gary Taubes | Jason Fung
A Conversation with Gary Taubes | Jason Fung
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Welcome to the Fasting and Longevity Summit Series, hosted by world-renowned fasting expert Dr. Jason Fung. In this enlightening episode, Dr. Fung is joined by Gary Taubes, an acclaimed journalist and bestselling author, to discuss the complex relationship between diet, obesity, and chronic diseases. Together, they delve into the science of nutrition, the misconceptions about sugar and carbohydrates, and how evidence-based dietary changes can revolutionize your health.
This series features over 40 top health and longevity experts sharing cutting-edge insights into fasting, nutrition, and metabolic health. Whether you’re new to fasting or looking for advanced strategies, this episode is packed with actionable advice, expert insights, and the motivation you need to achieve your health goals.
What’s Inside This Episode?
🔥 Gary Taubes’ Inspiring Journey:
Discover how Gary’s investigative journalism led him to uncover the flawed science behind modern dietary guidelines. Learn how his work has reshaped the conversation around obesity, sugar, and metabolic health.
📖 The Science of Carbohydrates and Obesity:
Explore the mechanisms by which carbohydrates and sugar contribute to weight gain, insulin resistance, and chronic illnesses. Gary and Dr. Fung break down the science behind low-carb diets and their impact on metabolic health.
🎯 Rethinking Traditional Dietary Advice:
Why calorie counting and the “eat less, move more” approach often fail. Learn why focusing on the quality of your diet is far more effective than simply cutting calories.
💡 Practical Dietary Strategies:
Gain expert tips on how to:
Transition to a low-carb or ketogenic diet
Reverse conditions like Type 2 diabetes and fatty liver
Improve energy, focus, and overall well-being
Address common challenges when changing dietary habits
🎯 Insights on Nutrition Policy:
Understand how decades of flawed dietary guidelines have shaped the obesity epidemic and what needs to change for better public health outcomes.
Why This Episode Is Life-Changing
This conversation is a treasure trove of practical insights and scientific wisdom. With Gary Taubes’ unparalleled expertise in nutrition science and Dr. Jason Fung’s groundbreaking work in fasting, this episode is essential for anyone seeking to:
✔️ Lose weight and maintain it sustainably
✔️ Reverse metabolic conditions like insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes
✔️ Build a healthier relationship with food
✔️ Understand the root causes of chronic illnesses
✔️ Optimize health and longevity
Who Is Gary Taubes?
Gary Taubes is a world-renowned science journalist, public speaker, and bestselling author of several influential books, including Good Calories, Bad Calories, Why We Get Fat, and The Case Against Sugar. His work has reshaped public understanding of nutrition and health, challenging long-held beliefs about obesity and dietary science.
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Have you explored the benefits of a low-carb or ketogenic diet? Share your experience in the comments below. Dr. Fung, Gary Taubes, and the community would love to hear your story!
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Good morning Dr Jason Fung from beautiful Arizona 🇺🇸
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Good afternoon from Bonnie Scotland.
ty for ur work and ty for sharing info
Good evening from Australia.
Cool guest Jason! I like Gary Taubes. He reminds me of Nina Teicholz where they researched their way into realizing carbs/sugar are not good for us!
Teicholz gets paid very handsomely by the meat industry. She’s a charlatan. Taubes is notorious for ignoring data that doesn’t agree with his premise. Neither have much real credibility. They are clickbait influencers with an agenda.
Good evening Dr Jason Fung from Bali
🌹🙏Thank You for introducing me to Intermittent fasting 🙏🌹from India 🇮🇳
I’m only 16 minutes. This is going to be a video to wqtch/listen to over and over again. Thanks for all you do. What an exciting summit!
20:51 “We dont get fat because of what we eat. We get fat because of what our body does with what we eat.” Eric Westman 🌱
Eric Westman is not a scientist either. He is a practitioner of superstition, like most doctors, it is just that the superstition he subscribes to just so happens to be mostly correct. There are specific details that he will promote that are pure unmitigated malarkey, but are mostly harmless in that they don’t result in physical harm (just intellectual harm)
So you’re saying cheese doesn’t give me gas but I give myself gas when I eat cheese?
@homomorphic I don’t need a professional scientist to tell me what I have learned from fueling and healing my own body. Many of the scientists and doctors over the past 50 years have sent us in the wrong direction. Thankfully, I am of a generation that lived through it but live long enough to change thanks to Dr. Fung and many other doctors and lay persons. I’m sad for many in the generation above me who were not so lucky.
Three things I live by:
* You yourself are your most important doctor and teacher.
* Keep an open mind and listen to even the “common man”.
* Change your default. (Dr. Jason Fung)
@@AzaleaBee no one “needs a professional scientist” but we do need science (real science not pseudoscience) if we are to understand physical systems and develop models that are able to make predictions about those physical systems.
If you have developed a model that is able to make accurate predictions about the physical system that is your body, then you have done science. No ifs ands or buts. Doing properly structured scientific process is the only way that an accurate model can be developed. No one will be able to “guess” an accurate model of something as complex as the human body.
Of course the complexity of any model is a function of the scope of predictions it can make. Some people have made very limited models of their own body that are only suitable for making a very small set of predictions over a limited set of variables. If that is all you need, for your own situation, then why should you do more? That is excellent efficiency of effort; but it is probably not a useful model outside of your specific circumstances (nothing wrong with that at all of course as that is the scope of your concern).
Models don’t need to be accurate representations of the physical reality, they only need to be able to make useful predictions within a defined scope. This is true of any model regardless of the magnitude of scope.
@@tawan5753 you get gas due to how the current configuration of your biology processes the components in cheese, when it is presented to your gastro intestinal system.
Therefore if you don’t want to get gas you have two choices.
1. Alter the configuration of your biology
2. Alter the components of cheese that are used in the production of gas
The best solution is #1 as procuring cheese with a bespoke composition is difficult and typically pricey and must be done every time one wants to consume cheese. In addition, while not discernable from the information presented, it is possible that if your current biological configuration produces undesirable side effects from cheese consumption, that it might be a undesirable configuration in general.
Thank you, AWESOME Dr. Fung!
Watched a few Mr. Gary Taubes interviews on youtube. Another truther.
I’m a software engineer.
Never paid too much attention to medicine and assumed it was predominantly staffed by scientists. When I had fructose induced health issues I started to get a lot of information from doctors that just didn’t pass the smell test and I then started paying attention to the field and over the course of a year or so, came to realize that the medical field is *predominantly* staffed by charlatans. Pretty similar journey to Taubes. Ii.e. Pragmatic hard science background and slowly learning that medicine is by and large not a field of hard science, but rather a field rife with chicanery couched in superstitious dogma.
I also found a few of the actual scientists like Jason Fung and Robert Lustig whose commitment to facts didn’t allow them to participate in the group hallucination that is current institutional medicine
The limitations of empirical testing in medicine was undoubtedly the pressure that lead to this revolting state of affairs, but it is not an excuse for the abandonment of scientific rigour that has happened in medicine.
I love this talk. I am from India where diabetes is like an epidemic I come from a family of diabetics for three generation and have worked in public health in India ( non medical ) and in WHO for 30 years ( 15+15) and I agree a hundred percent on the some of the faulty scientific hypothesis that underline many modern medical practises it’s been very frustrating and also seeing the influence of the Big Pharma
Sooooooo interesting. I like that they don’t demonize why most people believe in lower calories, lower fat, etc; instead they learn about the history to understand. I love this!
Whoa! You two guys were among the first I encountered on my journey into low carb! Thank you for doing what you do!❤
Gary was mine
Watching Gary years ago changed my weight forever. been low car ever since and no mater what anyone says it works… eat fat to lose fat eat carbs to get fat
Gary Taubes was the 1st medical science journalist in the dietary paradigm that I discovered (from his 2010 book Why We Get Fat) back when I first heard about the low-carb diet. This was way before Keto or Paleo or Carnivore had ever been mentioned. His work lead me to Nina Teicholz, the 2nd medical science journalist I found. Between the 2 of them, I hope they realize that their work over the years has saved thousands of lives without them being MDs & before there was a Dr. Fung or a Dr. Berry or a Dr. Baker online to help us. God bless them both!.🙏🏽
When I was in high school science class we did an experiment melting ice cubes in hot and cold water and in my groups experiment the ice in the cold water melted faster. Not wanting to fail the class I asked the teacher if I should report those findings or revert to the known science that it should have melted faster in the hot water. I will never forget his answer. He said to record the result of the experiment without being affected by how I thought the results should be. I wish all scientists had been taught by that teacher.
10 weeks ago my Psoriasis was awful & after months of going nowhere with my GP I went to a specialist. My specialist recommended Jason’s methods rather than toxic steroids or immune suppression drugs & it was a game changer. 10 weeks on my skin is no longer an issue & controlling only via a super super clean, low carb diet, no seed oils & zero processed foods with dailly fasting 16/8. The results are just amazing thank you Jason this way changed my life ❤
Nice video.Thanks.