Are Certain People More Susceptible to Obesity?

Please watch the latest Gary Taubes video from April 2022 and I think you’ll understand why we recommend internalizing his ideas and applying them to your life.

In this video, Dr. Marc Bubbs interviews Gary Taubes, author and science journalist, best known for his books Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat to discuss the new iteration of Carbohydrate-Insulin model of obesity, which proposed a reversal of causation: increasing body-fatness drives energy excess (versus energy excess driving increased body-fatness).

It’s a deep dive, but a great conversation for those who want to go further in their learning.

In this interview, they discuss:

Is there a specific phenotype in the population who experience more adverse fattening effects from carbohydrates?

Other dietary components that may contribute to CIM: fructose, fiber intake, protein, etc.

The challenge of testing ‘glycemic load’ in a research setting.