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425: What we’re getting wrong about weight loss & underrated foods for your metabolism | Gut health expert Megan Rossi, Ph.D., R.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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What Are We Getting Wrong?

There's so much more information than we had years ago yet we're becoming more and more unhealthy, more overweight. What are we getting wrong? Because I think in metabolism, it's a vehicle for money to weight loss. The way we work out calories in the lab is very different to how our digestive system works. When we fixate on calories we completely forget about our gut microbiome which regulates our metabolism. So that's kind of the missing piece that people struggling with weight loss do is they just fix on the numbers on the pack and the calories.

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