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Preventing Obesity: The Myth of Calorie Counting - with Dr. Fung | The Empowering Neurologist EP.156

The Empowering Neurologist Podcast

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Leptin and Obesity

Leptin is a hormone that tells us to back away from the table. It went through its heyday in the sort of late 90s, when people thought giving leptin was gonna be the cure for obesity. Turns out obesity is not a leptin deficiency state, so therefore you simply cannot just give more leptin. The only thing you can do is try to lower the leptin by getting the body fat down.

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