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265: How to Stop Gaining Weight by Turning Off Your Fat Storage Switch | Richard Johnson, MD

The Genius Life

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Is Hyper Calorie Dieting a Ketogenic State?

If you're on a hyper caloric diet, the extra calories get turned into fat. The energy in our body can really be talked about as having two, two sides, which we call ATP. And then there's stored energy, which is like fat and stored carbohydrates,. You know, any of your plants. So normally, our body wants to have good levels of ATP. If the ATP levels get low, you eat, you know, stimulates hunger. But when it drops that ATP and it blocks theFat from being converted to ATP to replenish it, it stimulates hunger and you eat more.

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