Dr. Jason Fung is widely known as an advocate for the technique of intermittent fasting in patients hoping to reverse or prevent diabetes and obesity.…
Category: Obesity
Insulin Treatment is Associated with Increased Mortality in People with Type 2 Diabetes and Covid-19
A new study in Cell Metabolism has suggested that patients with COVID-19 and Type 2 diabetes that received insulin treatments were significantly…
You May Be Leptin-Resistant. Here’s Why It’s Important.
In the diabetes world, leptin doesn’t get nearly the attention that other hormone, insulin,…
It took Covid-19—and a brush with death—to turn Boris Johnson into one of the world’s foremost anti-obesity advocates.
Johnson, the Prime Minister…
Body Mass Index, the one number that nearly everyone uses to categorize overweight and obesity, is pretty much garbage.
This isn’t actually controversial…
One of the unforeseen lessons of the coronavirus pandemic is how vulnerable our poor metabolic health makes us. Even from the early days in Wuhan…
On June 1, the New York Times published two articles, exploring what we do know and what we don’t know about the coronavirus and the disease that it…
As an endocrinologist, I am very familiar with the type of people who are most at risk from COVID-19. They’re usually older, usually overweight,…
I know there are plenty of folks out there who will say it’s crazy and lazy to give up on weight loss. (Probably the same people who see me with my tall, lean, handsome husband and wonder what the hell he’s doing with me.) Do these people feel pity and disgust when they see my body?
86 million people in the U.S. have prediabetes, but 90% of them don’t know they have it. 30% of these individuals will transition to type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is potentially preventable. Not progressing to type 2 diabetes is far better than being a well-controlled person with type 2.