560: Why I’m So Effing Hungry with Dr. Amy Shah
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
By 2035, it’s estimated that half the world’s population will be overweight. At the same time, we’ll likely continue to live longer and longer which means the financial cost and even more tragic loss of healthspan will be catastrophic. While the solution seems obvious, eat less and exercise more, things are not so simple in reality. I wonder if perhaps we’re asking the wrong questions about weight? What if the real question to ask is why we’re so hungry in the first place? On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet Amy Shah, MD, whose work focuses on answering this question.
Listen to learn:
- Why food is mood
- Why certain foods fill you up, others have “no limits”
- The importance of resistance training, and yes for women too
- How meal timing (not long fasting) can be very helpful for everyone
- Why hyperpalatable foods encourage people to eat up to 500 calories more per day, even when the foods are identical
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Amy Shah, MD, is a double board-certified physician specializing in internal medicine and allergy/immunology. She is a regular contributor to major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NBC News, and has been featured on numerous television programs, including The Dr. Oz Show, The Today Show, and Good Morning America. She’s the author of two books, I’m So Effing Tired and I So Effing Hungry.
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| 0:00.0 | Weight gain is such a big problem that it's estimated that by 2035, half the world will |
| 0:07.7 | be overweight, four billion, four and a half billion people by then. |
| 0:11.0 | That's a lot of people. |
| 0:12.0 | That's a lot of cost. |
| 0:13.0 | In fact, we can't afford this as a world global, national, international, so we can't |
| 0:18.7 | pay for all of this. |
| 0:20.3 | And much more worrisome than the financial outlay is the loss of life and loss of quality |
| 0:25.5 | of life. |
| 0:26.6 | Unlikely that our life spans are going to go down, it probably all indicators are that |
| 0:31.0 | will live longer, but the quality of those last years seems to be getting worse and worse. |
| 0:36.6 | So live a long time, spend the last 10 or 15 years suffering, not a really optimistic |
| 0:42.4 | future. |
| 0:43.4 | What do we do about it? |
| 0:44.4 | Well, many of you are already shaking your head saying, I got the solution. |
| 0:47.5 | We just eat less and exercise more. |
| 0:50.1 | And while that might be fundamentally true in an ideal world, it's not working. |
| 0:55.9 | It's not working internationally, cross culturally, cross generationally, it's not working. |
| 1:01.2 | Many people have proposed radical ideas like outlawing soda, like forced military service |
| 1:06.6 | to get people moving around. |
| 1:08.4 | I think it's unlikely that any of these single interventions are going to shift this global |
| 1:13.2 | pattern. |
| 1:14.2 | And I think probably we're asking the wrong questions in general. |
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