We’ve all heard the fiendishly simple and completely untrue colloquialism that to lose weight you just have to eat less and exercise more. Or that it’s all about willpower and that it’s the individual’s fault if they are fat. Not only are these ideas completely unsupported by the scientific literature, but they also lead to a blame-the-victim mentality that tells people who are struggling with their weight, in a not-so-subtle way, that if they only tried harder they would lose weight. There is only one problem with this point of view: It’s just not true.
What makes us thin, fat, or somewhere in between does indeed have something to do with how much we eat and exercise. But the oversimplification stops there. Complex forces that govern our survival control our weight and metabolism. In fact, there is no one simple reason why an individual may have trouble with his or her weight.
In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to weight gain and weight loss.
Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.
For more information visit drhyman.com/uwc
Finally the real truht . Love it ! Precious .
Loved this topic! Thank you guys
I agree with the content of the video. But the title is very misleading and false. Not everyone, in fact anyone will get fat as a direct or indirect result of eating less and exercising more.
I adore Mark’s laugh!
Love all these episodes! Please talk about weight gain! There are thousands of people having trouble gaining weight. Thanks guys
So are they saying that a keto diet is best, or low carb high Healthy Fats based diet is best?
Hello Susan. Low carb high healthy fat IS the same thing. I am not sure why they do not use the the term Keto instead. It may be because truly, you can eat low carb but not be in ketosis. Being in Ketosis is the goal of the keto diet.
2 minutes in ‘Losing weight has nothing to do with eating less and exercising more. It has more to do with sugar and insulin and environmental toxins’ I am sceptical but open to new information. Are you able to back this up with a link to the research to support this?
It’s true. Check out Dr. Eric Berg on YouTube. He is the one who has done & posted all the research.
@Angel Lighten Brilliant that will help the creator of this video link the research to back up his points. I didn’t notice any in the description.