Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Seyfried Ep 2 | The Obesity Epidemic_ Evolution in Action

11 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Dr Seyfried explains obesity as evolutionary mismatch: our bodies adapted for scarcity now face constant fuel, damaging mitochondria and driving cancer, heart disease, and dementia. Intermittent fasting might restore balance, though it's hard to stick with.

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You understand the obesity epidemic, right? Oh, yeah. I can just see all that all over the place. That's evolution in action. That's our evolutionary past telling us that we're in a new environment now. And that environment is putting us at risk for cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, all of the different chronic diseases as the result of our energy balance changing. Yes. Mitochondria becoming damaged. Why? Because they're being overwhelmed by. By a large amount of fuel that's creating reactive oxygen species and just causing a level of dysfunction. And you're right. Intermittent fasting these kinds of things brings the body back into a more energy homeostatic state. But it's very hard for people to do water only fasting.