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This is Why You Can't Lose Weight

31 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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AI Mark (speaker) explains that eating sugar and starch spikes blood sugar, raises insulin, and forces available fuel into fat cells. This insulin-driven fuel partitioning causes tissues to be starved for usable fuel despite excess calories, increasing hunger and promoting overeating and severe weight gain.

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When you eat sugar and starch, it causes your blood sugar to spike, then your insulin goes up and then the fuel goes into your fat cells. So it basically drives all the available fuel. So you store the fat in your belly, but then in your blood, it feels like you're starving, so you need more. You want to eat more because you're actually not regulating your fuel properly, so it's a fuel partitioning issue. And so you're basically starving in the midst of plenty. It's. It's really crazy. And so you want to eat more and more. That's why how people can get to be 2, 3, 4, 500 pounds, you know, because they're so dysregulated by these foods.