Bill Wilson, MD, on Why BMI Is Misleading and How Diet, Not Fat Alone, Signals Metabolic Danger

Measured the body composition of probably 10,000 different readings over a decade, saw the poor correlation between percent body fat and bmi. Some thin people have excessive fat, some larger people don't. So you need to measure body fat number one to diagnose obesity. During that time, I also belonged to Stephen Stahl's Neuroscience Education Institute, which is the most prominent institute studying neurobiology. And so I was very familiar with brain dysfunction symptoms and I noticed a strange correlation between certain brain symptoms and changes in body composition. So long story short, I propose that ultra processed food affects the brain in a way that fits the pattern of a disease and trigger does two things pushes you into a fat storage mode where you're going to store excessive body fat that virtually any caloric can take. It also can lead to up to 22 brain dysfunction symptoms that overlap with traditional psychiatric disorders. I call it carbohydrate associated reversible brain syndrome or carb syndrome.