Jason Fung Quotes

“1. Stop putting sugar in (low-carbohydrate diets, intermittent fasting).
2. Burn remaining sugar off (intermittent fasting).”

“All the conditions we thought were problems — obesity, insulin resistance, and beta cell dysfunction — are actually the body’s solutions to a single root cause — too much sugar.”

“Failure of insulin to lower blood glucose is called insulin resistance.”

“Fasting is the simplest and surest method to force your body to burn sugar.”

“Fatty liver is a completely reversible process. Emptying the liver of its surplus glucose and dropping insulin levels returns the liver to normal.

Hyperinsulinemia drives DNL, which is the primary determinant of fatty liver disease. Normalizing insulin levels reverses the fatty liver. Refined carbohydrates, which cause large increases in insulin, are far more sinister than dietary fat.

High carbohydrate intake can increase DNL tenfold, whereas high fat consumption, with correspondingly low carbohydrate intake, does not change hepatic fat production.”

“If the situation is getting worse, then the only logical explanation is that our understanding and treatment of type 2 diabetes is fundamentally flawed.”

“Metabolic syndrome, of which obesity and type 2 diabetes are a key part, are ultimately caused by — you guessed it — too much sugar.”

“The key to the proper treatment of type 2 diabetes is to get rid of the excess sugar, not just move it around the body. The problem is both too much glucose and too much insulin.”

“The root cause of the hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes is high insulin resistance.”