Jason Fung Books
Dr. Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist and a leading expert on intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets.
Known for: The Obesity Code, The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally, The Obesity Code Cookbook: Recipes to Help You Manage Insulin, Lose Weight, and Improve Your Health
Books by Jason Fung
The Obesity Code
In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Jason Fung challenges conventional wisdom about obesity and weight gain. He argues that insulin and hormonal imbalances, rather than calorie counting, are the primary ...
The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
The Complete Guide to Fasting explains the science and practice of fasting for health and weight management. Dr. Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore present evidence-based insights into how intermittent, alter...
The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally
In this book, Dr. Jason Fung explains the underlying causes of type 2 diabetes and presents a natural, evidence-based approach to prevent and reverse the disease. He challenges conventional medical vi...
The Obesity Code Cookbook: Recipes to Help You Manage Insulin, Lose Weight, and Improve Your Health
This companion cookbook to Dr. Jason Fung’s bestselling 'The Obesity Code' provides over 100 recipes designed to support intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate eating. It offers practical meal idea...
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Historical Overview
The modern obsession with calories dates back to the early twentieth century, when the science of energy balance first began to influence dietary research. Scientists like Wilbur Atwater measured the caloric content of foods and proposed that body weight is determined by the difference between energ...
From The Obesity Code
The Role of Insulin
Insulin is the fat-storage hormone. Whenever we eat, insulin levels rise, signaling the body to store energy for later. Insulin allows glucose to enter cells, but it also tells the liver to convert excess glucose into fat. When insulin remains elevated for prolonged periods—as it does when we consum...
From The Obesity Code
Understanding How We Got Here: The Modern Dietary Trap
When we look around at the modern world, it’s clear we’re not suffering from a shortage of food—we’re suffering from an excess. The average person eats not just three meals a day, but snacks constantly. Our cultural belief has become that to maintain metabolism, we must keep eating. Yet biologically...
From The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
The Physiology of Fasting: Insulin, Energy, and Healing
To understand fasting, we must understand insulin’s central role. Insulin is sometimes called the 'fat-storage hormone,' but it’s more than that—it’s the master regulator of energy. Its job is to shuttle glucose into cells after meals. When insulin is high, the body is in 'storage mode.' When insuli...
From The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
The Diabetes Epidemic
When we look around the world today, the numbers are staggering: hundreds of millions afflicted by type 2 diabetes, and those figures continue to climb every year. This explosion cannot be explained merely by genetics. What changed is our environment — particularly how and what we eat. Over the past...
From The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally
Understanding Insulin and Glucose
To understand diabetes, we must first understand insulin. Imagine insulin as the key that unlocks your cells so glucose can enter and be used for energy. When insulin levels rise, glucose moves into cells, and blood sugar falls. When insulin drops — such as during fasting — stored energy is mobilize...
From The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally
About Jason Fung
Dr. Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist and a leading expert on intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets. He is the co-founder of the Intensive Dietary Management program and the author of several best-selling books on nutrition and metabolic health.
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