Diet Doctor Podcast #92:
The science of weight loss
Researcher Kevin Hall, PhD, has dedicated his career to help address the question of why people gain weight and how our bodies can either enable or confound attempts to lose weight.
Kevin’s experience with controlled metabolic ward studies and long-term follow-up on The Biggest Loser contestants adds to our scientific understanding of the impact of sudden weight loss. The challenging question is how we should apply knowledge gained from those studies to inform clinical advice and personal decisions.
Together, we explore what conclusions we can draw from his research, what future research we still need, and what anyone can do, now, to become healthier and lighter.
About the video
Virtual podcast recorded in February 2022, published in March 2022.
Host: Dr. Bret Scher
Producer: Hari Dewang
Table of contents
00:00 Introduction
02:58 Dr. Hall’s journey to become an obesity researcher
09:02 Why we have an obesity epidemic
19:06 How could a short-term study translates to a longer timeframe
31:09 A new way to look at the metabolic rate changes with weight loss
42:08 Translating the “Big Loser study” to a real-world scenario
49:42 Defining ultra-processed foods
56:40 Diet factors that fulfill satiety
1:00:28 Future studies from Kevin Hall
Researcher Kevin Hall, PhD, has dedicated his career to help address the question of why people gain weight and how our bodies can either enable or confound attempts to lose weight.
Kevin’s experience with controlled metabolic ward studies and long-term follow-up on The Biggest Loser contestants adds to our scientific understanding of the impact of sudden weight loss. The challenging question is how we should apply knowledge gained from those studies to inform clinical advice and personal decisions.
Together, we explore what conclusions we can draw from his research, what future research we still need, and what anyone can do, now, to become healthier and lighter.
About the video
Virtual podcast recorded in February 2022, published in March 2022.
Host: Dr. Bret Scher
Producer: Hari Dewang
