Moment 209: The Real Reason You’re Gaining Weight (Even If You’re Exercising!)

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  With my genetic makeup,

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  how might there be differences in my genetic makeup that make my relationship with food and eating and weight loss different from yours?

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  Oh, okay.

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  I probably don't have as good an answer.

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  Genetics does not have as good an answer about why different people eat differently,

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  aside from cultural differences at the moment.

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  Okay.

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  So the genetics,

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  the reason behind that is

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  because it's very difficult to accurately determine what someone has eaten in order to do genetics.

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  What we do know, because we can actually observe,

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  is how people of different ethnicities have are susceptible to different diseases.

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  So famously, East Asian people, people that look like me, South Asian people, Indian, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis,

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  cannot get as large BMI-wise before becoming at risk of diabetes compared to white people,

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  Polynesians famously, who can get pretty large before they actually end up getting diseases.

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  So that's a classic example where this is why South Asian people,

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  East Asian people have a higher predisposition of diabetes,

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  even though obesity is not particularly a big thing in their, in their cultures.

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  But then you then begin to look at body shape.

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  That does, that does matter as, matter as well.

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