Does Lifestyle Intervention Always Work for Treatment of Obesity? (0:38)
Weight loss success is sometimes thwarted by our innate hunter-gatherer instincts to consume and store calories to survive. HealthMaker Daniel Kelly, MD, elaborates on this vicious cycle in this video.
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You can bring a person's weight down 10 or 20% with almost any dietary intervention that you might hear about. All of them tend to work, but in order to maintain that weight loss something else has to happen because naturally what happens getting back to the genes that our responses and the hunter gather response.What happens is that the appetite increases that much more and energy expenditure shuts down to save the calories that were so important this hunter gather, so you come back up again, so we have not been able to use lifestyle intervention.
Daniel Kelly, MD, is senior vice president, Tavistock Distinguished Professor and scientific director of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona. He specializes in heart disease, metabolic Syndrome, obesity and diabetes.
