1 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:10,400 >>WELCOME TO THE 13TH SESSION 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:15,440 OF THE 23RD YEAR OF A COURSE 3 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:21,560 CALLED DEMYSTIFYING MEDICINE, 4 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,080 HELD AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES 5 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:28,120 OF HEALTH IN BETHESDA, MARYLAND. 6 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,480 I'M WIN ARIAS, A SENIOR 7 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,800 SCIENTIST EMERITUS, AND ONE OF 8 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,200 YOUR HOSTS FOR THIS PROGRAM. 9 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,800 THE OTHER IS DAN KASTNER OF THE 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,080 HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE. 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,520 AND WE WELCOME YOU ALL TO THIS 12 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,360 AFTERNOON'S SESSION ON A TOPIC 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,040 OF ENORMOUS INTEREST, 14 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:55,960 IMPORTANCE, EXCITEMENT, AND 15 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,520 ACTUALLY IS OF GREAT INTEREST TO 16 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,240 EVERYONE. 17 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:03,440 THE PURPOSE OF THIS COURSE IS TO 18 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:04,920 ACT LIKE A BRIDGE TO BRIDGE 19 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,240 EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOLOGY 20 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,120 AND ENGINEERING WITH CLINICAL 21 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,640 MEDICINE. 22 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,680 THE LOGO IN THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND 23 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:18,800 CORNER ON MY SCREEN IS THE 24 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:24,200 BROOKLYN BRIDGE. 25 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:25,600 AND TWO FOLKS ON THE CATWALK 26 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:26,880 REPRESENT TODAY'S SPEAKERS, WHO 27 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,560 ARE DISCUSSING THE IMPORTANT 28 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:34,640 PROBLEM OF OBESITY FROM TWO VERY 29 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,120 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. 30 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,960 AND THE PURPOSE OF A BRIDGE IS 31 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:43,040 TO SHARE NEW IDEAS WITH THOSE 32 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,080 WHO ARE NOT IMMEDIATELY AWARE OF 33 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:51,160 THEM. 34 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:52,160 MUCH OF OUR SCIENCE TODAY IS IN 35 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:53,880 THE FORM OF A SILO SHOWN IN THE 36 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:55,920 LOWER RIGHT-HAND SECTION. 37 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,960 WHERE WE ALL KNOW AS IF IT WERE 38 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:03,480 SMALL PIECES OF THE PIZZA PIE, 39 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,360 BUT WE DO NOT COMMUNICATE 40 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,600 BROADLY ACROSS EITHER BIOLOGY OR 41 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,720 ENGINEERING OR CLINICAL MEDIC 42 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:14,000 MEDICINE. 43 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,040 SO IN THIS COURSE, WE TRY TO 44 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,520 CREATE MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF 45 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,240 BRIDGES, AND FREQUENTLY START 46 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,480 WITH A LIVE PATIENT WHO 47 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,600 DESCRIBES THEIR DISEASE IN THEIR 48 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,240 OWN WORDS, AND THEN A CLINICIAN 49 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:32,800 AND INVESTIGATOR, AND FINALLY A 50 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:33,920 BASIC SCIENTIST WHO DESCRIBES 51 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:35,440 WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHAT DO WE 52 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,600 REALLY NEED TO KNOW AND WHAT IS 53 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,240 THE CHALLENGE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 54 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,800 LIKE YOU WHO ARE WATCHING THIS 55 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,240 PROGRAM AROUND THE WORLD. 56 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:54,200 THIS VIRTUAL SCHEDULE HAS 57 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,760 EXPANDED THE SCOPE OF 58 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,800 DEMYSTIFYING MEDICINE, WHICH IS 59 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:57,840 NOW WATCHED IN OVER 60 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:58,000 38 COUNTRIES AROUND 61 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:58,280 THE WORLD. 62 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:03,600 IN THE 17TH, 18TH AND EARLY 63 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:09,000 19TH CENTURY, OBESITY WAS A SIGN 64 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,360 OF, AS ONE OF THE SPEAKERS JUST 65 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,360 INFORMED ME, PROBABLY OF WEALTH, 66 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:21,120 AND IT CERTAINLY WAS ENVIABLE. 67 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,000 MEN HAD BIG BELLIES, EVEN 68 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,960 NAPOLEON HAD A RATHER HUGE 69 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:29,920 ABDOMEN, ABDOMINAL BIG BELLY. 70 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:34,000 AND THEN THINGS CHANGED. 71 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,240 MAYBE BECAUSE THE IMAGES CHAN 72 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,840 CHANGED, FROM HISTORICAL 73 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,240 FIGURES, TELEVISION, MOVIES, 74 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,320 BROUGHT OUT THE IDEA THAT THE 75 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:47,560 HEROS WERE SLIM MEN, THINK CARY 76 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,800 GRANT, AND THE WOMEN LIKEWISE. 77 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,400 BUT THEN IT CHANGED AGAIN. 78 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,960 AND IT CREATED WHAT IS A TRUE 79 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,920 EPIDEMIC. 80 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,320 OBESITY HAS WORSENED ENORMOUSLY 81 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:09,120 IN THE PAST 50 YEARS. 82 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:10,880 THE ECONOMIC BURDEN IS ESTIMATED 83 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:12,800 TO BE SOMETHING LIKE 84 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,000 $100 BILLION A YEAR. 85 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,920 AND IT'S THE SECOND MOST COMMON 86 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:24,480 CAUSE OF PREVENTABLE DEATH, 87 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:25,600 SMOKING BEING THE FIRST. 88 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,000 NOW, IN OUR COUNTRY, EVEN 40, 50 89 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,800 YEARS AGO, THE STATEMENT AT THE 90 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,760 TOP OF THIS SLIDE PRETTY MUCH 91 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,480 TOLD THE STORY. 92 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,600 FAT WAS FAT, AND THAT WAS THAT. 93 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,160 BUT MY, HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED. 94 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,520 WE NOW RECOGNIZE THAT ADIPOSE 95 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,280 TISSUE IS DIVERSE. 96 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:52,760 THERE'S WHITE FAT AND BROWN FAT. 97 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,960 THEY'RE METABOLICALLY AND 98 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,000 HORMONALLY DIFFERENT. 99 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,200 AND ALL FAT IS METABOLICALLY AND 100 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:03,440 HORMONALLY AN ACTIVE TISSUE. 101 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,080 IT RELEASES FREE FATTY ACIDS, 102 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:10,280 PRODUCES HORMONES OF DIFFERENT 103 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:11,600 KINDS, WHICH ACT ON BRAIN, 104 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,680 LIVER, MUSCLE AND OTHER TISSUES 105 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,720 TO REGULATE FOOD INTAKE, ENERGY 106 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:16,720 BALANCE, AND INSULIN 107 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,040 SENSITIVITY. 108 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,840 AS A RESULT OF THESE 109 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:26,440 MANIFESTATIONS, OTHER EFFECTS 110 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,560 INVOLVED INFLAMMATION, IMMUNITY 111 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,920 AND PREDISPOSITION TO CANCER, 112 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,520 DIABETES, CARDIOVASCULAR, AND 113 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,400 NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES. 114 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,120 AND PROBABLY OTHERS. 115 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:45,120 NOW, TO BALANCE THIS EXPLOSION 116 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,920 OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION 117 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,280 REGARDING WHAT FAT IS AND WHAT 118 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:52,720 IT DOES, THERE IS A HUGE 119 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,120 CLINICAL CHALLENGE TO RELATE THE 120 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,600 DISCOVERIES BEING MADE TO 121 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:02,840 ADVANCES IN NUTRITION, HEALTH, 122 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:04,800 AND WHETHER PROPOSED TREATMENTS, 123 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,240 PARTICULARLY THOSE POPULAR WITH 124 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:10,360 A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, 125 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,640 WHETHER THOSE TREATMENTS, 126 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:14,040 DIETARY OR PHARMACOLOGIC WORK, 127 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,520 AND IF SO, HOW DO THEY WORK? 128 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,480 NOW, THIS IS THE BALLPARK OF 129 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,720 TODAY'S DEMYSTIFYING MEDICINE. 130 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,280 AND WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO HAVE 131 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:32,280 TWO NIH LEADERS IN THIS FIELD. 132 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:34,800 NOW OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS GOING 133 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,360 TO BE AARON CYPESS. 134 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:39,680 AARON WAS A GRADUATE OF 135 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,400 PRINCETON, TOOK A PH.D. FROM 136 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,240 ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY, AND HIS 137 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,440 MEDICAL DEGREE FROM CORNEL, AND 138 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,000 THEN A MASTER OF MEDICAL 139 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,840 SCIENCES AT HARVARD. 140 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:54,800 HE DID A RESIDENCY AT BETH 141 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,920 ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER 142 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,920 IN BOSTON AND BECAME AN 143 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,560 ASSISTANT INVESTIGATOR, STAFF 144 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,080 PHYSICIAN AT THE JOSLIN DIABETES 145 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,440 CENTER AND THEN ASSISTANT 146 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:07,920 PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AT HARVARD 147 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,400 MEDICAL SCHOOL UNTIL 2014. 148 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,720 WHEN HE WAS RECRUITED TO THE 149 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,960 NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF DIABETES, 150 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,760 DIGESTIVE DISEASE AND KIDNEY AS 151 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:22,440 THE ACTING CHIEF OF THE 152 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,000 TRANSLATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY SECTION 153 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,760 IN THE DIABETES, ENDOCRINE AND 154 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,960 OBESITY BRANCH OF NIDDK. 155 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,520 SO AARON RESEARCHES WHITE AND 156 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,240 BROWN FA FAT STRUCTURE, PHYSIOL, 157 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:40,400 RELATION TO METABOLIC DISEASE, 158 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,360 AND SEEKS TO DEVELOP 159 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,240 PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT OF 160 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,160 OBESITY-RELATED METABOLIC 161 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,160 DISEASES, AND IN THIS PROCESS, 162 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,560 HE ALSO USES EXTENSIVELY 163 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,720 CLINICAL TRIALS BASED TO A GREAT 164 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,520 EXTENT IN THE CLINICAL CENTER AT 165 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,000 THE NIH. 166 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,800 HIS APPROACH IS ONE OF 167 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,280 INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY, USING IN 168 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,240 VITRO AND IN VIVO MODELS AS WELL 169 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,840 AS CLINICAL TRIALS, AND THEY'VE 170 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,920 DEVELOPED NONINVASIVE IMAGING 171 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,040 TECHNIQUES FOR THE 172 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:18,400 QUANTIFICATION OF BROWN FAT MASS 173 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,160 AND ACTIVITY. 174 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,960 AND HAVE DEVELOPED THERAPEUTIC 175 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:26,920 ATTEMPTS TO INCREASE BROWN FAT 176 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,280 METABOLIC ACTIVITY AND CLINICAL 177 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,280 USE. 178 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,480 OUR SECOND SPEAKER, NEXT SLIDE, 179 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,520 PLEASE, IS KEVIN HALL. 180 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,760 SO KEVIN IS A PHYSICIST, AND HE 181 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,200 HAS APPLIED A PHYSICIST'S VIEW 182 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,720 TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF ENERGY 183 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,400 EXPENDITURE AND EXPERIMENTAL 184 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,440 MODELS, IN MATHEMATICAL MODELS, 185 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:59,040 AND IN STUDIES, EXTENSIVE 186 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,640 STUDIES, IN HUMAN PATIENTS. 187 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,760 HE RECEIVED A PH.D. IN PHYSICS 188 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,520 FROM MCGILL UNIVERSITY, AND FROM 189 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,160 2003 TO THE PRESENT TIME, IS A 190 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:14,080 SENIOR INVESTIGATOR IN THE 191 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:15,240 INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY SECTION 192 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,080 IN THE LABORATORY OF BIOLOGICAL 193 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:19,720 MODELING AT THE NATIONAL 194 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,840 INSTITUTE OF DIABETES, DIGESTIVE 195 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,360 DISEASE AND KIDNEY. 196 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,520 KEVIN HEADS A TEAM OF 197 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:28,760 MATHEMATICIANS, NEUROSCIENTISTS, 198 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:33,240 DIETITIANS AND CLINICIANS, WHO 199 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,640 STUDY AND MODEL ENERGY 200 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,480 EXPENDITURE AND BODY COMPOSITION 201 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,760 WHEN DIETS AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY 202 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:44,680 ARE ALTERED. 203 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:46,520 THE RESULTS HAVE SHAKEN SOME 204 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:48,760 LONG-HELD BELIEFS, AND WE WILL 205 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,760 HEAR MORE ABOUT THIS. 206 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:53,800 KEVIN HAS ALSO DEVELOPED A MODEL 207 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,080 WHICH HAS BEEN USED BY MILLIONS 208 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,400 OF PEOPLE FOR PREDICTING 209 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,600 LIFESTYLE CHANGES THAT ARE 210 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,720 NEEDED IN ORDER TO REACH AND 211 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,200 MAINTAIN A WEIGHT GOAL.% 212 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,480 SO IN THESE STUDIES, THEY'VE 213 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,320 USED FUNCTIONAL MRI, MEASURED 214 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:13,920 BRAIN LOCALIZATION AND ACTIVITY 215 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,520 IN RELATION TO SEEING OR 216 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:22,360 INGESTING VARIOUS FOODS. 217 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,560 THE APPLICATION OF A PHYSICIST'S 218 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:28,640 APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF ENERGY 219 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,640 EXPENDITURE HAS LED TO RESULTS 220 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,240 THAT WERE COMPLETELY 221 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,480 UNANTICIPATED. 222 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,000 AND WHICH HE WILL SHARE WITH US 223 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,840 TODAY. 224 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,400 SO OUR FIRST SPEAKER NOW IS 225 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,960 AARON CYPESS, AND AARON, WILL 226 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,320 YOU PLEASE TAKE THE BATON. 227 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,200 >>THANK YOU, DR. ARIAS, FOR 228 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,440 THAT DETAILED AND OUTSTANDING 229 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,080 INTRODUCTION TO OUR WORK. 230 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:52,760 I WANT TO THANK YOU AND 231 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,600 DR. KASTNER AND THE ENTIRE TEAM, 232 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,080 INCLUDING KENNY AND JOY, FOR 233 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:57,680 INVITING ME HERE AND MAKING IT 234 00:10:57,680 --> 00:10:59,720 POSSIBLE FOR US TO TALK ABOUT 235 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:00,120 OUR RESEARCH. 236 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,000 FAT BIOLOGY AND STAYING THIN IS 237 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:03,960 SOMETHING I'VE BEEN THINKING 238 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,480 ABOUT FOR OVER THREE DECADES IN 239 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,520 MY PROFESSIONAL CAREER, AND I'M 240 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,960 GOING TO FOCUS TODAY ON THE 241 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,600 POLYCHROMATIC HUMAN ADIPOSE 242 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,680 TISSUE, STRUCTURE AND 243 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:14,160 DYSFUNCTION. 244 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:21,440 AS MY DISCLOSURE, I WILL BE BE 245 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:22,720 DESCRIBING THE USE OF A 246 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:28,920 MEDICATION MIRABEGRON, ABOVE TE 247 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:30,720 FDA'S APPROVED DOSE FOR 248 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,120 OVERACTIVE BL BLADDER. 249 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,600 THE OBJECTIVES TODAY, FIRST I'D 250 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,880 LIKE TO IDENTIFY THE MULTIPLE 251 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:37,720 TYPES AND SITES OF HUMAN ADIPOSE 252 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:38,120 TISSUE. 253 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,480 THEN WE'LL SUMMARIZE THE CURRENT 254 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:40,640 KNOWN PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLES OF 255 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:43,160 WHITE AND BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE, 256 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,520 OR WAT AND BAT, OR WHITE FAT AND 257 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:47,400 BROWN FAT. 258 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:48,120 THEN WE'LL EXPLAIN THE 259 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:48,800 CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE BRAIN 260 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,360 AND FAT IN LEADING TO OBESITY 261 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:51,800 AND ITS COMPLICATIONS. 262 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,280 AND THEN BY THE END, HOPEFULLY 263 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:54,960 DEVELOP A HYPOTHESIS AS TO HOW 264 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:59,400 CHRONIC TREATMENT WITH BETA 265 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:00,560 3 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR AGONISTS 266 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:03,520 WILL IMPACT GLUCOSE AND 267 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:04,000 LIPOPROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS. 268 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,760 SO I'LL BEGIN WITH A SLIDE THAT 269 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:07,440 DR. ARIAS REFERRED TO, THAT 270 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:08,880 THERE IS AN INCREASE IN THE 271 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,040 RATES OF OBESITY AND DIABETES IN 272 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:12,920 OUR COUNTRY, IT'S A SLIDE MANY 273 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,280 OF YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN 274 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:15,000 BEFORE, AND THE FACT THAT 275 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,040 THEY'RE MOVING IN PARALLEL 276 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:19,880 INDICATES THAT POSSIBLY TOO MUCH 277 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,720 FAT IS UNHEALTHY. 278 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,400 THABUT IS TOO MUCH FAT UNHEALTH? 279 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:28,440 IT'S NOT REALLY THAT SIMPLE. 280 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:29,560 IT'S TIME TO RE-ASSESS. 281 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:30,880 SO I'M GOING TO START THE TALK 282 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:31,680 BY GOING THROUGH SOME OF THE 283 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:33,280 MATERIAL THAT I WROTE ABOUT IN A 284 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:34,240 REVIEW ARTICLE IN THE NEW 285 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,280 ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 286 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:36,560 PUBLISHED LAST YEAR, AND IT'S 287 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:40,920 AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE. 288 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,960 NOW HUMAN WHITE AND BROWN FAT 289 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,440 ARE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE BODY 290 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,160 BUT LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING SO 291 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:46,960 WE'LL START WITH THE STRUCTURE. 292 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:48,720 SO HERE IS THE FRONTAL VIEW OF A 293 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:49,120 HUMAN. 294 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,000 YOU CAN SEE HERE IN ORANGE IS 295 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,000 THE SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, DIFFERENT 296 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,840 REGIONS ARE INDICATED HERE, AND 297 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,760 THE HEAD, THE DRA CRANIAL REGIO, 298 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:02,080 THE LIMB, AND THE GLUTEOFEMORAL 299 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:02,560 RENAL. 300 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:06,960 THERE ARE BROWN FAT AS WELL, 301 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:12,920 BROWN AND BEIGE ADIPOCYTES, THE 302 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,360 NECK, THE SHOULDER, ARMPIT, DOWN 303 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:16,480 THE SPINE AND AROUND THE 304 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:17,120 KIDNEYS. 305 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,400 WHITE FAT ALSO HAS A VISCERAL 306 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,360 FLAVOR, AS IT WERE, AND THAT IS 307 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,440 THE INTERNAL ORGANS, THEIR FAT, 308 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,520 AND YOU CAN SEE HERE THERE'S 309 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:32,080 EPICARDIAL, OMENTAL, MESENTERIC, 310 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:36,400 PARIRENAL, GONADAL, THEY HAVE A 311 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:36,840 DIFFERENT STRUCTURE. 312 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:38,160 IN THIS THIRD VIEW, THE AXIAL 313 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,320 VIEW, THIS IS A CUT THROUGH THE 314 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:40,840 CENTER OF THE BODY, ONE CAN SEE 315 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,520 THAT LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING. 316 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,120 SHOWN HERE IS A 37-YEAR-OLD MAN 317 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,600 WHO HAS A WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE OF 318 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,560 91 CENTIMETERS, THAT'S ABOUT 319 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:51,000 36 INCHES. 320 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,160 SHOWN HERE IS A MAN WHO'S 321 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:54,960 82 YEARS OLD, WHOSE WAIST 322 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:55,840 CIRCUMFERENCE IS THE SAME. 323 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,160 BUT WHEN YOU LOOK INSIDE, YOU 324 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,320 CAN SEE THERE'S FAR MORE 325 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:00,640 SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, WHICH IS 326 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,720 EITHER NEUTRAL OR EVEN POSITIVE 327 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,520 FOR HEALTH. 328 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:05,720 WHEREAS THIS INDIVIDUAL AT 329 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,240 82 HAS MUCH MORE VISCERAL FAT, 330 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,040 WHICH IS MORE LIKELY TO BE 331 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,800 NEGATIVE IN TERMS OF AFFECTING 332 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,520 HIS HEALTH. 333 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,280 AND SO HUMAN WHITE FAT BEGINS TO 334 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:17,640 DEVELOP IN THE SECOND TRIMESTER 335 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,720 OF PREGNANCY, AND BY BIRTH, BOTH 336 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,640 THE VISCERAL AND THE 337 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,200 SUBCUTANEOUS DEPOTS ARE WELL 338 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:24,800 ESTABLISHED. 339 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,000 THE BROWN FAT OR BAT FIRST 340 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,360 ARISES DURING THE LATE SECOND 341 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,320 TRIMESTER, AND PROTECTS NEWBORNS 342 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:31,600 FROM COLD WHILE THEY DEVELOP THE 343 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,400 ABILITY TO SHIVER. 344 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,640 IN LEAN ADULTS, THE ENTIRE WHITE 345 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,360 FAT DEPOT RANGES FROM 20 TO 346 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:40,640 30 KILOGRAMS IN WOMEN, THAT'S 30 347 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:45,080 TO 40% OF TOTAL BODY MASS. 348 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,720 AND IN MEN, 10 TO 20 KILOGRAMS 349 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,240 OR 15 TO 25% OF TOTAL BODY MASS. 350 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,400 SO YOU CAN APPRECIATE THAT THE 351 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:53,840 ADIPOSE TISSUE DEPOT IS ONE OF 352 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,760 THE LARGEST IF NOT THE LARGEST 353 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,600 ORGAN IN THE BODY. 354 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,800 NOW, IN THE ADIPOSE TISSUES, THE 355 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:08,360 FORM FOLLOWS THE FUNCTION. 356 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,840 WHITE ADIPO CYTES STORE ENERGY. 357 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,240 IT HAS IMPORTANCE FOR THERMAL 358 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:15,680 INSULATION. 359 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,120 THEY'VE SHOWN THAT WHITE FAT IS 360 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:19,680 IMPORTANT FOR KEEPING US WARM 361 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,640 JUST BY FORMING A PROTECTIVE 362 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:22,040 BLANKET. 363 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,720 IN ADDITION, THERE IS MECHANICAL 364 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,320 PROTECTION, AND WHITE FAT HAS 365 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,560 DR. ARIAS MENTION IS INVOLVED AS 366 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:30,920 AN ENDOCRINE ORGAN AND I'LL SHOW 367 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:31,920 YOU MORE DETAILS ABOUT THAT. 368 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:38,000 ON THE OTHER END ARE BRIGHT 369 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,120 ADIPOCYTES, ORGANELLES INVOLVED 370 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,800 IN ATP, CHEMICAL ENERGY AND ALSO 371 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,240 HEAT AND THE BEIGE CELLS ARE IN 372 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:45,440 BETWEEN. 373 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:46,640 BOTH CELL TYPES, THE WHITE AND 374 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,040 THE BROWN, CAN GENERATE HEAT AS 375 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:49,440 I'LL SHOW YOU IN A MOMENT. 376 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,680 SO THERE'S THE WHITE THAT STORE 377 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,440 ENERGY, THE BROWN THAT EXPEND 378 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,560 ENERGY, AND THEN THESE BEIGE OR 379 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:58,680 BRITE CELLS IN BETWEEN. 380 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,920 THEY RESPOND TO BOTH COLD AND 381 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,520 ADRENERGIC STIMULATION, MEANING 382 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:05,160 EPINEPHRINE, NOREPINEPHRINE, AND 383 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:06,200 THEY CAN TRANSITION FROM AN 384 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,880 ENERGY STORING FOR AN ENERGY 385 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:10,800 EXPENDING TYPE OF CELL. 386 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:11,760 HOW DOES IT HAPPEN? 387 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:13,200 LET'S GO BACK TO YOUR HIGH 388 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:14,600 SCHOOL CHEMISTRY AND 389 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,880 BIOCHEMISTRY CLASSES, AND YOU 390 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:24,960 CAN SEE HERE THAT TH THIS LEADSO 391 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,440 THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN ATOMS 392 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,120 THAT GET SPLIT AND THE PROTONS 393 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,800 GO TO THE INTERMEMBRANE SPACE, 394 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,720 TAKEN UP BY OXYGEN TO MAKE 395 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:36,400 WATER, AND THOSE PROTONS GO DOWN 396 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,160 THESE PROTEINS HERE TO GENERATE 397 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:39,760 ATP. 398 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:45,400 BUT IN A BROWN ADIPOCYTE, 399 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:46,600 UPC1 ALLOWS THOSE PROTONS TO 400 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:47,880 RUSH RIGHT BACK IN TO THE 401 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:48,600 MITOCHONDRIAL MATRIX. 402 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:49,640 WHEN THAT HAPPENS, THERE'S NO 403 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,400 LONGER A BACK PRESSURE OF 404 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,200 PROTONS, AND THAT LEADS THE TCA 405 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:55,320 CYCLE AND ELECTRON TRANSPORT 406 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:56,960 CHAIN TO START GOING VERY, VERY 407 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:58,080 QUICKLY, AND THAT GENERATES A 408 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,080 LOT OF HEAT. 409 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:01,880 BY ANALOGY, IF YOU WERE IN YOUR 410 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,440 CAR AND YOU SHIFTED FROM DRIVE 411 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,760 TO NEUTRAL AND THEN YOU PUT YOUR 412 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,320 FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR, A LOT 413 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,520 OF FUEL WOULD GO THROUGH THE 414 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:09,480 SYSTEM, THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY 415 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:10,440 ENERGY BEING CONVERTED TO 416 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,280 ANYTHING BUT HEAT. 417 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:13,680 AND THERE ARE NEW PROCESSES OF 418 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,240 GENERATING HEAT SHOWN BY BRUCE 419 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,040 SPIEGELMAN WHERE THEY'VE SHOWN 420 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:26,080 THERE'S ALSO SUPPER 421 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:27,720 STOICHIOMETRIC FUTILE CYCLING. 422 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,040 THERE'S ALSO SOMETHING CALLED 423 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,640 TRIGLYCERIDE FATTY ACID CYCLING, 424 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,680 BROKEN DOWN TO FATTY ACIDS BUT 425 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:36,520 REBUILT, BROKEN DOWN AND REBUILT 426 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:37,680 IN A CYCLE. 427 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,320 ALL THAT'S HAPPENING HERE IS A 428 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:40,200 FUTILE PRODUCTION OF HEAT. 429 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:41,400 IF THAT'S WHAT THE CELL WANTS, 430 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:42,680 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, SO AS YOU 431 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:43,960 CAN SEE HERE, THERE ARE SEVERAL 432 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:45,280 MECHANISMS IN BOTH BROWN FAT AND 433 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:49,080 WHITE FAT FOR GENERATING HEAT. 434 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:50,080 WHICH ONES ARE ACTIVE, WHAT THE 435 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,120 PROPORTIONS ARE, AND HOW DO YOU 436 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:54,320 TURN THEM ON AND OFF ARE AREAS 437 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,880 OF ACTIVE INVESTIGATION. 438 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,000 NOW YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT 439 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,520 WHITE FAT AND BROWN FAT JUST 440 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:00,840 LIKE EVERY OTHER TISSUE IN THE 441 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,640 BODY ARE MADE UP OF A DIVERSITY 442 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:04,680 OF CELL TYPES. 443 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:05,600 WHITE FAT HAS MANY. 444 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:13,120 AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THERE ARE 445 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:14,240 ADIPOCYTES, BUT WHITE FAT HAS A 446 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,000 LOT OF MACROPHAGES, IMMUNE 447 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,800 CELLS, T-CELLS, B CELLS, THERE'S 448 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:20,920 ALSO BLOOD CELLS AND BLOOD 449 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:21,360 VESSELS. 450 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:24,600 THERE'S ALSO EOSINOPHILS, 451 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:25,800 DENDRITIC CELLS FOR THE IMMUNE 452 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,680 SYSTEM, AND THEN THERE'S THE ECM 453 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,400 OR EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX AND 454 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,560 THESE ARE PROTEINS AND OTHER 455 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,680 KINDS OF MOLECULES THAT PROVIDE 456 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:36,640 STRUCTURE AND SUPPORT BUT IT'S 457 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:36,960 ACTIVE. 458 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:38,800 THE ECM IS IN COMMUNICATION WITH 459 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:43,640 THE CELLS WITHIN THISH TISSUE. . 460 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,280 THERE ARE DOZENS OF FACTORS 461 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:46,920 RELEASED AND THEY PROFOUNDLY 462 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:48,080 IMPACT ORGANS THROUGHOUT THE 463 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:48,400 BODY. 464 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:49,840 SHOWN HERE ARE FACTORS RELEASED 465 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,960 BY THE WHITE FAT, BOTH THE WHITE 466 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:54,480 ADIPOCYTES AND THE OTHER CELLS. 467 00:18:54,480 --> 00:19:00,600 THERE ARE ADIPOKINES, YOU'VE 468 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,040 HEARD OF LEPTIN PERHAPS, THERE 469 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,680 ARE MANY AS WELL, CYTOKINES, 470 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,280 ENZYMES, COMPOUNDS INVOLVED IN 471 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,960 LID I ID TRANSPORT AND OTHER 472 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:10,680 FACTORS AS WELL. 473 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:11,720 SO THERE'S OVER 50 AND THESE ARE 474 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:12,880 JUST A FEW HERE. 475 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,480 AND THEY AFFECT EVERY ORGAN IN 476 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:15,480 THE BODY PRACTICALLY. 477 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,040 IN THE BRAIN, THE HORMONES IN 478 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:21,320 THE WHITE FAT CAN FEEDBACK AND 479 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,760 IMPACT APPETITE, SENSES OF 480 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,560 SATIETY, ENERGY EXPENDITURE, THE 481 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:27,960 IMMUNE SYSTEM, THE 482 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,440 CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM, LIVER, 483 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,000 PANCREAS, THE GASTROINTESTINAL 484 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,800 TRACT IN TERMS OF AB SORNTION, D 485 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:36,960 MUSCLES AS WELL JUST TO NAME A 486 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,240 FEW OF THE ORGAN SYSTEMS 487 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,480 INVOLVED. 488 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,880 NOW THE ROLES OF HUMAN BROWN 489 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:44,520 ADIPOSE TISSUE ARE ONLY 490 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,880 BEGINNING TO BE DISCOVERED. 491 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,080 WHAT'S FASCINATING TO ME IS THAT 492 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,120 THE BROWN ADIPOCYTES ARE PACKED 493 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:51,120 WITH MITOCHONDRIA. 494 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:54,520 THERE ARE SACKS OF MITOCHONDRIA. 495 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,680 SHOWN HERE IS AN EOSINE STAIN 496 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,120 AND YOU CAN SEE THESE ARE 497 00:19:59,120 --> 00:19:59,920 INDIVIDUAL CELLS I'M DRAWING OUT 498 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:01,600 AND THESE ARE THE LIPID 499 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:02,320 DROPLETS. 500 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,400 IF YOU USE A HIGHER 501 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,880 MAGNIFICATION, YOU CAN SEE ONE 502 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:13,840 BROWN AD ADIPOCYTE, HERE ARE LID 503 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,840 DROPLET'S USED AS FUEL, AND 504 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,200 EVERY OTHER LITTLE BROWN CIRCLE 505 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,160 HERE, EVERY LITTLE GREY SITE IS 506 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,080 A MITOCHONDRIAN. 507 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,200 NOW THE MAXIMUM DETECTABLE BROWN 508 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,080 ADIPOSE TISSUE MASS ON A HUMAN 509 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:30,960 WE'VE SEEN SO FAR IS ROUGHLY 510 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:32,720 1-KILOGRAM OR JUST OVER 2 POUNDS 511 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,440 BUT USUALLY BASED ON OUR IMAGING 512 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,320 IT'S FROM 50 TO 500 GRAMS, WHICH 513 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:40,080 IS LESS THAN A POUND, .1 TO .5% 514 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:43,280 OF TOTAL BODY MASS AND .2 TO 3% 515 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:44,240 OF TOTAL ADIPOSE TISSUE. 516 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,120 AND WE'RE JUST BEGINNING TO 517 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:48,440 IDENTIFY THE ADD POE KINES, THE 518 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:49,640 HORMONES RELEASED BY BROWN 519 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:50,240 ADIPOSE TISSUE. 520 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:51,160 CAN YOU SEE SOME IN THE DIAGRAM 521 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:51,720 OVER HERE. 522 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:57,120 I LIKE TO FOCUS IN PARTICULAR ON 523 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:01,480 12, 13DIHOME AND 12HEPE, AND 524 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,080 THESE HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED 525 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,160 SAYING A COLLEAGUE AND 526 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,440 COLLABORATOR AT JOSLIN DIABETES 527 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:09,880 CENTER IN BOSTON, AND THESE GO 528 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,040 TO OTHER TISSUES AND CAUSE 529 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:12,480 RELEASE OF THE UPTAKE OF FATTY 530 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,800 ACIDS AND GLUCOSE INTO THOSE 531 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,960 TISSUES. 532 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,440 THE FLIP SIDE IS WHEN TR 533 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:22,840 TRIGLYCERIDES ARE IN EXCESS OR 534 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,600 STORED INCORRECTLY, IT CAN LEAD 535 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:25,320 TO COMPLICATIONS. 536 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,240 SHOWN HERE IS A DIAGRAM 537 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,720 DISPLAYING THE VARIOUS 538 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:30,920 COMPLICATIONS IN THE DIFFERENT 539 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,400 ORGAN SYSTEMS FROM OBESITY. 540 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,160 AND HOW THIS HAPPENS IS THAT 541 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:37,800 WHITE ADIPOCYTES CAN SWELL ON 542 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:42,200 THE BASELINE OF ROUGHLY 30, 40 543 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,320 40 MICRONS ACROSS TO OVER 544 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:43,880 100 MICRONS. 545 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,840 THAT'S A 10 TIMES INCREASE IN 546 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:46,080 VOLUME. 547 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,560 NOW THE ANATOMICAL LOCATION AND 548 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,360 GENETICS LARGELY DETERMINE THE 549 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:53,720 PROPORTIONAL INCREASE IN THE 550 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:54,280 ADIPOCYTE SIZE AND NUMBER AS 551 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,480 WELL AS THE PHYSIOLOGICAL 552 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,960 RESPONSES THAT CAN BE SEEN. 553 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:03,080 SO FOR EXAMPLE, PEOPLE WHOSE 554 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,320 SUBCUTANEOUS DEPOTS MAINTAIN 555 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,920 SMALLER ADIPOCYTES HAVE FEWER 556 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:09,560 METABOLIC COMPLICATIONS. 557 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,560 OTHERS HAVE A GENETIC INABILITY 558 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,280 TO RECRUIT NEW ADIPOCYTES SO 559 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:15,360 THEY INSTEAD GO TO THE REST OF 560 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:17,200 THE BODY AND CAUSE ADDITIONAL 561 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,800 COMPLICATIONS SUCH AS STROKE, 562 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,720 CATARACTS, PROBLEMS IN THE 563 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,000 LUNGS, GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT, 564 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,720 CARDIOVASCULAR WE KNOW ABOUT, 565 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:28,920 MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM AS WELL. 566 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,680 SO ULTIMATELY, WHAT HAPPENS IS 567 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,880 THAT WHEN THAT WHITE FAT BECOMES 568 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,280 VERY LARGE OR HYPERTROPHIC, AND 569 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,160 EXPANDS, THE PROBLEM IS THAT 570 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:38,200 THERE'S NOT ENOUGH OXYGEN 571 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:39,400 GETTING TO THE CELLS. 572 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,520 THERE ARE OTHER PROBLEMS WITH 573 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:43,480 THE -- INSIDE THE CELLS AS WELL, 574 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:44,960 FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S THE 575 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,760 UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE IN THE 576 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,960 ENDO PLASMIC RETICULUM, BUT IT'S 577 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,480 THE HYPOXIA THAT'S A REAL 578 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,440 PROBLEM, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS 579 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,840 IS, THAT HYPOXIA IS A BIOLOGICAL 580 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,440 RED ALERT FOR THE CELLS AND IT 581 00:22:58,440 --> 00:22:59,800 ALTERS THE EXPRESSION OF MORE 582 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:00,720 THAN A THOUSAND GENES AND 583 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,000 TRIGGERS A SERIES OF 584 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,240 INTERCONNECTED RESPONSES THAT 585 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:04,920 LEAD TO LOCAL RESISTANCE TO 586 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,000 INSULIN SIGNALING, INCREASED 587 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:07,760 INFLAMMATION, AND CELLULAR 588 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:13,480 DAMAGE. 589 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,120 HOWEVER, AS THE TITLE INDICATES, 590 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:17,760 IT'S REALLY USEFUL TO 591 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:18,760 CONCEPTUALIZE OBESITY AS A 592 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:19,720 DISEASE ORIGINATING IN THE BRAIN 593 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,960 THAT IS MANIFESTED MORE AS AN 594 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,120 EXCESS OF WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE 595 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:25,560 AND A DYSFUNCTIONAL BROWN 596 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:26,840 ADIPOSE TISSUE. 597 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,040 AND STUDYS HAVE SHOWN THAT 598 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,280 THERE'S A PERNICIOUS CYCLE THAT 599 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:31,560 ACCELERATES THE DEVELOPMENT OF 600 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:32,960 OBESITY ONCE A PERSON HAS BEGUN 601 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,880 TO GAIN WEIGHT. 602 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,160 AND IN THE BRAIN IN PARTICULAR, 603 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,960 IT'S THE HYPOTHALAMIC REGION 604 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,000 THAT'S OF INCREASING INTEREST 605 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,520 BECAUSE IT INTEGRATES MULTIPLE 606 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,160 PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS FROM THE 607 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,040 BODY, AND THEN TRANSMITS THEM TO 608 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,920 DIFFERENT BRAIN REGIONS AND 609 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,440 COORDINATE THE REGULATION OF 610 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,080 DIVERSE PROCESSES, INCLUDING 611 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:57,160 BODY TEMPERATURE AND FEEDING. 612 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,480 AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, CHILLED WITH 613 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,800 OBESITY ARE AT RISK AS SHOWN BY 614 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,080 THIS DIAGRAM AND EVEN MORE 615 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,240 TROUBLING IS THE RATES OF 616 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,600 OBESITY ARE INCREASING MUCH 617 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:09,920 FASTER AMONG CHILDREN THAN AMONG 618 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:10,480 ADULTS. 619 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,320 CERTAINLY IN OUR COUNTRY AND 620 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:12,800 WORLDWIDE. 621 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,040 AND CHILDREN WITH OBESITY ARE 622 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,400 MORE LIKELY TO BECOME ADULTS WHO 623 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,960 HAVE A HIGH RISK OF SEVERE 624 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:18,760 HEALTH COMPLICATIONS. 625 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,400 WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT 626 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:22,200 IT. 627 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,640 AND I'M GOING TO GO TO ONE PART 628 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,160 OF THAT AND THAT'S ON THE BROWN 629 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,200 ADIPOSE TISSUE, SOMETHING THAT 630 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,760 I'VE BEEN STUDYING FOR NEARLY 631 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,960 TWO DECADES, AND SO I'M GOING TO 632 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,080 GO INTO SOME RELEVANT RECENT BAT 633 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:33,320 HISTORY. 634 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,600 AND THE MODERN ERA OF BAT 635 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,760 STUDIES BEGAN IN 2002, AND AN 636 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:40,960 ENTIRELY DIFFERENT AREA FROM 637 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:41,760 METABOLISM AND THAT IS IN THE 638 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,920 AREA OF RADIOLOGY AND CANCER 639 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:44,280 SURVEILLANCE. 640 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,760 AND IT WAS FOUND THAT ADULT 641 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,960 HUMANS HAD SOMETHING -- A 642 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,080 GLUCOSE-AVID ADIPOSE TISSUE, 643 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,120 WHICH SUGGESTED THERE MIGHT BE 644 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:52,520 FUNCTIONAL BAT. 645 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,160 AND THE REASON THIS WAS POSSIBLE 646 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,520 IS THAT PREVIOUSLY, PEOPLE WERE 647 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,920 USING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, 648 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,040 THAT'S A THREE-DIMENSIONAL X-RAY 649 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,360 THAT GIVES STRUCTURE AS AN 650 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:02,600 EXAMPLE SHOWN HERE, HERE'S THE 651 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,160 HEART, HERE'S THE LIVER, THE 652 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:04,400 LUNGS. 653 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,560 THERE'S THE RIBCAGE OF THIS 654 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:07,240 32-YEAR-OLD MAN. 655 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:08,400 AND THEN THERE'S SOMETHING 656 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,480 CALLED PET IMAGING, THAT'S 657 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,280 POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY, 658 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:13,640 ONE CAN LABEL GLUCOSE, FOR 659 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,320 EXAMPLE, AS A TRACER, AND IT 660 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:16,040 SHOWS WHAT'S FUNCTIONALLY 661 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:16,640 ACTIVE. 662 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:17,440 FOR EXAMPLE, IN THIS PERSON OVER 663 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,280 HERE, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A LOT 664 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:20,840 OF GLUCOSE GOING INTO THE HEART, 665 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,640 TAKING UP A LOT OF GLUCOSE AS IT 666 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:24,400 PUMPS, IT GOES INTO THE BRAIN 667 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,800 AND THEN CURIOUSLY INTO THESE 668 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,120 CELLS THAT ARE LYING IN THE 669 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:29,640 UPPER CHEST. 670 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,720 THE ABILITY TO FUSE THE CT AND 671 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,760 PET TOGETHER INTO A PET/C T 672 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,000 OPENED THE DOORS TO AN ENORMOUS 673 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,480 AMOUNT OF EXCITEMENT AND 674 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,960 RESEARCH ACTIVITY BECAUSE IT WAS 675 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,240 DETERMINED THAT THESE CELLS, 676 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:41,200 THESE TISSUES THAT WERE TAKING 677 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,000 UP A LOT OF THE GLUCOSE AND THE 678 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,280 IMAGE WAS FUSED, IT TURNED OUT 679 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:44,840 IT WAS FAT. 680 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,760 IT WASN'T MUSCLE, IT WASN'T 681 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:48,600 TUMOR. 682 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:49,880 SO THAT SUGGESTS THERE WAS 683 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:50,800 FUNCTIONAL BROWN FAT WHICH HAD 684 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,680 BEEN DENIED IN HUMANS. 685 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,280 I WAS VERY EXCITED BY THIS SO AT 686 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,760 THE END OF MY ENDOCRINE 687 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,600 FELLOWSHIP, I PRESENTED THE 688 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:00,520 SLIDES SAYING THERE MIGHT BE 689 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,200 BROWN FAT IN ADULT HUMANS. 690 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:03,520 HOW EXCITING WOULD THAT BE? 691 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,720 WELL, I WAS CHALLENGED AT THE 692 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,920 END OF THE TALK AND I WROTE BACK 693 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,280 IN EMAIL TO ONE OF THE 694 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:11,760 CHALLENGERS AND SAID YOU BELIEVE 695 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:12,800 THERE'S NO SIGNIFICANT BROWN FAT 696 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,120 IN ADULT HUMANS AND THAT WHAT 697 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:16,040 WE'RE SEEING ON THOSE PET/CT 698 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,680 SCANS IS NOT BROWN FAT? 699 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,520 AND HE WROTE BACK, YES, THAT'S 700 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:20,840 PRETTY MUCH IT. 701 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,280 I WILL BE VERY SURPRISED IF 702 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,280 THOSE PET IMAGES WERE BROWN FAT 703 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:25,120 DEPOSITS. 704 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:26,600 THIS IS A HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL 705 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:27,400 ENDOCRINOLOGIST SO THIS WAS 706 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:28,640 REALLY IMPORTANT AND SOMEWHAT 707 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,760 DISPERIODISSPIRITTING AT THE TI. 708 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,280 BUT I RECEIVED ENCOURAGEMENT 709 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,720 FROM SOMEBODY ELSE, A HARVARD 710 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:36,320 MEDICAL SCHOOL RADIOLOGIST. 711 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,160 I WROTE TO HIM AND SAID, IN 712 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,000 THOSE FDG-PET SCANS YOU VERY 713 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,680 OFTEN SEE FALSE POSITIVE SIGNALS 714 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:42,520 FROM BROWN FAT. 715 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,400 HOW DO WE KNOW THAT IT'S BROWN 716 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:44,840 FAT? 717 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,360 AND HE SAID, BECAUSE EVERYONE 718 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:47,280 SAYS SO. 719 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,360 SO THIS WAS THE STATE OF THE 720 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:51,120 FIELD BACK IN 2006. 721 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:52,280 AND LED US TO GET WORKING AND 722 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,080 SHOW THAT WHAT WE WERE SEEING ON 723 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,200 THOSE IMAGES TRULY WAS BROWN 724 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,040 FAT. 725 00:26:58,040 --> 00:26:58,920 IT WASN'T JUST OUR GROUP. 726 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,800 FIVE PAPERS CAME OUT IN THE SPAN 727 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,160 OF ONE MONTH IN 20 2009 PUBLISH 728 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,080 DOLLARS IN THE NEW ENGLAND 729 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:05,760 JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND OTHER 730 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:06,920 SOURCES AND IT WAS FOUND THAT 731 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,600 BROWN FAT WAS PREDOMINANTLY IN A 732 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:10,600 FEW SPECIFIC REGIONS OF THE 733 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,160 BODY, NOT EVERYWHERE, BUT WE CAN 734 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,000 FINALLY MEASURE IT 735 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,440 NON-INVASIVELY VIA PET/CT AND 736 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,040 FINALLY UNDERSTAND THE TISSUE IN 737 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:19,320 REALTIME. 738 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,280 WHAT WE LEARN FUNCTIONALLY, IT 739 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:22,600 PROTECTS AGAINST THE COLD 740 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,800 ACUTELY AND CHRONICALLY, 741 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,560 NON-SHIVERING THERM ROW GENESIS. 742 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,200 NOW NOISE THERE'S A TISSUE 743 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,400 KEEPING US WARM WITHOUT MAKING 744 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,680 US FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. 745 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,480 PEOPLE WITH BROWN FAT BASED ON 746 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:37,680 RETROSPECTIVE BACKWARD LOOKING 747 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,000 STUDIES, PEOPLE WITH MORE BROWN 748 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,640 FAT WERE FREQUENTLY FEMALE, 749 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,600 YOUNGER, LEANER, AND NOT TAKING 750 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:43,840 BETA-BLOCKER MEDICATIONS, WHICH 751 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,120 MEANS THAT BROWN FAT COULD BE 752 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:48,320 AFFECTED BY MEDICATIONS. 753 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,160 AND FINALLY, IT APPEARED THAT 754 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,720 NEARLY EVERY ADULT HUMAN HAS 755 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,640 SOME BROWN FAT. 756 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,240 IT'IT'S REALLY THERE, AND THEY E 757 00:27:58,240 --> 00:27:59,880 A BIG IMPACT ON OUR PHYSIOLOGY. 758 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,240 AND IN THE 10 YEARS SINCE THEN, 759 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:02,880 A LOT OF EXCITING RESEARCH HAS 760 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,880 BEEN DONE USING RODENT MODELS. 761 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,080 SHOWN HERE IS INFORMATION ABOUT 762 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:08,880 CHOLESTEROL PROFILE AND 763 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:09,960 CARDIOVASCULAR RISK, DONE BY 764 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,880 GROUPS LED BY PATRICK RENSEN IN 765 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:18,320 THE NETHERLANDS, VIRTANEN IN 766 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,440 FINLAND. 767 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:20,360 BASICALLY WHAT WE SHOWED IN A 768 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:21,360 PARTICULAR MOUSE MODEL, THAT 769 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:23,360 BROWN FAT ACTIVATION INCREASES 770 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:27,360 ENERGY EXPENDITURE BUT IT ALSO 771 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:28,000 DECREASES PLASMA TRIGLYCERIDES 772 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,840 AND REDUCES CHOLESTEROL LEVELS, 773 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,400 LEADING TO HEALTH BENEFIT. 774 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,480 THEN IN A SERIES OF STUDIES 775 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,960 CONDUCTED IN GERMANY, THEY 776 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:43,920 SHOWED A FASCINATING NEW AXIS, A 777 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,320 BROWN FAT, LIVER, GUT MICROBIOME 778 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:47,120 AXIS. 779 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,800 SO WHAT HAPPENS IS, COLD 780 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:53,080 EXPOSURE ACTIVATES BROWP FAT, B, 781 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,560 AND CAUSES THE FAT IN OUR FOOT 782 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,040 AFTER EATING, POSE PRANDIALLY, 783 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,040 UPTAKE IN BROWN FAT. 784 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,040 THIS ACCELERATES CHOLESTEROL 785 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,840 UPTAKE INTO THE LIVER. 786 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,680 BAT ACTIVATION CAUSES INCREASED 787 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:07,960 SYNTHESIS OF BILE ACIDS, WHICH 788 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:12,320 YOU MAY KNOW OF AS SMALL 789 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,360 DETERGENTS MADE BY THE BODY THAT 790 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:15,080 HELP ABSORB FAT. 791 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:15,720 THEY DO MORE THAN THAT. 792 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,360 THEY GO INTO THE GUT AND AFFECT 793 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,640 THE MICROBIOME AND THAT'S VERY 794 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,520 IMPORTANT FOR OVERALL HEALTH. 795 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,080 THEN A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY 796 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,480 CONDUCTED BY PAUL COHEN'S GROUP 797 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:31,440 PUBLISHED TWO YEARS AGO, THEY 798 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,000 LOOKED AT OVER 50,000 PATIENTS 799 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,200 AND FOUND THAT PEOPLE WITH BROWN 800 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,800 FAT HAD LOWER RATES OF TYPE 801 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,400 2 DIABETES, DYSLIPIDEMIA, 802 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,360 CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, 803 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:43,240 CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, 804 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,640 CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, AND 805 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,640 HYPERTENSION. 806 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,200 SO THEY SAID THEIR STUDY 807 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,520 INDICATES AN IMPORTANT 808 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:56,080 CONTRIBUTION OF BAT IN HUMANS TO 809 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:56,960 CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH AND 810 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,400 SUGGESTS THAT BAT HAS 811 00:29:58,400 --> 00:29:59,600 THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL IN HUMANS. 812 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,080 WE'RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE. 813 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,680 SO WHEN ONE DISCOVERS A NEW 814 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,200 FUNCTIONAL ORGAN IN HUMANS THAT 815 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,920 HAS THE POTENTIAL OF IMPACTING 816 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,240 HUMAN HEALTH NEED TO BUILD A 817 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,840 RESEARCH PLATFORM THIS IS WHAT 818 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:11,560 WE'VE DONE. 819 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,520 OURS RESTS ON THREE PILLARS. 820 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,240 NONINVASIVE IMAGING, INTEGRATIVE 821 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,680 PHYSIOLOGY, AND THERAPEUTICS, 822 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,120 AND ALL THREE IMPACT EACH OTHER. 823 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,920 SO ON THE IMAGING SIDE, WE WANT 824 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,440 TO MEASURE BROWN FAT MASS AND 825 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,320 ACTIVITY, WE USE PET/CT AS I 826 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:26,600 SHOWED YOU AND I'LL SHOW YOU 827 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,720 SOME IMAGES IN OUR STUDIES, 828 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:29,920 WE'RE DEVELOPING MRI IN 829 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:30,520 COLLABORATION WITH COLLEAGUES 830 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,760 HERE AT THE NIH, AND USING 831 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:33,040 ULTRASOUND. 832 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,760 ON THE OTHER SIDE, YOU NEED TO 833 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,160 UNDERSTAND MECHANISM, AND WHILE 834 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,720 ONE CAN USE CLINICAL TRIALS, ONE 835 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,200 CAN GET MUCH MORE DETAILED AND 836 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,440 WELL DESIGNED STUDIES USING 837 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,640 HUMAN AND RODENT MODELS TO LOOK 838 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,720 AT BIOINER JE TICS, THE HEAT 839 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:53,640 BEING GENERATED, BIOINFORMATICS, 840 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:54,960 AND INTERVENTIONAL THROUGH GENE 841 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:55,480 EDITING AND REGULATION. 842 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,960 THEN WE CAN GO FROM THE BED TO 843 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,000 THE BENCH BACK TO BED AND DO 844 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,280 THERAPEUTIC TRIALS WHERE YOU USE 845 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,160 MILD COLD EXPOSURE AND IN 846 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,760 PARTICULAR, BETA THREE 847 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,160 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR AGONISTS, IN 848 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,320 PARTICULAR, MIRABEGRON, WHICH I 849 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:10,960 WILL SHOW YOU. 850 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,040 SO HOW DO YOU ACTIVATE BROWN 851 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,320 FAT? 852 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,600 COLD EXPOSURE IS WHAT'S COMMONLY 853 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:16,880 USED. 854 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,600 THIS IS ME TESTING OUT A SYSTEM 855 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,000 BACK IN 2010. 856 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,360 WHEN WE FIRST WANTED TO USE COLD 857 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:23,680 EXPOSURE WE WEREN'T SURE BEST 858 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:24,360 HOW TO DO IT. 859 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,520 THANKS TO NUMEROUS CONVERSATIONS 860 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:31,080 AND ASSISTANCE FROM MARTIN T 861 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,200 TORRIANI AND GRINSPOON, 862 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,440 COLLEAGUES AND COLLABORATORS, WE 863 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,240 IDENTIFIED THIS VEST SYSTEM AND 864 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,120 WE WERE ABLE TO INFUSE WATER 865 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:38,840 THROUGH THESE TUBES HERE. 866 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,560 YOU CAN SEE TUBES ON A VEST THAT 867 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,600 I'M WEARING AND WE'RE ABLE TO 868 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:43,800 INCREASE THE BROWN FAT 869 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,400 ACTIVATION. 870 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,280 WE MOVE TO A PHARMACOLOGICAL 871 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:49,400 APPROACH, SO WHY DO THAT? 872 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,240 FOR ONE THING, A PHARMACOLOGICAL 873 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,800 APPROACH ALLOWS FOR POTENTIAL 874 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,400 FOR MORE SPECIFIC TARGETING OF 875 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:56,280 HUMAN BROWN FAT. 876 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,800 AS I'LL GO INTO MORE DETAIL, THE 877 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:01,440 BETA THREE ADRENERGIC REACCEPT 878 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,680 PORE IS EX-TRESSED IN VERY FEW 879 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,640 ORGANS BUT BROWN FAT IS ONE OF 880 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:09,320 THEM. 881 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,000 ANIMAL MODELS SHOW THEY ARE VERY 882 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,720 EFFECTIVE IN METABOLIC HEALTH. 883 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:14,560 THERE'S LIKELY TO BE GREATER 884 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:15,680 ADHERENCE FROM A PATIENT 885 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:16,480 POPULATION IF THEY HAVE TO TAKE 886 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,680 A FEW PILLS RATHER THAN HAVING 887 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,200 TO SIT IN THE COLD FOR TWO OR 888 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,800 EVEN SIX HOURS A DAY. 889 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,200 AND IN THE END, ACCOMMODATIONS 890 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,120 OF APPROACHES MAY BE NECESSARY. 891 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,640 THE FACT IS THAT COLD MAY BE 892 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,480 HELPFUL WITH USING DRUGS OR 893 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,080 MULTIPLE MEDICATIONS TOGETHER. 894 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,680 SO I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE 895 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,440 BETA 3 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR 896 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:38,800 AGONISTS. 897 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,280 THEY CAN BE USED WIDELY IN 898 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,160 HUMANS AND THAT WASN'T TRUE 899 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:42,720 UNTIL 2012. 900 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,440 AND IT CAME FROM, AGAIN, A VERY 901 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,400 DIFFERENT AREA OF MEDICINE. 902 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,360 THIS TIME UROLOGY. 903 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,080 TURNS OUT OVER 45 MILLION PEOPLE 904 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:52,120 IN THE UNITED STATES ARE 905 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,800 AFFECTED BY OVERACTIVE BLADDER, 906 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,000 AND THAT'S COMPARED FOR EXAMPLE 907 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,800 TO 26 MILLION WITH TYPE 1 AND 908 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,040 TYPE 2 DIABETES COMBINED. 909 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,040 NOW THERE ARE BETA 3 ADRENERGIC 910 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,760 RECEPTORS IN THE URINARY 911 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:05,240 BLADDER. 912 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:06,880 ACTIVATION OF THESE RECEPTORS 913 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,680 RELAXES THE BLADDER AND THEN 914 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,200 ALLOWS TO HOLD MORE URINE AND SO 915 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,360 SOMEONE DOESN'T HAVE TO RUN TO 916 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,240 THE BATHROOM THAT FREQUENTLY. 917 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,320 NOW THIS IS MEDICATION 918 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,360 MIRABEGRON, A BETA THREE 919 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:21,480 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR AGONIST AND 920 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,840 WAS APPROVED IN 2012 BY THE FDA 921 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,600 FOR TREATMENT OF OVERACTIVE BLAH 922 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,200 TER AT MAXIMUM DOSAGE OF 923 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:27,720 50 MILLIGRAMS DAILY. 924 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,200 AS I MENTIONED THERE ARE ALSO 925 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,440 BETA THREE ADRENERGIC RECEPTORS 926 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,040 IN BOTH HUMAN WHITE AND BROWN 927 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:33,280 FAT. 928 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:34,920 SO WE WANTED TO DO A PROOF OF 929 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,240 CONCEPT STUDY DESIGN AND THIS 930 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,960 WAS LED BY LAUREN WEINER, 931 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,080 DR. WEINER NOW, AND IN THIS 932 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,080 STUDY, WE WANTED TO SEE THE 933 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:48,440 EFFECTS OF MIRABEGRON ON 12 934 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:49,080 YOUNG, LEAN, HEALTHY MEN. 935 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,920 WE WANTED TO SEE IF IT COULD 936 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,160 ACTIVATE THE BROWN FAT AND 937 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,080 INCREASE THERMOGENESIS. 938 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,680 SO WE CONDUCTED THE STUDY WITH 939 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,040 PLACEBO AS THE NEGATIVE CONTROL, 940 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,400 MILD COLD AS THE POSITIVE 941 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,000 CONTROL, AND BY TESTING OUT THIS 942 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,240 VEST SYSTEM THAT I SHOWED YOU 943 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:04,760 PREVIOUSLY. 944 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,360 AND THEN WE GAVE MIRABEGRON AT 945 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,480 200 MILLIGRAMS, A ONE-TIME DOES. 946 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,280 WE CHOSE THAT DOSE BECAUSE WE 947 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,280 DIDN'T WANT A FALSE NEGATIVE 948 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,240 SIGNAL SO WE CHOSE THE HIGHEST 949 00:34:18,240 --> 00:34:22,720 DOSE HIGHEST IN CLINICAL TRIALS, 950 00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:23,920 SAFE IN MEN BUT NOT IN WOMEN SO 951 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,520 WE HAD TO STUDY MEN FIRST. 952 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,000 WE EVENTUALLY STUDIED WOMEN AS 953 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,040 I'LL SHOW YOU LATER. 954 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,760 IN THIS STUDY WE MONITOR VITAL 955 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,360 SIGNS, ENERGY EXPENDITURE AND 956 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,800 MEASURED BROWN FAT METABOLIC 957 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:36,360 ACTIVITY. 958 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:37,640 THE FIRST THING WE IDENTIFIED 959 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,200 WAS THAT THERE WAS AN INCREASE 960 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,240 IN ENERGY EXPENDITURE, 200 KILL 961 00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:44,640 CALORIES PER DAY, THE HIGHEST 962 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:48,640 WITH THE MIRABEGRON IN BLACK, 963 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,600 BOTH VERY EFFECTIVE AS WE 964 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:51,360 EXPECTED. 965 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,800 ALSO AN INCREASE IN SYSTOLIC 966 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,960 BLOOD PRESSURE IN BOTH THE 967 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,120 MIRABEGRON IN BLACK AND COLD 968 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:58,960 EXPOSURE IN GREY THAT WE KNEW 969 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,680 WOULD HAPPEN AND THAT'S WHY WE 970 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,840 CANNOT USE 100 OR 200 FOR ANY 971 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:03,720 KIND OF CHRONIC TREATMENT BUT 972 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:05,800 FOR THIS KIND OF EXPERIMENT IT'S 973 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,080 USEFUL. 974 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,920 DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE DIDN'T 975 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,280 CHANGE MUCH BUT HEART RATE WENT 976 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:16,560 UP 13 BEATS PER MINUTE WITH MIR 977 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:17,040 ABEGRON. 978 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,920 WHEN COLD EXPOSURE IS USED IT 979 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:19,680 CAUSES INCREASE IN BLOOD 980 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,960 PRESSURE AND THE HEART RATE 981 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,560 RESPONDS BY GOING DOWN TO REDUCE 982 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:24,320 THE OVERALL BLOOD PRESSURE IN 983 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,920 THE BODY. 984 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,120 MIRABEGRON OVERRIDES THE SYSTEM 985 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,520 AND CAUSES INCREASE IN BLOOD 986 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:31,080 PRESSURE AND HEART RATE. 987 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:31,840 SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BROWN 988 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:32,240 FAT? 989 00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:34,240 WELL, THIS IS A PET IMAGE 990 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:35,360 SHOWING WHERE THE GLUCOSE IS 991 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,000 GOING INTO A 21-YEAR-OLD MAN, 992 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,560 IT'S GOING INTO THE HEART HERE. 993 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,840 IT'S GOING INTO HIS BRAIN HERE. 994 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,400 IT'S BEING FILTERED BY THE 995 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,680 KIDNEYS OVER HERE, BUT NOTHING 996 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:44,800 ELSE IN THE REGION WHERE WE 997 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,920 TYPICALLY SEE BROWN FAT. 998 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,800 WITH COLD EXPOSURE, THERE WAS A 999 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,080 MASSIVE INCREASE IN GLUCOSE 1000 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,160 UPTAKE IN THE BROWN FAT AS YOU 1001 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,400 CAN SEE IN THE SHOULDERS, DOWN 1002 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,400 THE SPINE, AND INTO THE KIDNEY 1003 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,120 REGION. 1004 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:05,160 IN ADDITION, MIR ABEG RON WAS 1005 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,800 VERY EFFECTIVE. 1006 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,320 ENERGY EXPENDITURE INCREASES IN 1007 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,840 THERMOGENESIS BY THE BROWN FAT 1008 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,800 IN THE SHOULDERS, SPINE, AND THE 1009 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,360 KIDNEYS. 1010 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,760 WE FOUND BROWN FAT NOT SEEN ON 1011 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,040 AUTOPSY OR OTHER KIND OF STUDY, 1012 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,360 SO DONE IN REALTIME IN HEALTHY 1013 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,960 PATIENTS IS VERY HELPFUL. 1014 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,640 SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER LONG 1015 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,120 TERM THERAPY WITH MIRABEGRON? 1016 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:33,120 WELL, I GOT AS FAR AS WE COULD 1017 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:34,560 IN THE STUDIES WE WERE ABLE TO 1018 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,360 CONDUCT IN BOSTON SO I MOVED TO 1019 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:37,640 THE NIH CLINICAL CENTER AND WAS 1020 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,480 ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE 1021 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:40,960 TEAM AND THE NIH METABOLIC 1022 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,080 CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT OF THE 1023 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,600 MCRU, AND IN PARTICULAR, 1024 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,360 COLLABORATIONS WITH CONGRESS KO, 1025 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,760 WHO RUNS THE HUMAN ENERGY AND 1026 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:52,720 BODY WEIGHT REGULATION CORE IN 1027 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:54,960 THE BUILDING 10 CLINICAL CENTER. 1028 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,160 THE METABOLIC RESEARCH UNIT ON Y 1029 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,040 SPECIAL PLACE, UNLIKE ALMOST ANY 1030 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:02,000 OTHER PLACE IN THE COUNTRY. 1031 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,120 THERE ARE EIGHT PRIVATE 1032 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,120 INPATIENT RESEARCH BEDS, AND 1033 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,640 THESE ROOMS ARE DESIGNED FOR 1034 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:07,160 METABOLIC STUDY. 1035 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,120 SO YOU CAN SEE HERE OUR TYPICAL 1036 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:09,800 ROOM. 1037 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,320 HERE'S A BED AND HERE ARE THE 1038 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:12,680 CHAIRS, AND YOU'LL NOTICE THAT 1039 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:13,760 THEY'RE LARGER THAN A TYPICAL 1040 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,880 BED OR CHAIR AND THAT WAY WE CAN 1041 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:17,400 ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE OF A VARIETY 1042 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,920 OF SIZES AND WEIGHTS. 1043 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,800 WE COULD ALSO MEASURE ENERGY 1044 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,680 EXPENDITURE USING A PROCESS 1045 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,880 CALLED INDIRECT CALORIMETRY, 1046 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,240 TESTING OUT A SYSTEM HERE, AND 1047 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:31,920 IT'S DONE SHORT TERM, YOU CAN DO 1048 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,480 BREATH TO BREATH OR MINUTE TO 1049 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,360 MINUTE IN THE METABOLIC UNIT. 1050 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:39,080 THERE'S ALSO A WHOLE ROOM 1051 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:39,920 CALORIMETER, I'LL SHOW YOU HOW 1052 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,120 THAT WORKS IN A MINUTE. 1053 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,360 THAT'S ALSO MEDIUM TERM MINUTES 1054 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:43,600 TO HOURS AND THEN THERE'S A 1055 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,680 PROCESS USING DOUBLY LABELED 1056 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,560 WATER THAT PEOPLE DRINK, AND 1057 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,000 THAT'S HOW ONE CAN MEASURE LONG 1058 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000 TERM ENERGY EXPENDITURE IN FREE 1059 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:52,400 LIVING PEOPLE. 1060 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,800 I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS 1061 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,000 TODAY. 1062 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,160 IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO 1063 00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,000 STUDY METABOLIC CHANGES, YOU 1064 00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,960 NEED TO HAVE A GREAT KITCHEN AND 1065 00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:00,440 NUTRITIONAL UNIT. 1066 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,680 SHOWN HERE IS ONE IMAGE OF THE 1067 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,040 NUTRITIONAL UNIT AT THE CLINICAL 1068 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:05,960 CENTER, AND DR. HALL WILL TALK 1069 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,240 MORE ABOUT THAT HOW THAT HAS 1070 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:09,080 SUPPORTED HIS STUDIES. 1071 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,160 AND SHOWN HERE, ONE CAN MEASURE 1072 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,640 ENERGY EXPENDITURE USING AN 1073 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,040 EXERCISE BIKE, OR RESTING ENERGY 1074 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,160 EXPENDITURE HERE. 1075 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,360 AND AGAIN AS I MENTIONED, THIS 1076 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,360 IS DONE FOR 30 MINUTES ROUGHLY, 1077 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,080 AND IT'S DONE IN AWAKE, FASTED 1078 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:24,960 VOLUNTEERS, EITHER LYING DOWN 1079 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,920 AND RESTING OR THEN EXERCISING, 1080 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,120 AND THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS 1081 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:31,360 SYSTEM IS THAT THEY'RE ACCURATE 1082 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:32,160 MEASUREMENTS WHEN BEST PRACTICES 1083 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,880 ARE FOLLOWED AND IT'S A 1084 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,000 RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE AND 1085 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,480 SOMEWHAT PORTABLE SYSTEM. 1086 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:39,920 HOWEVER, IF YOU WANT TO 1087 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,760 UNDERSTAND THE ROLES OF THE 1088 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,360 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BODY, YOU 1089 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,040 NEED TO MEASURE BODY 1090 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:45,320 COMPOSITION. 1091 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,080 AND THE BEST WAY WE FIND TO DO 1092 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,200 IT IS IN OUR BODY COMPOSITION 1093 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:50,920 LABORATORY ON 7 SOUTHWEST SOUTH, 1094 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:52,480 AND THAT'S USING SOMETHING 1095 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:59,280 CALLED DUAL ENERGY X-RAY 1096 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,920 ABSORPTIOMETRY OR DXA, IT TAITS 1097 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:02,600 ABOUT 10 TO 12 MINUTES AND 1098 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:03,480 MEASURED THREE DIFFERENT 1099 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:04,640 COMPARTMENTS OF THE BODY. 1100 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,440 FAT MASS, LEAN MASS, AND THE 1101 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,640 BONE MINERAL CONTENT. 1102 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,960 THIS IS HIGHLY REPRODUCIBLE, 1103 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,840 PLUS OR MINUS 1%. 1104 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:16,080 IT PROVIDES GOOD REGIONAL BODY 1105 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:17,760 COMPOSITION INFORMATION, AROUND 1106 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,160 AND FORTUNATELY IT HAS A VERY 1107 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,720 SMALL AMOUNT OF RADIATION 1108 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:24,480 EXPOSURE. 1109 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,960 ROUGHLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF ONE 1110 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,040 DAY'S SUNLIGHT EXPOSURE OR ABOUT 1111 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,360 1% OF WHAT YOU'D HAVE IN A CHESS 1112 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,280 EXRAI. 1113 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:34,600 CHEST 1114 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:34,800 X-RAY. 1115 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,040 THE ROOM CALORIMETER IS WHERE 1116 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,680 YOU CAN DO THE MOST STUDY, AND 1117 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,440 I'LL SHOW YOU THE DESIGN AND 1118 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:42,320 ADVANTAGES OF IT. 1119 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,120 A VOLUNTEER PATIENT CAN BE 1120 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:45,320 SITTING IN THIS ROOM, THEY'LL BE 1121 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,480 TAKING IN OXYGEN, GIVING OFF 1122 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,880 CARBON DIOXIDE, THE AIR MIXING 1123 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,240 FAN SENDS AIR TO THE TUBES AND 1124 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:53,120 EFFICIENTLY THE AIR IS THEN 1125 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,040 GOING THROUGH A PUMP AND THEN 1126 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,360 CARBON DIOXIDE AND OXYGEN 1127 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:00,440 ANALYZERS TELL YOU HOW MUCH OF 1128 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:01,920 EACH OF THESE GASES ARE BEING 1129 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:03,600 CONSUMED AND PRODUCED BY THE 1130 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:08,400 BODY. 1131 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,960 IN ADDITION TO THE CART, WHEN 1132 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,640 RUN WELL BY OUR TEAM HERE IS 1133 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,160 HIGHLY REPRODUCIBLE AND CAN GIVE 1134 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:15,880 AN ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF 1135 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,880 ENERGY EXPENDITURE SITTING, 1136 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,080 EXERCISING OR SLEEPING EVEN. 1137 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:20,480 IT ALLOWS MORE FLEXIBILITY IN 1138 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,560 TERMS OF WHAT PEOPLE DO THAN THE 1139 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:23,080 METABOLIC CARTS. 1140 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,920 AND IT'S APPROPRIATE TO MEASURE 1141 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,160 ADAPTIVE THERMOGENESIS, IN OTHER 1142 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,720 WORDS, HOW THE BODY RESPONDS IN 1143 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:30,320 TERMS OF HEAT GENERATION WHEN 1144 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,480 THERE ARE CHANGES IN DIET, 1145 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:32,960 AMBIENT TEMPERATURE. 1146 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,400 THESE ROOMS CAN BE TAKEN DOWN TO 1147 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,360 20 DEGREES CELSIUS OR 60 DEGREES 1148 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:38,200 FAHRENHEIT, AND HOW PEOPLE 1149 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,160 RESPOND TO MEDICINES AND OTHER 1150 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,000 STRUCTURED ACTIVITIES. 1151 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,440 WHAT DOES THIS ROOM LOOK LIKE? 1152 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,480 THIS IS HOW YOU WALK IN. 1153 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:44,720 THIS IS THE WELCOME VIEW. 1154 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:46,640 HERE'S A BED, HERE'S A WINDOW TO 1155 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,440 THE OUTSIDE, A TAPESTRY, AND 1156 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,080 THEN A WORK STATION ONE CAN WORK 1157 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:51,240 AT. 1158 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:52,800 HONESTLY THIS IS A LOT NICER 1159 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,080 THAN MY DORM ROOM WHEN I WAS IN 1160 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:56,280 COLLEGE. 1161 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:57,320 WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN TERMS OF 1162 00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:58,520 THE INTERFACE WITH THE CARE 1163 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,520 TEAM, CAN YOU CAN SEE COMPUTERM 1164 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:02,600 BEFORE, THIS IS WHERE ONE CAN 1165 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:03,920 GET FOOD BEING BROUGHT IN 1166 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,160 THROUGH THESE WINDOWS HERE, THIS 1167 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,480 IS THE DOOR TO THE OUTSIDE, AND 1168 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,160 THEN IF ONE WANTS TO HAVE 1169 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,280 SOMETHING INFUSED, FOR EXAMPLE 1170 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,040 THE TRACER FOR THE PET/CT 1171 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,200 STUDIES, ONE CAN STICK ONE'S ARM 1172 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:16,560 THROUGH HERE AND MAINTAIN THE 1173 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,600 ABILITY TO MEASURE THE OXYGEN 1174 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:19,200 CARBON DIOXIDE. 1175 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,480 ON THE OW SIDE OUTSIDE OF THESS 1176 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,200 IS WHERE THE PRECISION EQUIPMENT 1177 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,680 IS KEPT, JUST SHOWING WHAT IT 1178 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:26,880 LOOKS LIKE IN THE OVERALL SENSE, 1179 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,600 AND THEN WE HAVE HERE THE 1180 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,400 MEASUREMENT, THE TEMPERATURE, 1181 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,520 THE CONSUMPTION OF OXYGEN, 1182 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:33,360 RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND ALL THESE 1183 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,120 THINGS BEING TESTED AT THE SAME 1184 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,360 TIME. 1185 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,680 AND SO WE HAVE THE TOOLS, WE 1186 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,400 HAVE THE TALENT. 1187 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:42,640 LET'S CONDUCT SOME CLINICAL 1188 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,040 TRIALS. 1189 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,200 SO ONE OF THE KEY ONES IS 1190 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:47,920 CHRONIC MIRABEGRON TREATMENT. 1191 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,800 WE SHOWED YOU WHAT HAPPENS 1192 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:50,720 ACUTELY, A LOT OF EXCITING 1193 00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:50,960 THINGS. 1194 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:58,760 A STUDY LED BY EELY NA OMARA, 1195 00:41:58,760 --> 00:41:59,760 STARTING RESIDENCY IN TWO 1196 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:00,000 MONTHS. 1197 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,760 IN THIS COHORT OUR PRIMARY END 1198 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,320 POINT IS THE CHANGE IN 1199 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,320 DETECTABLE BROWN FAT METABOLIC 1200 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,240 ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE 1201 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:09,680 DAILY DOSE OF MIRABEGRON OVER A 1202 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:10,120 FOUR-WEEK PERIOD. 1203 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:11,960 WE STUDIED 14 WOMEN THIS TIME 1204 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,800 FOR FOUR WEEKS AS I MENTIONED, 1205 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:15,560 100 MILLIGRAMS OF MIRABEGRON, 1206 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,560 AND THEN WE USED THE 1207 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,440 SOPHISTICATED TESTING EQUIPMENT 1208 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,880 IN THE MCRU TO FIND OUT HOW THEY 1209 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,400 RESPONDED ON BOTH THE INITIATION 1210 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,840 AND AT COMPLETION. 1211 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,840 DAY ZERO-1 AND DAY 27-28. 1212 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,160 YOU CAN SEE HERE WE DID A 1213 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:35,760 FREQUENTLY SAMPLED INTRAVENOUS 1214 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,880 GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST, DID A 1215 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:43,320 LIVER SCAN, EXERCISE TOLERANCE 1216 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,000 TEST, BODY COMPOSITION WITH DXA, 1217 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,480 THEY SPENT THE NIGHT IN THE 1218 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:48,440 METABOLIC SUITE SO WE COULD 1219 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,440 STUDY SLEEPING ENERGY 1220 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,240 EXPENDITURE, WE DREW BLOOD, THEN 1221 00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:54,960 GAVE THE VOLUNTEERS MIRABEGRON, 1222 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,480 DREW BLOOD AGAIN FIVE HOURS 1223 00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,840 LATER, GAVE FDG FOR THE PET/CT 1224 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:01,440 STUDY WHICH WE DID AFTERWARD, 1225 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,160 AND THEN THE VOLUNTEERS GOT 1226 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:03,840 LUNCH. 1227 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:04,640 WHAT DID WE FIND? 1228 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,480 SO THIS IS DAY ONE, THIS IS DAY 1229 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,320 28, THESE ARE 14 WOMEN, AND YOU 1230 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:14,920 CAN SEE HERE BASED ON ALL THESE 1231 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,400 OTHER ANTHROMETRIC MEASURES OF 1232 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:18,960 THE BODY, THE ONLY THING THAT 1233 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,320 MATTERED, JUST THE RESTING HEART 1234 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:20,760 RATE. 1235 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:21,880 AND THAT'S EXPECTED. 1236 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,800 IT WENT UP BY 10 BEATS PER 1237 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:25,040 MINUTE. 1238 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:26,280 HOWEVER, AT MAXIMUM EXERCISE 1239 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:27,520 THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE IN PULSE, 1240 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:28,840 MEANING THAT MIRABEGRON LOWERED 1241 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,320 THE FLOOR BUT DIDN'T HAVE ANY 1242 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,600 OTHER EFFECTS. 1243 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,040 I'M SORRY, RAISE THE THE FLOOR. 1244 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:36,640 NOW, WHAT DID MIRABEGRON DO TO 1245 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,120 BROWN FAT METABOLIC ACTIVITY AND 1246 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:38,960 VOLUME? 1247 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,160 SHOWN HERE IS A PET IMAGE OF ONE 1248 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,200 OF THE VOLUNTEERS ON DAY ONE, 1249 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,800 THE BLACK HERE, THE SPECKLED 1250 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,200 AREA THAT'S PRETTY SPARSE IS HER 1251 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,720 BROWN FAT, AND THEN AFTER 28 1252 00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:53,760 DAYS OF TREATMENT, YOU CAN SEE 1253 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,960 ON THIS GREEN ARROW HERE, A 1254 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,160 PROFOUND INCREASE IN GLUCOSE 1255 00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,200 UPTAKE, A VERY LARGE INCREASE IN 1256 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:00,600 BROWN FAT MASS AND VOLUME. 1257 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,160 NOT JUST IN THIS VOLUNTEER BUT 1258 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,000 AMONG THE 14 PEOPLE STUDIED, 1259 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,760 THERE WAS A VERY LARGE INCREASE 1260 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,560 IN BROWN FAT METABOLIC ACTIVITY, 1261 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,320 AND THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN THE 1262 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,880 MAXIMUM BROWN FAT ACTIVITY TOO. 1263 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,240 OUR PRIMARY END POINT WAS 1264 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:21,160 REACHED, CHRONIC MIRABEGRON 1265 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:21,880 100 MILLIMETERS WAS VERY 1266 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:22,760 EFFECTIVE. 1267 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:23,400 THAT'S NOT ALL WHAT MIRABEGRON 1268 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:23,600 DID. 1269 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,160 THIS IS WHERE WE DEPART FROM 1270 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:26,280 BROWN FAT SPECIFICALLY TO OTHER 1271 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,360 ORGANS IN THE BODY. 1272 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:29,200 CHRONIC MIRABEGRON TREATMENT 1273 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:30,800 RAISED THE HDL CHOLESTEROL. 1274 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,600 THAT'S THE GOOD CHOLESTEROL, BY 1275 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:33,760 8%. 1276 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,960 IT ALSO INCREASED GIP. 1277 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:37,880 THIS IS A HORMONE THAT INCREASES 1278 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:38,640 INSULIN SENSITIVITY. 1279 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:46,480 THAT INCREASED BY 30%. 1280 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,280 ADIPONECTIN WENT UP BY 35%. 1281 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:49,760 AND THE CIRCULATING LEVEL OF 1282 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,000 BILE ACIDS IN THE BLOOD WENT UP 1283 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,760 BY NEARLY 50%. 1284 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:54,800 AND THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE 1285 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,760 BILE ACIDS, THEY'RE NOT JUST 1286 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,360 SURFACTANTS THAT HELP ABSORB 1287 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,480 DIETARY LIPIDS AND CHOLESTEROL, 1288 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,080 THEY BIND TO HORMONE RECEPTORS 1289 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,000 IN THE LIVER AND OTHER PLACES 1290 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:08,080 AND CAUSE CHANGES IN GLUCOSE 1291 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:09,200 HOMEOSTASIS, LIPOPROTEIN SUCH AS 1292 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,240 THE GOOD CHOLESTEROL, BILE ACID 1293 00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:15,560 METABOLISM ITSELF, BILE ACIDS 1294 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,840 MAY BE CARDIOPROTECTIVE, HAVE 1295 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:24,120 IMPACTS ON THE GI, THE BRAIN, 1296 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,080 SKM, BAT AND IMMUNE SYSTEM. 1297 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:27,600 THESE CHANGES ALONE ARE ENOUGH 1298 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,760 TO KEEP SOMEONE BUSY STUDYING 1299 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:31,360 THE EFFECTS OF MIRABEGRON ON 1300 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:32,280 HEALTH. 1301 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,760 WE FREQUENTLY SAMPLED GLUCOSE 1302 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,240 TOLERANCE TEST, THERE WE 1303 00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:38,200 MEASURED THE CAPACITY FOR 1304 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,680 GLUCOSE TO MEDIATE ITS OWN 1305 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:42,160 DISPOSAL, GLUCOSE INCREASED ITS 1306 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,880 OWN DISPOSAL AFTER THE END OF 28 1307 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:50,960 DAYS. 1308 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,920 IT ALSO INCREASED INSULIN 1309 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,280 SENSITIVITY IN THE VOLUNTEERS BY 1310 00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,800 37%, AND ON THE BETA CELL 1311 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,560 INCREASE, INSULIN PRODUCTION BY 1312 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,200 THE PANCREAS WENT UP BY 37% AND 1313 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,880 DISPOSITION INDEX, BETA CELERY 1314 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,120 SPON SIEVENESS, WENT UP BY 82%. 1315 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:09,960 SO FOUR WEEKS OF MIRABEGRON 1316 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:11,600 TREATMENT HAD A LOT OF IMPACT ON 1317 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:12,200 THE BODY. 1318 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,760 SOME FROM BROWN FAT, SOME FROM 1319 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:16,480 WHITE FAT, SOME TO BE 1320 00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:16,800 DETERMINED. 1321 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:20,880 JUST TO COMPARE ON MIRABEGRON 1322 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:21,840 FOUR WEEKS IS IN RELATION TO 1323 00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:25,280 OTHER TYPES OF HORMONES, THIS IS 1324 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,840 GLP-1 GIVEN INTRAVENOUSLY, 1325 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,240 METFORMIN, BARIATRIC SURGERY, 1326 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:31,160 AND MILD EXERCISE. 1327 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,880 THESE ARE THE PARAMETERS I 1328 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,120 SHOWED YOU, SG AND SI RELATE TO 1329 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:37,840 INSULIN SENSITIVITY AND 1330 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:38,560 MIRABEGRON IS COMPARABLE. 1331 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:40,960 ON THE BETA CELL SIDE IN TERMS 1332 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,280 OF INSULIN SECRETION, MIRABEGRON 1333 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:44,760 IS ONCE AGAIN COMPARABLE TO MANY 1334 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,440 OF THESE INTERVENTIONS. 1335 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:48,560 THIS MAKES MIRABEGRON A 1336 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,080 PROMISING PATHWAY TOWARDS 1337 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,680 TREATING METABOLIC HEALTH AS 1338 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,080 SOON AS WE CAN GET TO A SAFE 1339 00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:54,920 LEVEL. 1340 00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,600 SO IN SUMMARY, THE CHRONIC 1341 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,080 MIRABEGRON TREATMENT STUDIES, 1342 00:46:59,080 --> 00:46:59,880 TREATMENTS FOR FOUR WEEKS LED TO 1343 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:01,880 THE FOLLOWING, AN INCREASE IN 1344 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,080 BROWN FAT METABOLIC ACTIVITY, 1345 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:05,120 INCREASE IN RESTING ENERGY 1346 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:06,880 EXPENDITURE I DIDN'T SHOW YOU 6% 1347 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:08,720 ABOVE BASELINE, INCREASES IN THE 1348 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:14,040 HDL, THE GOOD CHOLESTEROL, APOE 1349 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,120 AND REDUCTION OF A RATIO THAT IS 1350 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:18,400 ASSOCIATED WITH CARDIOMETABOLIC 1351 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,080 RISK SO IT'S A GOOD THING THE 1352 00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:22,800 RATIO WENT DOWN. 1353 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,480 THERE WERE IMPROVEMENTS IN 1354 00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,200 GLUCOSE UP TAKE AND BETA CELL 1355 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:27,560 FUNCTION. 1356 00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,280 IT WAS NOT YET KNOWN ALL THE 1357 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,040 UNDERLYING MECHANISMS BUT AS WE 1358 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,560 MENTIONED, WE THINK BROWN FAT 1359 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:33,720 AND WHITE FAT LIKELY HAVE 1360 00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:35,720 IMPORTANT ROLES AND THEREFORE WE 1361 00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:38,600 BELIEVE BETA THREE ADRENERGIC 1362 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:39,320 REACCEPT INVENTORIES MAY BE A 1363 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,120 NEW APPROACH TO TREATING OBESITY 1364 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,080 RELATED COMPLICATIONS SUCH AS 1365 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,000 TYPE TWO DIABETES AS WELL AS 1366 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,960 COMPONENTS OF THE METABOLIC 1367 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,760 SYNDROME INCLUDING POSSIBLE 1368 00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,520 INFERTILITY AS I'LL DESCRIBE AT 1369 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:51,120 SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE. 1370 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:52,520 SO NEXT STEPS AND FUTURE 1371 00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:53,360 STUDIES, WHERE DO YOU GO FROM 1372 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:53,720 HERE? 1373 00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:54,760 ONE OF THE THINGS WE NEED TO DO 1374 00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:55,800 IS TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE 1375 00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,000 MECHANISM OF THE DISCOVERIES I 1376 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:57,880 JUST DESCRIBED. 1377 00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:03,240 SO WORK DONE BY CHERYL CERO, A 1378 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:03,760 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW WHO 1379 00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:04,800 COMPLETED HER TIME AND MOVED ON 1380 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,840 TO THE NCI, IN COLLABORATION 1381 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,120 WITH ATCC, A BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE 1382 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,080 CENTER, WE HAVE GENERATED TWO 1383 00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:12,720 DIFFERENT CELL TYPES THAT WILL 1384 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:15,200 BE AVAILABLE IN THE FUTURE, NEAR 1385 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:16,600 FUTURE, OF WHITE CELLS AND BROWN 1386 00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,280 CELLS THAT CAN BE THEN GROWN IN 1387 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,120 CULTURE TO STUDY HUMAN WHITE AND 1388 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:23,240 BROWN ADIPOCYTE FUNCTION. 1389 00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:24,360 ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE BEEN 1390 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,080 ABLE TO DO SO FOR IS THROUGH THE 1391 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:32,680 BIOINER JE TICS I DESCRIBED. 1392 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,920 HUMAN BROWN ADIPOCYTES HAVE A 1393 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,120 MUCH HIGHER BASAL RESPIRATION 1394 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:37,840 COMPARED TO WHITE, THERE'S 1395 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:38,560 HIGHER MAXIMAL RESPIRATION IN 1396 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:40,280 BROWN COMPARED TO WHITE CELLS, 1397 00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,120 THERE'S A HIGHER FLEXIBILITY IN 1398 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,040 FUEL UTILIZATION IN THE BROWN 1399 00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,760 COMPARED TO THE WHITE, AND THE 1400 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:46,920 THERMOGENESIS THAT I MENTIONED 1401 00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:51,680 FROM UCP1 IN BROWN ADIPOCYTES IS 1402 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,880 HAPPENING FROM UCP16789 AND ALSO 1403 00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:57,120 NON-UCP1 SOURCES AND WE'RE GOING 1404 00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:58,640 TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY ARE IN THE 1405 00:48:58,640 --> 00:48:59,480 NEXT MONTHS AND YEARS. 1406 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,200 IN ADDITION, CAN YOU DO 1407 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:02,960 TRANSCRIPTOMICS, WORKING WITH 1408 00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,120 THE ATCC GROUP, WE HAVE GENETIC 1409 00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,960 SIGNATURES OF WHITE AND BROWN 1410 00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:09,720 ADIPOCYTES BEFORE 1411 00:49:09,720 --> 00:49:10,840 DIFFERENTIATION AND AFTERWARD. 1412 00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:12,960 AND WE'RE GOING TO STUDY THE 1413 00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,120 IMPACT OF ALL THESE GENES IN 1414 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:15,400 ADDITION TO THE GENETIC 1415 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:15,680 SIGNATURES. 1416 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,280 SO OUR FUTURE RESEARCH LOOKING 1417 00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,200 AT OUR PLATFORM OF INTERRELATED 1418 00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:21,480 PILLARS, WE'RE GOING TO DEVELOP 1419 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,240 MRI IMAGING, WE'RE GOING TO 1420 00:49:23,240 --> 00:49:25,000 LEVERAGE THE CELL LINES TO STUDY 1421 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,200 HUMAN WHITE AND BROWN ADIPOCYTES 1422 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:28,960 SIGNALING AND SYNTHESIS AND 1423 00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,440 WE'RE GOING TO ASSESS 1424 00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:31,720 MIRABEGRON'S ABILITY TO AK VAIT 1425 00:49:31,720 --> 00:49:33,120 WHITE FAT AND BROWN FAT IN 1426 00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:34,760 PATIENTS AND POPULATIONS AT RISK 1427 00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,520 FOR METABOLIC DISEASE. 1428 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:38,800 SO THE FINAL SUMMARY IS THAT 1429 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,680 ADIPOSE TISSUE IS POLYCHROMATIC. 1430 00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:43,880 IT CAN BE WHITE, BEIGE, BROWN 1431 00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,880 AND EVEN MORE. 1432 00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,680 EACH TISSUE CONTAINS MULTIPLE 1433 00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:49,280 CELL TYPES. 1434 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,600 WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE STORES FAT 1435 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,040 AS A RESERVOIR FOR BOT DE'S 1436 00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:53,960 TISSUE NEEDS. 1437 00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:55,920 BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE STORES FAT 1438 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:57,560 TEMPORARILY AS A FUEL TO SUPPORT 1439 00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:58,760 THE GENERATION OF HEAT. 1440 00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:00,480 THE ENDOCRINE ROLES, MANY STILL 1441 00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:02,800 TO BE DETERMINED, RELATE TO 1442 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,160 THEIR OVERALL GOALS, AND 1443 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,360 SOMETHING I LIKE TO CALL A 1444 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:08,000 TELEOLOGICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY. 1445 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,280 WHAT IS THE IMOAL O GOAL OF THE 1446 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:11,600 TISSUE AND WHAT KIND OF MESSAGES 1447 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,040 IS IT SENDING? 1448 00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:14,400 BASED ON THE MESSAGES, WE CAN 1449 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:15,240 LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT IT'S 1450 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:16,960 SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. 1451 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,320 OBESITY IS A DISEASE DRIVEN BY 1452 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:19,800 THE BRAIN THAT IS MANIFESTED AS 1453 00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,080 AN EXCESS OF WHITE ADIPOSE 1454 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:23,480 TISSUE AND A DYSFUNCTION OF THE 1455 00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,040 BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE. 1456 00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:26,600 AND FINALLY, CHRONIC TREATMENT 1457 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:30,280 WITH BETA THREE ADRENERGIC 1458 00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,240 RECEPTOR AGONISTS, AK VAIT BAT 1459 00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:36,720 AND WAA LEADS TO CHANGES IN 1460 00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:38,200 GLUCOMETABOLISM IN THE BODY, 1461 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:39,320 CHOLESTEROL PROFILE AND OTHER 1462 00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:40,320 RESPONSES WAITING TO BE 1463 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:41,000 DISCOVERED. 1464 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:41,840 STAY TUNED FOR MORE! 1465 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,600 SO WITH NA, I WAN THAT, I WANT Y 1466 00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,640 GROUP WHO WORKS WITH ME ON A 1467 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:49,920 REGULAR BASIS, FORMER MEMBERS OF 1468 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:54,640 THE GROUP HERE, COLLABORATIVE 1469 00:50:54,640 --> 00:51:01,120 WITH THE NIH, HARVARD, 1470 00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:02,320 CEDARS-SINAI AND MCGILL. 1471 00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,120 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR AN 1472 00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,480 EXTRAORDINARILY EXCITING 1473 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,320 BRILLIANT PRESENTATION. 1474 00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,760 YOU'VE GIVEN EVERYBODY A LOT TO 1475 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,200 THINK ABOUT, AND WE WILL HAVE 1476 00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:18,200 PLENTY OF QUESTIONS, I'M SURE. 1477 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:19,920 SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO PROCEED TO 1478 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:21,080 KEVIN HALL, WHO'S GOING TO 1479 00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:24,640 EXPLAIN TO US HOW DO YOU GET 1480 00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,400 THIN AND STAY THAT WAY? 1481 00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,800 OR CAN YOU? 1482 00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,680 A PHYSICIST'S VIEW. 1483 00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:31,880 KEVIN? 1484 00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,760 >>THANKS VERY MUCH, WIN, AND 1485 00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,280 THANKS, AARON, FOR AN EXCELLENT 1486 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:37,120 INTRODUCTORY TALK HERE. 1487 00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,280 IT'S GREAT TO SEE SUCH EXCITING 1488 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:40,960 RESEARCH FROM MY FRIENDS AND 1489 00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,120 COLLABORATORS HERE AT THE NIH. 1490 00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:44,200 SO I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO 1491 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,120 DISCLOSE IN TERMS OF FINANCIAL 1492 00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:47,800 DISCLOSURES. 1493 00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,480 I WAS PROVIDED THREE LEARNING 1494 00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,040 OBJECTIVES WHICH YOU CAN READ IN 1495 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:53,240 YOUR OWN TIME. 1496 00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:56,240 I WANT TO START OFF BY KIND OF 1497 00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:59,000 FLASHING BACK TO HOW MANY 1498 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,000 PHYSICIANS HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT 1499 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:01,960 WEIGHT CONTROL AND TREATING 1500 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,600 PEOPLE WITH OBESITY OVER THE 1501 00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:05,920 YEARS. 1502 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:07,320 THIS HAS REALLY SORT OF 1503 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,000 CULMINATED IN A PIECE PUBLISHED 1504 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,520 IN THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN 1505 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:11,960 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION BACK IN 1506 00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:13,840 2018, ENTITLED COUNTING CALORIES 1507 00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,720 AS AN APPROACH TO ACHIEVE WEIGHT 1508 00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:16,200 CONTROL. 1509 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:17,880 AND THE IDEA WAS THAT IF A 1510 00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:19,600 PATIENT REDUCES THEIR CALORIC 1511 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:21,160 INGESTION BY 500-CALORIES PER 1512 00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,320 DAY FOR SEVEN DAYS, SHE OR HE 1513 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,760 WOULD LOSE ABOUT 1-POUND OF BODY 1514 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:26,960 WEIGHT PER WEEK. 1515 00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,640 THIS IS AN OLD RULE OF THUMB 1516 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:32,280 THAT GOES BACK MANY, MANY 1517 00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:33,040 DECADES. 1518 00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:34,160 DIETITIANS ARE TESTED ON THIS 1519 00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:35,080 RULE, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN USING 1520 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,320 THIS RULE OF THUMB TO PREDICT 1521 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:38,720 HOW PEOPLE MIGHT CHANGE THEIR 1522 00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:40,080 WEIGHT OVER TIME BY MAKING 1523 00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:44,920 CHANGES IN THEIR DIET, POLG SEE 1524 00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:45,880 MAKERS HAVE USED THIS RULE OF 1525 00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:47,440 THUMB TO PREDICT WHAT WOULD 1526 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:54,280 HAPPEN WITH A SODA TAX IN THE 1527 00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:55,440 OBESITY COMMUNITY. 1528 00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:56,400 THE PROBLEM WITH THIS RULE OF 1529 00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:57,960 THUMB IS IT'S JUST PLAIN WRONG. 1530 00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,120 AND IT DOESN'T TAKE A LOT OF 1531 00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,200 THINKING TO REALIZE THAT 1532 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:01,800 SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG WITH 1533 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:03,120 THIS RULE OF THUMB. 1534 00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,040 BECAUSE IF YOU IMAGINE THAT YOU 1535 00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,160 ARE A MAN, SAY, THAT WEIGHS 1536 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,320 100-KILOGRAMS AND IS EATING 1537 00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,120 ABOUT 3,000KILLICALORIES PER DAY 1538 00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:14,480 AND YOU PUT THAT MAN ON A DIET 1539 00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:19,840 BY CUTTING THEIR CALORIES BY 500 1540 00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,240 KILLICALORIES PER DAY SUCH THAT 1541 00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:26,000 NOW THEY'RE EATING 25, THIS 1542 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:29,800 PREDICTS THAT PERSON WOULD 1543 00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:30,480 DISAPPEAR AFTER FOUR YEARS SO 1544 00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:31,880 SOMETHING IS CLEARLY WRONG WITH 1545 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,000 THIS MODEL OF HOW THE 1546 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,880 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CALORIE 1547 00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,560 INTAKE AND BODY WEIGHT IS 1548 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:39,280 RELATED. 1549 00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:41,080 AND ONE OF THE REASONS IT'S 1550 00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:41,880 WRONG, THE MAIN REASON IT'S 1551 00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,640 WRONG IS IT TREATS CALORIE 1552 00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,280 INTAKE AND CALORIE EXPENDITURE 1553 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:47,800 AS INDEPENDENT QUANTITIES. 1554 00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:49,000 WHEREAS IF YOU CHANGE ONE, 1555 00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:50,600 NOTHING HAPPENS TO THE OTHER, 1556 00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,760 AND BECAUSE WE HAVE A LAW OF 1557 00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,880 CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, I'M A 1558 00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,240 PHYSICIST BY TRAINING SO THAT'S 1559 00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:59,000 ALSO CALLED THE FIRST LAW OF 1560 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,240 THERMODYNAMICS, THE IDEA IS IF 1561 00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:02,360 YOU OFFSET THE CALORIE INTAKE 1562 00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:03,240 FROM CALORIE EXPENDITURE BY 1563 00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:05,120 CUTTING THE CALORIES IN THE 1564 00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:06,880 DIET, THEN THIS RULE OF THUMB 1565 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,840 PREDIBTS THAT NPRETICKETS THAT S 1566 00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:11,080 TO THE CALORIE EXPENDITURE OF 1567 00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:12,080 THE BODY SO THEREFORE THE BODY 1568 00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:13,600 HAS TO MAKE UP THE DEFICIT OF 1569 00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:16,600 CALORIES COMING IN THE DIET BY 1570 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,000 MOBILIZING PRIMARILY BODY FAT TO 1571 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,240 MAKE UP THAT DIFFERENCE AND THAT 1572 00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:20,720 GIVES RISE TO THIS LINEAR RATE 1573 00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:22,000 OF WEIGHT LOSS. 1574 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,720 THE PROBLEM, OF COURSE, IS THAT 1575 00:54:23,720 --> 00:54:25,120 CALORIE INTAKE AND CALORIE 1576 00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,200 EXPENDITURE ARE NOT INDEPENDENT, 1577 00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:29,440 THAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY 1578 00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:30,520 INTERRELATED IN A VERY 1579 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,800 INTERESTING WAY. 1580 00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:33,920 AND A VERY COMPLEX WAY THAT WE 1581 00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:35,320 DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND, TO BE 1582 00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:35,640 HONEST. 1583 00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:36,760 ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO 1584 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:38,400 UNDERSTAND IS THAT TISSUES LIKE 1585 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:39,600 ADIPOSE TISSUE THAT WE JUST 1586 00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,240 HEARD A WONDERFUL LECTURE ABOUT, 1587 00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:44,840 SECRETE ADIP KINES, ONE OF WHICH 1588 00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,040 IS LEPTINS DISCOVERED A COUPLE 1589 00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:51,320 DECADES AGO OR SO, AND THOSE 1590 00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:52,680 HORMONES FROM ADIPOCYTES AS WELL 1591 00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,920 AS OTHER AREAS OF THE BODY LIKE 1592 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,960 THE GUT, IMPINGE ON REGIONS OF 1593 00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,320 THE BRAIN TO MODULATE CALORIE 1594 00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:01,560 EXPENDITURE AND ALSO APPETITE 1595 00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,160 CALORIE INTAKE IN SUCH A WAY 1596 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,040 THAT YOU HAVE ESSENTIALLY A PAIR 1597 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,600 OF NEGATIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL 1598 00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:08,840 LOOPS THAT ARE GOVERNING BOTH 1599 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,000 THE CALORIE INTAKE SIDE OF THE 1600 00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:12,240 EQUATION AND THE CALORIE 1601 00:55:12,240 --> 00:55:15,640 EXPENDITURE SIDE OF THE EQUATION 1602 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,080 TO OFFSET ANY CHANGES THAT ONE 1603 00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,160 MIGHT TRY TO MAKE IN EITHER THE 1604 00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:20,920 EXPENDITURE SIDE OR THE INTAKE 1605 00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,080 SIDE, THE BODY FIGHTS BACK IN 1606 00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:24,400 SOME WAY AGAINST THOSE 1607 00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:25,280 PERTURBATIONS. 1608 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:29,000 SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE 1609 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:30,520 BEEN DOING IN MY LAB AT THE NIH 1610 00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:32,120 FOR MANY, MANY YEARS HAS BEEN 1611 00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:33,520 TRYING TO BUILD MATHEMATICAL 1612 00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:34,960 MODELS OF THE PHYSIOLOGY OF 1613 00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,040 THESE FEEDBACK LOOPS AND TO TRY 1614 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,200 TO QUANTIFY THEIR STRENGTH. 1615 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,200 AS WELL AS ANALYZE DATA 1616 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:42,480 COLLECTED IN PEOPLE WHO ARE 1617 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,400 TRYING TO CHANGE THEIR WEIGHT 1618 00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,200 AND QUANTIFY HOW THESE DIFFERENT 1619 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:47,920 FEEDBACK LOOPS RESPOND TO THEIR 1620 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,240 EFFORTS TO CHANGE WEIGHT. 1621 00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:52,960 SO ONE OF THE MORE POPULAR 1622 00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,520 EXAMPLES OF THAT, THAT WE'VE 1623 00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:57,200 STUDIED, WAS CONTESTANTS ON A 1624 00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:58,040 TELEVISION PROGRAM CALLED THE 1625 00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:01,520 BIGGEST LOSER, WHICH WAS A 1626 00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,560 NATIONAL TELEVISED WEIGHT LOSS 1627 00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:04,520 COMPETITION FOR MANY, MANY 1628 00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:07,600 YEARS, AND WE STUDIED SEASON 1629 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:08,960 8 CONTESTANTS OF THE BIGGEST 1630 00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:09,200 LOSER. 1631 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,840 AND HERE'S THE WINNER OF THAT 1632 00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:12,840 SEASON OF THE BIGGEST LOSER. 1633 00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:16,320 THIS IS DANNY CAHILL. 1634 00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,400 HE LOST 239 POUNDS OVER THE 1635 00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:22,040 COURSE OF SEVEN SMON MONTHS ON S 1636 00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:23,320 CRAZY FAT SHAMING TELEVISION 1637 00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:24,760 PROGRAM, WHICH I DON'T ENDORSE 1638 00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:26,400 THE METHODS THAT WERE USED BUT I 1639 00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,680 THOUGHT IT WAS A REALLY 1640 00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,800 WONDERFUL WAY TO KIND OF STUDY 1641 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,320 THESE FEEDBACK CIRCUITS THAT I 1642 00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,960 WAS TALKING ABOUT A MOMENT AGO. 1643 00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:38,880 AND TRY TO QUANTIFY THEM IN AN 1644 00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,400 ACTUAL STUDY WHERE WE SENT 1645 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,040 POSTDOCS OUT TO THIS RANCH IN 1646 00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:44,400 MALIBU, WHERE THIS PROGRAM WAS 1647 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,600 BEING FILMED, WE MEASURED USING 1648 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,600 A VARIETY OF THE METHODS THAT 1649 00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:50,760 AARON NICE LEGAL SUMMARIZED, 1650 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:52,200 ENERGY EXPENDITURE, BODY 1651 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,320 COMPOSITION CHANGES, BOTH IN 1652 00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:55,840 THESE FOLKS AS THEY UNDERWENT 1653 00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:57,920 THIS CRAZY WEIGHT LOSS 1654 00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:58,920 COMPETITION, AND THEN MANY YEARS 1655 00:56:58,920 --> 00:56:59,440 LATER. 1656 00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:00,560 AND I'LL SHARE WITH YOU SOME OF 1657 00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,760 THE DATA THAT WE MEASURED AND 1658 00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,040 SOME OF OUR MATH MACKALL MODEL 1659 00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:07,400 SIMULATIONS OF WHAT WE THINK 1660 00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:08,840 HAPPENED IN TERMS OF THEIR 1661 00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:09,440 PHYSIOLOGY. 1662 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,000 BUT THESE ARE THE MEAN DATA IN 1663 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,560 THE BOXES FOR BODY WEIGHT AND 1664 00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,840 FAT MASS ALONG WITH OUR 1665 00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:16,840 COMPUTATIONAL MODEL SIMULATIONS 1666 00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,080 OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THESE FOLKS. 1667 00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:21,160 SO FOR THE FIRST 13 WEEKS, 1668 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:22,160 THEY'RE ISOLATED ON THIS RANCH 1669 00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,000 IN MALIBU, AND THEY'RE 1670 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,200 UNDERGOING BASICALLY A WEIGHT 1671 00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:27,040 LOSS COMPETITION AND THEY'RE 1672 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,320 LOSING WEIGHT AT AN ASTONISHING 1673 00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:30,680 RATE OF ABOUT A POUND A DAY OVER 1674 00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:32,560 THE COURSE OF THIS 13-WEEK 1675 00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:32,800 PERIOD. 1676 00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:34,120 AND YOU CAN SEE IT'S A PRETTY 1677 00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:35,800 LINEAR RATE OF WEIGHT LOSS OVER 1678 00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:37,600 13 WEEKS AND THAT THE VAST 1679 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:38,840 MAJORITY OF THE WEIGHT LOSS IS 1680 00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,400 COMING FROM LOSS OF BODY FAT. 1681 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,760 WHICH IS THE GREEN CURVE IN OPEN 1682 00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:45,680 BOXES HERE. 1683 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,520 THESE FOLKS ARE BASICALLY THEN 1684 00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,600 SENT HOME FOR ANOTHER PERIOD OF 1685 00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:52,520 TIME BEFORE THEY'RE CALLED BACK 1686 00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:54,200 TO THE FINALE THE PROGRAM AND 1687 00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:54,880 THEY'RE STILL IN THIS 1688 00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:55,840 COMPETITION AND THEY'RE TOLD 1689 00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:58,360 JUST KEEP IT UP AT HOME, KEEP 1690 00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,200 DOING YOUR EXERCISE, KEEP DOING 1691 00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:01,400 YOUR DIET, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT 1692 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,240 THE RATE OF WEIGHT LOSS AND FAT 1693 00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:05,680 MASS LOSS SLOWS DOWN SLIGHTLY SO 1694 00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,600 IT'S ONLY ABOUT HALF A POUND A 1695 00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,080 DAY EVERY DAY, WHICH IS PRETTY 1696 00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:11,440 CRAZY, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE 1697 00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:13,920 SHEER MAGNITUDE OF THAT. 1698 00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:15,680 AND THEN THEY CAME BACK AT THE 1699 00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:21,360 FINALE AFTER 30 WEEKS OR ABOUT . 1700 00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,120 NOW, UNDERLYING THESE WEIGHT AND 1701 00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:26,640 FAT MASS TRAJECTORIES, WHAT WE 1702 00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:27,600 MEASURED WAS HOW MANY TOTAL 1703 00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:28,880 CALORIES PER DAY THAT THEY WERE 1704 00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:29,360 EXPENDING. 1705 00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,400 AND WE USE THE DOUBLY LABELED 1706 00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:32,320 WATER METHOD THAT AARON 1707 00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:33,160 MENTIONED VERY BRIEFLY AND I'M 1708 00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:34,440 NOT GOING TO GO INTO DETAILS 1709 00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:35,680 ABOUT HOW IT WORKS, BUT BEFORE 1710 00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:37,120 THE COMPETITION, BEFORE THEY 1711 00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,280 WERE ENGAGING IN THIS PROGRAM, 1712 00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:44,080 THESE FOLKS HAD A BODY MASS OF 1713 00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,120 ABOUT 140 KILOS. 1714 00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:47,880 THEY WERE BURNING ABOUT 1715 00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:49,160 3700-CALORIES PER DAY AT THE 1716 00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:49,840 START. 1717 00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:51,000 SIX WEEKS IN TO THIS 1718 00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:51,880 COMPETITION, WHILE THEY'RE STILL 1719 00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,960 AT THIS RANCH IN MALIBU, ENERGY 1720 00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:55,960 EXPENDITURE, TOTAL NUMBER OF 1721 00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:58,200 CALORIES THAT THEY WERE BURNING 1722 00:58:58,200 --> 00:58:59,840 GOES UP BY ALMOST A THOUSAND 1723 00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:01,160 CALORIES PER DAY, AND THEN BY 1724 00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,160 THE END OF THIS 30-WEEK 1725 00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:04,400 COMPETITION, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF 1726 00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,520 CALORIES PER DAY HAS DROPPED TO 1727 00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,240 ABOUT 3,000-CALORIES PER DAY. 1728 00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:10,080 AND UNDERLYING THAT, WE CAN USE 1729 00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:11,440 OUR MATHEMATICAL MODEL 1730 00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,040 SIMULATIONS TO ESTIMATE WHAT 1731 00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:15,200 CONTRIBUTION WAS DUE TO 1732 00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:15,720 EXERCISE. 1733 00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:16,840 SO THESE FOLKS WEREN'T 1734 00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,680 EXERCISING AT ALL BEFORE THE 1735 00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:21,560 COMPETITION, AND THEY QUICKLY 1736 00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,160 RAMPED UP THEIR EXERCISE SO THAT 1737 00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:27,000 BY 6 TO 8 WEEKS, THEY'RE JUST IN 1738 00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,560 THE EXERCISE BURNING ABOUT 2,000 1739 00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:30,880 KILL CALORIES PER DAY. 1740 00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:33,480 NOW, ANY OF YOU EXERCISERS OUT 1741 00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:35,680 THERE WHO MIGHT HOP ON A 1742 00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:36,880 TREADMILL KNOW THAT THAT'S AN 1743 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,720 ASTONISHING AMOUNT OF EXERCISE. 1744 00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:40,960 IT WORKS OUT TO ABOUT THREE 1745 00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:42,440 HOURS PER DAY EVERY DAY SEVEN 1746 00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,800 DAYS A WEEK. 1747 00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:45,360 OF EXERCISE. 1748 00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,080 THAT'S NOT ACCOUNTING FOR JUST 1749 00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:51,640 WALKING AROUND FROM PLACE TO 1750 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:51,880 PLACE. 1751 00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:52,880 THAT'S JUST THE EXERCISE 1752 00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:53,160 COMPONENT. 1753 00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:54,440 YOU CAN SEE AFTER THEY GO HOME, 1754 00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:59,000 THE AMOUNT OF EXERCISE QOAS DOWN 1755 00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:00,080 SLIGHTLY BUT STILL ACCOUNTS FOR 1756 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,360 ABOUT AN HOUR OF VIGOROUS 1757 01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,640 EXERCISE EVERY DAY SEVEN DAYS A 1758 01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:05,760 WEEK. 1759 01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,240 THE REASON WHY IT GOES DOWN MUCH 1760 01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:09,600 MORCH YOU MIGHT EXPECT BASED ON 1761 01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,680 THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT AT 6 TO 1762 01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:16,320 8 WEEKS IS BECAUSE THE ENERGY 1763 01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:18,600 COST OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND 1764 01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:20,040 EXERCISE IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE 1765 01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:20,920 AMOUNT OF BODY WEIGHT THAT 1766 01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:21,320 PEOPLE HAVE. 1767 01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:23,200 SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT UNFAIR, BUT 1768 01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:24,640 FOR THE SAME INTENSITY AND 1769 01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:28,520 DURATION OF EXERCISE, A PESH 1770 01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:29,600 LOSING WEIGHT WILL BURN FEWER 1771 01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:34,160 AND FEWER CALORIES IN EXERCISE. 1772 01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:36,440 I SHOWED YOU IN THE PREVIOUS 1773 01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:37,920 GRAPH THESE FOLKS NE END ON 1774 01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:39,680 AVERAGE HAD LOST 60-KILOS OF 1775 01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,240 BODY WEIGHT, SO 122 POUNDS ON 1776 01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:43,600 AVERAGE, AND THAT GIVES RISE TO 1777 01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,000 A DECREASE IN THE ENERGY 1778 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:47,760 EXPENDITURE OF PHYSICAL 1779 01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:48,200 ACTIVITY. 1780 01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:50,360 WE ALSO MEASURED THEIR RESTING 1781 01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:54,440 METABOLIC RATE THROUGH INDIRECT 1782 01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:54,800 CALORIMETRY. 1783 01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:56,160 WHAT WE FOUND IS THEY HAD A 1784 01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:57,840 SUPPRESSION OF RESTING METABOLIC 1785 01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:59,040 RATE THAT I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT 1786 01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,960 MORE ABOUT IN THE NEXT SLIDE. 1787 01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:03,600 BUT THEN WE COULD ALSO CALCULATE 1788 01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:04,720 HOW MANY TOTAL CALORIES THAT 1789 01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:06,000 THEY WERE EATING. 1790 01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,120 AGAIN, APPLYING THAT LAW OF 1791 01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:10,520 ENERGY CONSERVATION, AND DURING 1792 01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:11,680 THE PERIOD OF TIME THAT THEY'RE 1793 01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:13,520 ON THE RANCH, WHEN THEY'RE DOING 1794 01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:15,080 THIS INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF 1795 01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:16,600 EXERCISE, THEY'RE ONLY EATING 1796 01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:19,880 ABOUT 1100-CALORIES PER DAY. 1797 01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:21,120 SO A VERY, VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF 1798 01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:21,480 FOOD. 1799 01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:23,440 AND THEN WHEN THEY GO HOME, THAT 1800 01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,000 INCREASES SLIGHTLY, BUT IT'S 1801 01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:27,640 STILL WELL BELOW 2,000-CALORIES 1802 01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:28,040 PER DAY. 1803 01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:29,520 IT'S ABOUT 1900-CALORIES PER 1804 01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:29,720 DAY. 1805 01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:32,480 SO THIS IS A CLEARLY 1806 01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:35,440 UNSUSTAINABLE DIET AND EXERCISE 1807 01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:36,040 INTERVENTION. 1808 01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:37,240 IT JUST KIND OF SHOWS THE FACT 1809 01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:39,680 THAT THESE FOLKS ON -- THESE ARE 1810 01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,120 THE AVERAGE DATA, CAN ENGAGE IN 1811 01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:45,160 SUCH INCREDIBLE INTERVENTIONS IN 1812 01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:46,320 BOTH THEIR DIET AND THEIR 1813 01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:47,920 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SHOWS THAT 1814 01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:49,360 REALLY THESE FOLKS WHO CLEARLY 1815 01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,320 HAD OBESITY AT THE BEGINNING OF 1816 01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,760 THIS PROGRAM, THEY DID NOT LACK 1817 01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:55,600 WIWILLPOWER. 1818 01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:56,400 THESE ARE FOLKS WHO HAVE 1819 01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,360 ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF WILL POWER. 1820 01:01:58,360 --> 01:01:59,680 BUT WE WERE INTERESTED IN 1821 01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:01,520 INVESTIGATING SOME OF THE 1822 01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:02,840 PHYSIOLOGY UNDERLYING THE 1823 01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:04,040 CHANGES IN RESTING ENERGY 1824 01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:04,360 EXPENDITURE. 1825 01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:06,680 SO WHAT I'M PLOTTING HERE IS THE 1826 01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:08,520 RESTING METABOLIC RATE AT 1827 01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:09,960 BASELINE BEFORE THESE FOLKS 1828 01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:11,720 ENGAGED IN ANY OF THIS CRAZY 1829 01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:13,360 DIET AND EXERCISE PROGRAM, AND 1830 01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,080 I'M PLOTTING IT AGAINST THE 1831 01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:16,480 GREATEST DETERMINANT OF RESTING 1832 01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:18,200 ENERGY EXPENDITURE, WHICH IS 1833 01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:19,040 THEIR FAT FREE MASS. 1834 01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,000 SO THIS IS THEIR TOTAL BODY 1835 01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:22,080 WEIGHT MINUS THE AMOUNT OF FAT 1836 01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,160 THAT THEY HAVE ON THEIR BODY. 1837 01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:25,800 COUNTLESS NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE 1838 01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,240 SHOWN THAT THE BEST PREDICTOR OF 1839 01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:29,680 RESTING METABOLIC RATE IS NOT 1840 01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:31,880 YOUR WEIGHT, IT'S NOT YOUR 1841 01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,600 HEIGHT, IT'S NOT YOUR SEX, IT'S 1842 01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:35,480 BASICALLY YOUR FAT FREE MASS. 1843 01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,080 AND SO WHAT WE'RE SHOWING HERE 1844 01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:38,920 IS THAT THERE'S A LINEAR 1845 01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:39,760 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAT FREE 1846 01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:41,200 MASS AND RESTING METABOLIC RATE, 1847 01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:42,520 AND THESE ARE ALL THE BASELINE 1848 01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:43,920 DATA FOR THE BIGGEST LOSER 1849 01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:44,400 SUBJECTS. 1850 01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,120 THE SLOPE OF THE LINE IS VERY 1851 01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:48,560 CONSISTENT FROM STUDY TO STUDY. 1852 01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:50,200 AND WHAT WE WOULD THEN PREDICT 1853 01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:53,320 IS THAT IF PEOPLE WERE TO LOSE 1854 01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:55,840 WEIGHT, THEY WOULD LOSE BOTH FAT 1855 01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:57,160 MASS AND FAT FREE MASS, AND 1856 01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:58,600 THERE IS A PREDICTION ABOUT WHAT 1857 01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:00,320 SHOULD HAPPEN TO THEIR RESTING 1858 01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:00,960 METABOLIC RATE. 1859 01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:02,200 AND SO FOR EXAMPLE, THIS PERSON 1860 01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:03,960 WHO STARTS AT THE TOP OF THIS 1861 01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:06,600 LINE THAT'S VERY CLOSE TO THE 1862 01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:07,720 LINE, IF THEY LOSE A CERTAIN 1863 01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:08,680 AMOUNT OF FAT FREE MASS THEY 1864 01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:09,880 WOULD BE PREDICTED TO JUST SLIDE 1865 01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:11,080 ALONG THE LINE AND LOSE A 1866 01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:12,920 CERTAIN AMOUNT OF THEIR RESTING 1867 01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:14,600 ENERGY EXPENDITURE CORRESPONDING 1868 01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,960 TO THE LOSS OF FAT FREE MASS. 1869 01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:17,880 SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANTED 1870 01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,040 TO TEST WAS, DID THESE FOLKS WHO 1871 01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:23,680 ENGAGED IN THIS CRAZY DIET AND 1872 01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:24,720 EXERCISE INTERVENTION JUST SLIDE 1873 01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:27,400 ALONG THE LINE AND LOSE THE 1874 01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:28,840 EXPECTED AMOUNT OF RESTING 1875 01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:29,560 METABOLIC RATE. 1876 01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:31,560 AND THE ANSWER WAS NO, THE OPEN 1877 01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:34,120 CIRCLES ARE AT THE END OF THIS 1878 01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:34,920 30-WEEK WEIGHT LOSS COMPETITION 1879 01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:36,880 YOU CAN SEE THAT EVERYBODY IS 1880 01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,480 FALLING WELL BELOW THE BEST FIT 1881 01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:41,960 LINE OF REGRESSION AT A MUCH 1882 01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:42,480 STEEPER SLOPE. 1883 01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:43,520 SO FOR EXAMPLE, THE PERSON THAT 1884 01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:46,640 I ILLUSTRATED BEFORE INSTEAD OF 1885 01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:48,160 FALLING ALONG THE LINE, HE FELL 1886 01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:49,320 TO THIS OPEN CIRCLE AT THE END 1887 01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:52,840 OF THE RED ARROW. 1888 01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,160 CLEARLY THERE'S A BIG 1889 01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:54,840 DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE 1890 01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:56,320 PREDICTED AMOUNT OF DECREASE IN 1891 01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,040 RESTING ENERGY EXPENDITURE AND 1892 01:03:58,040 --> 01:03:59,400 THE AMOUNT THAT THEY ACTUALLY 1893 01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:00,000 EXPERIENCED. 1894 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,880 A MUCH GREATER SLOWING OF 1895 01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:02,680 METABOLISM THAN WOULD BE 1896 01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:06,480 PREDICTED BASED ON THE BODY 1897 01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:07,040 COMPOSITION CHANGES ALONE. 1898 01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,600 SO WHAT WE CALL THAT PROCESS AND 1899 01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:10,280 MANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVE CALLED 1900 01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,640 THIS IS THE METABOLIC ADAPTATION 1901 01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:16,360 THAT'S HAPPENING AS A RESULT OF 1902 01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:17,800 THEIR WEIGHT LOSS. 1903 01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:19,720 IT'S THE GREATER THAN EXPECTED 1904 01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:21,360 SLOWING OF METABOLISM AS PEOPLE 1905 01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:24,320 LOSE THEIR WEIGHT. 1906 01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:25,520 LOSE WEIGHT AS A RESULT OF THIS 1907 01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:27,960 DIET INTERVENTION. 1908 01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:29,120 NOW, ONE OF THE PREDICTIONS 1909 01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:30,040 WOULD BE, IS THAT BECAUSE THESE 1910 01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:31,800 PEOPLE ARE NOW BURNING SO MANY 1911 01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:34,400 FEWER CALORIES THAN WOULD BE 1912 01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:36,760 EXPECTED FOR THEIR LOSS OF BODY 1913 01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:39,520 WEIGHT, THAT PERHAPS PEOPLE WHO 1914 01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:41,120 HAD THE GREATEST SLOWING OF 1915 01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:42,400 METABOLISM WOULD BE EXPECTED TO 1916 01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:43,680 REGAIN THE MOST AMOUNT OF 1917 01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:44,040 WEIGHT. 1918 01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:45,440 AFTER ALL, THEY'RE BURNING SO 1919 01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:48,680 MANY FEWER CALORIES THAT THEY 1920 01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,600 WOULD BE EXPECTED TO INCREASE 1921 01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,320 THEIR WEIGHT MORE THAN THOSE WHO 1922 01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:56,760 MIGHT HAVE HAD A MUCH LETTER 1923 01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:57,240 METABOLIC ADAPTATION. 1924 01:04:57,240 --> 01:04:58,720 YOU CAN SEE IN THE DATA OF THE 1925 01:04:58,720 --> 01:04:59,560 INDIVIDUAL DATA POINTS HERE, 1926 01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:01,960 THERE IS A RANGE, SO WE COULD 1927 01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:03,360 TEST THAT HYPOTHESIS AND IT WAS, 1928 01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:04,960 IN FACT, AN ASSUMPTION FOR A 1929 01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:05,440 VERY LONG TIME. 1930 01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,800 AND SO WE BROUGHT BACK THE 1931 01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:09,400 CONTESTANTS OF THAT SEASON OF 1932 01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,840 THE BIGGEST LOSER TO THE NIH 1933 01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:13,760 CLINICAL CENTER TO MEASURE THEIR 1934 01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:15,520 METABOLIC RATE AND BODY 1935 01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:16,240 COMPOSITION AGAIN. 1936 01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:19,800 THIS IS DANNY CAHILL SIX YEARS 1937 01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,600 AFTER THE BIGGEST LOSER 1938 01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:22,880 COMPETITION. 1939 01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:24,200 AND IT WAS A FEATURE OF A "NEW 1940 01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:25,160 YORK TIMES" ARTICLE. 1941 01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:28,320 YOU CAN SEE JUST VISUALLY HE'S 1942 01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:29,320 CLEARLY REGAINED SOME OF HIS 1943 01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:29,720 LOST WEIGHT. 1944 01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:30,920 I'LL SHOW YOU SOME OTHER PHOTOS 1945 01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:32,920 OF SOME OF THE OTHER CONTESTANTS 1946 01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:34,960 BEFORE AND AFTER THE BIGGEST 1947 01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:35,480 LOSER COMPETITION. 1948 01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:38,960 THIS IS DENA ON THE LEFT, BEFORE 1949 01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:40,400 THE COMPETITION BEGAN, ON THE 1950 01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:42,000 RIGHT, AFTER 30 WEEKS, AND THEN 1951 01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:43,880 SIX YEARS LATER. 1952 01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:46,440 THIS IS SHAWN, BEFORE ON THE 1953 01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:48,640 LEFT, AFTER ON THE RIGHT, AND 1954 01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,000 THEN SIX YEARS LATER. 1955 01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,640 THIS IS ABBY BEFORE ON THE LEFT, 1956 01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:54,960 AFTER ON THE RIGHT. 1957 01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,000 AND THEN SIX YEARS LATER. 1958 01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,520 AND TRACY, BEFORE ON THE LEFT, 1959 01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:01,160 AFTER ON THE RIGHT, AND THEN SIX 1960 01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:02,240 YEARS LATER. 1961 01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,240 I THINK WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS JUST 1962 01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:06,040 VISUALLY, THERE IS QUITE A BIT 1963 01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:07,720 OF VARIABILITY IN THE AMOUNT OF 1964 01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:09,760 WEIGHT THAT WAS REGAINED. 1965 01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:12,240 HERE ARE ALL THE DATA POINTS. 1966 01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:13,800 AT 30 WEEKS, AT THE END OF THE 1967 01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:15,080 COMPETITION, LIKE I MENTIONED 1968 01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:16,600 BEFORE, THE GREY LINE IS SAYING 1969 01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:20,200 THAT ON AVERAGE, PEOPLE HAD LOST 1970 01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:20,440 60-KILOS. 1971 01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:22,200 AND SIX YEARS LATER, THEY HAD, 1972 01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:23,960 ON AVERAGE, REGAINED ABOUT TWO 1973 01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:25,080 THIRDS OF THEIR LOST WEIGHT, BUT 1974 01:06:25,080 --> 01:06:26,880 THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF 1975 01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:27,200 VARIABILITY. 1976 01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:28,840 ONE PERSON EVEN CONTINUED TO 1977 01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:31,880 LOSE EVEN MORE WEIGHT AFTER SIX 1978 01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:32,480 YEARS. 1979 01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:35,240 AND THIS WAS PORTRAYED IN THE 1980 01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:35,840 "NEW YORK TIMES" ARTICLE AND A 1981 01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:37,480 LOT OF THE SUBSEQUENT COVERAGE 1982 01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:39,320 AS A BIG FAILURE, RIGHT, THAT 1983 01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,480 THESE FOLKS HAD REGAINED SO MUCH 1984 01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,760 WEIGHT AFTER SIX YEARS. 1985 01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:44,960 BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I'D LIKE 1986 01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:47,040 TO POINT OUT IS THAT AFTER SIX 1987 01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:48,360 YEARS, THEY WERE STILL 1988 01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:50,160 MAINTAINING AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 1989 01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:51,520 13% WEIGHT LOSS. 1990 01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:53,720 WHICH IS PRETTY DARN GOOD. 1991 01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:57,400 THAT'S ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD 1992 01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:00,640 LONG-TERM EFFECT OF THIS KIND OF 1993 01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:01,880 CRAZY AND UNSUSTAINABLE 1994 01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:02,640 INTERVENTION THAT OCCURRED OVER 1995 01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:04,080 THE COURSE OF THE ACTUAL 1996 01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:04,640 COMPETITION. 1997 01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,040 BUT THERE WAS SOME VARIABILITY 1998 01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:07,040 AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE 1999 01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:10,440 WANTED TO ANSWER WAS, DID THE 2000 01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:12,880 PEOPLE WHO HAD REGAINED THE MOST 2001 01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:14,080 WEIGHT, WERE THEY THE ONES WHO 2002 01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:15,680 HAD EXPERIENCED THE GREATEST 2003 01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:17,360 SLOWING AT THE END OF THE 2004 01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:18,960 30-WEEK COMPETITION, THAT WAS 2005 01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:20,800 THE ASSUMPTION AND HAD BEEN THE 2006 01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:22,720 ASSUMPTION FOR QUITE SOME TIME. 2007 01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:23,800 AND IN FACT, THERE WAS NO 2008 01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:25,440 SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP 2009 01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:25,800 WHATSOEVER. 2010 01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:27,840 SO THE PEOPLE HAD THE GREATEST 2011 01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:28,600 METABOLIC SLOWING AT THE END OF 2012 01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:30,000 THE COMPETITION WERE -- THERE 2013 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:31,120 WAS NO RELATIONSHIP TO THE 2014 01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:33,640 AMOUNT OF WEIGHT THAT THEY 2015 01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:35,880 REGAINED AFTER SIX YEARS. 2016 01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:38,800 SO WHAT DID PREDICT THE WEIGHT 2017 01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:39,320 REGAIN? 2018 01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:40,440 WHAT WAS THE GREATEST 2019 01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:40,960 CONTRIBUTOR? 2020 01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:42,200 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID 2021 01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:45,640 WAS WE SPLIT THE GROUPS UP INTO 2022 01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:47,840 THE MEDIAN OF THOSE WHO HAD LOST 2023 01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:49,840 MORE THAN 13% OF WEIGHT LOSS AT 2024 01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:51,360 THE END OF THE SIX-YEAR PERIOD 2025 01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,240 AND THOSE THAT WHO LOST LESS 2026 01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:53,800 THAN 13%. 2027 01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:57,120 THE MEAN VALUES IN THOSE TWO 2028 01:07:57,120 --> 01:07:58,840 GROUPS WAS -- ONE GROUP HAD 2029 01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:00,000 MAINTAINED 25% WEIGHT LOSS AND 2030 01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:01,320 THE OTHER HAD REGAINED BASICALLY 2031 01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,400 ALL OF THEIR BODY WEIGHT. 2032 01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,040 AND WE HAD THESE OBJECTIVE 2033 01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:06,880 MEASUREMENTS OF ENERGY INTAKE 2034 01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:08,680 AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ENERGY 2035 01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:09,280 EXPENDITURE. 2036 01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:10,960 AND IN THESE TWO GROUPS, THERE 2037 01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:12,840 WAS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN 2038 01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:14,320 THE ENERGY INTAKE BETWEEN THE 2039 01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:17,120 GROUPS, THE CHANGES FROM THE 2040 01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:18,520 BASELINE COMPARED TO SIX YEARS, 2041 01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:20,880 BUT THERE WAS HUGE DIFFERENCES 2042 01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,160 IN THE ENERGY EXPENDITURE WITH 2043 01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:24,600 ONE GROUP INCREASING THEIR 2044 01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:25,800 ENERGY EXPENDITURE BY MORE THAN 2045 01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,720 150% COMPARED TO BASELINE, IN 2046 01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:30,400 TERMS OF THEIR PHYSICAL 2047 01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:32,120 ACTIVITY, AND THE OTHER GROUP 2048 01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:34,840 BASICALLY HAVING A VERY MODEST 2049 01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:37,280 INCREASE IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. 2050 01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:38,880 CONTINUOUSLY, THE DATA LOOK LIKE 2051 01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:39,640 THIS. 2052 01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:41,520 CLEARLY THE FOLKS WHO HAD 2053 01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,080 INCREASED THEIR PHYSICAL 2054 01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:45,440 ACTIVITY, ENERGY EXPENDITURE THE 2055 01:08:45,440 --> 01:08:46,920 MOST MAINTAINED THE MOST WEIGHT 2056 01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:47,120 LOSS. 2057 01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:48,600 AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS 2058 01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:50,640 BEEN OBSERVED IN OTHER 2059 01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:53,840 REGISTRIES OF PEOPLE WHO HAD 2060 01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:54,640 MAINTAINED SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS 2061 01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:55,360 OF WEIGHT LOSS. 2062 01:08:55,360 --> 01:08:56,680 ONE OF THE COMMON FACTORS IS 2063 01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:58,720 THAT THEY BECOME RELATIVELY 2064 01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,800 PHYSICALLY ACTIVE IN ORDER TO 2065 01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,960 MAINTAIN THAT WEIGHT LOSS. 2066 01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:05,320 SO THAT'S DEPICTED HERE IN THESE 2067 01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:06,320 LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF THE 2068 01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:08,360 BIGGEST LOSER PARTICIPANTS. 2069 01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:09,240 SO SOMETHING ELSE THAT WAS 2070 01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:11,640 REALLY INTERESTING WAS THAT 2071 01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,880 DESPITE REGAINING THE BODY 2072 01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:16,400 WEIGHT, TWO THIRDS OF THE BODY 2073 01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:18,120 WEIGHT ON AVERAGE RESTING ENERGY 2074 01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:19,280 EXPENDITURE OR RESTING METABOLIC 2075 01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:21,440 RATE AS PLOTTED HERE IS 2076 01:09:21,440 --> 01:09:26,120 BASICALLY UNCHANGED. 2077 01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:27,280 SUGGESTING THAT THIS METABOLIC 2078 01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:29,400 SLOWING THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE 2079 01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:31,040 OVER THE COURSE OF THE BIGGEST 2080 01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:33,120 LOSER COMPETITION WAS MAINTAINED 2081 01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:33,840 SIX YEARS LATER. 2082 01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:35,880 AND IN FACT, ONE OF THE THINGS 2083 01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:37,800 THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING WAS 2084 01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:40,360 THAT DESPITE WHAT WE MIGHT HAVE 2085 01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:41,840 EXPECTED, THE AMOUNT OF 2086 01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:45,520 METABOLIC SLOWING AT SIX YEARS 2087 01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:47,320 WAS POSITIVELY RELATED TO THE 2088 01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:48,880 AMOUNT OF WEIGHT REGAIN SUCH 2089 01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,520 THAT THOSE WHO EXPERIENCED AT 2090 01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:53,760 SIX YEARS THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF 2091 01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:54,920 METABOLIC SLOWING WERE THE ONES 2092 01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:56,480 WHO HAD BEEN MOST SUCCESSFUL, 2093 01:09:56,480 --> 01:09:58,160 NOT LEAST SUCCESSFUL, MOST 2094 01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:00,800 SUCCESSFUL AT MAINTAINING THEIR 2095 01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:02,160 WEIGHT LOSS AT THE SAME TIME 2096 01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:02,360 POINT. 2097 01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:03,800 SO HOW DO WE MAKE SENSE OF THIS? 2098 01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:05,160 AFTER ALL, THEY'RE THE ONES WHO 2099 01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:06,800 HAVE THE GREATEST SLOWING OF 2100 01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:07,200 METABOLISM. 2101 01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,120 HOW CAN THEY BE THE ONES WHO 2102 01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:11,800 HAVE BEEN MOST SUCCESSFUL AND 2103 01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:12,680 KEEPING THE WEIGHT OFFER? 2104 01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:13,880 ONE WAY TO KIND OF THINK ABOUT 2105 01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:16,440 IT IS THIS RESISTANCE TO WEIGHT 2106 01:10:16,440 --> 01:10:18,920 LOSS AND INTERVENTIONS IS KIND 2107 01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:22,040 OF LIKE THE TENSION ON A SPRING. 2108 01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:23,840 AND IF THE INTERVENTION IS THE 2109 01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,040 AMOUNT THAT YOU'RE PULLING ON 2110 01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:27,320 THE SPRING, AND IF YOU'RE NOT 2111 01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:28,200 PULLING ON THE SPRING, YOU'RE 2112 01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:29,120 NOT GOING TO LOSE ANY WEIGHT. 2113 01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:31,120 SO THE TENSION ON THE SPRING IS 2114 01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:31,320 ZERO. 2115 01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:34,480 WHEREAS IF YOU THEN PULL ON THE 2116 01:10:34,480 --> 01:10:36,800 SPRING BY CUTTING CALORIES IN 2117 01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:37,760 YOUR DIET OR INCREASING YOUR 2118 01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:39,400 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, YOU WILL LOSE 2119 01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:41,320 WEIGHT, BUT THERE WILL BE A 2120 01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:43,200 TENSION ON THE SPRING, IN 2121 01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:44,680 PROPORTION TO THE AMOUNT THAT 2122 01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:45,800 YOU'RE PULLING ON IT. 2123 01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:48,800 GREATER THAT YOU PULL ON IT, THE 2124 01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:50,440 GREATER THE RESISTANCE OR THE 2125 01:10:50,440 --> 01:10:51,120 TENSION ON THE SPRING. 2126 01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:54,400 SO THAT WOULD BE WHY YOU MIGHT 2127 01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:55,720 HAVE THIS RELATIONSHIP I SHOWED 2128 01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:57,080 YOU ON THE PREVIOUS CURVE. 2129 01:10:57,080 --> 01:11:00,600 THOSE WHO HAD THE GREATEST 2130 01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:01,720 METABOLIC ADAPTATION HAD THE 2131 01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:02,440 GREATEST TENSION ON THE SPRING 2132 01:11:02,440 --> 01:11:04,080 BECAUSE THEY WERE RESISTING A 2133 01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:06,760 GREATER INTENSITY OF 2134 01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:07,160 INTERVENTION. 2135 01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:08,240 AND IN PARTICULAR, PHYSICAL 2136 01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,960 ACTIVITY IN THE CASE OF THE 2137 01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:15,920 BIGGEST LOSERS. 2138 01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:18,680 LET'S MOVE ON AND TALK ABOUT 2139 01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:23,840 MAYBE NOT SUCH AN EXTREME WEIGHT 2140 01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:26,160 LOSS, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO 2141 01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:27,280 INTO THE DETAILS BUT IN THIS 2142 01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:29,880 PAPER IN 2016, WE QUANTIFIED ON 2143 01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:32,200 AVERAGE WHAT THE RELATIVE 2144 01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:33,360 FEEDBACK CONTROL STRENGTH THAT 2145 01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:35,120 RESISTS WEIGHT LOSS IS ON BOTH 2146 01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,720 THE APPETITE SIDE AND THE ENERGY 2147 01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:40,240 EXPENDITURE SIDE OF THE ENERGY 2148 01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:41,320 BALANCE EQUATION, AND WHAT WE 2149 01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:42,680 COMPUTED WAS THAT ON THE CALORIE 2150 01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:45,160 OUTPUT SIDE, FOR EVERY KILO OF 2151 01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:47,080 BODY WEIGHT THAT'S LOST, ENERGY 2152 01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:49,560 EXPENDITURE GOES DOWN BY ABOUT 2153 01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:50,800 25 KILOCALORIES PER DAY. 2154 01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,160 SO IF YOU LOSE ABOUT 22 POUNDS 2155 01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:56,200 OR 10-KILOS, YOU WILL BE BURNING 2156 01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:57,480 ROUGHLY 250-CALORIES PER DAY 2157 01:11:57,480 --> 01:11:59,080 LESS THAN YOU WERE TO BEGIN 2158 01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:00,080 WITH. 2159 01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:02,040 ON THE APPETITE SIDE, THE 2160 01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:02,880 FEEDBACK CONTROL STRENGTH IS 2161 01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:04,560 ACTUALLY MUCH STRONGER. 2162 01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:06,440 ACCORDING TO OUR INITIAL 2163 01:12:06,440 --> 01:12:07,440 ESTIMATES. 2164 01:12:07,440 --> 01:12:09,120 SUCH THAT WILL FOR EVERY KILO OF 2165 01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,000 WEIGHT THAT'S LOST, YOUR 2166 01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:12,400 APPETITE INCREASES ABOVE 2167 01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:15,040 BASELINE BY ABOUT 95 KILL 2168 01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:17,000 CALORIES PER DAY, AND I'D LIKE 2169 01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:18,760 TO TRACE OUT WHAT THAT MEANS 2170 01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:19,840 PRACTICALLY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE 2171 01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:22,160 ENGAGING IN CALORIE RESTRICTION 2172 01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:24,680 FOR WEIGHT LOSS. 2173 01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:26,560 JUST TO KIND OF PLOT WHAT THOSE 2174 01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:27,920 TWO SORT OF CURVES LOOK LIKE AS 2175 01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:30,480 A FUNCTION OF BODY WEIGHT, WE'RE 2176 01:12:30,480 --> 01:12:31,560 ASSUMING THEY'RE LINEAR HERE, 2177 01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:32,880 BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT THE 2178 01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:34,960 APPETITE CURVE HAS A SLOPE OF 2179 01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:37,120 MINUS 95 KILL CALORIES PER DAY 2180 01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:38,880 PER KILO OF BODY WEIGHT CHANGE 2181 01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:41,840 AND THE EXPENDITURE IS ABOUT 2182 01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:45,240 25 KILOCALORIES PER DAY. 2183 01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:46,760 WHEN INTAKE AND EXPENDITURE ARE 2184 01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:48,120 EQUAL, YOUR BODY IS IN BALANCE 2185 01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:49,640 AND YOU WILL MAINTAIN A STABLE 2186 01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:53,640 BODY WEIGHT, IN THIS CASE, ABOUT 2187 01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:56,240 85 KILOGRAMS EATING ABOUT 2188 01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:56,960 3100 KILOCALORIES PER DAY ON 2189 01:12:56,960 --> 01:13:01,880 THIS CURVE. 2190 01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:03,120 SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO 2191 01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:04,640 CUT CALORIES IN YOUR DIET? 2192 01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:06,560 ONE WAY TO THINK ABOUT IT IS IF 2193 01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:07,880 YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED THE 2194 01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:09,240 UNDERLYING BIOLOGY OF THE 2195 01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:11,840 SYSTEM, YOU'RE ESSENTIALLY 2196 01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:12,680 SEPARATING INTAKE FROM YOUR 2197 01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:13,280 APPETITE. 2198 01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:14,720 SO YOUR APPETITE STAYS WHERE IT 2199 01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:16,120 WAS IN THE PREVIOUS CURVE, 2200 01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:17,520 INDICATED BY A DASHED LINE, 2201 01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:18,520 INTAKE HAS BEEN SHIFTED 2202 01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:20,080 DOWNWARDS, IN THIS CASE, TO A 2203 01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:23,920 NEW VALUE OF ABOUT 2500-CALORIES 2204 01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:25,760 PER DAY IN THIS PERSON WHO IS 2205 01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:27,720 STARTING OFF AT 85-KILOS. 2206 01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:29,200 AND THAT SEPARATION OF INTAKE 2207 01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:31,400 FROM APPETITE WOULD THEN PREDICT 2208 01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:32,720 AS THIS PERSON GOES INTO WHAT'S 2209 01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:34,160 CALLED A NEGATIVE ENERGY 2210 01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:35,240 BALANCE, THEY'RE BURNING MORE 2211 01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:37,560 THAN THEY'RE EATING, AND, 2212 01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:38,520 THEREFORE, THEY WOULD HAVE A 2213 01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:39,840 CERTAIN AMOUNT OF HUNGER AND 2214 01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:42,400 EFFORT ASSOCIATED WITH 2215 01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:46,400 MAINTAINING THIS CUT IN CALORIES 2216 01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:48,120 BUT THEY WOULD SLIDE UPWARDS THE 2217 01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:50,160 INTAKE LINE UNTIL THEY REACH A 2218 01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:53,720 NEW EQUILIBRIUM WHERE ENERGY 2219 01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:56,160 INTAKE AND EXPEND TEURL ARE IN 2220 01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:59,840 BALANCE AND REACH THIS NEW 2221 01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:02,200 STEADY STATE OF BODY WEIGHT -- 2222 01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:03,920 THAT IT TAKES TO SEPARATE THAT 2223 01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:05,000 INTAKE CURVE FROM THE APPETITE 2224 01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:05,320 CURVE. 2225 01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:06,360 SO THE PREDICTION IS THAT WHEN 2226 01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:08,720 PEOPLE GO ON A 2227 01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:09,560 CALORIE-RESTRICTED DIET THAT 2228 01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:10,960 THEY WOULD INITIALLY CUT THEIR 2229 01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:15,160 CALORIES QUITE A LOT, THAT'S 2230 01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:17,880 THAT INITIAL REDUCTION, AND THAT 2231 01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,520 THEIR ENERGY EXPENDITURE WOULD 2232 01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:22,000 GO DOWN AND SLIDE UP THE INTAKE 2233 01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:22,200 CURVE. 2234 01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:23,360 SO DOES THAT REALLY HAPPEN? 2235 01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:25,640 SO WE HAVE SOME REALLY 2236 01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:27,640 REMARKABLE DATA, TWO-YEAR DATA 2237 01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:29,680 FROM A 25% CALORIE RESTRICTION 2238 01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:31,400 INTERVENTION, SOMETHING CALLED A 2239 01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:32,760 CALORIE STUDY THAT WAS SUPPORTED 2240 01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:35,200 BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES ON 2241 01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:36,440 AGING, AND HERE'S THE DATA FOR 2242 01:14:36,440 --> 01:14:38,880 THE BODY WEIGHT AND BODY FAT 2243 01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:40,360 CHANGES IN THE PARTICIPANTS OF 2244 01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:41,320 THE CALORIE DATA. 2245 01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:45,080 AND THE GOAL HERE OF THE CALORIE 2246 01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:46,440 STUDY WAS TO CUT ENERGY INTAKE 2247 01:14:46,440 --> 01:14:49,720 BY A CONSTANT 25% AND KEEP IT AT 2248 01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:52,480 THAT LOWER LEVEL FOR THE ENTIRE 2249 01:14:52,480 --> 01:14:53,320 DURATION OF THE STUDY. 2250 01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:54,640 AND SO FIRST THING TO NOTE IS 2251 01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:56,160 THAT THESE PEOPLE DIDN'T 2252 01:14:56,160 --> 01:14:57,600 DISAPPEAR AFTER TWO YEARS, THEY 2253 01:14:57,600 --> 01:14:59,680 PLATEAUED THEIR BODY WEIGHT 2254 01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:01,040 AFTER ABOUT 12 MONTHS. 2255 01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,000 AND LOST MOST OF THEIR WEIGHT 2256 01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:04,760 LOSS COMING FROM BODY FAT 2257 01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:05,360 CHANGE, AGAIN, THE SIMULATIONS 2258 01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:06,640 ARE THE CURVES AND THE DATA 2259 01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,200 POINTS ARE THE CIRCLES AND 2260 01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:10,600 TRIANGLES RESPECTIVELY FOR 2261 01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:12,200 EVALUATING BODY FAT. 2262 01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:15,080 BUT UNDERLYING THIS, THESE 2263 01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:16,040 INVESTIGATORS WENT TO GREAT 2264 01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:19,240 EXPENSE TO USE REPEATED MEASURES 2265 01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:21,880 OF DOUBLY LABELED WATER AND BODY 2266 01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:24,360 COMPOSITION CHANGES TO INFER 2267 01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:26,160 WHAT THE ENERGY INTAKE CHANGES 2268 01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:28,480 MUST HAVE BEEN, AND INDEED, WHAT 2269 01:15:28,480 --> 01:15:30,200 THEY FOUND WAS THAT ENERGY 2270 01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:33,120 INTAKE WAS INITIALLY REDUCED AND 2271 01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:35,000 DESPITE THIS CONSTANT INTENSITY 2272 01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:36,640 INTERVENTION, SEEING 2273 01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:37,840 NUTRITIONISTS ON A REGULAR BASIS 2274 01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:41,240 TO TRY TO KEEP A 25% CALORIE 2275 01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:44,160 CUT, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE ENERGY 2276 01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:45,640 INTAKE CURVE CREEPS UPWARDS 2277 01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:48,320 AFTER THAT INITIAL 25% CALORIE 2278 01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:48,840 REDUCTION. 2279 01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:50,240 JUST EXACTLY ACCORDING TO WHAT 2280 01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:53,040 WAS PREDICTED BASED ON THAT 2281 01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:53,920 APPETITE MODEL I SHOWED YOU A 2282 01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:54,880 MOMENT AGO. 2283 01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:56,440 ENERGY EXPENDITURE IN THE ORANGE 2284 01:15:56,440 --> 01:15:57,480 CURVE GOES DOWN AND SORT OF 2285 01:15:57,480 --> 01:15:59,080 STAYS DOWN, AND OF COURSE WHEN 2286 01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:00,520 THOSE TWO CURVES CROSS EACH 2287 01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:02,640 OTHER AT 12 MONTHS, THAT'S WHERE 2288 01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:04,360 THE PLATEAU IS. 2289 01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:06,760 AND SO YOU CAN KIND OF 2290 01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:08,360 REINTERPRET THIS AND PLOT THE 2291 01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:08,800 APPETITE. 2292 01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:10,120 I TOLD YOU THAT APPETITE 2293 01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:12,960 INCREASES BY ABOUT 2294 01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:14,880 95 KILOCALORIES PER DAY ABOVE 2295 01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:15,880 BASELINE, FOR EVERY KILOGRAM OF 2296 01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:17,520 WEIGHT THAT IS LOST, SO THAT'S 2297 01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:19,160 BASICALLY JUST THIS DASHED LINE 2298 01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:20,840 THAT I'M PLOTTING HERE BASED ON 2299 01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:22,440 THE OBSERVED BODY WEIGHT 2300 01:16:22,440 --> 01:16:22,840 CHANGES. 2301 01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:25,040 SO THE THING THAT I THINK IS 2302 01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:27,680 INTERESTING IS, AGAIN, ACCORDING 2303 01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:29,240 TO THE MODEL THAT WE PREDICTED 2304 01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:30,880 THAT THERE IS A PERSISTENT 2305 01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:32,440 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SOLID 2306 01:16:32,440 --> 01:16:33,600 BLUE LINE WHICH IS WHAT THESE 2307 01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:35,480 FOLKS ARE DOING TO ACTUALLY CUT 2308 01:16:35,480 --> 01:16:37,320 THEIR CALORIES AND WHAT THEIR 2309 01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:38,800 BODY IS TELLING THEM THEY'D LIKE 2310 01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:39,920 TO BE EATING, WHICH IS THE 2311 01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:42,480 DASHED BLUE LINE, THAT FOR 2312 01:16:42,480 --> 01:16:44,600 PERSISTENT AND CONSTANT 2313 01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:46,600 INTENSITY INTERVENTION, THE 2314 01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:51,000 PREDICTION IS THAT PEOPLE HAVE A 2315 01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:52,000 RELATIVELY EASY TIME EARLY ON 2316 01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:53,680 CUTTING CALORIES IN THEIR DIET 2317 01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:55,200 BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T LOST MUCH 2318 01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:56,800 BODY WEIGHT, BUT AS THEY LOSE 2319 01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:00,240 WEIGHT, THE FEEDBACK CONTROL OF 2320 01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,280 APPETITE INCREASES TO THE TUNE 2321 01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:03,360 OF 95 KILOCALORIES PER DAY PER 2322 01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:05,080 KILO OF WEIGHT LOSS, AND SO FOR 2323 01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:06,480 THE SAME DEGREE OF EFFORT AND 2324 01:17:06,480 --> 01:17:09,120 THE SAME EXPERIENCE OF HUNGER, 2325 01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:10,680 ENERGY INTAKE WILL GO UP BECAUSE 2326 01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:11,960 IT'S FIGHTING A GREATER AND 2327 01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:14,120 GREATER BATTLE, THE GREATER THE 2328 01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:16,680 INCREASE IN APPETITE BECOMES. 2329 01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:18,160 SO THIS, I HOPE, GIVES PEOPLE A 2330 01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:20,720 PICTURE FOR WHAT FOLKS WITH 2331 01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:22,440 OBESITY EXPERIENCE WHEN YOU JUST 2332 01:17:22,440 --> 01:17:25,080 PRESCRIBE A CALORIE RESTRICTION. 2333 01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:26,880 JUST CUT CALORIES IN YOUR DIET, 2334 01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:28,440 YOU'LL LOSE WEIGHT. 2335 01:17:28,440 --> 01:17:30,920 THE OLD RULE OF THUMB OF THAT 2336 01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:31,640 3500-CALORIES PER POUND DOESN'T 2337 01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:33,920 INCLUDE ANY OF THIS FUNDAMENTAL 2338 01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:35,320 BIOLOGY AND GAVE, I THINK, 2339 01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:36,520 PHYSICIANS THE WRONG IMPRESSION 2340 01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:38,720 FOR MANY, MANY YEARS THAT IT WAS 2341 01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:40,720 A SIMPLE MATTER OF WILLPOWER. 2342 01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:42,200 JUST CUT A LITTLE BIT OF 2343 01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:43,120 CALORIES FROM YOUR DIET AND 2344 01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:44,040 YOU'LL LOSE WEIGHT AND THEN YOU 2345 01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:45,080 CAN GO BACK TO EATING WHAT YOU 2346 01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:46,520 WERE BEFORE AND YOU'LL MAINTAIN 2347 01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:46,960 THE WEIGHT LOSS. 2348 01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:49,720 THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENS. 2349 01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:51,840 BUT OF COURSE NOW THAT WE KNOW 2350 01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:54,160 SOMETHING ABOUT THE BIOLOGY THAT 2351 01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:58,040 RESISTS WEIGHT LOSS, THERE'S THE 2352 01:17:58,040 --> 01:17:59,800 HOPE THAT YOU COULD SOMEHOW 2353 01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:00,440 SUBVERT IT. 2354 01:18:00,440 --> 01:18:03,080 AND THERE'S A VARIETY OF PEOPLE 2355 01:18:03,080 --> 01:18:05,280 WHO ARE POPULARIZING VARIOUS 2356 01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:07,400 DIETS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY 2357 01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:08,560 SUBVERT IT, AND ONE OF THE 2358 01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,040 POPULAR VERSIONS OF THAT IS 2359 01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:12,640 SOMETHING THAT'S BASED ON A 2360 01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:14,920 MODEL OF OBESITY CALLED THE 2361 01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:16,040 CARBOHYDRATE INSULIN MODEL, 2362 01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:18,760 WHICH IS PROMOTED BY DR. DAVID 2363 01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:19,920 LUDWIG'S GROUP AT HARVARD, WHO 2364 01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:22,360 WROTE A BOOK CALLED "ALWAYS 2365 01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:23,160 HUNGRY" BASED ON THIS IDEA. 2366 01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:24,360 AND HE CORRECTLY POINTS OUT THAT 2367 01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:26,240 WHEN YOU EAT FEWER CALORIES, THE 2368 01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:28,080 BODY BECOMES MORE EFFICIENT AND 2369 01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:30,000 BYRNES FEWER CALORIES, AND AS 2370 01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:32,360 YOUR DESIRE FOR EXTRA CALORIES 2371 01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:33,440 ACTUALLY HEIGHTENS. 2372 01:18:33,440 --> 01:18:35,240 AND THIS COMBINATION OF RISING 2373 01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:36,880 HUNGER AND SLOWING METABOLISM IS 2374 01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:37,640 A RECIPE FOR FAILURE. 2375 01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:38,840 I SHOWED YOU IN THE PREVIOUS 2376 01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:40,480 GRAPH THAT YOU NEED THAT 2377 01:18:40,480 --> 01:18:41,360 LONG-TERM PERSIST AT THE PRESENT 2378 01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:48,120 TIMEPERSISTENT EFFORTDESPITE THR 2379 01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:49,120 WEIGHT LOSS HAS STOPPED IN ORDER 2380 01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:50,320 TO MAINTAIN THAT WEIGHT LOSS. 2381 01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:51,720 HIS IDEA IS THAT MAYBE YOU CAN 2382 01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:52,600 SUBVERT THAT IN SOME WAY. 2383 01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:54,680 SO HE SAYS THAT A MORE EFFECTIVE 2384 01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:56,640 APPROACH IS TO REPROGRAM YOUR 2385 01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:58,240 FAT CELLS TO LOSE WEIGHT BY 2386 01:18:58,240 --> 01:18:59,720 EATING IN A WAY THAT LOWERS 2387 01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:01,120 INSULIN LEVELS AND REDUCES 2388 01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:01,440 INFLAMMATION. 2389 01:19:01,440 --> 01:19:03,000 AND WHEN THIS HAPPENS, FAT CELLS 2390 01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:04,240 CALM DOWN AND RELEASE THEIR 2391 01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:05,840 EXCESS CALORIE STORES AS THE 2392 01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:07,360 BODY BEGINS TO ENJOY BETTER 2393 01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:09,960 ACCESS TO FUEL, METABOLISM RUNS 2394 01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:11,160 BETTER, HUNGER AND CRAVINGS 2395 01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:12,720 SUBSIDE AND WEIGHT LOSS OCCURS 2396 01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:13,160 NATURALLY. 2397 01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:15,680 IT'S A DIET WITHOUT DEPRIVATION. 2398 01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:17,880 SO WHAT IS THE BASIS OF THESE 2399 01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:19,880 PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS? 2400 01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:22,000 WELL, THE IDEA HERE IS THAT AT 2401 01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:23,960 THE LEVEL OF THE FAT CELL, THE 2402 01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,320 MAIN THING THAT IS CONTRIBUTING 2403 01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:28,360 TO TRIGLYCERIDE STORAGE IS THE 2404 01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:31,120 AMOUNT OF INSULIN THAT'S 2405 01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:32,360 SURROUNDING THE BODY. 2406 01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:33,880 INDEED INSULIN PLAYS A VERY 2407 01:19:33,880 --> 01:19:36,000 IMPORTANT ROLE AS AARON HAD 2408 01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:39,240 MENTIONED IN RE REGULATING HOW H 2409 01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:40,440 TRIGLYCERIDE IS TAKEN UP FROM 2410 01:19:40,440 --> 01:19:43,280 THE BLOOD AND STORED AS 2411 01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:44,600 TRIGLYCERIDE INSIDE FAT CELLS BY 2412 01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:48,000 THE ENZYME LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE, 2413 01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:51,960 AS WELL AS INHIBITING THE 2414 01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:53,440 HORMONE SENSITIVE LIPASE INSIDE 2415 01:19:53,440 --> 01:19:54,600 FAT CELLS WHICH LIMITS THE 2416 01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:56,920 AMOUNT OF FAT THAT IS RELEASED 2417 01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:57,520 FROM FAT CELLS. 2418 01:19:57,520 --> 01:19:59,840 AND SO THE IDEA OF THIS 2419 01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:01,960 CARBOHYDRATE INSULIN MODEL OF 2420 01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:03,920 OBESITY IS THAT IF YOUR INSULIN 2421 01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:05,360 LEVELS ARE HIGH BECAUSE YOU'RE 2422 01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:07,320 EATING TOO MANY CARBOHYDRATES, 2423 01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,120 THEN THAT ESSENTIALLY IS 2424 01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:10,800 TRAPPING YOUR FAT INSIDE YOUR 2425 01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:12,080 FAT CELLS CAUSING THEM TO GO 2426 01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:15,680 INTO THIS ANABOLIC OVERDRIVE 2427 01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:15,960 RESPONSE. 2428 01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:17,240 ACCUMULATING BODY FAT, WHICH 2429 01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:18,720 THEN DEPRIVES THE REST OF THE 2430 01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:21,320 BODY OF CIRCULATING METABOLIC 2431 01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:23,160 FUELS, AND SENSING A PROBLEM OR 2432 01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:25,320 A SORT OF INTERNAL STARVATION 2433 01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:27,920 STATE, YOUR BODY OR YOUR BRAIN 2434 01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:29,840 RECEIVES THE SIGNAL THAT YOU'RE 2435 01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:31,520 STARVING AND THAT INCREASES 2436 01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:32,880 HUNGER, INCREASING ENERGY INTAKE 2437 01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:34,760 AND DECREASING ENERGY 2438 01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:35,040 EXPENDITURE. 2439 01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:36,560 THE WAY THAT DR. LUDWIG 2440 01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:38,120 DESCRIBES IT IN THIS JAMA 2441 01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:40,720 INTERNAL MEDICINE PAPER, HE SAYS 2442 01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:43,000 THAT A HIGH CARBOHYDRATE DIET 2443 01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:47,600 PRODUCES POSTPRANDIAL 2444 01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:48,920 HYPERINULINEMIA PROMOTES 2445 01:20:48,920 --> 01:20:50,120 DEPOSITION OF CALORIES IN FAT 2446 01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:54,080 CELLS INSTEAD OF OXIDATION 2447 01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:55,400 THEREFORE PREDISPOSES TO WEIGHT 2448 01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:56,360 GAIN THROUGH INCREASES IN 2449 01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:58,200 HUNGER, SLOWING METABOLIC RATE 2450 01:20:58,200 --> 01:20:58,800 OR BOTH. 2451 01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:00,280 THIS IS A REALLY INTRIGUING 2452 01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:01,240 MODEL BECAUSE IT MAKES 2453 01:21:01,240 --> 01:21:04,200 PREDICTIONS ABOUT HOW THE BODY 2454 01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:05,840 WEIGHT IS REGULATED AND IT'S 2455 01:21:05,840 --> 01:21:06,520 HAPPENING AT THE LEVEL OF THE 2456 01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:07,960 FAT TISSUE AND NOT AT THE BRAIN, 2457 01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:09,160 AS AARON HAD MENTIONED 2458 01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:11,960 PREVIOUSLY, WHICH IS CURRENTLY 2459 01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:13,880 WHAT MOST OBESITY RESEARCHERS 2460 01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:16,800 THINK IS THE NEXUS OF BODY 2461 01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:19,440 WEIGHT REGULATION. 2462 01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:20,760 SO ONE WAY TO TEST THIS 2463 01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:22,720 HYPOTHESIS WOULD BE TO CHANGE 2464 01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:24,040 THE CARBOHYDRATE AND FAT CONTENT 2465 01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:25,120 OF THE FOOD ENVIRONMENT THAT 2466 01:21:25,120 --> 01:21:27,480 PEOPLE ARE EXPOSED TO, THAT 2467 01:21:27,480 --> 01:21:29,640 SHOULD ALTER INSULIN SECRETION, 2468 01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:31,480 PEOPLE ON A VERY HIGH 2469 01:21:31,480 --> 01:21:32,320 CARBOHYDRATE DIET SHOULD HAVE 2470 01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:33,920 HIGHER INSULIN SECRETION AFTER 2471 01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:35,320 MEALS, THAT SHOULD KEEP THE FAT 2472 01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:36,920 IN THE FAT CELLS AND SHOULD 2473 01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:38,480 CAUSE PEOPLE TO EAT MORE 2474 01:21:38,480 --> 01:21:39,720 CALORIES. 2475 01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:42,760 AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE 2476 01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:44,520 DID A COUPLE YEARS AGO, JUST 2477 01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:46,360 BEFORE COVID, WAS THAT WE 2478 01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:47,560 RECRUITED 20 MEN AND WOMEN TO 2479 01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:49,280 THE METABOLIC CLINICAL RESEARCH 2480 01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:51,600 UNIT AT THE NIH CLINICAL CENTER 2481 01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:53,040 THAT AARON DESCRIBED SO NICELY 2482 01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:56,240 AND THEY STAYED WITH US FOR 28 2483 01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:57,560 CONTINUOUS DAYS, 24 HOURS A DAY, 2484 01:21:57,560 --> 01:21:59,440 SEVEN DAYS PER WEEK, AND WE 2485 01:21:59,440 --> 01:22:01,560 RANDOMIZED THEM TO EITHER 2486 01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:04,400 RECEIVE 14 DAYS OF A VERY LOW 2487 01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:06,080 CARB, HIGH FAT DIET, ONE THAT 2488 01:22:06,080 --> 01:22:09,840 WAS DESIGNED TO MINIMIZE INSULIN 2489 01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:10,800 EXCURSIONS, OR A VERY HIGH CASH 2490 01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:18,120 CARBDIET, AND MEASURED THESE FO, 2491 01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:19,360 HOW MANY CALORIES THAT THEY ATE. 2492 01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:21,040 SO WE GAVE THEM MORE THAN ENOUGH 2493 01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:23,080 CALORIES TO EAT TO MAINTAIN 2494 01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:27,840 THEIR WEIGHT, AND GAVE THEM VERY 2495 01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:28,720 SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS, EAT AS MUCH 2496 01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:29,960 OR AS LITTLE OF THE FOOD YOU'D 2497 01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:30,920 LIKE. 2498 01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:32,240 WE DIDN'T TELL THEM WHAT THE 2499 01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:33,880 PRIMARY OUTCOME OF THE STUDY 2500 01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:34,720 WAS, WE TOLD THEM IT WASN'T A 2501 01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:36,680 WEIGHT LOSS OR WEIGHT GAIN 2502 01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:38,560 STUDY, WE TOLD THEM WE'RE JUST 2503 01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,720 INTERESTED HOW THESE DIETS 2504 01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:43,560 AFFECT THEIR BODY AND WE DID A 2505 01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:44,520 NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TESTS AS YOU 2506 01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:46,160 CAN SEE ON THIS GRAPH. 2507 01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:47,720 AFTER 14 DAYS, WE BASICALLY 2508 01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:48,840 SWAPPED THEM TO THE ALTERNATE 2509 01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:50,760 DIET, AGAIN TELLING THEM, EAT 2510 01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:51,840 HOWEVER MUCH OR AS LITTLE AS 2511 01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:52,480 YOU'D LIKE. 2512 01:22:52,480 --> 01:22:55,600 SO HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT ONE 2513 01:22:55,600 --> 01:22:57,880 OF THE SEVEN-DAY ROTATING MENUS 2514 01:22:57,880 --> 01:22:59,840 LOOKED LIKE THAT WAS DESIGNED BY 2515 01:22:59,840 --> 01:23:02,000 THE REALLY TALENTED CHEFS AND 2516 01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:03,960 DIETITIANS AT THE NIH CLINICAL 2517 01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:05,480 CENTER NUTRITION DEPARTMENT. 2518 01:23:05,480 --> 01:23:07,280 THIS IS A BREAKFAST ON THE LEFT, 2519 01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:11,720 A LUNCH ON THE -- IN THE MIDDLE 2520 01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:12,440 AND DINNER ON THE RIGHT. 2521 01:23:12,440 --> 01:23:13,920 IT'S A VERY HIGH CARBOHYDRATE 2522 01:23:13,920 --> 01:23:17,640 LOW FAT DIET, AMOUNTED TO ABO 2523 01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:23,520 ABOUT 75% OF TOTAL CALORIES FROM 2524 01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:26,720 CARBS, AND ON THE LOW CARB HIGH 2525 01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:32,560 FAT MEALS, 10% CARB, 75% FAT, 2526 01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:34,120 15% PROTEIN. 2527 01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:40,040 SIM PEAT AS MUCH OR AS LITTLE AS 2528 01:23:40,040 --> 01:23:42,800 THEY'D LIKE ON THESE TWO DIETS. 2529 01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:43,760 POSTPRANDIAL RESPONSES FOR 2530 01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:47,360 INSULIN ON THE HIGH CARB LOW FAT 2531 01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:50,840 DIET WERE MUCH, MUCH HIGHER IN 2532 01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:52,960 THIS MIXED MEAL TEST OF 2533 01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:54,280 ISOCALORIC MEAL TESTS IN THESE 2534 01:23:54,280 --> 01:23:54,920 TWO GROUPS. 2535 01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:55,920 SO WE'RE SETTING UP THE 2536 01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:59,360 SITUATION WHERE THE HIGH CARB 2537 01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,520 DIET LEADS TO MUCH HIGHER 2538 01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:03,400 INSULIN LEVELS, KEEP THE FAT 2539 01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:05,200 TRAPPED IN THE FAT CELLS, CAUSE 2540 01:24:05,200 --> 01:24:06,680 THEM TO BE MORE HUNGRY AND EAT 2541 01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:08,680 MORE CALORIES IF THE MODEL IS 2542 01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:09,360 CORRECT. 2543 01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:10,280 UNFORTUNATELY, WE SAW EXACTLY 2544 01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:14,080 THE ON SIT EFFECT. 2545 01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:15,160 OPPOSITE EFFECT. 2546 01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:16,640 IT WAS THE ONES THAT HAD THE 2547 01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:18,160 MUCH HIGHER INSULIN EXCURSIONS 2548 01:24:18,160 --> 01:24:20,120 THAT LED TO SUBSTANTIALLY LESS 2549 01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:21,440 CALORIE INTAKE IN THESE FOLKS. 2550 01:24:21,440 --> 01:24:23,040 THE SAME FOLKS AS COMPARED TO 2551 01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:27,960 WHEN THEY WERE ON THE LO LOW CAB 2552 01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:29,880 HIGH FAT DIET. 2553 01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:31,640 IN FACT EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL 2554 01:24:31,640 --> 01:24:33,960 OF THESE 20 FOLKS ATE FEWER 2555 01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:36,600 CALORIES ON THE HIGH CARB LOW 2556 01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:38,240 FAT DIET, DESPITE THE MUCH, MUCH 2557 01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:39,840 HIGHER LEVELS OF INSULIN IN THE 2558 01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:41,280 BLOOD. 2559 01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:44,840 THEY DID THIS WITHOUT ANY 2560 01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:45,840 DIFFERENCES IN THEIR APPETITE, 2561 01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:48,160 SO THEY RATED -- THEY BASICALLY 2562 01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:50,000 HAD THE SAME HUNGER SATISFACTION 2563 01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:51,000 FULLNESS AND EATING CAPACITY ON 2564 01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:55,720 BOTH OF THESE DIFFERENT MEALS. 2565 01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:57,320 AND NOT TOO SURPRISING, I GUESS, 2566 01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:59,120 THAT THEY WERE EATING 2567 01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:00,920 700-CALORIES PER DAY LESS ON THE 2568 01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:03,880 HIGH CARB LOW FAT DIET INSTEAD 2569 01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:05,360 OF KEEPING THE FAT TRAPPED IN 2570 01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:07,520 THE FAT CELLS THEIR OVERALL BODY 2571 01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:09,000 FAT MASS LOSS WAS GREATER DURING 2572 01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:11,720 THE HIGH CARB LOW FAT DIET AGAIN 2573 01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:12,880 DESPITE THE HIGHER INSULIN 2574 01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:17,520 LEVELS AS OPPOSED TO THE OTHER 2575 01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:17,720 GROUP. 2576 01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:19,760 I'M GOING TO DIVERT AWAY FROM 2577 01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:21,880 THE DIET WARS IN TERMS OF LOW 2578 01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:23,640 CARB AND LOW FAT DIET. 2579 01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:24,880 THESE WARS HAVE BEEN GOING ON 2580 01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:26,160 FOR DECADES AND DECADES. 2581 01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:27,560 THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO 2582 01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:29,000 SUBSIDE ANY TIME SOON, CERTAINLY 2583 01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:30,560 NOT FROM ONE STUDY LIKE I JUST 2584 01:25:30,560 --> 01:25:32,120 SHOWED YOU. 2585 01:25:32,120 --> 01:25:33,520 BUT SOMETHING OCCURRED TO ME 2586 01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:35,120 THAT I THOUGHT WAS KIND OF 2587 01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:35,560 INTERESTING. 2588 01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:38,160 IS THAT BOTH OF THESE DIETS 2589 01:25:38,160 --> 01:25:39,880 TYPICALLY RECOMMEND THAT PEOPLE 2590 01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:43,600 EAT AN ABUNDANCE OF NON-STARCHY 2591 01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:45,880 VEGETABLES, AND THEY TYPICALLY 2592 01:25:45,880 --> 01:25:47,800 ALSO PROVIDE -- THE WRITERS OF 2593 01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:49,160 DIET BOOKS PROVIDE A BUNCH OF 2594 01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:50,760 RECIPES ON HOW TO PREPARE MEALS 2595 01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:53,240 THAT MATCH THE QUALITIES OF 2596 01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:54,760 THEIR PROPOSED DIETS. 2597 01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:57,000 AND AS A RESULT, THEY STEER 2598 01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,600 PEOPLE AWAY FROM PREPACKAGED 2599 01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:01,280 FOODS, THE SORT OF READY TO EAT, 2600 01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:02,920 READY TO HEAT MEALS THAT ARE 2601 01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:04,480 OFTEN IN THE FREEZER AISLES OF 2602 01:26:04,480 --> 01:26:05,640 THE SUPERMARKET. 2603 01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:07,040 AND SO IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT, 2604 01:26:07,040 --> 01:26:08,640 YOU KNOW, MAYBE ONE OF THE 2605 01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:09,800 THINGS THAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON 2606 01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:10,880 THAT CAN IMPROVE PEOPLE'S HEALTH 2607 01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:12,920 IS THAT THEY STEER PEOPLE AWAY 2608 01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:17,160 FROM VERY HIGHLY PROCESSED FOODS 2609 01:26:17,160 --> 01:26:21,240 AND TOWARDS PREPARING THEIR OWN 2610 01:26:21,240 --> 01:26:24,520 MEALS FROM WHOLE FOODS AND 2611 01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:25,000 CULINARY INGREDIENTS. 2612 01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,160 AND THIS SORT OF ALIGNED WITH 2613 01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:29,080 WHAT'S A RELATIVELY RECENT WAY 2614 01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:30,840 OF LOOKING AT FOODS THAT IS NOT 2615 01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:32,160 FOCUSED ON THE NUTRIENTS, PER 2616 01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:34,400 SE, BUT INSTEAD THE EXTENT AND 2617 01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:36,880 PURPOSE OF PROCESSING. 2618 01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:40,120 AND SO A GROUP IN BRAZIL HAS 2619 01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:41,160 PROPOSED THAT WE START 2620 01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:42,560 CLASSIFYING FOODS NOT BASED ON 2621 01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:44,160 THEIR NUTRIENTS BUT THE EXTENT 2622 01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:46,360 AND PURPOSE OF PROCESSING AND 2623 01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:47,880 DEVELOPING SOMETHING CALLED THE 2624 01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:49,280 NOVA CATEGORIZATION SYSTEM, 2625 01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:51,800 WHERE HE CLASSIFIES FOODS INTO 2626 01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:53,680 THESE FOUR DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. 2627 01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:55,320 UNPROCESSED OR MINIMALLY 2628 01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:57,000 PROCESSED FOODS, PROCESSED 2629 01:26:57,000 --> 01:26:58,640 CULINARY INGREDIENTS, AND 2630 01:26:58,640 --> 01:26:59,720 PROCESSED FOODS WHICH ARE 2631 01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:01,080 ESSENTIALLY COMBINATIONINGS OF 2632 01:27:01,080 --> 01:27:02,880 GROUP 1 AND GROUP 2 FOODS AND 2633 01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:05,560 THEN FINALLY, THIS FOURTH 2634 01:27:05,560 --> 01:27:07,680 CATEGORY, WHICH IS THE BAD GUY, 2635 01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:09,920 THE ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS WHICH 2636 01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,000 ARE DEFINED AS FORMULATIONS OF 2637 01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:13,520 SEVERAL INGREDIENTS THAT INCLUDE 2638 01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:15,320 ORIGINAL OR CHEMICALLY MODIFIED 2639 01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:16,960 FOOD SUBSTANCES OBTAINED WITH 2640 01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:18,480 THE FRACTIONING OF WHOLE FOODS 2641 01:27:18,480 --> 01:27:21,120 AND ADDITIVES USED TO MAKE THE 2642 01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:24,160 FINAL PRODUCT PALATABLE OR 2643 01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:25,440 HYPERPALATABLE, AND THE AIM IS 2644 01:27:25,440 --> 01:27:27,280 TO MAKE CONVENIENT TASTE FULL 2645 01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:29,240 AND LOW COST PRODUCTS LIABLE TO 2646 01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:30,400 REPLACE ALL OTHER NOVA FOOD 2647 01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:30,960 GROUPS. 2648 01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:33,120 WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT THIS 2649 01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:35,800 CATEGORIZATION THAT IGNORES 2650 01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:36,880 NUTRIENTS AND DOESN'T TALK MUCH 2651 01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:40,160 ABOUT CALORIES, I WAS VERY 2652 01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:40,440 SKEPTICAL. 2653 01:27:40,440 --> 01:27:42,080 THE FOLKS WHO INTRODUCED ME TO 2654 01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:44,200 THIS IDEA SHOWED ME DOZENS OF 2655 01:27:44,200 --> 01:27:45,760 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES LINKING 2656 01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:48,560 ULTRAPROCESSED FOOD INTAKE TO 2657 01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:50,480 OBESITY, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I 2658 01:27:50,480 --> 01:27:52,120 ASKED THEM IS WELL WHAT ARE THE 2659 01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:53,080 POTENTIAL MECHANISMS? 2660 01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:54,240 WHAT THEY CAME BACK TO ME WITH 2661 01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:55,760 WAS BASICALLY A LIST OF 2662 01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:56,000 NUTRIENTS. 2663 01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:58,240 THEY SAID, WELL, ULTRAPROCESSED 2664 01:27:58,240 --> 01:27:59,560 FOODS TEND TO BE HIGH IN SALT, 2665 01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:01,120 SUGAR AND FAT AND LOW IN FIBER 2666 01:28:01,120 --> 01:28:03,240 AND THAT PROMOTES OVEREATING. 2667 01:28:03,240 --> 01:28:05,040 AND I SAID WELL, YOU KNOW, 2668 01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:07,200 THAT'S INTERESTING, BUT YOU JUST 2669 01:28:07,200 --> 01:28:09,640 LISTED A BUNCH OF NUTRIENTS AND 2670 01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:11,840 YOU JUST -- AND YET, YOU KNOW, 2671 01:28:11,840 --> 01:28:13,080 THIS NOVA CATEGORIZATION SYSTEM 2672 01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:14,720 IS NOT REALLY ABOUT THE 2673 01:28:14,720 --> 01:28:15,480 NUTRIENTS. 2674 01:28:15,480 --> 01:28:17,760 SO COULD WE DESIGN A STUDY THAT 2675 01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:19,120 ACTUALLY MATCHED FOR THESE KNEW 2676 01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:22,600 TREENDZ OF CONCERN BUT VARIED IN 2677 01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:23,600 THE DEGREE OF INDUSTRIAL 2678 01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:24,040 PROCESSING? 2679 01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:28,480 AND SO WE DESIGNED ANOTHER STUDY 2680 01:28:28,480 --> 01:28:29,680 VERY SIMILAR TO THE DESIGN OF 2681 01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:31,520 THE LAST STUDY I SHOWED YOU 2682 01:28:31,520 --> 01:28:32,840 WHERE AGAIN PEOPLE SPENT FOUR 2683 01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:34,400 WEEKS CONTINUOUSLY ON OUR 2684 01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:36,040 METABOLIC WARD, 24 HOURS A DAY, 2685 01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:38,040 7 DAYS A WEEK, AND AGAIN, WE 2686 01:28:38,040 --> 01:28:39,840 TOOK OVER THEIR FOOD ENVIRONMENT 2687 01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:41,440 AND GAVE THEM VERY SIMPLE 2688 01:28:41,440 --> 01:28:42,680 INSTRUCTIONS TO EAT AS MUCH OR 2689 01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:45,840 AS LITTLE OF THE FOOD AS WAS 2690 01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:47,480 DESIRED, AND IN THIS CASE, WE 2691 01:28:47,480 --> 01:28:49,760 RANDOMIZED THEM TO EITHER A 2692 01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:51,440 ULTRAPROCESSED DIET OR AN 2693 01:28:51,440 --> 01:28:53,920 UNPROCESSED DIET FOR TWO WEEKS 2694 01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:55,480 AND THEN THEY SWAPPED TO THE 2695 01:28:55,480 --> 01:28:56,360 ALTERNATE DIET. 2696 01:28:56,360 --> 01:28:58,480 AND AGAIN, WE BA BASICALLY TOLD 2697 01:28:58,480 --> 01:29:00,000 THEM WE'RE INTERESTED IN HOW 2698 01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:02,800 THESE DIETS AFFECT YOUR HEALTH, 2699 01:29:02,800 --> 01:29:05,400 EAT AS MUCH OR AS LITTLE AS 2700 01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:06,560 YOU'D LIKE, IT'S NOT A WEIGHT 2701 01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:07,640 LOSS OR WEIGHT GAIN STUDY. 2702 01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:08,560 HERE'S WHAT THE MEALS LOOKED 2703 01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:09,840 LIKE. 2704 01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:10,680 SO HERE'S ONE OF THE SEVEN DAYS 2705 01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:14,200 OF THE ULTRAPROCESSED MEALS, AND 2706 01:29:14,200 --> 01:29:18,000 CRITICALLY OUR TALENTED 2707 01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:19,680 DIETITIANS MATCHED THE OVERALL 2708 01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:21,600 MENUS FOR THE PRESENTED CALORIE, 2709 01:29:21,600 --> 01:29:26,600 THE FAT, THE CARBS, SODIUM, 2710 01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:27,560 FIBER, GLYCEMIC LOAD AND IN THIS 2711 01:29:27,560 --> 01:29:29,840 CASE OF THE ULTRATRA PROCESSED 2712 01:29:29,840 --> 01:29:32,200 MEALS, 80% OF THE CALORIES CAME 2713 01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:33,840 FROM THE CATEGORY FOR 2714 01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:34,520 ULTRAPROCESSED FOOD GROUP. 2715 01:29:34,520 --> 01:29:36,560 IN THE UNPROCESSED GROUP, AGAIN, 2716 01:29:36,560 --> 01:29:40,480 MATCHED FOR THOSE NUTRIENTS AND 2717 01:29:40,480 --> 01:29:41,880 PROPERTIES, 80% OF CALORIES CAME 2718 01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:47,720 FROM THE KA CATEGORY 1 GROUP AN% 2719 01:29:47,720 --> 01:29:49,760 CAME FROM ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS. 2720 01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:51,280 BECAUSE THEY WERE MATCHED FOR 2721 01:29:51,280 --> 01:29:53,200 NUTRIENTS OF CONCERN, MY 2722 01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:54,600 HYPOTHESIS WAS THAT WE WOULDN'T 2723 01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:55,600 SEE MUCH DIFFERENCE IN CALORIE 2724 01:29:55,600 --> 01:29:56,600 INTAKE. 2725 01:29:56,600 --> 01:29:57,720 AND SO THESE FOLKS DID WHAT THEY 2726 01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:00,840 WERE ASKED, THEY AGAIN ATE THE 2727 01:30:00,840 --> 01:30:02,680 SAME DEGREE OF HUNGER, FULLNESS, 2728 01:30:02,680 --> 01:30:04,120 SATISFACTION OR EATING CAPACITY 2729 01:30:04,120 --> 01:30:05,560 ON THESE TWO DIFFERENT DIETS. 2730 01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:08,080 BUT IN THE CASE OF THE 2731 01:30:08,080 --> 01:30:09,200 ULTRAPROCESSED FOOD, CONTRARY TO 2732 01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:11,240 MY EXPECTATIONS, THEY ENDED UP 2733 01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:13,600 EATING ABOUT 500-CALORIES PER 2734 01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,240 DAY MORE THAN THE SAME FOLKS 2735 01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:18,080 DURING THE UNPROCESSED DIET. 2736 01:30:18,080 --> 01:30:22,280 AND THAT LED TO BODY FAT GAIN 2737 01:30:22,280 --> 01:30:23,600 SPONTANEOUSLY IN THE 2738 01:30:23,600 --> 01:30:24,880 ULTRAPROCESSED DIET VERSUS BODY 2739 01:30:24,880 --> 01:30:27,120 FAT LOSS IN THE UNPROCESSED DIET 2740 01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:32,560 IN THESE VERY SAME PEOPLE THAT 2741 01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:33,400 SPENT, AGAIN, 28 CONTINUOUS DAYS 2742 01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:38,920 ON OUR METABOLIC UNIT. 2743 01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:41,120 SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IN TERMS 2744 01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:43,800 OF THE FEEDBACK AND WHERE WE 2745 01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:45,360 SETTLE IN TERMS OF OUR ENERGY 2746 01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:46,360 EXPENDITURE? 2747 01:30:46,360 --> 01:30:49,320 ONE POSSIBILITY IS THAT OUR FOOD 2748 01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:52,640 ENVIRONMENT SEEMS TO AFFECT THE 2749 01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:53,880 LOCATION OF THIS CURVE. 2750 01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:57,680 IN OTHER WORDS, AN 2751 01:30:57,680 --> 01:30:58,320 ULTRAPROCESSED FOOD ENVIRONMENT 2752 01:30:58,320 --> 01:30:59,880 SHIFTS THE CURVE UPWARDS, PEOPLE 2753 01:30:59,880 --> 01:31:01,440 NOT TRYING TO CHANGE THEIR 2754 01:31:01,440 --> 01:31:02,840 WEIGHT SPONTANEOUSLY EAT MANY, 2755 01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:03,720 MANY MORE CALORIES AND THAT WILL 2756 01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:05,040 GIVE RISE OVER TIME TO WEIGHT 2757 01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:08,760 GAIN AND REEQUILIBRATION AT A 2758 01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:10,520 MUCH HIGHER ENERGY INTAKE AND A 2759 01:31:10,520 --> 01:31:11,760 MUCH HIGHER ENERGY EXPENDITURE 2760 01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:13,360 AND A MUCH HIGHER BODY WEIGHT. 2761 01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:16,320 AND SO MAYBE THIS IS WHAT'S 2762 01:31:16,320 --> 01:31:19,240 UNDERLYING THIS INCREASE IN 2763 01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:20,360 ADULT BODY WEIGHT THAT IS 2764 01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:22,240 CHARACTERISTIC OF OBESITY 2765 01:31:22,240 --> 01:31:23,800 EPIDEMIC THAT THE U.S. IS 2766 01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:25,160 EXPERIENCED OVER THE PAST 50 2767 01:31:25,160 --> 01:31:26,840 YEARS. 2768 01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:28,200 INDEED THE KIND OF QUALITY OF 2769 01:31:28,200 --> 01:31:30,520 THE DIET IN AMERICA HAS CHANGED 2770 01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:32,720 QUITE SUBSTANTIALLY SUCH THAT 2771 01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:34,200 NOW THE DIET IS COMPRISED OF 2772 01:31:34,200 --> 01:31:37,600 MORE THAN 50% OF CALORIES COMING 2773 01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:39,320 FROM ULTRAPROCESSED FOOD AND A 2774 01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:43,160 DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF 2775 01:31:43,160 --> 01:31:45,200 CALORIES THAT ARE CONSUMED FROM 2776 01:31:45,200 --> 01:31:47,680 ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS OR CULINARY 2777 01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:48,560 INGREDIENTS INDICATING THAT MORE 2778 01:31:48,560 --> 01:31:50,240 PEOPLE ARE EATING PREPREPARED 2779 01:31:50,240 --> 01:31:51,400 MEALS EITHER AT HOME OR AWAY 2780 01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:51,800 FROM HOME. 2781 01:31:51,800 --> 01:31:52,840 IN FACT, ONE OF THE THINGS 2782 01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:54,480 THAT'S VERY INTERESTING ALSO IS 2783 01:31:54,480 --> 01:31:58,000 THAT THE AMOUNT OF CALORIE 2784 01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:01,120 INTAKE REQUIRED TO EXPLAIN THE 2785 01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:03,400 INCREASE IN BODY WEIGHT THAT'S 2786 01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:05,760 OBSERVED IN AMERICA OVER THE 2787 01:32:05,760 --> 01:32:07,400 PAST 50 YEARS IS MUCH, MUCH LESS 2788 01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:09,080 THAN THE INCREASE IN CALORIES IN 2789 01:32:09,080 --> 01:32:13,120 THE FOOD SUPPLY, EITHER MEASURED 2790 01:32:13,120 --> 01:32:14,960 BY THE USDA OR THE UNITED 2791 01:32:14,960 --> 01:32:15,800 NATIONS FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2792 01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:16,480 ORGANIZATION. 2793 01:32:16,480 --> 01:32:17,840 SO I'M PLOTTING HERE THE BLACK 2794 01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:19,760 LINE IS WHAT WOULD BE EXPECTED 2795 01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:22,840 TO MAINTAIN THAT HIGHER ADULT 2796 01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:24,360 BODY WEIGHT THAT AMOUNTS TO 2797 01:32:24,360 --> 01:32:25,840 ABOUT 250-CALORIES PER DAY 2798 01:32:25,840 --> 01:32:27,240 INCREASE SINCE THE 1970s, 2799 01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:28,600 WHEREAS THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF 2800 01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:31,360 CALORIES IN THE FOOD SUPPLY IS 2801 01:32:31,360 --> 01:32:32,880 ESTIMATED BY THESE FOOD BALANCE 2802 01:32:32,880 --> 01:32:35,000 SHEETS HAS INCREASED PER CAPITA 2803 01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:36,920 BY A MUCH, MUCH GREATER EXTENT. 2804 01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:38,440 IN FACT, THAT PREDIBTS THAT 2805 01:32:38,440 --> 01:32:41,160 THERE'S AN INCREASE IN FOOD 2806 01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:43,360 WASTE ON A PER CAPITA BASIS, SO 2807 01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:44,760 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE 2808 01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:46,400 CURVES IS BASICALLY THE BLUE 2809 01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:49,000 LINE HERE, CALCULATED FROM OUR 2810 01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:51,560 MODEL, AND IF WE GO TO THE 2811 01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:52,200 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, 2812 01:32:52,200 --> 01:32:53,960 THEY ACTUALLY KEEP TRACK OF WHAT 2813 01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:56,200 IS DUMPED IN LANDFILLS AND ONE 2814 01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:57,400 OF THE PIECES OF DATA THEY 2815 01:32:57,400 --> 01:32:59,200 PUBLISH IS THE AMOUNT OF SOLID 2816 01:32:59,200 --> 01:33:01,000 FOOD WASTE. 2817 01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:02,640 THEY DON'T PUBLISH THE DATA PER 2818 01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:03,800 CAPITA, BUT WE CALCULATED THEIR 2819 01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:05,160 DATA PER CAPITA AND THERE'S BEEN 2820 01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:08,360 AN EXACTLY PARALLEL 50% 2821 01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:09,240 PROGRESSIVE INCREASE IN FOOD 2822 01:33:09,240 --> 01:33:11,960 WASTE SINCE THE 1970s. 2823 01:33:11,960 --> 01:33:13,480 SO THIS REALLY SUGGESTS 2824 01:33:13,480 --> 01:33:15,280 SOMETHING KIND OF STRIKING WHICH 2825 01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:18,800 IS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN SO GOOD AT 2826 01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:21,840 GROWING THESE STAPLE CROPS OF 2827 01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:24,480 SOY AND WEIGHT AND CORN WITH 2828 01:33:24,480 --> 01:33:26,880 VERY HIGH YIELDS AND HAVE TURNED 2829 01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:29,120 THESE VERY CHEAP COMMODITY 2830 01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:32,760 INGREDIENTS INTO THIS MYRIAD OF 2831 01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:33,480 ULTRAPROCESSED FOOD PRODUCTS 2832 01:33:33,480 --> 01:33:36,480 THAT ARE ENGINEERED TO BE 2833 01:33:36,480 --> 01:33:37,240 PALATABLE AND CONVENIENT AND 2834 01:33:37,240 --> 01:33:39,440 HAVE ALL SORTS OF WONDERFUL 2835 01:33:39,440 --> 01:33:43,360 PROPERTIES, LONG SHELF LIFE AND 2836 01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:43,880 RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE. 2837 01:33:43,880 --> 01:33:46,400 AND WE HAVE NOW A FOOD SYSTEM 2838 01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:49,000 THAT IS DOMINATED BY THESE 2839 01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:50,840 PRODUCTS IN THE U.S. 2840 01:33:50,840 --> 01:33:53,240 AND SO ONE HYPOTHESIS IS THAT 2841 01:33:53,240 --> 01:33:54,720 THIS INCREASED RELIANCE AND 2842 01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:56,160 INCREASED SHARE OF 2843 01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:57,720 ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS IN THE U.S. 2844 01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:01,200 FOOD SUPPLY AND INDEED AROUND 2845 01:34:01,200 --> 01:34:03,880 THE WORLD IN INCREASING AMOUNTS 2846 01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:04,800 HAS POTENTIALLY INCREASED 2847 01:34:04,800 --> 01:34:05,880 OBESITY. 2848 01:34:05,880 --> 01:34:07,400 AND THAT'S THE RESULT OF YEARS 2849 01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:09,800 OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 2850 01:34:09,800 --> 01:34:11,880 CHANGES IN FARM TECHNOLOGY AND 2851 01:34:11,880 --> 01:34:14,520 POLICY THAT HAVE ESSENTIALLY U 2852 01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:16,080 USED CHEAP FOSSIL FUEL AND 2853 01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:18,640 HYBRID SEEDS TO GENERATE A 2854 01:34:18,640 --> 01:34:21,120 MASSIVE INCREASE IN YIELD AND 2855 01:34:21,120 --> 01:34:22,440 PRODUCTION OF THESE GRAIN 2856 01:34:22,440 --> 01:34:25,440 PRODUCTS LIKE CORN AND SOY AND 2857 01:34:25,440 --> 01:34:28,040 WHEAT, FOUND WAYS TO FEED THESE 2858 01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:29,880 GRAINS TO CATTLE AND OTHER 2859 01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:30,640 LIVESTOCK THAT WOULD NOT 2860 01:34:30,640 --> 01:34:32,360 NORMALLY EAT THOSE FOODS AS WELL 2861 01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:34,240 AS CONVERT THOSE GRAINS DIRECTLY 2862 01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:35,400 INTO THESE ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS 2863 01:34:35,400 --> 01:34:37,040 THAT HAVE THESE CHEAP INPUTS 2864 01:34:37,040 --> 01:34:39,680 LEADING TO THE CONVENIENT AND 2865 01:34:39,680 --> 01:34:40,360 INEXPENSIVE ULTRAPROCESSED FOOD 2866 01:34:40,360 --> 01:34:42,280 IN THE FOOD SUPPLY, AND THE 2867 01:34:42,280 --> 01:34:44,880 AMAZING THING TO ME IS THAT TWO 2868 01:34:44,880 --> 01:34:48,080 THIRDS OF THAT INCREASE IN FOODS 2869 01:34:48,080 --> 01:34:50,080 AVAILABLE IN THE FOOD SUPPLY 2870 01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:53,040 WENT IN THE TRASH AND ONLY 2871 01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:53,840 ONE-THIRD WAS ASSOCIATED WITH 2872 01:34:53,840 --> 01:34:55,560 THE INCREASE IN CALORIE INTAKE 2873 01:34:55,560 --> 01:34:57,680 REQUIRED TO EXPLAIN INCREASED 2874 01:34:57,680 --> 01:34:59,720 OBESITY IN THE UNITED STATES. 2875 01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:02,280 SO WITH THAT, I'LL END MY TALK 2876 01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:03,520 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE 2877 01:35:03,520 --> 01:35:04,120 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION. 2878 01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:13,840 THANK YOU. 2879 01:35:13,840 --> 01:35:14,880 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH SH KEVIN. 2880 01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:17,640 THAT IS CERTAINLY AN EXCITING 2881 01:35:17,640 --> 01:35:19,640 AND SOMEWHAT FRIGHTENING 2882 01:35:19,640 --> 01:35:25,080 PROSPECT THAT YOU -- WELL, AS 2883 01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:27,080 ANTICIPATED, WE HAVE LOTS OF 2884 01:35:27,080 --> 01:35:29,280 QUESTIONS. 2885 01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:32,760 SO OUR TIME GOES UNTIL 6:00, 2886 01:35:32,760 --> 01:35:39,840 WHEN THEY SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN. 2887 01:35:39,840 --> 01:35:40,960 SO I'M GOING TO ASK YOU SOME OF 2888 01:35:40,960 --> 01:35:43,120 THESE QUESTIONS AND PERHAPS 2889 01:35:43,120 --> 01:35:44,720 DON'T TRY AND GO TOO FAR I A WAY 2890 01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:55,240 SO WE CAN GET TO MOST OF THEM. 2891 01:35:56,160 --> 01:35:57,240 SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT IS 2892 01:35:57,240 --> 01:36:00,200 ASKED IS, HOW DOES HIGH BLOOD 2893 01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:04,680 PRESSURE RELATE TO THE FAT BRAIN 2894 01:36:04,680 --> 01:36:05,320 CARDIOENDOCRINE SYSTEM? 2895 01:36:05,320 --> 01:36:07,400 DOES BLOOD PRESSURE ITSELF 2896 01:36:07,400 --> 01:36:10,800 INFLUENCE THE FAT CELL BRAIN 2897 01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:12,760 ENDOCRINE SYSTEM? 2898 01:36:12,760 --> 01:36:15,400 YOUR RESULTS SEEM TO BE 2899 01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:16,400 INDEPENDENT OF BLOOD PRESSURE, 2900 01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:17,680 BUT ONE MIGHT EXPECT THAT BLOOD 2901 01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:20,440 PRESSURE COULD BE A GREAT 2902 01:36:20,440 --> 01:36:22,800 MITIGATING FACTOR, BECAUSE IT 2903 01:36:22,800 --> 01:36:25,080 COULD INFLUENCE THE 2904 01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:27,480 BETA-ADRENERGIC SYSTEM. 2905 01:36:27,480 --> 01:36:29,880 SO WOULD EITHER OF YOU WISH TO 2906 01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:30,760 COMMENT ABOUT THIS? 2907 01:36:30,760 --> 01:36:33,080 PERHAPS, AARON, YOU'D LIKE TO GO 2908 01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:34,280 FIRST. 2909 01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:35,000 >>SURE. 2910 01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:40,520 I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO 2911 01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:41,400 CONSIDER HOW BLOOD PRESSURE 2912 01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:44,960 INTERACTS WITH OTHER ASPECTS OF 2913 01:36:44,960 --> 01:36:47,600 THE CARDIOMETABOLIC SYSTEM. 2914 01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:51,120 AND SO THE FIRST QUESTION IS DO 2915 01:36:51,120 --> 01:36:53,040 PEOPLE WHO HAVE HIGHER BLOOD 2916 01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:54,880 PRESSURES, DO THEY HAVE HIGHER 2917 01:36:54,880 --> 01:36:57,240 LEVELS OF BROWN FAT -- ENERGY 2918 01:36:57,240 --> 01:36:58,240 PRESSURE, IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE 2919 01:36:58,240 --> 01:36:59,320 THE CASE FOR ANY NUMBER OF 2920 01:36:59,320 --> 01:37:00,800 DIFFERENT REASONS. 2921 01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:02,280 AND CERTAINLY WHERE YOU 2922 01:37:02,280 --> 01:37:04,560 INTERVENE IS GOING TO IMPACT 2923 01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:05,560 WHETHER OR NOT THE BLOOD 2924 01:37:05,560 --> 01:37:06,480 PRESSURE IS AFFECTED. 2925 01:37:06,480 --> 01:37:09,240 SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU WANT TO 2926 01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:13,040 DRIVE FAT -- WHITE FAT BREAKD 2927 01:37:13,040 --> 01:37:14,120 BREAKDOWN, TO BURN EXCESS FAT 2928 01:37:14,120 --> 01:37:17,440 AND YOU WANT TO INCREASE FAT 2929 01:37:17,440 --> 01:37:19,440 METABOLIC ACTIVITY TO REDUCE THE 2930 01:37:19,440 --> 01:37:21,400 AMOUNT THAT'S IN THE BODY, THE 2931 01:37:21,400 --> 01:37:23,760 ADRENERGIC SYSTEM IS THE 2932 01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:25,240 SIMPLEST CONCEPTUAL WAY BECAUSE 2933 01:37:25,240 --> 01:37:26,960 IT'S HARD WIRED INTO OUR SYSTEM, 2934 01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:28,480 SO YOU CAN HAVE AN INCREASE IN 2935 01:37:28,480 --> 01:37:29,400 BLOOD PRESSURE ON THE BACK END, 2936 01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:32,120 AS WE SAW WITH MIRABEGRON AND HE 2937 01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:33,240 IF HE DRIN BEFORE THAT IN YOU A 2938 01:37:33,240 --> 01:37:35,000 OF OUR PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER 2939 01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:37,800 GROUPS AS WELL. 2940 01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:38,680 CAREY, FOR EXAMPLE, IN 2941 01:37:38,680 --> 01:37:39,000 AUSTRALIA. 2942 01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:42,200 SO I THINK IT'S A GREAT POINT 2943 01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:45,200 THAT BLOOD PRESSURE HAS TO BE 2944 01:37:45,200 --> 01:37:48,880 ACCOUNTED FOR AND THERE ARE 2945 01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:50,000 INTERVENTIONS LIKELY TO BE MORE 2946 01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:51,520 SAFE AND NOT INVOLVE INCREASES 2947 01:37:51,520 --> 01:37:52,760 IN BLOOD PRESSURE BUT YOU NEVER 2948 01:37:52,760 --> 01:37:54,160 KNOW WHAT KIND OF COMMON 2949 01:37:54,160 --> 01:37:55,200 REGULATORY RESPONSE WILL COME UP 2950 01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:55,960 AND THEREFORE YOU HAVE TO 2951 01:37:55,960 --> 01:37:57,880 MONITOR IT CAREFULLY. 2952 01:37:57,880 --> 01:38:05,000 >>SO RELATED TO THAT IS THE 2953 01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:08,800 QUESTION OF WHETHER DISREGULATED 2954 01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:13,080 BROWN FAT ACTIVATION, IS THAT 2955 01:38:13,080 --> 01:38:18,320 ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGES IN HARD 2956 01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:20,720 COLD SENSITIVITY, OR IS IT THE 2957 01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:22,960 HARD COLD SENSITIVITY THAT DRIVE 2958 01:38:22,960 --> 01:38:24,880 THE PROCESS? 2959 01:38:24,880 --> 01:38:26,200 >>THAT'S A BILLION DOLLAR 2960 01:38:26,200 --> 01:38:26,720 QUESTION RIGHT THERE. 2961 01:38:26,720 --> 01:38:29,960 I WOULD SAY THAT THERE WAS A 2962 01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:32,000 VERY NICE WORK, SOME FROM OUR 2963 01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:36,360 COLLEAGUES IN CANADA, SOME WORK 2964 01:38:36,360 --> 01:38:37,880 THAT I KNOW MORE DIRECTLY FROM 2965 01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:42,280 OUR GROUP AT NIH LED BY KONG 2966 01:38:42,280 --> 01:38:44,600 CHEN AND -- AS THE FIRST AUTHOR 2967 01:38:44,600 --> 01:38:47,280 WHERE THEY LOOKED AT BROWN FAT 2968 01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:49,000 ACTIVITY AND COLD TOLERANCE IN A 2969 01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:50,440 GROUP OF MEN WITH OBESITY AND 2970 01:38:50,440 --> 01:38:53,720 THEN A GROUP OF MEN WHO ARE LE 2971 01:38:53,720 --> 01:38:54,560 LEAN. 2972 01:38:54,560 --> 01:38:55,920 AND THE MEAN RESULT OF THAT 2973 01:38:55,920 --> 01:38:59,760 STUDY WAS TO FIND THAT MEN WITH 2974 01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:03,080 OBESITY HAD LESS COLD TOLERANCE 2975 01:39:03,080 --> 01:39:05,400 AND LESS ABILITY TO GENERATE 2976 01:39:05,400 --> 01:39:09,320 HEAT THAN MEN WHO WERE LEAN, AND 2977 01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:13,040 PART OF THAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 2978 01:39:13,040 --> 01:39:14,080 THE MEN WITH LEANNESS AND THE 2979 01:39:14,080 --> 01:39:16,080 MEN WITH OBESITY IS THAT THE MEN 2980 01:39:16,080 --> 01:39:17,800 WITH OBESITY HAD LESS FUNCTIONAL 2981 01:39:17,800 --> 01:39:18,440 BROWN FAT. 2982 01:39:18,440 --> 01:39:20,040 IT WASN'T SO SIMPLE TO FORM A 2983 01:39:20,040 --> 01:39:20,640 DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE 2984 01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:22,920 TWO, BUT IT CERTAINLY DOES 2985 01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:25,920 APPEAR THAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE 2986 01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:27,720 DISREGULATED THAT ARE ASSOCIATED 2987 01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:31,880 WITH DEFICIENCIES IN COLD 2988 01:39:31,880 --> 01:39:32,160 RESPONSES. 2989 01:39:32,160 --> 01:39:34,600 HEAT, WE DIDN'T STUDY. 2990 01:39:34,600 --> 01:39:35,480 THAT IS A CLINICAL TRIAL THAT 2991 01:39:35,480 --> 01:39:37,880 SHOULD BE GOING ON SOON, BUT WE 2992 01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:38,560 DON'T KNOW THAT OTHER SIDE OF 2993 01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:40,240 IT, JUST COLD. 2994 01:39:40,240 --> 01:39:43,440 >>SO KEVIN, AS A QUESTION OF 2995 01:39:43,440 --> 01:39:45,840 WHETHER YOU THINK THE DRASTIC 2996 01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:47,600 DROP IN THE RESTING METABOLIC 2997 01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:53,000 RATE IN YOUR STUDY WHICH WAS 2998 01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:56,880 BROUGHT ON BY RAPID WEIGHT LOSS, 2999 01:39:56,880 --> 01:39:59,360 IS THAT SORT OF ANALOGOUS TO THE 3000 01:39:59,360 --> 01:40:02,760 BODY GOING INTO A KIND OF PANIC 3001 01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:06,320 MODE, SORT OF MAXIMIZING 3002 01:40:06,320 --> 01:40:12,320 CONSERVATION AND IF SO, IS THAT 3003 01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:15,240 LINKED TO THE ADRENERGIC NERVOUS 3004 01:40:15,240 --> 01:40:15,760 SYSTEM? 3005 01:40:15,760 --> 01:40:16,280 >>YEAH, GREAT QUESTION. 3006 01:40:16,280 --> 01:40:17,840 SO I THINK THERE'S KIND OF TWO 3007 01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:19,560 PHASES OF THIS, WHICH ARE 3008 01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:20,520 IMPORTANT TO KIND OF 3009 01:40:20,520 --> 01:40:21,400 DISTINGUISH. 3010 01:40:21,400 --> 01:40:23,760 ONE IS THE SORT OF ACTIVE WEIGHT 3011 01:40:23,760 --> 01:40:25,080 LOSS PHASE WHERE PEOPLE HAVE 3012 01:40:25,080 --> 01:40:27,120 DRASTICALLY CUT CALORIES AND ARE 3013 01:40:27,120 --> 01:40:30,320 CONTINUING TO LOSE WEIGHT, AND 3014 01:40:30,320 --> 01:40:34,680 IT SEEMS LIKE THAT RESPONSE THAT 3015 01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:36,080 DROP IN RESTING METABOLIC RATE 3016 01:40:36,080 --> 01:40:37,080 IS PROPORTIONAL TO HOW MUCH 3017 01:40:37,080 --> 01:40:38,800 PEOPLE HAVE CUT THEIR CALORIES 3018 01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:41,320 IN THEIR DIET. 3019 01:40:41,320 --> 01:40:44,040 AND IT SEEMS TO BE RELATED TO 3020 01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:45,400 SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM TONE, 3021 01:40:45,400 --> 01:40:47,640 IT SEEMS TO BE RELATED TO THE 3022 01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:49,680 DROP IN LEPTIN, IT MIGHT BE 3023 01:40:49,680 --> 01:40:51,840 RELATED TO THE THYROID ACCESS, 3024 01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:53,240 BUT THEN THERE'S THIS LONGER 3025 01:40:53,240 --> 01:40:55,160 TERM EFFECT WHICH WE OBSERVE 3026 01:40:55,160 --> 01:40:56,880 WHERE PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER 3027 01:40:56,880 --> 01:40:57,520 ACTIVELY LOSING WEIGHT, SO AT 3028 01:40:57,520 --> 01:40:59,320 SIX YEARS, THERE SEEMS TO BE 3029 01:40:59,320 --> 01:41:02,120 THIS CONTINUED SUPPRESSION OF 3030 01:41:02,120 --> 01:41:03,080 RESTING METABOLIC RATE. 3031 01:41:03,080 --> 01:41:05,320 DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY'RE NO 3032 01:41:05,320 --> 01:41:07,000 NO LONGER IN THIS NEGATIVE 3033 01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:07,760 ENERGY BALANCE STATE. 3034 01:41:07,760 --> 01:41:09,600 AND THE QUESTION IS, IS THERE 3035 01:41:09,600 --> 01:41:10,800 SOMETHING DIFFERENT GOING ON 3036 01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:12,000 THERE. 3037 01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:13,960 AND I THINK THAT THERE'S SOME 3038 01:41:13,960 --> 01:41:15,400 INTRIGUING DATA FROM OTHER 3039 01:41:15,400 --> 01:41:16,760 PEOPLE'S STUDIES THAT SUGGEST 3040 01:41:16,760 --> 01:41:20,400 THAT IT'S POSSIBLE THAT ONE OF 3041 01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:21,760 THE THINGS THAT'S INTERESTING IS 3042 01:41:21,760 --> 01:41:25,080 THAT OUR PARTICIPANTS HAD BECOME 3043 01:41:25,080 --> 01:41:25,680 VERY PHYSICALLY ACTIVE ON 3044 01:41:25,680 --> 01:41:26,040 AVERAGE. 3045 01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:27,640 THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF 3046 01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:29,120 VARIABILITY, BUT THE FOLKS WHO 3047 01:41:29,120 --> 01:41:31,080 HAD BECOME THE MOST PHYSICALLY 3048 01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:32,760 ACTIVE INDEED WERE THE ONES WHO 3049 01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:37,000 HAD THE GLAI THE GREATEST SUSTAD 3050 01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:38,160 REDUCTION IN THE RESTING 3051 01:41:38,160 --> 01:41:40,520 METABOLIC RATE OVER THE SIX YEAR 3052 01:41:40,520 --> 01:41:40,960 TIME PERIOD. 3053 01:41:40,960 --> 01:41:42,840 SO THERE'S AN INTRIGUING IDEA 3054 01:41:42,840 --> 01:41:44,520 THAT AS CHRONIC PHYSICAL 3055 01:41:44,520 --> 01:41:49,040 ACTIVITY INCREASES, PERHAPS THE 3056 01:41:49,040 --> 01:41:50,360 BODY IS LEARNING TO EXPEND LESS 3057 01:41:50,360 --> 01:41:54,080 ON OTHER ASPECTS OF MAYBE IMMUNE 3058 01:41:54,080 --> 01:41:55,440 SYSTEM FUNCTION IS GOING DOWN 3059 01:41:55,440 --> 01:41:56,880 BECAUSE INFLAMMATION IS 3060 01:41:56,880 --> 01:41:58,040 DECREASED BECAUSE OF THE 3061 01:41:58,040 --> 01:41:59,640 INCREASED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, 3062 01:41:59,640 --> 01:42:01,240 MAYBE LESS ENERGY IS SPENT ON 3063 01:42:01,240 --> 01:42:03,080 OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS. 3064 01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:04,880 UNFORTUNATELY WE JUST DON'T KNOW 3065 01:42:04,880 --> 01:42:07,080 HOW TO TIE EVERY CALORIE THAT WE 3066 01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:10,280 CAN MEASURE IN OUR INSTRUMENTS 3067 01:42:10,280 --> 01:42:12,000 TO EXACT BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF 3068 01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:13,320 DIFFERENT ORGANS AND DIFFERENT 3069 01:42:13,320 --> 01:42:14,120 CELL TYPES OF THE BODY. 3070 01:42:14,120 --> 01:42:15,280 THAT WOULD BE THE DREAM, RIGHT, 3071 01:42:15,280 --> 01:42:16,600 TO BE ABLE TO JUST COUNT UP ALL 3072 01:42:16,600 --> 01:42:18,480 THE FUNCTIONS OF ALL THE 3073 01:42:18,480 --> 01:42:19,840 DIFFERENT CELLS AND BE ABLE TO 3074 01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:22,160 ASSIGN AN ATP COST AND JUST SAY 3075 01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:23,760 OH, YES, WE CAN EXPLAIN EVERY 3076 01:42:23,760 --> 01:42:25,640 CALORIE THAT'S EXPENDED, BUT IT 3077 01:42:25,640 --> 01:42:29,240 IS AN INTERESTING OBSERVATION 3078 01:42:29,240 --> 01:42:31,600 THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, PEOPLE IN 3079 01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:32,200 HUNTER GATHERER TRIBES WHO ARE 3080 01:42:32,200 --> 01:42:33,560 VERY, VERY ACTIVE, THIS IS WORK 3081 01:42:33,560 --> 01:42:37,560 PRIMARILY FROM HER MAN PONZER'S 3082 01:42:37,560 --> 01:42:39,200 GROUP, BURN VERY, VERY SIMILAR 3083 01:42:39,200 --> 01:42:40,720 NUMBERS OF TOTAL CALORIES AS 3084 01:42:40,720 --> 01:42:42,160 SEDENTARY FOLKS WHO ARE MUCH 3085 01:42:42,160 --> 01:42:43,360 HEAVIER BUT THEN IF YOU ADJUST 3086 01:42:43,360 --> 01:42:47,200 FOR YOUR BODY COMPOSITION CHA 3087 01:42:47,200 --> 01:42:49,760 CHANGE, THEY END UP BURNING A 3088 01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:50,520 MYSTERIOUSLY SIMILAR AMOUNT OF 3089 01:42:50,520 --> 01:42:51,800 CALORIES DESPITE BEING MUCH, 3090 01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:53,920 MUCH MORE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE, 3091 01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:55,840 SUGGESTING THAT THEY'RE BURNING 3092 01:42:55,840 --> 01:42:57,360 FEWER CALORIES ON OTHER THINGS. 3093 01:42:57,360 --> 01:42:59,760 PERHAPS THE BIGGEST LOSERS ARE 3094 01:42:59,760 --> 01:43:00,800 ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THAT, WHO 3095 01:43:00,800 --> 01:43:04,600 HAVE CHRONICALLY RELAXED 3096 01:43:04,600 --> 01:43:06,480 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OVER A NUMBER 3097 01:43:06,480 --> 01:43:11,480 OF YEAST AND -- UNRELATED TO THE 3098 01:43:11,480 --> 01:43:13,360 NEGATIVE ENERGY BALANCE AND 3099 01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:14,680 WEIGHT LOSS WHICH WE OBSERVED 3100 01:43:14,680 --> 01:43:15,480 EARLY ON. 3101 01:43:15,480 --> 01:43:17,720 >>APROPOS OF THAT, AARON, I 3102 01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:18,800 GUESS THIS IS REALLY FOR YOU, 3103 01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:22,360 HAVE THERE BEEN STUDIES OF BROWN 3104 01:43:22,360 --> 01:43:28,000 FAT IN NORDIC PEOPLE, PEOPLE WHO 3105 01:43:28,000 --> 01:43:31,880 ARE LIVING UNDER LOWER 3106 01:43:31,880 --> 01:43:34,000 TEMPERATURE CONSISTENTLY AND 3107 01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:35,440 ADAPTING AND, FOR THE MOST PART, 3108 01:43:35,440 --> 01:43:41,800 ON A PRETTY HIGH FAT DIET? 3109 01:43:41,800 --> 01:43:43,640 >>YES, VERY LITTLE HAS BEEN 3110 01:43:43,640 --> 01:43:45,840 DONE SO FAR BECAUSE IT'S REALLY 3111 01:43:45,840 --> 01:43:48,520 HARD TO MEASURE BROWN FAT 3112 01:43:48,520 --> 01:43:50,600 ACTIVITY IN PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT 3113 01:43:50,600 --> 01:43:55,800 NEAR MRIs OR PET/KRCH T PET/CT . 3114 01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:58,400 SO THE ONLY THING THAT'S BEEN 3115 01:43:58,400 --> 01:44:02,000 DONE IS A STUDY BY STEPHANIE 3116 01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:04,000 LEVY'S GROUP, PEOPLE IN 3117 01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:04,880 NORTHEASTERN RUSSIAN FEDERATION 3118 01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:07,200 OUT IN THE SAHA REGION, AND THEY 3119 01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:11,080 USE INFRARED IMAGING WHICH HAS 3120 01:44:11,080 --> 01:44:12,040 ITS CHALLENGES TO USE, BULL IT 3121 01:44:12,040 --> 01:44:15,840 DID ABUT ITDID APPEAR BASED ON Y 3122 01:44:15,840 --> 01:44:17,000 SHOW IS THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IN 3123 01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:19,320 THE COLD TOLERANCE AND ENERGY 3124 01:44:19,320 --> 01:44:20,200 EXPENDITURE COMPARED TO PEOPLE 3125 01:44:20,200 --> 01:44:20,880 LIVING IN CHICAGO. 3126 01:44:20,880 --> 01:44:21,920 BUT THESE KINDS OF STUDIES NEED 3127 01:44:21,920 --> 01:44:26,480 TO BE REPEATED AND IDEALLY WITH 3128 01:44:26,480 --> 01:44:27,640 THE STATE OF THE ART MEASUREMENT 3129 01:44:27,640 --> 01:44:29,920 SO WE CAN GET BOTH AN ACCURATE 3130 01:44:29,920 --> 01:44:31,040 AND PRECISE ASSESSMENT OF THE 3131 01:44:31,040 --> 01:44:32,760 BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE AND ENERGY 3132 01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:34,880 EXPENDITURE AND COLD TOLERANCE 3133 01:44:34,880 --> 01:44:36,600 IN COMMUNITIES THAT WOULD HAVE 3134 01:44:36,600 --> 01:44:38,840 SPENT HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS 3135 01:44:38,840 --> 01:44:40,600 OF YEARS IN COLDER ENVIRONMENTS. 3136 01:44:40,600 --> 01:44:43,480 I WILL SAY THIS, THAT WE HAVE 3137 01:44:43,480 --> 01:44:45,880 STUDIED PEOPLE WHO CAME DIRECTLY 3138 01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:47,840 FROM CENTRAL AFRICA AND 3139 01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:48,800 PARTICIPATED IN THE CLINICAL 3140 01:44:48,800 --> 01:44:51,000 TRIALS WE'VE CONDUCTED AT THE 3141 01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:53,720 NIH AND THOSE AFRICAN MEN HAD A 3142 01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:54,640 LARGE AMOUNT OF BROWN FAT. 3143 01:44:54,640 --> 01:44:56,400 SO I DON'T THINK IT'S AS SIMPLE 3144 01:44:56,400 --> 01:44:58,080 AS SAYING THAT COMMUNITIES THAT 3145 01:44:58,080 --> 01:44:59,800 ARE IN HIGHER LATITUDES WILL 3146 01:44:59,800 --> 01:45:01,520 HAVE MORE BROWN FAT AND MORE 3147 01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:03,040 COLD TOLERANCE, IT'S ACTUALLY 3148 01:45:03,040 --> 01:45:04,920 MORE COMPLICATED AND IT MAY BE 3149 01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:06,200 BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO -- YOU 3150 01:45:06,200 --> 01:45:07,560 DRESS TO WHAT YOUR ENVIRONMENT 3151 01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:10,040 REQUIRES OF YOU, OR THAT BROWN 3152 01:45:10,040 --> 01:45:11,200 FAT IS INVOLVED IN MORE THAN 3153 01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:14,560 JUST COLD RESPONSE AND HAS OTHER 3154 01:45:14,560 --> 01:45:15,280 RESPONSE EXHIBITS AS WELL. 3155 01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:16,720 SO WE NEED TO SEPARATE THOSE TWO 3156 01:45:16,720 --> 01:45:17,480 AND GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT 3157 01:45:17,480 --> 01:45:18,760 IT. 3158 01:45:18,760 --> 01:45:21,080 >> I VISITED THE MEDICAL CENTER 3159 01:45:21,080 --> 01:45:26,480 IN FAIRBANKS ALASKA, WHERE THEY 3160 01:45:26,480 --> 01:45:29,120 HAVE A PET SCAN AND ALL THE 3161 01:45:29,120 --> 01:45:32,880 MODERN EQUIPMENT AND DEAL WITH 3162 01:45:32,880 --> 01:45:34,520 THIS POPULATION, PARTICULARLY 3163 01:45:34,520 --> 01:45:37,360 THE ANOMITE. 3164 01:45:37,360 --> 01:45:39,320 AT ANY RATE. 3165 01:45:39,320 --> 01:45:42,680 KEVIN, WHAT IS ULTRA PROCESSING 3166 01:45:42,680 --> 01:45:43,280 ACTUALLY -- WHAT DOES IT 3167 01:45:43,280 --> 01:45:43,760 INVOLVE? 3168 01:45:43,760 --> 01:45:46,240 IT'S A BIG WORD, IT'S A FANCY 3169 01:45:46,240 --> 01:45:47,800 WORD, BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN? 3170 01:45:47,800 --> 01:45:49,120 WHAT DO THEY ACTUALLY DO? 3171 01:45:49,120 --> 01:45:51,280 >>YEAH, SO, I MEAN, THERE ARE A 3172 01:45:51,280 --> 01:45:53,880 WHOLE BUNCH OF REALLY SMART FOOD 3173 01:45:53,880 --> 01:45:55,120 SCIENTISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS WHO 3174 01:45:55,120 --> 01:45:58,480 HAVE FOUND INGENIUS WAYS TO KIND 3175 01:45:58,480 --> 01:46:01,240 OF EXTRACT INGREDIENTS FROM 3176 01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:03,120 VARIOUS FOOD STUFFS, REPACKAGE 3177 01:46:03,120 --> 01:46:05,120 THEM AND REFORMULATE THEM IN 3178 01:46:05,120 --> 01:46:07,560 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE THEM 3179 01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:09,880 SHELF-STABLE AND LIMIT, YOU 3180 01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:15,640 KNOW, MICROBIAL ASPECTS TO KIND 3181 01:46:15,640 --> 01:46:17,320 OF MAKE VERY SAFE FOODS, MAKE 3182 01:46:17,320 --> 01:46:19,320 THEM CONVENIENT AND INEXPENSIVE, 3183 01:46:19,320 --> 01:46:23,880 AND ESSENTIALLY REFORMULATE FROM 3184 01:46:23,880 --> 01:46:25,640 KIND OF INGREDIENTS THAT ARE NO 3185 01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:27,280 LONGER SORT OF PHYSICALLY 3186 01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:31,120 IDENTIFIABLE WITH THE PLANTS AND 3187 01:46:31,120 --> 01:46:34,440 ANIMALS THAT THEY CAME FROM. 3188 01:46:34,440 --> 01:46:35,680 AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS IS, WHY 3189 01:46:35,680 --> 01:46:37,560 IS IT THAT THESE FOODS, WHICH 3190 01:46:37,560 --> 01:46:41,920 ARE NOW RELATED IN HUNDREDS OF 3191 01:46:41,920 --> 01:46:43,000 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES WITH 3192 01:46:43,000 --> 01:46:46,040 INCREASED RISK FOR OBESITY, TYPE 3193 01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:47,800 2 DIABETES, CARDIOVASCULAR 3194 01:46:47,800 --> 01:46:48,640 DISEASE, MANY FORMS OF CANCER 3195 01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:49,800 AND ALL OF THESE OTHER THINGS, 3196 01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:51,600 WHAT IS IT ABOUT THESE FOODS 3197 01:46:51,600 --> 01:46:53,480 THAT ARE CAUSING THESE PROBLEMS? 3198 01:46:53,480 --> 01:46:54,600 AND MY PARTICULAR INTEREST IS 3199 01:46:54,600 --> 01:46:55,760 WHAT IS IT ABOUT THESE FOODS 3200 01:46:55,760 --> 01:46:58,840 THAT CAUSE PEOPLE TO CLEARLY 3201 01:46:58,840 --> 01:47:01,760 OVEREAT AND GAIN WEIGHT AND GAIN 3202 01:47:01,760 --> 01:47:03,080 BODY FAT DESPITE THEM NOT TRYING 3203 01:47:03,080 --> 01:47:06,600 TO DO SO, EVEN WHEN YOU MATCH 3204 01:47:06,600 --> 01:47:09,120 THE OVERALL DIETS FOR THE 3205 01:47:09,120 --> 01:47:10,920 PRESENTED CALORIES, SALT, SHEUL 3206 01:47:10,920 --> 01:47:15,680 GAR, FAT, AND FIBER, AND 3207 01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:16,480 GLYCEMIC LOAD? 3208 01:47:16,480 --> 01:47:17,760 AND WE DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER. 3209 01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:19,640 THAT'S, I THINK, A GREAT 3210 01:47:19,640 --> 01:47:21,080 MYSTERY, AND I THINK WE NEED -- 3211 01:47:21,080 --> 01:47:22,960 GIVEN THAT THESE FOODS NOW MAKE 3212 01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:23,920 UP MORE THAN HALF OF THE U.S. 3213 01:47:23,920 --> 01:47:27,040 FOOD SUPPLY, I THINK WE NEED TO 3214 01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:28,200 KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT 3215 01:47:28,200 --> 01:47:28,440 QUESTION. 3216 01:47:28,440 --> 01:47:30,480 SO WE HAVE A STUDY ONGOING NOW 3217 01:47:30,480 --> 01:47:32,040 AT THE CLINICAL CENTER WHERE 3218 01:47:32,040 --> 01:47:34,040 WE'VE REFORMULATED THE 3219 01:47:34,040 --> 01:47:35,280 ULTRAPROCESSED DIET IN WAYS THAT 3220 01:47:35,280 --> 01:47:37,760 WE THINK MIGHT MITIGATE THE 3221 01:47:37,760 --> 01:47:41,240 INCREASE IN ENERGY INTAKE, AND I 3222 01:47:41,240 --> 01:47:42,720 THINK THAT WE'LL WAIT AND SEE 3223 01:47:42,720 --> 01:47:44,840 FOR THE RESULTS OF THAT IF WE'RE 3224 01:47:44,840 --> 01:47:45,720 SUCCESSFUL OR NOT. 3225 01:47:45,720 --> 01:47:48,160 BUT WE HAVE DESIGNED THESE NEW 3226 01:47:48,160 --> 01:47:50,560 ULTRAPROCESSED DIETS THAT STILL 3227 01:47:50,560 --> 01:47:54,800 MAINTAIN 80% OF CAL R CALORIES M 3228 01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:56,280 ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS BUT ARE NOW 3229 01:47:56,280 --> 01:47:57,640 BURIED IN OTHER NUTRITIONAL 3230 01:47:57,640 --> 01:47:59,000 PARAMETERS THAT WE THINK WILL 3231 01:47:59,000 --> 01:47:59,720 MITIGATE THOSE PROPERTIES. 3232 01:47:59,720 --> 01:48:01,280 BUT I THINK THAT THIS IS ONE OF 3233 01:48:01,280 --> 01:48:03,040 THE GREAT MYSTERIES, IS THAT 3234 01:48:03,040 --> 01:48:06,760 THERE'S THIS CLEAR SIGNAL THAT 3235 01:48:06,760 --> 01:48:08,640 CONSUMPTION OF THESE FOODS IS 3236 01:48:08,640 --> 01:48:10,680 PROBLEMATIC IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY. 3237 01:48:10,680 --> 01:48:12,000 THERE'S OUR TRIAL WHICH SHOWS 3238 01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:15,040 THAT THEY SEEM TO CAUSE PEOPLE 3239 01:48:15,040 --> 01:48:16,800 TO CONSUME EXCESS CALORIES. 3240 01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:21,920 WHAT'S THE MECHANISM? 3241 01:48:21,920 --> 01:48:23,280 AND WHAT IS IT ABOUT THESE FOODS 3242 01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:23,800 THAT CAUSES THAT? 3243 01:48:23,800 --> 01:48:25,080 WE JUST DON'T KNOW. 3244 01:48:25,080 --> 01:48:27,280 >>IS THERE A CULTURAL ELEMENT 3245 01:48:27,280 --> 01:48:28,200 TO IT? 3246 01:48:28,200 --> 01:48:30,200 I MEAN, THE PUBLIC, WE'RE ALL 3247 01:48:30,200 --> 01:48:32,840 SUBJECTED THROUGH ADVERTISING 3248 01:48:32,840 --> 01:48:34,960 AND EVERYTHING ELSE OF THESE 3249 01:48:34,960 --> 01:48:36,680 THINGS THAT NOT ONLY LOOK GOOD, 3250 01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:40,200 THEY TASTE GOOD, AND ALWAYS, THE 3251 01:48:40,200 --> 01:48:41,840 ACTORS AND ACTRESSES ARE USUALLY 3252 01:48:41,840 --> 01:48:44,720 SLIM AND TRIM AND VERY ACTIVE 3253 01:48:44,720 --> 01:48:45,080 AND SO FORTH. 3254 01:48:45,080 --> 01:48:46,280 IS THERE A CULTURAL THING? 3255 01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:49,880 IF YOU INTRODUCED A PROCESSED 3256 01:48:49,880 --> 01:48:51,520 FOOD THING AMONGST THE 3257 01:48:51,520 --> 01:48:53,920 POPULATION THAT'S NOT EXPOSED TO 3258 01:48:53,920 --> 01:48:55,160 THOSE CULTURAL THINGS, I DON'T 3259 01:48:55,160 --> 01:48:57,400 KNOW, MAYBE THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE, 3260 01:48:57,400 --> 01:48:57,600 BUT -- 3261 01:48:57,600 --> 01:48:59,760 >>THIS IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE 3262 01:48:59,760 --> 01:49:02,520 THINGS THAT FOLKS LIKE CARLOS 3263 01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:04,600 MONTERO IN BRAZIL WERE CONCERNED 3264 01:49:04,600 --> 01:49:05,920 ABOUT, BECAUSE IN THEIR COUNTRY, 3265 01:49:05,920 --> 01:49:09,080 WHEN HE INTRODUCED THE NOVA 3266 01:49:09,080 --> 01:49:10,040 CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM, MUCH, 3267 01:49:10,040 --> 01:49:11,640 MUCH LOWER PROPORTION OF THE 3268 01:49:11,640 --> 01:49:14,200 FOOD SUPPLY WAS COMING FROM 3269 01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:15,360 ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS, AND YET 3270 01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:16,960 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS BEEN 3271 01:49:16,960 --> 01:49:20,080 CLEAR IS SOMETHING THAT BARRY 3272 01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:21,680 POPKIN IN NORTH CAROLINA HAS 3273 01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:23,120 MENTIONED AS DIFFERENT CULTURES 3274 01:49:23,120 --> 01:49:25,120 UNDERGO WHAT'S CALLED THE 3275 01:49:25,120 --> 01:49:25,880 NUTRITION TRANSITION, AS THEY 3276 01:49:25,880 --> 01:49:27,280 BECOME RICH ENOUGH TO START TO 3277 01:49:27,280 --> 01:49:29,160 KIND OF MOVE OUT OF POVERTY AND 3278 01:49:29,160 --> 01:49:32,400 AFFORD THE KINDS OF LIFESTYLE 3279 01:49:32,400 --> 01:49:33,760 THAT WE IN THE WEST ARE 3280 01:49:33,760 --> 01:49:35,760 FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE, ONE OF 3281 01:49:35,760 --> 01:49:36,880 THE THINGS THAT THEY DO IS THEY 3282 01:49:36,880 --> 01:49:40,320 CHANGE THEIR DIETS QUITE 3283 01:49:40,320 --> 01:49:40,640 DRAMATICALLY. 3284 01:49:40,640 --> 01:49:42,200 THE LOWER AMOUNTS OF THEIR 3285 01:49:42,200 --> 01:49:44,480 INCOME IS SPENT ON FOODS AND 3286 01:49:44,480 --> 01:49:47,040 THOSE FOODS BECOME RELATIVELY 3287 01:49:47,040 --> 01:49:49,760 ACCESSIBLE AND EASIER TO EAT. 3288 01:49:49,760 --> 01:49:51,520 AND SO EVEN IN THOSE COUNTRIES, 3289 01:49:51,520 --> 01:49:53,360 WE SEE THAT THE INCREASE -- AS 3290 01:49:53,360 --> 01:49:54,880 ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS INCREASE, 3291 01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:58,560 THERE IS A CORRELATION WITH 3292 01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:00,240 INCREASING RATES OF OBESITY AND 3293 01:50:00,240 --> 01:50:01,480 EVEN WITHIN THE POPULATIONS, YOU 3294 01:50:01,480 --> 01:50:04,960 CAN LOOK AT A CORRELATION 3295 01:50:04,960 --> 01:50:07,440 BETWEEN -- IN PROSPECTIVE 3296 01:50:07,440 --> 01:50:08,840 LONGITUDINAL STUDIES AS WELL AS 3297 01:50:08,840 --> 01:50:09,840 CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES, THOSE 3298 01:50:09,840 --> 01:50:11,600 WHO EAT MORE ULTRAPROCESSED 3299 01:50:11,600 --> 01:50:13,080 FOODS TEND TO HAVE GREATER RATES 3300 01:50:13,080 --> 01:50:14,080 OF EE BEES IT. 3301 01:50:14,080 --> 01:50:15,680 AGAIN, WHY, WE DON'T KNOW. 3302 01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:17,000 THE GOAL WOULD BE TO FIGURE OUT 3303 01:50:17,000 --> 01:50:19,240 WHAT THE MECHANISM IS SO WE CAN 3304 01:50:19,240 --> 01:50:20,600 INFORM PRODUCT REFORMULATIONS 3305 01:50:20,600 --> 01:50:22,280 AND FOREIGN POLICY MAKERS TO 3306 01:50:22,280 --> 01:50:23,880 WHAT THE REAL PROBLEMS ARE. 3307 01:50:23,880 --> 01:50:25,360 WHEN YOU HAVE A SYSTEM RIGHT NOW 3308 01:50:25,360 --> 01:50:28,840 LIKE THE NOVA SYSTEM THAT 3309 01:50:28,840 --> 01:50:29,440 BASICALLY DEMONIZES MORE THAN 3310 01:50:29,440 --> 01:50:32,920 HALF OF THE FOOD SUPPLY, IT'S 3311 01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:35,400 NOT A VIABLE RECOMMENDATION TO 3312 01:50:35,400 --> 01:50:37,160 JUST CUT HALF OF THE FOOD SUPPLY 3313 01:50:37,160 --> 01:50:38,000 OUT OF THE FOOD SUPPLY. 3314 01:50:38,000 --> 01:50:39,600 YOU HAVE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND 3315 01:50:39,600 --> 01:50:42,240 WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE IN ORDER 3316 01:50:42,240 --> 01:50:43,640 TO ADDRESS THEM, EITHER WITH 3317 01:50:43,640 --> 01:50:47,760 POLICY OR WITH REFORMULATIONS. 3318 01:50:47,760 --> 01:50:49,720 >>STUDIES OF THE TYPE THAT 3319 01:50:49,720 --> 01:50:51,840 EITHER OF YOU DESCRIBE BEEN 3320 01:50:51,840 --> 01:50:55,560 PERFORMED IN NATIVE AMERICAN 3321 01:50:55,560 --> 01:50:57,440 POPULATIONS, PARTICULARLY THOSE 3322 01:50:57,440 --> 01:50:59,200 LIVING ON A RESERVATION WHERE 3323 01:50:59,200 --> 01:51:02,680 THE AVAILABILITY OF FRESH 3324 01:51:02,680 --> 01:51:04,480 FOODS IS PROFOUNDLY LIMITED AND 3325 01:51:04,480 --> 01:51:08,120 IN SOME INSTANCES, THERE IS 3326 01:51:08,120 --> 01:51:11,280 ACTUALLY GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR 3327 01:51:11,280 --> 01:51:13,800 FAST FOODS. 3328 01:51:13,800 --> 01:51:14,800 HAVE THOSE POPULATIONS BEEN 3329 01:51:14,800 --> 01:51:17,000 STUDIED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF 3330 01:51:17,000 --> 01:51:18,400 THE ISSUES THAT BOTH OF YOU DEAL 3331 01:51:18,400 --> 01:51:23,680 WITH? 3332 01:51:23,680 --> 01:51:26,040 >>I CERTAINLY KNOW OUR 3333 01:51:26,040 --> 01:51:29,360 COLLEAGUES IN PHOENIX AT THE 3334 01:51:29,360 --> 01:51:31,680 NIDDK BRANCH OUT THERE STUDIED 3335 01:51:31,680 --> 01:51:32,360 THEM EXTENSIVELY. 3336 01:51:32,360 --> 01:51:34,360 I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'VE LOOKED 3337 01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:35,720 AT ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS BUT 3338 01:51:35,720 --> 01:51:37,240 THEY'VE CERTAINLY MEASURED 3339 01:51:37,240 --> 01:51:38,640 VARIOUS ASPECTS OF ENERGY 3340 01:51:38,640 --> 01:51:40,920 METABOLISM AND FOOD INTAKE, AND 3341 01:51:40,920 --> 01:51:42,960 AARON MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH ANY 3342 01:51:42,960 --> 01:51:43,960 BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE STUDIES, 3343 01:51:43,960 --> 01:51:47,160 BUT I'M NOT AWARE OF -- IF 3344 01:51:47,160 --> 01:51:49,360 THEY'VE FOCUSED ON THAT. 3345 01:51:49,360 --> 01:51:52,840 >>BOTH OF YOU -- GO AHEAD, 3346 01:51:52,840 --> 01:51:53,120 AARON. 3347 01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:54,800 >>I WAS GOING TO SUPPORT WHAT 3348 01:51:54,800 --> 01:51:56,400 KEVIN JUST SAID, THAT OUR 3349 01:51:56,400 --> 01:51:58,120 COLLEAGUES HAVE DONE SOME VERY 3350 01:51:58,120 --> 01:52:04,160 EXTENSIVE STUDIES LOOKING AT THE 3351 01:52:04,160 --> 01:52:04,680 PIMA INDIANS. 3352 01:52:04,680 --> 01:52:06,800 THERE WAS A PAPER PUBLISHED LIKE 3353 01:52:06,800 --> 01:52:08,480 30 YEARS AGO SHOWING THAT THEIR 3354 01:52:08,480 --> 01:52:10,120 DIETS HAVE CHANGED AND THAT 3355 01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:12,720 MIGHT BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE 3356 01:52:12,720 --> 01:52:14,360 HIGH RATES OF OBESITY AND 3357 01:52:14,360 --> 01:52:17,920 DIABETES THAT ARE SEEN IN THOSE 3358 01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:19,400 POPULATIONS, BUT NOT 3359 01:52:19,400 --> 01:52:20,160 SPECIFICALLY ULTRAPROCESSED 3360 01:52:20,160 --> 01:52:21,600 FOODS PER SE AS OPPOSED TO THE 3361 01:52:21,600 --> 01:52:23,000 KINDS OF DETAILED STUDIES THAT 3362 01:52:23,000 --> 01:52:24,640 KEVIN IS CONDUCTING. 3363 01:52:24,640 --> 01:52:27,440 >> HMMM. 3364 01:52:27,440 --> 01:52:30,680 THAT'S INTERESTING. 3365 01:52:30,680 --> 01:52:33,600 SO IS A KETOGENIC DIET -- DOES 3366 01:52:33,600 --> 01:52:36,520 IT HAVE ANY ADVANTAGES AS A 3367 01:52:36,520 --> 01:52:37,040 DIET, PER SE? 3368 01:52:37,040 --> 01:52:38,280 WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS? 3369 01:52:38,280 --> 01:52:40,920 THAT SEEMS TO BE ALMOST THE 3370 01:52:40,920 --> 01:52:43,280 LATEST RAGE. 3371 01:52:43,280 --> 01:52:45,840 >>SO THE STUDY THAT I SHOWED 3372 01:52:45,840 --> 01:52:48,840 WITH THE VERY LOW CARBOHYDRATE, 3373 01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:51,120 HIGH FAT DIET, THAT WAS A 3374 01:52:51,120 --> 01:52:52,160 KETOGENIC DIET. 3375 01:52:52,160 --> 01:52:54,160 THERE ARE VERY HEALTHY VERSIONS 3376 01:52:54,160 --> 01:52:57,560 OF KETOGENIC DIETS AND WE TRIED 3377 01:52:57,560 --> 01:52:58,600 TO EMULATE A VERY HEALTHY 3378 01:52:58,600 --> 01:52:59,600 VERSION IN OUR STUDY. 3379 01:52:59,600 --> 01:53:00,920 IN TERMS OF WEIGHT LOSS, A LOT 3380 01:53:00,920 --> 01:53:03,320 OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, 3381 01:53:03,320 --> 01:53:05,400 GREAT SUCCESS WITH THOSE DIETS. 3382 01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:07,040 BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE ALSO 3383 01:53:07,040 --> 01:53:07,880 EXPERIENCE GREAT SUCCESS WITH 3384 01:53:07,880 --> 01:53:09,440 THE KIND OF DIET THAT WE TESTED 3385 01:53:09,440 --> 01:53:11,720 IT AGAINST, WHICH WAS A VERY LOW 3386 01:53:11,720 --> 01:53:14,880 FAT PLANT-BASED DIET. 3387 01:53:14,880 --> 01:53:16,880 AND SO THE QUESTION IS WHY, WHY 3388 01:53:16,880 --> 01:53:19,320 ARE SOME PEOPLE MORE SUCCESSFUL 3389 01:53:19,320 --> 01:53:21,240 ON ONE DIET VERSUS ANOTHER, IS 3390 01:53:21,240 --> 01:53:23,960 IT SOMETHING ABOUT THE DIETS, 3391 01:53:23,960 --> 01:53:28,440 PER SE, INTERACTION BETWEEN 3392 01:53:28,440 --> 01:53:31,800 THEIR PARTICULAR BIOLOGY AND THE 3393 01:53:31,800 --> 01:53:33,400 DIETS OR SOCIAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS, 3394 01:53:33,400 --> 01:53:34,400 THEY WERE AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT 3395 01:53:34,400 --> 01:53:37,680 THE RIGHT TIME IN THEIR LIFE TO 3396 01:53:37,680 --> 01:53:40,400 MAKE THAT CHANGE MORE ADHERENT 3397 01:53:40,400 --> 01:53:41,800 AS OPPOSED TO THE LAST TIME THEY 3398 01:53:41,800 --> 01:53:43,120 TRIED A DIFFERENT DIET, WHERE 3399 01:53:43,120 --> 01:53:49,320 THEY WERE UNDERGOING SOME SOCIAL 3400 01:53:49,320 --> 01:53:50,800 UPHEAVAL LIKE LOSING A JOB, 3401 01:53:50,800 --> 01:53:51,720 GOING THROUGH DIVORCE, SOMETHING 3402 01:53:51,720 --> 01:53:53,560 LIKE THAT. 3403 01:53:53,560 --> 01:53:56,760 SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE GREAT 3404 01:53:56,760 --> 01:53:58,240 SUCCESS ON SOME DIETS WHILE 3405 01:53:58,240 --> 01:53:58,760 OTHERS DON'T. 3406 01:53:58,760 --> 01:54:01,360 WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THIS 3407 01:54:01,360 --> 01:54:02,720 FUNDAMENTAL BIOLOGY THAT RESISTS 3408 01:54:02,720 --> 01:54:04,400 WEIGHT CHANGE SEEMS TO BE 3409 01:54:04,400 --> 01:54:05,400 RELEVANT ON ALL OF THESE 3410 01:54:05,400 --> 01:54:06,400 DIFFERENT KINDS OF DIETS. 3411 01:54:06,400 --> 01:54:07,440 ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF THE 3412 01:54:07,440 --> 01:54:09,440 KINDS OF STUDIES THAT WE DO IS 3413 01:54:09,440 --> 01:54:11,440 THAT WE DON'T ALLOW PEOPLE TO 3414 01:54:11,440 --> 01:54:12,800 CHEAT, RIGHT? 3415 01:54:12,800 --> 01:54:15,120 WE ESSENTIALLY COMPLETELY TAKE 3416 01:54:15,120 --> 01:54:15,880 OVER THEIR FOOD ENVIRONMENT. 3417 01:54:15,880 --> 01:54:17,080 THEY HAVE NO ACCESS TO FOODS 3418 01:54:17,080 --> 01:54:19,160 THAT ARE NOT PART OF THE 3419 01:54:19,160 --> 01:54:19,680 KETOGENIC DIET. 3420 01:54:19,680 --> 01:54:20,880 THEY HAVE NO ACCESS TO FOODS 3421 01:54:20,880 --> 01:54:24,840 THAT ARE NOT PART OF THE PLANT 3422 01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:26,640 BASED LOW FAT DIET OR THEY DON'T 3423 01:54:26,640 --> 01:54:28,160 HAVE ACCESS TO FOODS THAT ARE 3424 01:54:28,160 --> 01:54:30,280 NOT PART OF THE UNPROCESSED 3425 01:54:30,280 --> 01:54:31,280 DIET. 3426 01:54:31,280 --> 01:54:33,720 AND SO WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY THOSE 3427 01:54:33,720 --> 01:54:35,280 FACTORS, THOSE OTHER INFLUENCES 3428 01:54:35,280 --> 01:54:36,240 IN THE FOOD ENVIRONMENT AND THE 3429 01:54:36,240 --> 01:54:38,080 ABILITY TO KIND OF CHEAT ON YOUR 3430 01:54:38,080 --> 01:54:39,240 DIETS, WHAT WE SEE ARE THESE 3431 01:54:39,240 --> 01:54:42,080 KIND OF VERY PROFOUND EFFECTS ON 3432 01:54:42,080 --> 01:54:44,360 ENERGY INTAKE AND BODY WEIGHT 3433 01:54:44,360 --> 01:54:45,240 CHANGE WHEN PEOPLE AREN'T EVEN 3434 01:54:45,240 --> 01:54:47,000 TRYING TO CHANGE THEIR BODY 3435 01:54:47,000 --> 01:54:47,840 WEIGHT, WHICH I THINK IS PRETTY 3436 01:54:47,840 --> 01:54:48,200 INTERESTING. 3437 01:54:48,200 --> 01:54:49,400 AND IF WE COULD BETTER 3438 01:54:49,400 --> 01:54:50,600 UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE FACTORS 3439 01:54:50,600 --> 01:54:55,040 IN OUR FOOD ENVIRONMENT THAT ARE 3440 01:54:55,040 --> 01:54:56,120 RESULTING IN JUST THESE SHIFTS 3441 01:54:56,120 --> 01:54:58,240 IN THE BIOLOGY OF WHERE OUR 3442 01:54:58,240 --> 01:54:59,920 APPETITE CURVE IS SITTING, THEN 3443 01:54:59,920 --> 01:55:03,040 WE WOULD GO A LONG WAY TO BETTER 3444 01:55:03,040 --> 01:55:03,880 UNDERSTANDING, NUMBER ONE, WHY 3445 01:55:03,880 --> 01:55:05,360 WE HAVE AN OBESITY EPIDEMIC IN 3446 01:55:05,360 --> 01:55:06,520 THE FIRST PLACE, AND NUMBER TWO, 3447 01:55:06,520 --> 01:55:08,080 WHAT WE COULD DO TO ACTUALLY DO 3448 01:55:08,080 --> 01:55:09,240 SOMETHING ABOUT IT, AND WHY SOME 3449 01:55:09,240 --> 01:55:10,880 PEOPLE MIGHT BE MORE SUCCESSFUL 3450 01:55:10,880 --> 01:55:14,200 ON ONE DIET VERSUS ANOTHER. 3451 01:55:14,200 --> 01:55:18,760 >>IS OVEREATING AN ADDICTION? 3452 01:55:18,760 --> 01:55:24,040 >>I THINK THE WORD ADDICTION IS 3453 01:55:24,040 --> 01:55:25,600 USED OUTSIDE MY FIELD OF 3454 01:55:25,600 --> 01:55:26,080 EXPERTISE. 3455 01:55:26,080 --> 01:55:28,440 I AM NOT AN ADDICTION SCIENTIST, 3456 01:55:28,440 --> 01:55:32,840 AND SO I WOULD NOT CHARACTERIZE 3457 01:55:32,840 --> 01:55:34,680 IT THAT WAY WITHOUT MUCH BETTER 3458 01:55:34,680 --> 01:55:35,040 UNDERSTANDING. 3459 01:55:35,040 --> 01:55:38,080 IT'S CERTAINLY TRUE THAT THE 3460 01:55:38,080 --> 01:55:39,200 REGIONS OF THE BRAIN THAT HAVE 3461 01:55:39,200 --> 01:55:40,440 BEEN IMPLICATED IN BOTH 3462 01:55:40,440 --> 01:55:42,880 ADDICTION TO DRUGS OF ABUSE WERE 3463 01:55:42,880 --> 01:55:48,520 PROBABLY NATURALLY FORMED TO 3464 01:55:48,520 --> 01:55:50,720 KIND OF MOTIVATE BEHAVIORS THAT 3465 01:55:50,720 --> 01:55:52,240 ARE IMPORTANT FOR PROPAGATION OF 3466 01:55:52,240 --> 01:55:53,040 THE SPECIES. 3467 01:55:53,040 --> 01:55:54,360 THINGS LIKE SEX AND THINGS LIKE, 3468 01:55:54,360 --> 01:56:00,360 YOU KNOW, EATING AND SO I DON'T 3469 01:56:00,360 --> 01:56:03,920 THINK THAT THERE'S MUCH EVIDENCE 3470 01:56:03,920 --> 01:56:09,120 THAT FOOD INTA INIS ADDICTIVE IE 3471 01:56:09,120 --> 01:56:10,360 SAME WAY A DRUG OF ABUSE IS, BUT 3472 01:56:10,360 --> 01:56:12,360 IT CERTAINLY SEEMS LIKE SOME OF 3473 01:56:12,360 --> 01:56:13,760 THE NEUROBIOLOGY MIGHT BE IN 3474 01:56:13,760 --> 01:56:16,680 COMMON BETWEEN THE TWO THINGS. 3475 01:56:16,680 --> 01:56:19,480 >>SO SPEAKING OF NEUROBIOLOGY 3476 01:56:19,480 --> 01:56:24,120 AND ADDICTION, I READ -- TO 3477 01:56:24,120 --> 01:56:26,640 PREPARE A LITTLE BIT, I READ 3478 01:56:26,640 --> 01:56:29,040 ABOUT CANNABINOIDS AND THE FACT 3479 01:56:29,040 --> 01:56:31,640 THAT APPARENTLY THERE ARE 3480 01:56:31,640 --> 01:56:33,120 RECEPTORS IN BOTH WHITE FAT AND 3481 01:56:33,120 --> 01:56:36,440 BROWN FAT. 3482 01:56:36,440 --> 01:56:38,760 AND NOW THAT IT SEEMS AS IF 3483 01:56:38,760 --> 01:56:41,040 CANNABINOIDS ARE BEING 3484 01:56:41,040 --> 01:56:43,200 INTRODUCED INTO GENERAL LIFE FOR 3485 01:56:43,200 --> 01:56:48,280 AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE, I GUESS 3486 01:56:48,280 --> 01:56:50,240 IT'S APPROPRIATE TO ASK WHAT 3487 01:56:50,240 --> 01:56:51,920 THEIR EFFECT IS, DO WE KNOW, ON 3488 01:56:51,920 --> 01:56:55,480 THE BROWN FAT POPULATION, IT'S 3489 01:56:55,480 --> 01:56:57,800 SIZE OR ITS ACTIVITY, IS THERE 3490 01:56:57,800 --> 01:56:59,600 SOMETHING THAT SHUL HAVE SOME 3491 01:56:59,600 --> 01:57:05,120 CONCERN OR INTEREST IN? 3492 01:57:05,120 --> 01:57:05,320 AARON? 3493 01:57:05,320 --> 01:57:08,600 >>YES. 3494 01:57:08,600 --> 01:57:11,120 THERE ARE RECEPTORS AND THERE IS 3495 01:57:11,120 --> 01:57:14,720 RESEARCH IN THIS AREA, SOME OF 3496 01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:16,160 WHICH I'M ACTUALLY REVIEWING SO 3497 01:57:16,160 --> 01:57:17,800 I CAN'T COMMENT TOO MUCH ABOUT 3498 01:57:17,800 --> 01:57:24,600 IT, BUT I WILL SAY THAT AT THE 3499 01:57:24,600 --> 01:57:27,200 GLOBAL LEVEL, CLEARLY THERE'S AN 3500 01:57:27,200 --> 01:57:31,240 IMPACT OF CANNABINOIDS ON 3501 01:57:31,240 --> 01:57:32,400 APPETITE, AND THAT BLOCKING 3502 01:57:32,400 --> 01:57:35,840 THOSE SIGNALS CAN LEAD TO SOME 3503 01:57:35,840 --> 01:57:38,480 WEIGHT LOSS BUT CAUSES A LOT OF 3504 01:57:38,480 --> 01:57:39,680 OTHER EFFECTS THAT, THEREFORE, 3505 01:57:39,680 --> 01:57:41,320 MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO DEVELOP A 3506 01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:42,640 PHARMACEUTICAL AGENT BASED ON 3507 01:57:42,640 --> 01:57:45,000 THOSE SIGNALING PATHWAYS TO BE 3508 01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:47,920 AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET 3509 01:57:47,920 --> 01:57:48,440 CURRENTLY. 3510 01:57:48,440 --> 01:57:50,400 CAN SPECIFIC CANNABINOID 3511 01:57:50,400 --> 01:57:53,960 RECEPTORS, CAN THEY CAUSE BROWN 3512 01:57:53,960 --> 01:57:55,160 ADIPOCYTE PROLIFERATION THAT IS 3513 01:57:55,160 --> 01:57:57,680 STILL BEING INVESTIGATED AND 3514 01:57:57,680 --> 01:57:59,160 IT'S A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY AND 3515 01:57:59,160 --> 01:57:59,880 HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET MORE CLARITY 3516 01:57:59,880 --> 01:58:01,600 ON THAT OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS 3517 01:58:01,600 --> 01:58:02,120 AND YEARS. 3518 01:58:02,120 --> 01:58:05,160 >>GOOD. 3519 01:58:05,160 --> 01:58:07,720 SO WOULD EITHER OF YOU LIKE TO 3520 01:58:07,720 --> 01:58:08,600 COMMENT ABOUT THE -- WHAT SEEMS 3521 01:58:08,600 --> 01:58:15,040 TO BE THE CURRENT FOCUS PUBLIC 3522 01:58:15,040 --> 01:58:17,520 ATTENTION, AND THAT'S THE NEW 3523 01:58:17,520 --> 01:58:20,640 TYPES OF DRUGS THAT ARE BEING 3524 01:58:20,640 --> 01:58:24,720 PROMOTED FOR CONTROL OF DIABETES 3525 01:58:24,720 --> 01:58:26,560 AND PEOPLE SEEM TO LOSE A 3526 01:58:26,560 --> 01:58:28,200 TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WEIGHT 3527 01:58:28,200 --> 01:58:36,320 WHILE THEY'RE TAKING THESE DRU 3528 01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:36,520 DRUGS. 3529 01:58:36,520 --> 01:58:38,000 DO WE REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW 3530 01:58:38,000 --> 01:58:38,920 THAT'S HAPPENING OR WHAT ARE 3531 01:58:38,920 --> 01:58:39,880 YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT IT? 3532 01:58:39,880 --> 01:58:41,840 KEVIN, DO YOU WANT TO COMMENT ON 3533 01:58:41,840 --> 01:58:42,520 THAT? 3534 01:58:42,520 --> 01:58:43,160 >>SURE. 3535 01:58:43,160 --> 01:58:45,880 I MEAN, I THINK THAT, YES, IT'S 3536 01:58:45,880 --> 01:58:49,080 A VERY EXCITING TIME TO BE IN 3537 01:58:49,080 --> 01:58:50,520 OBESITY SCIENCE, AND THE FACT 3538 01:58:50,520 --> 01:58:54,560 THAT THERE ARE THESE DRUGS THAT 3539 01:58:54,560 --> 01:58:56,160 ARE MIM MIBGING VERY HIGH LEVELS 3540 01:58:56,160 --> 01:59:02,000 OF GLP1, WHICH IS AN ENDOCRINE 3541 01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:03,520 HORMONE, THESE DRUGS BASICALLY 3542 01:59:03,520 --> 01:59:08,960 ARE LONG-ACTING VERSIONS OF GLPR 3543 01:59:08,960 --> 01:59:11,040 MUCH LONGER THAN IS 3544 01:59:11,040 --> 01:59:12,840 PHYSIOLOGICALLY NORMAL AFTER 3545 01:59:12,840 --> 01:59:14,040 MEALS AND CAN REACH VERY HIGH 3546 01:59:14,040 --> 01:59:17,880 LEVELS AND AS A RESULT, DECREASE 3547 01:59:17,880 --> 01:59:18,680 PEOPLE'S APPETITE BY WAYS THAT 3548 01:59:18,680 --> 01:59:20,440 ARE NOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD, 3549 01:59:20,440 --> 01:59:21,960 ALTHOUGH A LOT OF THE 3550 01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:24,040 NEUROBIOLOGY IS BEGINNING TO BE 3551 01:59:24,040 --> 01:59:25,640 UNCOVERED, BUT THAT SEEMS TO BE 3552 01:59:25,640 --> 01:59:27,080 THE PRIMARY WAY THAT THEY WORK 3553 01:59:27,080 --> 01:59:30,560 IN HUMANS AS OPPOSED TO CHANG CE 3554 01:59:30,560 --> 01:59:32,080 IN CALORIE EXPENDITURE, FOR 3555 01:59:32,080 --> 01:59:33,080 EXAMPLE, ALTHOUGH I THINK THAT 3556 01:59:33,080 --> 01:59:34,640 THERE IS SOME OPEN QUESTIONS IN 3557 01:59:34,640 --> 01:59:36,440 THAT REGARD, WHETHER OR NOT THEY 3558 01:59:36,440 --> 01:59:39,960 CAN HELP PREVENT SOME OF THE 3559 01:59:39,960 --> 01:59:41,400 SLOWING OF METABOLISM THAT 3560 01:59:41,400 --> 01:59:42,200 OCCURS I THINK WITH WEIGHT LOSS 3561 01:59:42,200 --> 01:59:43,640 IS STILL A LITTLE BIT OF AN OPEN 3562 01:59:43,640 --> 01:59:44,480 QUESTION, BUT IT'S CLEAR THAT 3563 01:59:44,480 --> 01:59:45,880 THE PRIMARY REASON THAT THEY 3564 01:59:45,880 --> 01:59:48,400 WORK IS THEY DECREASE PEOPLE'S 3565 01:59:48,400 --> 01:59:48,800 APPETITE. 3566 01:59:48,800 --> 01:59:50,680 HOW THAT EXACTLY WORKS AND WHAT 3567 01:59:50,680 --> 01:59:54,480 PARTICULAR AREAS OF THE BRAIN, 3568 01:59:54,480 --> 01:59:55,720 HINDBRAIN IS IMPORTANT, 3569 01:59:55,720 --> 01:59:56,760 HYPOTHALAMUS IS IMPORTANT, BUT I 3570 01:59:56,760 --> 01:59:58,400 DON'T THINK WE KNOW IN HUMANS 3571 01:59:58,400 --> 01:59:59,920 EXACTLY THE RELATIVE ROLE OF 3572 01:59:59,920 --> 02:00:03,480 BOTH OF THOSE BRAIN REGIONS. 3573 02:00:03,480 --> 02:00:08,480 >>SO YOUR STUDIES FOCUSED ON 3574 02:00:08,480 --> 02:00:10,640 PEOPLE WHOM AS YOU SAY YOU'RE 3575 02:00:10,640 --> 02:00:11,240 CONTROLLING EVERYTHING THAT'S 3576 02:00:11,240 --> 02:00:13,800 GOING IN AND COMING OUT AND SO 3577 02:00:13,800 --> 02:00:18,400 FORTH. 3578 02:00:18,400 --> 02:00:20,440 BUT YOU'RE FOCUSING ON DIET AND 3579 02:00:20,440 --> 02:00:21,520 CALORIES. 3580 02:00:21,520 --> 02:00:24,080 SO SUPPOSE IF EXERCISE IS ADDED 3581 02:00:24,080 --> 02:00:26,600 ON TOP OF THAT, IS THERE SOME 3582 02:00:26,600 --> 02:00:28,720 SYNERGISTIC RELATIONSHIP, AND IF 3583 02:00:28,720 --> 02:00:30,520 SO, HOW DOES THAT WORK? 3584 02:00:30,520 --> 02:00:32,040 AND YOU MIGHT WONDER HOW IT 3585 02:00:32,040 --> 02:00:33,120 WORKS WITH THE BROWN FAT AS 3586 02:00:33,120 --> 02:00:35,320 WELL. 3587 02:00:35,320 --> 02:00:36,760 >>EXERCISE IS REALLY 3588 02:00:36,760 --> 02:00:37,160 INTERESTING. 3589 02:00:37,160 --> 02:00:39,280 YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE OUR FOLKS 3590 02:00:39,280 --> 02:00:40,680 DO A MANDATORY AMOUNT OF 3591 02:00:40,680 --> 02:00:41,960 EXERCISE EVERY DAY, JUST SO THAT 3592 02:00:41,960 --> 02:00:43,160 THEY DON'T BECOME COMPLETELY 3593 02:00:43,160 --> 02:00:44,440 SEDENTARY AND WE CAN MIMIC THE 3594 02:00:44,440 --> 02:00:46,160 SORT OF PHYSICAL OVERALL 3595 02:00:46,160 --> 02:00:47,520 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVEL OF FREE 3596 02:00:47,520 --> 02:00:49,800 LIVING FOLKS. 3597 02:00:49,800 --> 02:00:52,640 AND OF COURSE IN THE BIGGEST 3598 02:00:52,640 --> 02:00:53,520 LOSER FOLKS, THEY DID AN 3599 02:00:53,520 --> 02:00:54,600 ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF EXERCISE. 3600 02:00:54,600 --> 02:00:55,640 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK 3601 02:00:55,640 --> 02:00:56,920 IS INTERESTING IS THAT DURING 3602 02:00:56,920 --> 02:00:58,920 PERIODS OF WEIGHT LOSS, THE 3603 02:00:58,920 --> 02:01:00,720 EXERCISE EFFECT IS ACTUALLY 3604 02:01:00,720 --> 02:01:02,160 PRETTY MINIMAL COMPARED TO THE 3605 02:01:02,160 --> 02:01:05,800 EFFECT OF THE DIET CHANGE. 3606 02:01:05,800 --> 02:01:07,920 WHEREAS THINGS KIND OF FLIP 3607 02:01:07,920 --> 02:01:09,560 AFTER MANY, MANY YEARS AND LIKE 3608 02:01:09,560 --> 02:01:11,360 I SHOWED WITH THE BIGGEST LOSER 3609 02:01:11,360 --> 02:01:12,680 FOLKS BUT MANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVE 3610 02:01:12,680 --> 02:01:15,480 SHOWN THIS BEFORE, EXERCISE IS 3611 02:01:15,480 --> 02:01:17,720 QUITE GOOD FOR WHATEVER REASON 3612 02:01:17,720 --> 02:01:21,120 AT MAINTAINING PEOPLE'S WEIGHT 3613 02:01:21,120 --> 02:01:22,120 LOSS. 3614 02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:23,840 WHEREAS THE ENERGY INTAKE 3615 02:01:23,840 --> 02:01:25,160 DOESN'T REALLY MAKE TOO MUCH OF 3616 02:01:25,160 --> 02:01:29,720 AN EFFECT, AND PERHAPS THAT'S -- 3617 02:01:29,720 --> 02:01:30,880 ONE WAY THAT YOU COULD THINK 3618 02:01:30,880 --> 02:01:32,600 ABOUT THAT IS THAT THE FEEDBACK 3619 02:01:32,600 --> 02:01:34,160 CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT'S GOVERNING 3620 02:01:34,160 --> 02:01:35,240 APPETITE, WHILE YOU'RE BASICALLY 3621 02:01:35,240 --> 02:01:36,240 ALLOWING PEOPLE TO EAT A LITTLE 3622 02:01:36,240 --> 02:01:37,800 BIT MORE FOOD IF THEY'RE 3623 02:01:37,800 --> 02:01:39,520 EXERCISING AND SO THE FEEDBACK 3624 02:01:39,520 --> 02:01:41,160 CONTROL STRENGTH ON THE APPETITE 3625 02:01:41,160 --> 02:01:45,600 SIDE IS NOT QUITE AS HIGH, IF 3626 02:01:45,600 --> 02:01:46,200 YOU'RE EXERCISING. 3627 02:01:46,200 --> 02:01:48,200 AT LEAST THAT'S ONE THEORETICAL 3628 02:01:48,200 --> 02:01:49,360 WAY TO LOOK AT IT AND YOU COULD 3629 02:01:49,360 --> 02:01:51,080 DESIGN STUDIES TO TEST THAT 3630 02:01:51,080 --> 02:01:51,680 HYPOTHESIS. 3631 02:01:51,680 --> 02:01:53,760 BUT IT'S VERY INTERESTING TO ME 3632 02:01:53,760 --> 02:01:56,800 THAT THE EFFECTS OF EXERCISE ARE 3633 02:01:56,800 --> 02:01:59,760 MINIMAL FOR WEIGHT LOSS DURING 3634 02:01:59,760 --> 02:02:01,240 THE ACTIVE WEIGHT LOSS PHASE AND 3635 02:02:01,240 --> 02:02:02,160 THEY SEEM TO REVEAL THEMSELVES 3636 02:02:02,160 --> 02:02:03,360 IN THE WEIGHT LOSS MAINTENANCE 3637 02:02:03,360 --> 02:02:04,640 PHASE AS BEING QUITE AN 3638 02:02:04,640 --> 02:02:06,880 EFFECTIVE TOOL TO KEEP THE 3639 02:02:06,880 --> 02:02:08,240 WEIGHT OFF IF YOU CAN MAINTAIN A 3640 02:02:08,240 --> 02:02:10,720 HIGHER LEVEL OF EXERCISE. 3641 02:02:10,720 --> 02:02:14,320 >>I WOULD SAY WE WERE VERY 3642 02:02:14,320 --> 02:02:15,600 EXCITED AT THE BEGINNING TO 3643 02:02:15,600 --> 02:02:16,440 THINK THAT EXERCISE COULD 3644 02:02:16,440 --> 02:02:18,040 INCREASE BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE 3645 02:02:18,040 --> 02:02:19,360 ACTIVITY AND THEY WOULD WORK 3646 02:02:19,360 --> 02:02:20,280 TOGETHER, BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING 3647 02:02:20,280 --> 02:02:23,000 ABOUT AN ADRENERGIC STIMULUS AND 3648 02:02:23,000 --> 02:02:26,000 SO YOU HAVE EPINEPHRINE OR 3649 02:02:26,000 --> 02:02:27,040 ADRENALINE, NOR OWE ADRENALINE 3650 02:02:27,040 --> 02:02:28,320 IN THE BLOOD, BUT THE LEVELS 3651 02:02:28,320 --> 02:02:29,480 THAT ONE FINDS IN EXERCISE ARE 3652 02:02:29,480 --> 02:02:30,680 NOT NEARLY ENOUGH TO ACTIVATE 3653 02:02:30,680 --> 02:02:32,640 THE BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE, AND AT 3654 02:02:32,640 --> 02:02:34,040 ONE LEVEL -- SO NOTHING HAS BEEN 3655 02:02:34,040 --> 02:02:35,760 SHOWN TO REALLY BE EFFECTIVE IN 3656 02:02:35,760 --> 02:02:37,080 THAT WAY AND IT POSSIBLE BECAUSE 3657 02:02:37,080 --> 02:02:39,080 WHEN YOU EXERCISE SUFFICIENTLY, 3658 02:02:39,080 --> 02:02:40,160 THE CORE GETS WARM AND IT SHUTS 3659 02:02:40,160 --> 02:02:42,520 DOWN THE BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE. 3660 02:02:42,520 --> 02:02:47,200 AND SO, THEREFORE, EXERCISE I'S 3661 02:02:47,200 --> 02:02:48,320 BENEFIT IN TERMS OF BROWN 3662 02:02:48,320 --> 02:02:49,640 ADIPOSE TISSUE FUNCTION WOULD BE 3663 02:02:49,640 --> 02:02:50,040 MORE INDIRECT. 3664 02:02:50,040 --> 02:02:52,200 IT MIGHT IMPROVE INSULIN 3665 02:02:52,200 --> 02:02:54,720 SENSITIVITY, IT MIGHT IMPROVE 3666 02:02:54,720 --> 02:02:56,600 CATECHOLAMINE SIGNALING, 3667 02:02:56,600 --> 02:02:57,840 SIGNALING NOREPINEPHRINE AND 3668 02:02:57,840 --> 02:02:58,800 EPINEPHRINE SO THAT THEY WORK 3669 02:02:58,800 --> 02:02:59,000 BETTER. 3670 02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:00,480 SO IT'S NOT GOING TO BE 3671 02:03:00,480 --> 02:03:01,400 SOMETHING THAT CAUSES A 3672 02:03:01,400 --> 02:03:02,720 SPROUTING OF BROWN FAT, BUT IT 3673 02:03:02,720 --> 02:03:04,120 MIGHT MAKE IT WORK BETTER, KIND 3674 02:03:04,120 --> 02:03:06,640 OF LIKE WHAT KEVIN WAS 3675 02:03:06,640 --> 02:03:08,640 DESCRIBING, THAT IT'S NOT REALLY 3676 02:03:08,640 --> 02:03:10,600 FOR WEIGHT LOSS THROUGH ENERGY 3677 02:03:10,600 --> 02:03:12,240 EXPENDITURE DIRECTLY, IT'S MORE 3678 02:03:12,240 --> 02:03:13,920 FOR OTHER EFFECTS. 3679 02:03:13,920 --> 02:03:17,080 >>SO, YO UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVEO 3680 02:03:17,080 --> 02:03:18,720 END, BUT WE HAVE LOTS MORE 3681 02:03:18,720 --> 02:03:19,960 QUESTIONS. 3682 02:03:19,960 --> 02:03:21,880 AND THERE'S ONE IN PARTICULAR 3683 02:03:21,880 --> 02:03:25,040 WHICH MAYBE IS A SUITABLE ONE TO 3684 02:03:25,040 --> 02:03:26,720 CONCLUDE, WE'VE GOTTEN SEVERAL 3685 02:03:26,720 --> 02:03:31,000 INQUIRIES ABOUT THIS. 3686 02:03:31,000 --> 02:03:32,960 I GUESS THE QUESTION IS, WAS 3687 02:03:32,960 --> 02:03:37,000 MICHAEL POLLAN RIGHT SUGGESTING 3688 02:03:37,000 --> 02:03:39,960 THAT WHEN PEOPLE GO TO A 3689 02:03:39,960 --> 02:03:42,440 SUPERMARKET, THEY SHOULD STAY IN 3690 02:03:42,440 --> 02:03:44,560 THE SECTION WHERE THE FRESH 3691 02:03:44,560 --> 02:03:51,000 PRODUCE IS AND STAY AWAY FROM 3692 02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:55,400 THE FROZEN, THE PROCESSED, AND 3693 02:03:55,400 --> 02:03:57,720 EVERYTHING, AND THEY'LL REMAIN 3694 02:03:57,720 --> 02:04:00,640 HEALTHIER? 3695 02:04:00,640 --> 02:04:03,400 IS THAT A REASONABLE SUGGESTION 3696 02:04:03,400 --> 02:04:05,480 REGARDING ALL THESE VARIOUS 3697 02:04:05,480 --> 02:04:07,800 DIETS AND UNCERTAINTY ABOUT 3698 02:04:07,800 --> 02:04:09,360 THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN 3699 02:04:09,360 --> 02:04:11,280 EVERYBODY? 3700 02:04:11,280 --> 02:04:17,120 OR IS THAT JUST AN INTERESTING 3701 02:04:17,120 --> 02:04:19,040 IDEA? 3702 02:04:19,040 --> 02:04:20,400 I MEAN, CERTAINLY AS PUBLIC 3703 02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:21,400 POLICY, IT'S PROBABLY NOT A 3704 02:04:21,400 --> 02:04:23,480 GREAT IDEA BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE 3705 02:04:23,480 --> 02:04:26,120 HAS THE MONEY AND THE TIME, THE 3706 02:04:26,120 --> 02:04:28,280 EQUIPMENT, AND THE SKILL AND THE 3707 02:04:28,280 --> 02:04:30,320 STORAGE SPACE REQUIRED TO 3708 02:04:30,320 --> 02:04:32,000 PREPARE MEALS IN THAT WAY. 3709 02:04:32,000 --> 02:04:33,680 IT'S ONLY THE VERY PRIVILEGED 3710 02:04:33,680 --> 02:04:36,760 FEW WHO HAVE THAT. 3711 02:04:36,760 --> 02:04:39,240 SO IF WE COULD MAGICALLY MAKE 3712 02:04:39,240 --> 02:04:39,840 THE COUNTRY HAVE -- EVERYBODY 3713 02:04:39,840 --> 02:04:41,040 HAVE ALL OF THOSE THINGS, THEN I 3714 02:04:41,040 --> 02:04:42,440 THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY 3715 02:04:42,440 --> 02:04:43,320 EFFECTIVE POLICY ADVICE. 3716 02:04:43,320 --> 02:04:45,200 BUT WE DON'T. 3717 02:04:45,200 --> 02:04:46,400 AND SO I THINK THE QUESTION IS, 3718 02:04:46,400 --> 02:04:50,240 HOW DO WE MAKE FOODS THAT ARE 3719 02:04:50,240 --> 02:04:51,600 ACTUALLY -- PROMOTE HEALTH AND 3720 02:04:51,600 --> 02:04:53,080 PREVENT CHRONIC DIET-RELATED 3721 02:04:53,080 --> 02:04:55,120 DISEASES, HOW DO WE MAKE THAT 3722 02:04:55,120 --> 02:04:56,080 MORE AVAILABLE TO THE REST OF 3723 02:04:56,080 --> 02:04:57,320 THE COUNTRY WHO DOESN'T HAVE 3724 02:04:57,320 --> 02:04:59,920 THAT KIND OF PRIVILEGE. 3725 02:04:59,920 --> 02:05:01,440 >>AARON, YOU WANT THE LAST 3726 02:05:01,440 --> 02:05:03,200 WORD? 3727 02:05:03,200 --> 02:05:06,720 >>MY LAST WORD IS THAT I AGREE 3728 02:05:06,720 --> 02:05:09,040 WITH DR. HALL'S DESCRIPTION OF 3729 02:05:09,040 --> 02:05:09,680 THE SITUATION. 3730 02:05:09,680 --> 02:05:13,040 I THINK THAT BEYOND THAT, I HOPE 3731 02:05:13,040 --> 02:05:15,360 PEOPLE ARE LISTENING, RECOGNIZE 3732 02:05:15,360 --> 02:05:17,800 JUST HOW FASCINATING THIS FIELD 3733 02:05:17,800 --> 02:05:19,000 IS, HOW MUCH WE'VE LEARNED, HOW 3734 02:05:19,000 --> 02:05:21,040 MUCH MORE WE STILL HAVE TO LEARN 3735 02:05:21,040 --> 02:05:21,840 AND THAT PEOPLE SHOULD SUPPORT 3736 02:05:21,840 --> 02:05:25,240 THE RESEARCH EFFORTS THROUGH ANY 3737 02:05:25,240 --> 02:05:27,240 WAY POSSIBLE BECAUSE WE'VE GOT 3738 02:05:27,240 --> 02:05:29,160 REALLY TALENTED PEOPLE WHO ARE 3739 02:05:29,160 --> 02:05:31,120 TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 3740 02:05:31,120 --> 02:05:34,120 >>SO ON THAT NOTE, WHICH I'M 3741 02:05:34,120 --> 02:05:36,120 SURE EVERYONE LISTENING WOULD 3742 02:05:36,120 --> 02:05:38,160 HARDLY AGREE, I'M SURE THERE ARE 3743 02:05:38,160 --> 02:05:40,280 HUNDREDS IF NOT MAYBE SEVERAL 3744 02:05:40,280 --> 02:05:41,200 THOUSAND PEOPLE WATCHING ALL 3745 02:05:41,200 --> 02:05:43,720 THIS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, SO 3746 02:05:43,720 --> 02:05:46,400 ON THEIR BEHALF, AND CERTAINLY 3747 02:05:46,400 --> 02:05:49,160 MY OWN, I WANT TO THANK YOU BOTH 3748 02:05:49,160 --> 02:05:51,040 VERY MUCH FOR AN EXTREMELY 3749 02:05:51,040 --> 02:05:52,400 INFORMATIVE, EXCITING 3750 02:05:52,400 --> 02:05:54,240 PRESENTATION, GIVING US MUCH TO 3751 02:05:54,240 --> 02:05:57,880 THINK ABOUT, AND INDICATING THE 3752 02:05:57,880 --> 02:05:59,840 IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING BRIDGES 3753 02:05:59,840 --> 02:06:01,640 IN ALL DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. 3754 02:06:01,640 --> 02:06:05,360 SO THANK YOU AGAIN, AND WE WILL 3755 02:06:05,360 --> 02:06:06,200 END THE SESSION. 3756 02:06:06,200 --> 00:00:00,000 THANK YOU.