Leptin Resistance Explained: Trouble Losing Weight & Hunger

Leptin is a hormone we like because it tells our brains to turn off hunger, which helps to keep our weight under control. But that only happens if leptin’s message is getting to the brain. In this video, I explain leptin resistance, why it is common, and how it affects your ability to lose weight and control hunger.
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Disclaimer: Dr. Becky Gillaspy, DC received her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1991. Her use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to herself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Gillaspy was a licensed chiropractor in Pennsylvania, but she no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Gillaspy and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Dr Becky Fitness LLC and Dr. Rebecca Gillaspy, D.C. are not liable or responsible for any advice, course of treatment, diagnosis or any conclusions drawn, services or product you obtain through this video or site.

[@beckygillaspy]

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[@maytem2137]

Unfortunately hunger doesn't go away for some of us even while practicing OMAD and keto. I have lost almost 140 pounds over the last 13 months but I am still hungry most of the day.. it stinks but I keep at it as I am prioritizing my health regardless of the discomfort of the hunger.

[@jM-ye4hi]

I’m the same way .. I don’t what the cause is. So frustrating cus I’m trying so hard and it like a yo-yo on my weight.. I used to be so good when I was just 2 years younger but now being 51 it’s a struggle for me - 🙄

[@maytem2137]

@@jM-ye4hi I just don't go anywhere near things I truly like right now as it opens up the floodgates and then I want everything. Sending you lots of good thoughts!! I understand your struggles 💜

[@Finn959]

@@maytem2137 are you still able to keep the weight off?

[@maytem2137]

@@Finn959 I have been on my journey for 3 years now and maintaining 150 pounds loss for the last 1.5 years but it is still a daily struggle ... I have not found it to get easier but I continue to focus hard on exercise and eating well. My hope is for it to be easier one day but at least I haven't gained it back as I have before.

[@Finn959]

@@maytem2137 yeah the long term is always the hardest. Most ppl rave about how they dont have hunger and cravings anymore on keto. You seem to be a special case. Anyway being unhealhty can make life hell. Keep it up!

[@greenleavesofsummer9673]

My hormones are broken.

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

What did you do to fix it?

[@k1tasphalt5]

Perfect explanation why simply going on a caloric deficit without giving up sugar fails and why low carb low inflammatory foods is the key to success!

[@deborahnelson4608]

Thank you, Dr. Becky. Your video was so informative. I am 69, post-meno, 50+ overweight. I am sure am leptin resistant. I have started intermittent fasting, which feels "right" for me. I have found that I do NOT eat because of hunger but stress!

[@heidib.4089]

Same, same, same! I chew gum like crazy.

[@littlevoice_11]

Have you tried walking? It is proven to reduce stress, anxiety and depression more than the leading medication. Plus it will keep you away from eating and promote your physical health too 😊

[@heidib.4089]

Little Voice, yes! HIIT 3x week and jog 2.5 miles 3x week. Last (#6) is 4 years old so 20 years of preg/nursing and turning 50 this year makes it difficult. Just can’t trim down like I could even 10 years ago. Def emotional eating - thank you for the encouragement!

[@littlevoice_11]

@@heidib.4089 then definitely work on stress management. Sleep, find time for yourself and try mindful eating in a relaxed state. Easier said than done.. I know! But breathe and take little steps in the right direction x

[@Anno44]

You're awesome, as usual. Explaining it all to the common folk in our lingo. Stay well.

[@getter_done]

Great video. Thank you Dr Becky. 🙂

[@sylvainster30]

Thanks Dr for keeping us up to date ✌🏼😎👍🏼

[@janewonder6895]

Well explained

[@Pinkerbellx2]

This explains it so well! Thank you.

[@greeneyedmimibostian3013]

Thank you Doctor Becky

[@alicethompson8657]

I'm grateful Dr Becky. Thank you 🙏🏾

[@ifixeditmyself1926]

Very helpful...thank you!

[@veronikaboncheva4939]

The best explanation of this issue I've ever seen!

[@rosiejaan4195]

GOD BLESS DOC, HAPPY TO SEE YOU BACK AGAIN IN GOOD HEALTH.

[@robertrhode6104]

Great job explaining that for me. Keep the video’s coming. Thanks Doctor, Bob

[@tharangasilva209]

thank you doctor very useful information

[@Wendy-zl8kv]

Thank you Doctor

[@rpan5441]

Session full of in-depth research. Amazing how receptors exchange information. I am sure this might also lead to neurological analysis soon to surface. Thanks Beck.

[@minaesmailiaghababa4447]

thank you doctor.

[@darwinsbrucefitness2774]

Beautifully Explained

[@traceyunderwood5566]

Thank you!!

[@vg8328]

Thank you!

[@Krumholt]

I’ve been struggling with this for 8 years! And I have a good diet.

[@nenagarcia4819]

Excellent information and delivered perfectly. Thank u!

[@ke2delight]

High levels of insulin causes leptin resistance and the eventual obvious insulin resistance. This is a result of the high level carb but also oxalate rich foods!

[@ffbr67]

Great info on the hormones and how our body utilized them.

[@ffbr67]

Hey dr. What do you think about plant based imitation meat such as beef patties and sausage? I see beyond meat in many stores now. Peace🙏

[@jodyarmstrong6667]

i learn more from you in the last month than anyone else ever. i love that you explain things in a way that is so easy to understand. thank you xo

[@universeusa]

3:09 Thank you again doc. This is an excellent channel.

[@beckygillaspy]

Thanks, Jake!

[@universeusa]

Dr. Becky Gillaspy anytime doc 👍👏👌🇺🇸

[@gubatron]

THANK YOU! This is exactly what I was looking for. Wish there was a Leptin monitor, similar to those Glucose monitors attacheable to your arm which tracks its levels and sends to an app. To figure out if whatever you are trying is lowering the amount of leptin in your system and to see if you are doing things right to get out of leptin resistance. And also to measure ghrelin levels.

[@angelnava9964]

Great !!! Now I learn leptine insuline on over w.. How can be reset??

[@tinanagda7755]

Thankyou mam for such a great information ☺️☺️... Plzz can you. Explain the condition ,skinny people with more hunger even after eating food ??🙏🙏

[@WENDLELL]

Thanks for a great video. I’m curious about how Leptin works with high thyroid RT3 levels. My blood tests showed high Leptin levels too - does this mean I’m Leptin resistant?

[@singit3630]

Yup. Just heavy enough all my life to be resistant. Keto is as far as I've ever gone in my 'complete 180' attempt...FINALLY an about face, changes are evident and imminent. Thanks DocB!

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

Have you lost the weight?

[@singit3630]

@@tanyawieczorek6603 50 to go...

[@sansan357]

I'm leptin resistant due to years of starvation dieting. I fast and eat no carbs or sugar. My ketone are high. I can't exercise much except swim. Weight not coming off.

[@anjanettebriggman2000]

I appreciate your teaching style. You explain the topic in great detail and with care use the word ‘May” which doesn’t give me🤣 a way to cop out of my poor choices. It would be so easy for me to say, ‘‘see! it’s my Leptin that’s keeping me overweight.” Do you have a suggestions for meal planning on a small budget. I find eating healthy is really expensive(although, eating bad is more expensive with health bills🤦🏾‍♀️.)

[@beckygillaspy]

Thanks for your comment, Anjanette. That may be a topic for a future video.

[@billg4630]

How do you reverse kept in resistance?

[@desleykakoulidisgallaway3382]

Viscous cycles

[@mistyjobeverly9946]

What is intermittent fasting?

[@catherinedillon5430]

Can Leptin levels be measured in the blood? If yes what are the normal parameters please

[@mrscms831]

Dr. Becky, is there a test to confirm we are Leptin resistant? It sure would explain things for me.

[@beckygillaspy]

Your doctor could order a fasting leptin test to see how much leptin is in your blood. But, sometimes doctors are reluctant to order these out-of-the-ordinary tests, so you'll have to speak with your doctor.

[@ronlentjes2739]

If you have insulin resistance you likely have Leptin resistance. If you have fat belly, likely to have insulin resistance. Try keto but stay away from any "keto" things in a bag (processed foods or artificial sugar)!! Just whole foods. If you eat properly butter, clarified butter, full cream milk, meat, eggs, nuts, vegetables, and fruits the hunger response work properly. If you eat Doritos, you can go through 100 bags and you'll still be hungry and full of crap. No processed food! No sugar. No wheat. There you go.

[@kimkingham8985]

I have been doing ALL that you have said for a long time and no weight change. Could it be my anti depressant? As this is my last path because nothing else is working.

[@jM-ye4hi]

Lately I have been more hungry that normal, I might be my age 51 .. it’s so hard to stop the urge .. makes me frustrated... or could feel full, but still get that grumbling in my stomach- help me please

[@eliadvo]

When I eat I either get hungry again in 10 minutes or I force myself to eat more and I feel like I can barely move, think, or keep my eyes open if I eat to the point of being full and satisfied. I am not overweight and I do not eat refined sugar or carbs. Maybe my hypothalamus isnt working???

[@callieduval3000]

Explains why I eat when I'm not hungry and gain weight

[@Kaizer177]

Hi Dr May I ask your thoughts on Fruits and Vegetable smoothie ? On a daily basis In my case, as “insurance” , as oppose to non believable multi vitamin pill Is it a good complement to a balance diet ? My consist of Carrot, Apple, Banana, Wombak, Lentil, Tomato, Avacado and Oats I take half 400ml (half a protein bottle) a day, just at the final hour of Intermittent Fasting I eat it like a yogurt, because it quite chunky (because of the fibre?) There r days where I just don’t have any vegetable and fruits Not due to lack of trying, just being busy Cheers Kaiser from Oz

[@ronlentjes2739]

A suggestion for a topic: Neurotoxic Aluminum! And how $FDA$ allows hiding labelling! Eg cheese. Eg salt with caking agent having Neurotoxic Aluminium and all the powders. If that salt is used in ingredients the Neurotoxic Aluminium does not have to be labelled! The $FDA$ allows not listing Neurotoxic Aluminum on food labels! Eg Neurotoxic Aluminum silently used in cheese in high levels: 1 as salt emulsifier to make surface nice and melting better, 2 as caking agent to keep slices separated! It is labelled on table salt using E numbers and most common one now is Neurotoxic Aluminum based. Also used in flour, garlic powder, other spice powders, drink powders, most POWDERS. If anything like salt is listed as ingredient, then the Neurotoxic Aluminum does not have to be labelled! So wherever there is salt... Oh and Neurotoxic Aluminum is also used to keep your thoughts separated. Happy Alzheimer's Day! That is don't eat cheese, table salt, spice powders, drink powders, most POWDERS, processed foods, $medications$, $drugs$, $vaccines$. Don't use Aluminum cookware of any sort. Coffee and tea that grow in Aluminum contaminated soils. Don't use Aluminum foil of any kind.

[@utopiadweller]

3:05 what causes leptin resistance

[@gabo1841997]

Is there a solution to this? I’m just so exhausted and hopeless at this point

[@vericacvetkovic9093]

I am 69, healthy, but it's been years since i gradually lost a sense of hunger and apetite. I eat small amount of food because it's meal time. I never tried stopping eating completely, out of fear of what would happen. Would i collapse? Why is it so. Do i produce only leptin and no ghrelin, or something else is going on? I alway had weird hunger feeling. A week before my period, i would go off food, and in both pregnancies in the last trimester i went off food and had to force myself to eat. It took me a month after both deliveries to get hunger back to normal.

[@patriciahoke4722]

My BMI is 21-22, my leptin is 15. I know very little about this subject, but have watched videos that tell me this is actually mild leptin resistance.

[@tanyawieczorek6603]

How did you test your leptin?

[@patriciahoke4722]

@@tanyawieczorek6603 Just go to a place online that allows anyone to order their own labs. You will have to pay out of pocket.

[@11nica5]

My BMI Is 28 and my Leptin came back at 11. My research says I have mild Leptin resistance

[@sylvainster30]

For those looking for additional info check, 2 fit docs, Dr Berg, Dr Ekberg, Dr Ken Berry....just to name a few keto/low carb/carnivore/ intermittent fasting great people ✌🏼😎👍🏼

[@lindawall6833]

And Dr. Jason Fung... The Obesity Code

[@francesprice3067]

Hi Dr. Becky. I have just tried to download your 21day low carb recipe. Unfortunately due to the fact I live in Malaga Spain sadly I am unable to receive it. 😢🤞

[@beckygillaspy]

Hi Frances, thanks for your interest, and sorry to hear about your issue. We do have customers from around the world, so I'm not sure what held up the order.

[@priscilladevi9705]

Could you help me to understand that how fasting works, because for me when Ive fasted ghercklin occurs which is the hunger hormone I often ignore; would that mean my metabolic goes slow then weight loss could take longer because the body could take it to store fat instead of burning. Hope you understand what I'm trying to say, to do with metabolic rate whilst fasting is it possible fasting could store my fat and slow down metabolic rate ? which I definetly don't want ? ?

[@cupcake34509]

So this is whats wrong with me 😫😫 what is the solution?

[@xander423]

My question is if someone has undiagnosed Leptin resistance and hypothyroidism and takes a GLP-1 that caused weight gain could it be because one condition remains unaddressed , almost like taking the GLP-1 is jumping the gun without addressing the underlying cause of the hormone imbalance to begin with so taking the GLP-1 worked against the patient ? Leading to weight gain with the GLP-1 no diagnosis or treatment of Leptin resistance or testing the thyroid and hypothyroidism ??? Hope you can answer I have a story to tell. I can’t even believe it , but I know many men and women are suffering needlessly . Thankyou for this video .

[@robotbench6102]

I van feel my stomach grow but i NEVER can feel when im full, just satisfied and thus i am overweight badly. I eat until i am satisfied (which is usually when my stomach hurts and i end up crying then afterwords i get peckish again.) It is like a daily battle and i feel as if i can't 'communicate' with my stomach or hardly any signs that i am full until my stomach hurts. (Even when i was a kid.) Luckily I'm going to the doctor tomorrow and i can see what is going on and i can finally get my weight better under control. I mainly noticed it isn't natural on this third time doing a lifestyle change, that i don't have the signs of eating disorders or connection to food just.. It taste good and i can't tell when I'm full. But omg i would rather shoot myself in the foot than suffer another INTENSE cravings when i am practically gritting my teeth and rocking. I just want to be normal.

[@lindahendrick6222]

Wouldn’t you need to get a blood test and see if you have leptin issues before trying this diet?

[@victoriamarshall2559]

Hi have you ever worked with children I know one that eats constantly is gaining a ton of weight steals and hoards food is very aggressive. Doctors can’t explain

[@littlevoice_11]

Carbs, food sensitivities, additives and gut disbiosis can all be a cause. Dr Amen has some good research on this. Dr Jocker has more on keto and Just in Health has some interesting stuff on gut health. The book Healthy Gut Healthy You may also be useful (also on KZbin). In terms of weight gain, chose low calorie density foods such as vegetables to add volume without exceed calorie requirements for the day. Then just add in healthy fats (anti inflammatory omega 3), good quality protein and small amounts of lower sugar fruit such as berries. High fibre, no refined foods. Do it together as a family. It will be a life style that sticks more easily that way

[@realimagevanity2289]

with all do respect I hate associating leptin resistance and being over weight or in general metabolic syndrome. because it is complicated and to be honest it doesn’t makes lots of sense for me personally. However the insulin resistance makes way more sense and easy to understand. since we know insulin have indispensable role in energy metabolism and anabolic role, being insulin resistant make your cells in deficient in energy even if you have tons of fats on your body, this only fact disrupt lots of normal functions of our body.

[@katieupton2796]

I've been doing keto and IF for about a year and a half now...initially lost about 10 pounds and felt great. Last year though, I gained almost 25 pounds over the course of about six months, and nothing I do seems to touch it. I tried carnivore, I tried upping carbs and calories (thinking perhaps I was undereating), I tried decreasing calories, I'm currently exercising regularly... and have NO other symptoms other than this weight, so don't think it's an issue like hypothyroidism or anything like that. I am hungry more than I think I should be, and it's frustrating to feel like I can't eat as much as I want to because it'll prevent any progress with weight loss. Any insights?? (I'm 24 years old). Will take any suggestions. Thanks! :)

[@tylerd.5694]

WFPB diet.

[@Psalm_27.4]

For those who are wondering, “What on earth does WFPB mean,” it stands for Whole Foods Plant Based diet.

[@balasandarkalieannan300]

Hi Dr I m under weight....what resistance? Feel hungry.

[@maryjohnson753]

Look into parasite cleansing. We're all subject to having them. It's no longer a 3rd world country illness. I used mimosa pudica capsules on an empty stomach every morning, cistus tea during the day & binding agents to carry out the toxins (fulvic & humic acids).

[@balasandarkalieannan300]

@@maryjohnson753 thanks

[@elitecoaching4927]

I have genetic leptin resistance the only stress free way for me to eat is once a day, about one or two hours before bed

[@scrapbookedmemories7736]

Most diets cater to preventing hunger because thin people think that fat people overeat because they are hungry. Nope. I will say that I think Dr. Gilaspy is compassionate and is not using this misunderstanding to present her material. I just think other "experts" have messed up others by making suggestions such as eating every three hours or calorie-reduced foods will be the same thing as the real one.

[@user-xc3qc1nv5u]

I wish if there is translation to Arabic language in order to understand everything

[@VandepoelM]

5:01 is olive oil also bad, or good? I'm trying to change my diet, but i use (maybe a bit too much) olive oil on my vegetables.

[@KH-zn7rv]

Olive oil is a healthy fat that can help you feel more satiated for longer. You don't have to stop using it at all, in fact I'd say keep it as a pantry staple if anything. But like any other food, healthy or not, moderation is key.

[@rjrnj1]

I'm carnivore 2 years. I have no food in my house. If I make 1lb of ground beef, I'm satisfied with 4 oz. Yet I will slowly eat the rest of the beef. So I buy 1/4 lb of meat, make it, eat it, andI'm done.

[@brittanyfehlings6838]

What a crappy catch-22