Dr. Jason Fung
About
An early proponent of the now-popular fasting lifestyle, Dr. Fung is often called the founder of intermittent fasting, and is regularly “cited to provide scientific legitimacy for a diet that can seem outlandish to the unfamiliar” (Quartz).i
As a young nephrologist (kidney doctor) working with patients whose type 2 diabetes had led to kidney disease, Dr. Fung saw a clear relationship between prescribed insulin medication and weight gain, an observation that led him to intermittent fasting as a way to lower insulin and force the body to burn fat as energy.
Today, Dr. Fung has prescribed intermittent fasting and a low carb diet to thousands of patients who have seen results that include reversal of type 2 diabetes, weight loss, and overall higher quality of life and wellbeing. i
In 2016, Dr. Fung published one of the first popular science books to recommend intermittent fasting for weight loss, The Obesity Code, which went on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide. Next, he published The Diabetes Code, which lays out his foundational approach to type 2 diabetes prevention and reversal. A New York Times- bestselling author, Dr. Fung has written numerous other books on disease prevention including The PCOS Plan , and The Cancer Code.
Dr. Fung completed medical school at the University of Toronto and a fellowship in nephrology at UCLA. He continues to practice nephrology in Toronto, where he is also the co-founder of The Fasting Method, a program that helps patients lose weight and reverse their type 2 diabetes naturally.
Expertise
- Nephrology (kidney doctor)
- Type 2 reversal
- Fasting
- Low carb diets
Affiliation
UCLA