What Chris Thompson has said about Body weight set point
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 21, 2026
Chris Thompson, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham, has been quoted on Body weight set point 2 times in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on September 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Thompson explains that after crash dieting the body defends its prior weight range through hormonal and metabolic adaptations.
“So your whole body is fighting you, okay? It wants to go back to that weight, whatever it thought it was supposed to be at”
Huberman Lab: Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 2:06:42
Thompson argues that procedures and drugs will fail unless patients also fix fundamentals like diet, fiber, and exercise.
“the surgeries the medicines will fail unless you really address those underlying problems”
Huberman Lab: Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 2:16:34
Episodes
Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris ThompsonHuberman Lab · Sep 21, 2026 · 2 h 28 min
Andrew Huberman and gastroenterologist Chris Thompson discuss gut anatomy, fiber and the microbiome, GLP-1 drugs, early metabolic testing, gut permeability, and endoscopic and gene-therapy obesity treatments.
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