Body weight set point
Subject in Medicine
Body weight set point has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Huberman Lab. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Chris ThompsonProfessor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham
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
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
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
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.