drjasonfung's profile picture. Nephrologist.  Special interest in weight management and diabetes

Dr. Jason Fung

@drjasonfung

Nephrologist. Special interest in weight management and diabetes

In Toronto, I went into hospital every working day from 2001-2025, and yes, the hospital was a ghost town, not overflowing as the media suggested every day of the pandemic.

Hospital bed occupancy: 🟦 Pre-pandemic average 🟥 2020 - during pandemic Even The Lancet reported this - are they also covdouract theorists?? thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

TheRustler83's tweet image. Hospital bed occupancy:

🟦 Pre-pandemic average
🟥 2020 - during pandemic

Even The Lancet reported this - are they also covdouract theorists??

thelancet.com/journals/eclin…


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According to modern medicine they are injecting people with GLP1 hormones because it’s a calories problem not a hormonal problem


Unfortunately, conflicts of interest are all too true and too often ignored.

When I publish about animal foods, I get attacked for being the (non-paid) president of the (non-sponsored, academic) Belgian Association of Meat Science & Technology. Meanwhile, authors advocating for meat reduction manage to have CoI statements looking like this 😱

fleroy1974's tweet image. When I publish about animal foods, I get attacked for being the (non-paid) president of the (non-sponsored, academic) Belgian Association of Meat Science & Technology.
Meanwhile, authors advocating for meat reduction manage to have CoI statements looking like this 😱


Fascinating and disturbing. Large discrepancies (41.4%) in FOURIER trial on evolocumab between local clinical investigator and the trials committee. When readjusted, cardiac deaths in evolocumab group vs placebo 113 vs 88 (non significantly higher). Why was there such a large…


Scam alert. Apparently, on Insta, a reader saw me recommending something called gluco prime. I've never heard of it or recommended it. It's probably a deep fake.


My new book, The Hunger Code will be released March 2026 doctorjasonfung.com/letter-to-read…

drjasonfung's tweet image. My new book, The Hunger Code will be released March 2026 doctorjasonfung.com/letter-to-read…

Ultra-processed food addiction is highly prevalent at 12.4% of older adults - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…


Fail.

Tufts University food healthfulness system ranked Lucky Charms cereal as healthier than ground beef. Sadly, this is how nutrition experts have lost the public trust. I talk about how the Left has lost its way on whole foods in my new op-ed in @WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/how-de…

bigfatsurprise's tweet image. Tufts University food healthfulness system ranked Lucky Charms cereal as healthier than ground beef. 

Sadly, this is how nutrition experts have lost the public trust.

I talk about how the Left has lost its way on whole foods in my new op-ed in @WSJ:  wsj.com/opinion/how-de…


Scam Alert - Several readers have alerted me to a deep fake of me promoting a product called Blood Balance Plus. I know nothing about this product and certainly do not endorse it.


This is quite the graph.

I think I know why the birth rate is falling.

WallStreetMav's tweet image. I think I know why the birth rate is falling.


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🚨 BREAKING: Lilly (LLY) just pulled the plug on a Phase 2a trial combining Zepbound with bimagrumab, a muscle-preserving drug, citing “strategic reasons.” The diabetes arm is dead, but the obesity-only trial lives on. Big questions about what this means for future combo…


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"Diabetes ... is directly tied to America’s dietary dysfunction. The ADA did not cause the problem. Elizabeth Hanna’s whistleblower lawsuit, however, suggests that the organization’s nutritional advice is actually making it worse." -- @nsbarsky in The Guardian

robertlufkinmd's tweet image. "Diabetes ... is directly tied to America’s dietary dysfunction. The ADA did not cause the problem. Elizabeth Hanna’s whistleblower lawsuit, however, suggests that the organization’s nutritional advice is actually making it worse."   
--
@nsbarsky
 in The Guardian

I'll be speaking in Orlando on Sat November 8th at the Metabolic Reset convention - Use discount code JASON to get tickets for $99 (from $189) unicity.com/usa/en/metabol…

drjasonfung's tweet image. I'll be speaking in Orlando on Sat November 8th at the Metabolic Reset convention - Use discount code JASON to get tickets for $99 (from $189) unicity.com/usa/en/metabol…

How bizarre

"Flashed Face Distortion Effect," a visual illusion where rapidly presented faces in peripheral vision appear distorted



I wonder if this is based on The Ice Wall from Game of Thrones and will be manned by people (mostly criminals) taking 'the Black' 😄

Japan has invested approximately $80 billion in constructing a massive U-shaped seawall, primarily in the Iwaki prefecture, to protect coastal towns from tsunamis and tidal storms,



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Our children’s future is being sacrificed for the profits on junk food @bigfatsurprise

For the first time, obesity has surpassed underweight among school-age children and adolescents globally, reveals UNICEF’s latest report. Learn more: unicef.link/3V6RUrx

UNICEF's tweet image. For the first time, obesity has surpassed underweight among school-age children and adolescents globally, reveals UNICEF’s latest report.

Learn more:
unicef.link/3V6RUrx


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