The True Dangers Of Sugar with Dr. Robert Lustig

The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.

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When we take a global bird's eye view of diets around the world, it’s clear that the Western diet makes humans sick. Any nation that has acquired our habits of eating highly-processed foods, rich in refined carbohydrates, fructose, and inflammatory fats, ends up metabolically unhealthy. Metabolic health is much more than just maintaining a healthy weight. It’s the sum of our cardiovascular, mitochondrial, liver, gut, and hormone function—and a poor diet impacts all of these systems for the worse.

Today, I’m excited to talk to my friend and a physician who is an inspiration to me, Dr. Robert Lustig, all about fixing our metabolic health. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He’s the Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. He is also one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry, in part through his game-changing books. His latest work is Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The real problem with the Western diet (7:50 / 4:50)
• Why fatty liver is so prevalent today (9:45 / 6:44)
• How glucose and fructose affect the body differently (14:38 / 12:07)
• Insulin resistance, mitochondrial dysfunction, and chronic disease (18:08 / 14:00)
• How to know if you have insulin resistance or metabolic syndrome (21:54 / 18:07)
• Why sugar, not salt, drives high blood pressure (34:54 / 29:27)
• Eight subcellular pathologies that underlie metabolic disease (49:53 / 39:02)
• Fixing your health with food (1:06:02 / 1:01:31
• Four things in our food supply that damage mitochondria (1:07:52 / 1:03:20)
• How to fix our food system (1:12:46 / 1:08:10)

Learn more about Dr. Lustig at robertlustig.com and get a copy of his book, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, here.

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