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In this thought-provoking episode of Metabolic Matters, Dr. Nasha Winters sits down with Dr. Robert Lustig, a pioneer in neuroendocrinology and metabolic research, to challenge the most deeply held assumptions about health, nutrition, and chronic disease.Dr. Lustig shares the personal journey and clinical breakthroughs that led him to uncover how our modern food system, misinformed science, and biochemical dysfunction have hijacked not just our bodies, but our brains. From leptin resistance and childhood obesity to mitochondrial failure and insulin overload, this conversation is packed with powerful insights for anyone seeking to understand the true roots of metabolic dysfunction.Why obesity is not a result of gluttony or sloth — but a hormonal and neurological responseHow mitochondrial dysfunction underlies chronic disease, from cancer to diabetesThe critical difference between food science, nutrition, and metabolic healthWhat happens when insulin levels rise — and how to bring them downThe story behind Freeing the Hostage Brain, Dr. Lustig's upcoming bookMetabolic health, mitochondria, insulin resistance, fructose, leptin, obesity, chronic disease, Dr. Robert Lustig, ultra-processed food, root cause medicine, neuroendocrinology, nutrition, energy balance, brain health.Dr. Robert Lustig is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). A globally recognized expert in neuroendocrinology and nutrition, he has spent decades researching childhood obesity, insulin resistance, and the food industry's role in modern disease. His books include Fat Chance, Sugar: The Bitter Truth, Metabolical, and the upcoming Freeing the Hostage Brain.Dr. Lustig's books: Metabolical, Sugar: The Bitter Truth, Fat ChanceUpcoming book: Freeing the Hostage Brain (Fall 2025)How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact your Health: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n28W4AmvMDEConnect with Dr. Lustig: 

Robert Lustig, MD, MSL is a Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig has become a leading public health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases.   In his New York Times best selling book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processes Food, Obesity, and Disease, Robert documents both the science and the politics that have led to the current pandemic of obesity and chronic disease. In the Fat Chance Cookbook, Robert provides practical examples for applying healthy eating principles with recipes by Cindy Gershen.   Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with basic and clinical training relative to hypothalamic development, anatomy, and function. Prior to coming to San Francisco in 2001, he worked at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. There, he was charged with the endocrine care of many children whose hypothalami had been damaged by brain tumors, or subsequent surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. Many patients who survived became massively obese. Dr. Lustig theorized that hypothalamic damage led to the inability to sense the hormone leptin, which in turn, led to the starvation response. Since repairing the hypothalamus was not an option, he looked downstream, and noted that these patients had increased activity of the vagus nerve (a manifestation of starvation) which increased insulin secretion. By administering the insulin suppressive agent octreotide, he was able to get them to lose weight; but more remarkably, they started to exercise spontaneously. He then demonstrated the same phenomenon in obese adults without CNS lesions.   The universality of these findings has enabled Dr. Lustig to weave these threads together into a novel unifying hypothesis regarding the etiology, prevention, and treatment of the current obesity epidemic, and the role of our environment in the biochemical changes that promote weight gain. This has led him to explore the specific role of fructose (half of sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup) as a specific mediator of both chronic disease, and continued caloric consumption. His acclaimed YouTube video, “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” continues its popularity with the lay public.   A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Lustig went to Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He completed his pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital in 1983, and his clinical fellowship at UCSF in 1984. From there, he spent six years as a post-doctoral fellow and research associate in neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Tennessee, Memphis. In 2013, Dr. Lustig received his Masters in the study of Law from University of California, Hastings to enable him to impact the food industry through policy change.   Dr. Lustig has authored 125 peer-reviewed articles and 73 reviews. He has mentored 20 pediatric endocrine fellows, and trained numerous other allied health professionals. He provides endocrinologic support to several protocols of the Children's Oncology Group. He is the former Chairman of the Ad hoc Obesity Task Force of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, a member of the Pediatric Obesity Practice Guidelines Subcommittee of The Endocrine Society, a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society, a member of the Pediatric Obesity Devices Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a member of the Bay Area Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, and a member of the Steering Committee of Health Foods, Healthy Kids of the Culinary Institute of America. He also consults for several childhood obesity advocacy groups.   Dr. Lustig lives in San Francisco with his wife Julie and two daughters. Spare time (what little there is) is spent cooking, theater-going, and traveling.

Episode 2464 - On this Wednesday's show Vinnie Tortorich and Gina Grad discuss how the pendulum swings with health topics, the rising numbers of obese kids, estrogen, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2024/03/how-the-pendulum-swings-episode-2464 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS   YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - How the Pendulum Swings Singer-songwriter Eric Carmen has passed. (2:00) The days of doctors advising people to smoke to lose weight. (3:00) Doctors would give the same advice to breastfeeding women in the 1960s and 1970s. (4:15) They discuss other talk that happened regarding women, breasts, breastfeeding, formula feeding, etc. There are various cultural aspects regarding them as well. This started in the 1960s and progressed. The pendulum swings back and forth over the decades regarding the topic of breastfeeding vs formula feeding. Vinnie emphasizes that there are situations where women can't breastfeed, such as producing little to no milk, which is a medical issue. Women should not feel bad about it. There was a time when formula feeding was encouraged over breastfeeding. Gina brings up some of the gadgets her friends use. (12:00) Vinnie wants to know the ingredients of a brand of powdered baby formula. (15:00) Seed oils and powdered corn syrup were the first four ingredients. Follow the Money--AGAIN Gina shares her concern after going to a water park and seeing the number of obese kids, including young boys with “breasts.” (15:45) Vinnie had a similar experience on a beach in the South—he was hard-pressed to find a kid who was at a lean, healthy weight. There is a free video on YouTube called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” by Dr. Robert Lusting. (18:00) Vinnie gives Gina an assignment. (22:00) Gina has a memory regarding her days on the Adam Carolla Show, and a discussion between Adam and Dr. Drew. (23:00) Vinnie recalls a similar story on the show, regarding pasta. This kind of info has changed the way Gina looks at food and the studies she comes across. You have to follow the money—who sponsors the study—to see if the results are credible. Gina has a new Instagram and a new website, . Go check out her socials--she shares some relatively recent news. Check out Gina's book . She also co-hosts with Bryan Bishop for @LAmag on the Bryan & Gina Show, which you can find on any podcast platform and . Vinnie's rumble channel: Vinnie's X/Twitter channel: Vinnie shares an update to his website that you'll want to check out: a VIP section! Go to   to join the waitlist! [the_ad id="20253"] PURCHASE BEYOND IMPOSSIBLE (2022) The documentary launched on January 11! Order it TODAY! This is Vinnie's third documentary in just over three years. Get it now on Apple TV (iTunes) and/or Amazon Video! Link to the film on Apple TV (iTunes):  Then, Share this link with friends, too! It's also now available on Amazon (the USA only for now)!  Visit my new Documentaries HQ to find my films everywhere: REVIEWS: Please submit your REVIEW after you watch my films. Your positive REVIEW does matter! FAT: A DOCUMENTARY 2 (2021) Visit my new Documentaries HQ to find my films everywhere: Then, please share my fact-based, health-focused documentary series with your friends and family. The more views, the better it ranks, so please watch it again with a new friend! REVIEWS: Please submit your REVIEW after you watch my films. Your positive REVIEW does matter! FAT: A DOCUMENTARY (2019) Visit my new Documentaries HQ to find my films everywhere: Then, please share my fact-based, health-focused documentary series with your friends and family. The more views, the better it ranks, so please watch it again with a new friend! REVIEWS: Please submit your REVIEW after you watch my films. Your positive REVIEW does matter!  

Dr. Robert Lustig has a degree from MIT, a medical degree from Cornell University and a law degree from U.C. Hastings.  He is bold in his messaging: Our metabolic health as a nation has been negatively affected by our nutrition---We are not eating real foods, whole foods.  Sugar is added to ultra-processed foods and it is making us sicker.  75 percent of our health care costs in the U.S. are due to our poor metabolic health which is related directly to our poor nutrition.  Doctors treat the symptoms of metabolic disease and do not urge prevention through eating real food. The food industry and big pharma are all financially highly incented to keep us addicted and they know sugar and ultra-processed foods are addictive.   His Youtube video, Sugar: The Bitter Truth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM) has gone viral with over 24 million views.  His most recent book Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Metabolical&i=stripbooks&crid=3KXLJ2N75LH2J&sprefix=metabolical%2Cstripbooks%2C109&ref=nb_sb_noss_1) offers an excellent account of what is truly going on:  Food and sugar addiction are real, the food industry knows this and adds sugar to foods, our doctors are treating the symptoms of obesity and metabolic syndrome by throwing pills at the problem and the pharmaceutical industry is motivated to be complicit. Dr. Lustig is a vocal advocate for placing Food Addiction in the DSM-V as a substance use disorder just like alcohol and drugs so that insurance companies will pay for treatment.  What a brilliant and inspiring man Dr. Robert Lustig is! Listen in!   

Today we speak with an expert on sugar and things meant to replace it. The stakes are high. Very high. Sugar consumption in the population is astronomical and so is the use of sugar replacements. Knowing the impacts of both could help experts provide dietary guidance and help consumers make decisions. Dr. Robert Lustig is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. He specializes on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system; body weight regulation, appetite, metabolism, and is very well known for his work on sugar and their substitutes and on policies aimed at improving the diet of the population. A YouTube video on the effects of consuming sugar called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” has now been viewed 24 million times. Interview Summary   URL for “The Bitter Truth video (https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM)   Let's start out with this - so the big hope is that sugar replacements, artificial sweeteners, non-nutritive sweeteners, all known as different things, replace sugar and that people can enjoy sweet taste without the calories. But, of course, the picture is way more complicated. Being an endocrinologist, you are in a good position to explain what happens when the sweeteners enter the body. I'd like to get to that in just a moment, but let's lead off with another question. Why is it so important for people to consume less sugar?   First, let's talk about what sugar is. The food industry tells you that sugar is just empty calories. I wish that were true. If that were true, then you could basically spend your discretionary calories on sugar with no problem. But it's not true. There are two molecules in dietary sugar: the sucrose or the high fructose corn syrup or honey maple syrup agave. They are all basically the same. One molecule of something called glucose, one molecule of something called fructose. Glucose is the energy of life. Glucose is metabolizable by every cell on the planet. Glucose is so important that if you don't consume it, your body makes it. The liver will take fats and turn it into glucose. It will take amino acids and turn it into glucose process called gluconeogenesis. Glucose actually makes your cells work better. It makes your mitochondria function better, the mitochondria being the little energy burning factories inside each of your cells. Glucose, for lack of a better word, we can call good. Fructose, on the other hand, it is completely different, is metabolized completely differently inside the body and inside the liver. What fructose does is it inhibits mitochondrial function. It actually inhibits three separate enzymes necessary for mitochondria to do their job. So, fructose inhibits energy generation. Now, the food industry will tell you fructose is four calories per gram. Fructose is ready energy. That is why they put high fructose corn syrup in the sports drinks, for example. Well, turns out, that fructose may be ready energy for a bomb calorimeter, but it is not ready energy for your mitochondria. You don't burn in a bomb calorimeter (a laboratory instrument), you burn via your mitochondria. It turns out, mitochondria are actually poisoned by fructose. So in fact, fructose is a chronic, dose-dependent mitochondrial toxin and this is why we have to eat less of it. But the problem is the food industry keeps putting it in anyway despite the fact that it is killing us.   How much more of it are people consuming than what you might suggest?   The American Heart Association years ago came up with a upper limit per day of about 25 grams, which would be about six teaspoons per day. I was actually part of that group that came up with that and I stick to it because that's what the data show. We are currently consuming 94 grams. We are consuming almost quadruple the amount that is the upper limit. Now, the notion that something could have empty calories but still be bad for you is not a crazy one. We have two things in our diet that we know are calories but are clearly toxic to us. One is alcohol. Alcohol, seven calories per gram, but alcohol is a poison. And then also trans fats. Trans fats are nine calories per gram, but trans fats are a poison. So just because something has calories doesn't have anything to do with its metabolic impact.   Where are people getting all the sugar from? I'm assuming it's not from their sugar bowl.   Exactly. It is not the sugar they add. It is the sugar the food industry adds. Now, where is it? Well, the obvious source is soft drinks. That's number one by far and away. I mean soft drinks are basically, you know, the devil incarnate. Several municipalities have actually figured that out, and it's one of the reasons we have soda taxes because it's actually directed at the problem. A lot of it is in other things that we identify as sweet: candy, cakes, ice cream. A lot of it is in other things like breakfast, cereal, yogurt, even cured meats. It is in a whole host of other things. When you add it all up, 65% of the sugar you consume is in ultra-processed foods. It is not in regular food. It is not in sugar you added to your own food. It is in ultra-processed foods. An ultra-processed food is the vehicle by which the payload, that is that fructose, is doing its damage.   Thanks for that background. We're really here to talk about the artificial sweeteners but it is irresistible talking to you about sugar in general because you described the whole picture in such a compelling way. So thank you for that. So, onto the artificial sweeteners. What are the main ones in the food supply?   Well, there are a whole bunch. The most common ones that the food industry uses the most, obviously aspartame, which is Equal. And also sucralose, which is Splenda. But there are others now out on the market: Neotame, there's Acesulfame-K, there's monk fruit, there's Stevia, and all the Steviol glycoside derivatives. There's now Allulose, and there's Tagatose. There's a whole host of different sweeteners that are considered "non-nutritive” meaning they don't have calories.   These things show up in ways that people don't necessarily recognize. I mean Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, those sort of things, it's obvious they're artificially sweetened. But these things are showing up in a lot of places, aren't they?   Indeed. The food industry now understands that sugar is a problem and people have been calling for less sugar but what they're not calling for is less sweet. And so the industry has a job. It has to deal with that dichotomy.   I know understanding their impacts is complicated by the fact that there are a lot of these things and they're all chemically different from one another. I'm imagining they have different metabolic effects. What happens when these things get into the body?   Right, and that is the issue. It has nothing to do with calories. People think calories are the issue. This has nothing to do with calories. That's one of the reasons, Kelly, that I'm committed to one concept: kill the calorie. Kill the calorie as a unit of measure. It was never appropriate. It was actually subterfuge, and it was actually promoted and promulgated by the food industry because if it is about calories, they can assuage their culpability for what they've done to our food supply. This has nothing to do with calories. This has to do with metabolic health.   Now, the World Economic Forum just published a white paper called the, "True Purpose of Nutrition," and it comes down to two words: metabolic health. That is what is going on inside the cell and that's where the artificial sweeteners do their damage, inside the cell. That's what we have to talk about. There are several places in the body where artificial sweeteners can do damage that have absolutely nothing to do with calories. The first, you put something sweet on your tongue. Message goes tongue to brain, "Sugar's coming." Brain sends a message to the pancreas, "Sugar's coming, release the insulin." Then the sugar never comes because it was a diet sweetener. What does the pancreas do? It turns out it releases the insulin anyway even though it had no calories, even though it wasn't sugar, just because of the sweet taste. So this is known as the cephalic phase of insulin secretion. That insulin is driving energy storage into fat, number one, and it's also driving cell proliferation in your coronary arteries, cell proliferation in your breast tissue, in other words, cardiovascular disease and cancer and ultimately leading to burnout of your pancreas, and now you've got diabetes too. Even though these artificial sweeteners have no calories, they still generate an insulin response, which is still problematic from a metabolic standpoint.   So because of the sweet taste and the body's response to that, I'm assuming what you're saying would be true to all of sweeteners?   Exactly. All of them do that. The next step is the artificial sweetener goes down your gullet, goes into your intestine, and the intestine has these bacteria in it called the microbiome. Most people have now heard of that. Different bacteria lead to different effects in the intestine. But think of your intestine - I mean it's a sewer. It has a whole lot of S-H-you-know-what in there. The goal of the intestine is to keep the S-H-you-know-what IN the lumen of the intestine and not allow it into the bloodstream. It uses three barriers. It has a physical barrier called the mucin layer. It has a biochemical barrier known as tight junctions or zonulins. It also has an immunological barrier called Th17 cells. Those three barriers have to work right to keep the junk out of your bloodstream because if the junk gets into your bloodstream, you now have systemic inflammation, which drives insulin resistance and drives chronic metabolic disease as well. So keeping your intestine in tiptop shape is really important. Well, it turns out those diet sweeteners alter the microbiome. Some of those bacteria like those sweeteners and utilize them to make toxic byproducts, which damage the mucin layer, damage that biochemical tight junction barrier and allow for things to seep through. This is a process called leaky gut. For reasons that are still unclear, sugar tends to deplete those Th17 cells, rendering the immunologic barrier devoid of function. The sum total of which means all the you-know-what in your intestine ends up in your bloodstream, goes to your liver, generates insulin resistance, and you are off to the chronic metabolic disease races as well, from diet sweeteners having nothing to do with calories.   What an amazing picture your painting of these things.   We've got one more mechanism. At the fat cell, now this I really don't understand and it's early data but seems to be consistent. Turns out adipocytes, fat cells, have receptors for diet sweeteners. Don't ask me why. I don't know why. But it turns out, diet sweeteners can act like insulin right at the fat cell to increase energy deposition into the fat cell. Growing those fat cells all by themselves, due to the diet sweetener rather than due to insulin. Now how dumb is that? As a result, there are a lot of different ways diet sweeteners might end up causing problems as well, having nothing to do with calories, having nothing to do with fructose. There was a paper that came out in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It was a meta-analysis of sugar and also of diet sweeteners in terms of diabetes and heart disease. What I can say in one sentence to sum up what this paper showed is that the toxicity of one Coca-Cola equals the toxicity of two diet Coca-Colas. Half as bad. That doesn't mean good. It means half as bad.   Boy, I mean, any one of the three major pathways to harm would be of concern. If you add them all together, it is a pretty striking picture, isn't it? I imagine, even if somebody knew about this, they might say, well, you know, I'm willing to accept those risks. I mean, even though you are making them sound substantial, but I'm willing to accept those risks if these products help me control my weight. Do they?   Well, they don't. That's part of the problem. There is not one study, not one study in the entire world's literature, that shows that switching from sugared beverages to diet beverages actually controls weight. The reason is because even though the diet sweeteners don't release as much insulin now, when you drink the diet sweetener, the pancreas releases it later. That's actually been shown in several studies now. You get a delayed insulin response, so that the 24-hour insulin burden is the same whether you consume the sugar or the diet sweetener.   Let's talk about safety for a minute. What about sort of the typical toxicology concerns that people have had for years about these substances, irrespective of what they're doing to the pancreas and to the other, the microbiome, et cetera? What about the just kind of pure safety of them?   Right, so the one that has generated the most heat, not too much light, unfortunately, is aspartame, NutraSweet. It turns out that aspartame has a very long and checkered history. Did you know that aspartame was made by Searle, G.D. Searle? And, do you know who the CEO of G.D. Searle was at the time that aspartame was approved by the FDA?   I do not.   His name was Donald Rumsfeld.   An interesting character in history.   Indeed, wouldn't you think? It turns out that G.D. Searle actually buried most of the toxicology of aspartame in order to get it approved. It is a long complicated and involved story, which we don't have time for. I'm not even privy to most of the details on that. The bottom line was it ultimately did get approved despite the fact that there was a significant amount of concern about toxicology of this compound. Those questions still remain today. That is one. Another one that is a big issue is sucralose. Sucralose is also called Splenda. Sucralose is a chlorinated poly-fructose and it's extremely sweet, no question about that. It seems to have some GI side effects that a lot of people don't like. It also has now been associated with cancer. And most recently, the one that's gotten the most attention and almost assuredly, Kelly, the reason you called me is the paper that came out about three weeks ago in science about erythritol. So erythritol is a sugar alcohol, and now the meta-analysis of erythritol consumption suggests that it may in fact contribute to heart disease. Now, is that true? Meta-analysis are complicated. People think meta-analysis are the piece de resistance, the highest bar of medical information and analysis. I have four words for meta-analysis: garbage in, garbage out. Meta-analyses are only as good as the studies that they base the data on. If those studies were done by the food industry, which almost all of these are, because that's who stands to benefit from them. These are almost never NIH studies. These are almost always food industry studies, as you know, the odds are 7.61 times more likely to find in favor of the compound of interest. So all of these are, shall we say, biased. All of these are tainted, and meta-analyses are basically a conglomeration of tainted studies. So what do you expect the result to be?   Thanks for that background. I'm imagining also regarding toxicology and safety, that some of the newer sweeteners like Splenda for example, sucralose, there hasn't been enough years of use to pick up long-term chronic effects.   Well certainly, if you're using cardiovascular or cancer events, you're absolutely right. A lot of these events, you know, take a long time to manifest themselves. Sometimes, a generation or even two generations for that matter, especially for heart disease and cancer. The 15-year-old is drinking 10 diet sodas. When do you expect the heart attack to show up? You know, it's complicated.   So we use biomarkers to try to answer these questions, but then the biomarker has to actually be a good proxy for those events and often they're not. Let me give you an example, LDL. Everybody thought LDL was the bad guy. Turns out triglycerides are the way worse guy. LDL has a hazard risk ratio for heart disease of 1.3. Triglycerides have a hazard risk ratio of 1.8. Triglycerides are 50% more important in determining heart disease than LDL is, but we use LDL as the biomarker because it's more stable. So you have to use the right biomarker and you have to interpret it properly and it actually has to mean something and it has to change relatively acutely. All of which are problematic for all of these biomarkers. It's hard. It's hard to do these kinds of analyses. Having said that, my group, a scientific advisory team that I convened to help an offshore ultra-processed food company improve the health of their products. We've published this just last month in Frontiers in Nutrition. The company is called Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Company, or KDD. The title of the paper is, "The Metabolic Matrix: Re-Engineering Ultra-processed Foods to Protect the Liver, Feed the Gut, and Support the Brain." We did a deep dive on diet sweeteners. We looked at all of these diet sweeteners and their proxies, all the biomarkers. The one that actually popped out that looked to be the most beneficial, at least acutely, is a new one that we're actually kind of interested in and is picking up speed and it's called allulose. Allulose currently is 12 times the cost of sugar, but that's coming down. It turns out allulose lowers LDL and raises HDL. So it may have a better cardiovascular profile, but again, all the caveats that we mentioned before.   That's very interesting. So given your interest in pediatrics, what about children using these sweeteners?   I am totally against children using sugar because they get fatty liver disease and Type 2 diabetes, and I am totally against them using diet sweeteners because, number one, we don't know what they're going to do. Number two, they don't actually lead to weight loss. That data we do have. So as far as I'm concerned, we really only have one option and that is de-sweeten our lives. We have to de-sweeten the food.   Perfect lead in to the next question I was going to ask. So do you think it is possible for people to become accustomed to less sweetness? I mean, let's say the food industry is required to gradually reduce sugar and sweetness from the sweeteners. What do you think would happen?   Absolutely. It is not only possible, it is eminently doable. And I know why and we have the data for why that is. So there is a very smart lady, neuroscientist at the University of Michigan by the name of Monica Dus, who has done all this work in fruit flies of all places. She has shown the desensitization of the tongue to sugar has to do with changes in receptors and changes in specific substrates in the taste buds of the tongue. When you stop the sugar availability, it takes three weeks for those receptors to increase and repopulate, and for those problematic substrates to go away. You can actually retrain your tongue in three weeks to be much more sensitive to the sugar that is in the food naturally. After a three-week abstinence period or a reduction or a weaning period, a blueberry will taste like a sugar bomb in your mouth. So we know this can happen and we actually have proven this for salt previously. The UK, as you know Kelly, back in 2003, the Blair government convened all the food industry concerns in Great Britain. So Marks & Spencer, and Weight Rose, and Tesco, et cetera, all around the big table, didn't let media in, and basically said to every single food industry concerned in Great Britain, "Look, we have a hypertension and stroke problem and it's because of the salt content of the food and we are going to play referee here in the government. And each of you is going to reduce the salt content of your food by 10% per year over a three-year period so that you'll reduce your salt by 30% at the end of this and everyone's going to play together, so that there's no competitive disadvantage and most importantly, we're not going to tell anybody." That's what they did. Sure enough, in 2011, a paper appeared in Burge Medical Journal, demonstrating a 40% reduction in hypertension and stroke because of the public health effort that the Blair government made in terms of reducing the amount of salt in processed food. We can do the same with sugar today.   The salt example is a good one because I think many people have sort of experienced this in their day-to-day lives, even in the United States, where industry hasn't done exactly what's happening in Britain. People have tried to reduce salt in their diet, add less salt, and buy products with less salt. And then sometimes they'll go back and consume something that they had before and find it extremely salty, even unpleasantly salty. It's interesting to hear on the sugar front that that same experience might be possible and that there's a biological reason for it. It is not just that you psychologically get accustomed to different levels of sugar, in this case, but there's a biological change occurring that might help keep that going.   Absolutely. You can change people's behavior by changing their biochemistry. This is how I got into this field by using a drug that suppressed insulin and getting kids who were 400 pounds due to their brain tumor to actually lose weight and start exercising because we got their insulin down. You can fix the biochemistry and the behavior will follow suit. The food industry could do that and we wouldn't even notice.   So I'm guessing I know the answer to this question before I even ask it, but let's go ahead. Would you suggest the food industry be mandated to make gradual reductions in sugar, just like you mentioned with salt in the UK?   Absolutely, I'm working toward that. The only thing that I say is we should not tell anybody.   So it would be sort of a stealth move then. You would not necessarily have to make a big deal of it to the public, because they might assume there's going to be a change in the desirability and the pleasure of the products when that's not necessarily the case.   As soon as you do something to their food, someone's going to scream, "Nanny state!" This is not nanny state. Ultimately, this is a public health problem. We have to deal with it with a public health solution. You know, that means changing things. If the amount of sugar in our food supply went down, say by 3% every six months down, so that we were able to cut our sugar consumption by 25%, which would be the same basically as what a tax would do. We would save so many billions of dollars in healthcare costs, and we would increase productivity so much. We actually published a paper, a microsimulation analysis in BMJ years ago where we quantified the savings to government, to insurers, to the public. If we actually got sugar down and, you know, actually listened to what the USDA told us, it would be amazing. There is data, there's a pathway forward, there's precedent for doing it. I absolutely think that is where we need to go.   Rob, you're making me feel very smart at the moment, because I figured this was going to be a podcast filled with information and helpful bits of knowledge and it sure was. I'm really grateful that you were able to join us and the topic couldn't be more important. Thank you again for being with us.     Bio   Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. He has dedicated his retirement from clinical medicine to help to fix the food supply any way he can, to reduce human suffering and to salvage the environment. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine (2021). He is the Chief Science Officer of the non-profit Eat REAL, he is on the Advisory Boards of the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, the Center for Humane Technology, Simplex Health, Levels Health, and ReadOut Health, and he is the Chief Medical Officer of BioLumen Technologies, Foogal, Perfact, and Kalin Health.  

I am 52 years young (!) living in rural area in Quebec, Canada near Montreal.  I am blessed to have a beautiful family with 2 daughters who are 12 and 14 and my wife we shared lives together since 1995. I have struggled with my weight all my life. I currently work as a professional engineer keeping busy with implementing and operating industrial composting facilities to make quality. compost from municipal food wastes and green wastes. As a teenager I was very active working on dairy farms, riding.my bike and kept busy all the time.  Entering University, I was spotted by the Athletics department and was directed to their rugby team which I trained for and played during the first year.  But I dropped this from 2nd year because studying for my engineering training became too much intense.  My energy expenditures lowered but it seems not my food (and beer!) intake… and weight started to add on.  In August 2006, I threw down the sink my last can of soda! In January 2008 had a gall bladder attack.  I needed surgery in May and was told I had very fatty liver and I should lose weight on low lipid diet.  Did not work. I'm 6ft (183cm) tall and highest weight was then 330lbs (150kg) from my medical record.  In 2013, I suffered severe gout attack.  Again, I should lose weight...Then in 2014, I came across Dr Robert Lustig in Sugar: The Bitter Truth.  I threw adder sugar and processed foods out of the kitchen. I read Dr. Fung's Diabetes Code in Summer 2020 and learnt about fasting for health and weight loss for the first time.  And on August 24th,2020 I fasted 24h for 1st time in my life.  But I did not know about clean fasting back then, so it was not sustainable the way I implemented it.  On 1st October 2022, after reading The Fasting Highway by Graeme Currie, I resumed (now clean) fasting, doing OMAD 23-1,7/7.  And that has been a true Eureka moment, on a path to a healthy new me! The Fasting Highway News Graeme is now available to have a private one on one coaching and mentoring session with you. He can help you with those burning questions. How to get started or overcome issues no matter what phase you are up to on your intermittent fasting journey. Get accountable and come and have a chat with Graeme who is vastly experienced in all areas of intermittent fasting and the mindset it takes. He also by experience can offer some real and practical advice around overcoming issues with sugar and highly processed food issues. Graeme has helped people from all over the world with his simple and practical approach to trouble shooting issues and has a great insight into the mindset into living a successful long term intermittent fasting lifestyle. To book a private session one on one with Graeme go to. www.thefastinghighway.com Click on get help/coaching and book a time and date to suit you. All times you see available are in your local time. You will also find information at the web site on how to obtain a copy of his book The Fasting Highway from your Amazon store or direct from him if you live in Australia or New Zealand. Disclaimer-Nothing you hear on the podcast should be taken as medical advice. All views expressed are those of the guest and host. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graeme-currie/message

In this episode, Courtenay invites host of The Ripple Effect Podcast, Ricky Varandas, to the show. They talk about the importance of taking responsibility for your own health, mentally and physically, through exercise and quality foods. Plus how to sift through common wellness myths that have been etched into the mainstream narrative. If you want to create stronger self-discipline, eat for vitality, expand your health education, and find your power in perseverance, then this is the episode for you! Episode Resources: The Big Secret documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6011454/ The Perfect Human Diet documentary: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2014248/ Sugar Coated documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4425138/ Sugar The Bitter Truth documentary: https://robertlustig.com/sugar-the-bitter-truth/ Making a Killing documentary: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5969714/ The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748/ref=sr_1_1_nodl?crid=1K55LVSEWPJN9&keywords=the+body+keeps+the+score&qid=1660315097&sprefix=the+body,aps,365&sr=8-1&dplnkId=668e9495-b15b-400e-9b8c-53709e1a42a5 Connect with Ricky: Website: https://rickyvarandas.com/  Twitter: @RvTheory6 Instagram: @rvtheory6 ————————————————— Disclaimer: this is intended to be inspiration & entertainment. We aim to inform, inspire & empower. Guest opinions/ statements are not a reflection of the host or podcast. Please note these are conversational dialogues. All statements and opinions are not necessarily meant to be taken as fact. Please do your own research. Thanks for watching!  ————————————————— Follow & Connect with Courtenay: https://www.courtenayturner.com Twitter: Courtenay Turner (@CourtenayTurner): https://twitter.com/CourtenayTurner?s=20 Instagram: https://instagram.com/kineticcourtz?utm_medium=copy_link Telegram: https://t.me/courtenayturnerpodcastcommunity Read some of her articles: https://www.truthmatters.biz ————————————————— Listen to the podcast here! https://linktr.ee/courtenayturner ————————————————— Video Edited By Griffo Productions www.griffoproductions.com ————————————————— ©2022 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sugar the bitter truth! Does sugar lower or raise cortisol? What is cortisol and when is it good and bad to have high levels?

Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is emeritus professor of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. He has authored 130 peer-reviewed articles, 80 academic chapters and reviews, and dozens of op-eds for the public. His 2009 YouTube lecture, “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has accrued 12 million views. He is the former chairman of the Obesity Task Force of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society, and a member of the Pediatric Obesity Devices Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He is also the Chief Science Officer of the nonprofit Eat REAL, dedicated to reversing childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes by bringing real food into schools. He has never taken money from the food industry, so has no conflicts of interest. His newly released book is METABOLICAL The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine.   https://robertlustig.com https://metabolical.com

Dr. Robert Lustig has been warning us all about the hazards of sugar since 2009, when his YouTube lecture “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” went viral. As a pediatric neuroendocrinologist, he spent much of his career treating the causes of obesity in children. Now, he turns his impressive expertise to helping adults as well as children. […]

#68: Sure you know your baby doesn't need sugar. But did you know that added sugars are EVERYWHERE in the commercial food supply, including baby foods?    In this episode I'm joined by Dr. Robert Lustig - the BIG DADDY of sugar research and he's breaking it DOWN exactly why your baby doesn't need sugar (...and what you can do to avoid it!)   You may know Dr. Lustig from documentary films such as FED UP or SUGAR COATED...or possibly the longest viral video ever, his SUGAR: THE BITTER TRUTH 90 minute treatise on every reason why we're being tricked into eating sugar and what it's doing for our bodies.   But Dr. Lustig is also doing groundbreaking research on TEXTURES and PALATE DEVELOPMENT and he's sharing WHY as he puts it, “We have been feeding babies pureed semi solid food for millenia...and they're still here!”   Sit back and enjoy this interview with Dr. Robert Lustig of UCSF,    If you're ready to raise an independent eater and prevent picky eating then let's get started learning about baby-led weaning together! Subscribe, rate and review the podcast here.   FREE BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS ONLINE WORKSHOP: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   FOLLOW @BABYLEDWEANTEAM ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://blwpodcast.com/68 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#68: Sure you know your baby doesn’t need sugar. But did you know that added sugars are EVERYWHERE in the commercial food supply, including baby foods?    In this episode I’m joined by Dr. Robert Lustig - the BIG DADDY of sugar research and he’s breaking it DOWN exactly why your baby doesn’t need sugar (...and what you can do to avoid it!)   You may know Dr. Lustig from documentary films such as FED UP or SUGAR COATED...or possibly the longest viral video ever, his SUGAR: THE BITTER TRUTH 90 minute treatise on every reason why we’re being tricked into eating sugar and what it’s doing for our bodies.   But Dr. Lustig is also doing groundbreaking research on TEXTURES and PALATE DEVELOPMENT and he’s sharing WHY as he puts it, “We have been feeding babies pureed semi solid food for millenia...and they’re still here!”   Sit back and enjoy this interview with Dr. Robert Lustig of UCSF,        If you’re ready to raise an independent eater and prevent picky eating then let’s get started learning about baby-led weaning together! Subscribe, rate and review the podcast here.   FREE BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS ONLINE WORKSHOP: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop   FREE BABY-LED WEANING RECIPE IDEAS FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/babyledweaningrecipes/   FOLLOW @BABYLEDWEANTEAM ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://blwpodcast.com/68

Dr Chris Barclay was brought up in Ipswich. He qualified as a doctor at Sheffield University in 1978 (the very same year he got married and Ipswich won the FA Cup - a rather good year). He worked for two years in Sierra Leone before before returning to Sheffield to starting speciality training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He swapped over to General Practice in 1989.Chris Barclay is currently a GP and medical writer. His special interest in diet and health began with a chance encounter; a patient told him how he had lost weight by cutting out carbohydrate foods. Chris has researched the subject ever since. He was principal investigator for the ISAIAH-Project, a diet trial in pre-diabetic patients. His conclusion: processed carbs, starchy foods and sugar are the problem; they are driving our Diabesity epidemic. In his book, Beating Diabetes the low-carb way, Chris presents compelling and persuasive evidence and translated it into a practical and effective plan. Chris has written regularly for medical magazines, most recently The Practitioner magazine. He is the lead writer for MaPPs, a drug information website to help health care organisations (Hospital Trusts mainly) provide reliable, easy to read information on medicines that can be printed off for patients to take away (again, translational work). He worked for many years as GP in Sheffield before moving back to Suffolk. He has worked most recently as a GP in Aldeburgh,His new book Beating Diabetes the low-carb way collects the fruits of his research and enquiries in one place.This is the second part of our interview with Dr Chris Barclay.We start by touching on fruit and how the daily recommendation from the ‘Eat Well' plate of ‘five a day' came about.We think of fruit as healthy but fruit has been genetically modified to be sweeter than it was before. If we are going to eat fruit - the best way to eat them. If you are confused about which vegetables are lower in carbohydrates, check out the Diet Doctor: https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/vegetables The Diet Doctor has low carb fruits listed here: https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fruits We discuss the possibility of giving nutrition advice in the UK.Dr Chris' BookBeating Diabetes The Low Carb Way - Dr Chris Barclayhttps://amzn.to/2SR22EuResources MentionedLife without bread: How a Low Carbohydrate Diet Can Save your life by Christian B Allan and Dr Wolfgang Lutzhttps://amzn.to/2HcpnONGood Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes https://amzn.to/37fPKhpDr Zoe Harcombe PhDhttps://www.zoeharcombe.com/ The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz https://amzn.to/3k9t4TsThe Pioppi Diet by Dr Aseem Malhotrahttps://amzn.to/3j87dL0The Fast Diet by Dr Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer (5-2) diethttps://amzn.to/37aYKV4Robert Lustig video Sugar: The Bitter Truth https://robertlustig.com/sugar-the-bitter-truth/ Public Health Collaboration UK https://

Welcome to Episode 15 of Ask Us Anything!  Is there one diet everyone should follow? Keto? Paleo? South Beach? Atkins? Intermittent Fasting? Weight Watchers? Michael Thurmond? Whole 30? Elimination Diet? Juicing? Veganism? Is Casey the best-looking beaver? What is Autophagy? Are Andrew and Seth jealous of how hydrated Ryan is? Find out this week on Ask Us Anything.    Shoutouts: 0:55 – Kristen Petersen, MPH, RDN, LDN 1:05 – Prime Life Nutrition 2:20 – Casey Beaver (the best looking beaver) 6:08 – Ask Seth Anything 11:23 – Fooducate App 16:28 – Mel Robins – The 5 Second Rule 25:00 – “Fat Chance” by Robert H. Lustig, MD 25:55 – “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” 30:16 – “Own the Day, Own Your Life” by Aubrey Marcus 30:00 – The Mastermind Book Club 30:15 – Zac Efron Liquifying Chicken 34:10 – www.primelifenutrition.org 34:25 – Facebook 34:26 – Instagram   Ask Us Anything is:  Andrew Beaver  Ryan Richardson Seth Lejeune    Thank you for listening to the show. We’re always looking for new and interesting guests for the show so if you’d like to be a guest and join us for a discussion, we’ll be happy to have you. Make sure you like the Ask Us Anything FB Page and please go to the iTunes Store or wherever you get your podcasts and SUBSCRIBE! Please leave us a rating and review, it really helps us get the word out about the show.  Share this podcast with those you love and let us know what you thought about this episode. As always, don’t forget… ASK US ANYTHING!

  When pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig gave his now-infamous “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” lecture in July 2009 to a small group of mostly medical school students and laypeople at the University of California-San Francisco, little did he know that millions of people would be touched and inspired around the world by that talk through the power of the Internet. One of those people was a writer named Eve Schaub who watched Dr. Lustig’s video and immediately laid down a daunting challenge to her husband and two young daughters–let’s give up added sugar in our diet for a period of one year to see what would happen. Eve shares all about the incredible results of that experiment in a new book entitled Year of No Sugar: A Memoir. Listen in to hear Jimmy and Eve talk about: how Dr. Lustig’s talk “lit my brain on fire” about the problems with sugar, how she found Dr. Lustig’s video on a friend’s Facebook wall, all the strange places in our life that sugar shows up as an ingredient,  we vilified the wrong thing (dietary fat) and replaced it with the real problem in health (sugar), the anti-sugar message is starting to penetrate into the culture more, how David Gillespie and Dr. Lustig were invaluable resources to her during her year of no sugar in 2011, why she thinks Dr. Lustig’s 90-minute medical lecture has nearly 5 million views, how they went cold turkey giving up added sugar beginning on January 1, 2011, the logistics of finding foods to eat was the hardest part, how food manufacturers try to hide sugar by breaking it up into various ingredients, why the new “added sugars” on the nutrition label is a mixed bag, using the word “sugar” can get confusing very fast to people, for the purposes of their experiment they removed the added fructose in the food they consumed, they wanted to see how hard it would be and whether it could be possible to do this painlessly, because they still ate carbohydrates the effects of removing sugar were less dramatic, the once-a-month sugary food they allowed themselves, how they lost their desire for these sugary desserts within nine months, how her 6-year old and 11-year old daughters handled giving up added sugar for a year (they burst out into tears when they were told about it), how people are trying so hard to do the right things for their health, whether they continued to eat no sugar added foods once 2011 was over, the key to getting away from sugar is to start cooking more, the mistakes they made when they first started doing this, whether they added any artificial or even natural sweeteners to get sweetness, the tiny sesame seed cookies she tried to recreate at home that she had to throw out, how they were all pretty healthy when they began this, what should get people to start taking sugar more seriously, how Halloween went for the girls in 2011, why her girls are very happy eating less sugar because it “became normal,” the “nutritional advice disease” that people get frustrated with that leads them to do nothing, and more! ENJOY!

EPISODE 6 | I thought I knew a lot about oral hygiene since I've asked my own dentists different questions over the past ~35 years...but I was wrong! In my conversation with Ariana Ebrahimian, DDS, I learned sooooo much—and I know you will, too! Dr. Ariana and I discuss everything from orthotropics to sleep apnea to snoring to the best floss + toothpaste to how to get a more restful sleep each night. You definitely do not want to miss this one! Enjoy!! EPISODE WEBPAGE: thehealthinvestment.com/dentist P.S. – If you're liking The Health Investment Podcast, be sure to hit “subscribe/follow” so that you never miss an episode

Back in 1955, President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, prompting a nationwide inquiry as to what was causing cardiovascular disease. The two camps of thinking centered around either fat or sugar as the culprit. Fat won out and was subsequently demonized. In this episode of The Brain Warrior’s Way Podcast, author Robert Lustig and Dr. Daniel Amen explain why this was the wrong decision, and the eventual fallout that resulted from this misconception.

The FTG family has started working on our health and we discuss our goals and what we are doing to live healthier lifestyles. Everyone is sick of Chris talking about his Keto diet. Is sugar worse for you than smoking? Chris really wants you to watch this video about sugar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM On a segment of News for Noobs, Andy defends comedian Dina Hashem after she was "black balled" for a controversial joke about a dead hip hop artist. Is everything up for being joked about? A special guest, Andrew Keener, comes on to tell you why he joined the Fade to Gray family and supports us via our patreon. Go check it out at https://www.fadetogray.com 

Kick the Sugar Habit- Part 1 As a former severe sugar addict, I know how gripping sugar addiction can be. I couldn’t fathom the concept of not craving sugar. Once I got to the other side though, I knew it was my mission to help other people do the same. I am a wellness speaker and one of my favorite talks to give is: Kick The Sugar Habit In this episode, I share with you part one of my talk. I dive into how sugar affects our body, why it makes us gain weight, causes Type 2 Diabetes, fuels chronic disease, sucks our energy, and why calorie counting does not work long term. ______________ Obesity is not a lack of will power. It is hormonal disfunction. Type 2 Diabetes is not a life sentence. In most cases, it is preventable and reversible. For the video of this episode and accompanying slides- check out the youtube video : https://youtu.be/dK3LPn17fq4 References: Dr. Robert Lustig: pediatric endocrinologist who specializes in specializes in neuroendocrinology and childhood obesity. He is a leader in the sugar revolution and his Youtube lectures and book Fat Change are incredible. Here is one of his lectures that I love: Sugar: The Bitter Truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM Dr. Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist. He's a world-leading expert on intermittent fasting and low carb, especially for treating people with type 2 diabetes. He has INCREDIBLE video content on youtube and Dietdoctor.com. Dr. Sarah Hallberg's TedX Talk about reversing Type 2 Diabetes : Check it out here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

SO much misinformation out there on sugar and it is mostly given and received by fat people who are clearly eating too much fat and as a result have given themselves diabetes or other sugar metabolic issues from an overworked insulin system that is in a body whose owner abuses fat intake on a daily/weekly basis causing massive insulin resistance.

USA residents rank worse than rest of developed countries:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/report-americans-less-healthy-die-younger-than-global-peers/A report was released by the National Academies Press called, “U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.” http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CPOP/US_Health_in_International_Perspective/index.htmIn the report, statistics from the WHO prove that our death rate is higher: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/dbasse/cpop/dbasse_080393#deaths-from-all-causesThe New Yorker featured an article written by Dr. Allan S. Detsky, M.D., Ph.D. Potential causes of these statistics are discussed:http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-america-is-losing-the-health-raceSugar Causes people to be fat – the Sugar Industry Covered up the Facts:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=0New dietary guidelines were influenced by food industry lobbying:http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F4130043%2Flobbying-politics-dietary-guidelines%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHTf9QcTPY60Al4EhKAriIos0OqGwYouTube video: Sugar – The Bitter Truth by Robert Lustig, MD:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oMDocumentary – FedUp (also available on NetFlix):http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/home

The second series of #TheMedicinebox will delve deeper into the health, nutrition and wellness. The podcast series will look to provide solutions to tackle lifestyle related diseases and shed light on other health- and wellness-related topics.  What is the Keto Diet? What really is fasting and what are its benefits? How harmful is sugar and junk food? What is the best form of exercise? What should one do about obesity? All these questions and more on health, nutrition and wellness will be answered here.  We will host some of the biggest global and Indian names in nutrition and wellness to bust myths, provide solutions and answer the most vital questions in health.  We are kicking off the series with Dr Robert Lustig, professor emeritus of the paediatrics division of Endocrinology at University of California. Dr Lustig, who holds degrees from MIT, Cornell University, is one of the most popular voices globally on the detrimental impact of sugar on health.  His lecture Sugar: The Bitter Truth went viral and currently has 7.9 million views on YouTube. The best-selling author of Fat Chance and The Hacking of the America Mind discusses the harmful effects of sugar in your diet and consequently on health.  Happy listening!

Robert Lustig is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco. He has authored 120 peer-reviewed articles and 70 reviews and is a leading voice on childhood obesity. And, his YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” has been viewed over 7 million times. Obesity is a global pandemic. It’s astonishing how rapidly it’s expanding. And it’s COMPLETELY preventable. Lustig has dedicated his career to helping us understand the causes and how to “beat the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity and disease.” Big Ideas we explore include: Meeting the Darth Vader of the Food Empire (“Hi, sugar!”), two hormones driving the show (insulin + leptin), which fat you need to worry about most (big belly vs. big butt fat!), why so many diets work (reduced sugar + fiber), exercise (best ROI in medicine) and voting with ever dollar we *don’t* spend.

Robert Lustig is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco. He has authored 120 peer-reviewed articles and 70 reviews and is a leading voice on childhood obesity. And, his YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” has been viewed over 7 million times. Obesity is a global pandemic. It’s astonishing how rapidly it’s expanding. And it’s COMPLETELY preventable. Lustig has dedicated his career to helping us understand the causes and how to “beat the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity and disease.” Big Ideas we explore include: Meeting the Darth Vader of the Food Empire (“Hi, sugar!”), two hormones driving the show (insulin + leptin), which fat you need to worry about most (big belly vs. big butt fat!), why so many diets work (reduced sugar + fiber), exercise (best ROI in medicine) and voting with ever dollar we *don’t* spend.

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Robert Lustig is an American pediatric endocrinologist and author of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease. A professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he specializes in neuroendocrinology and childhood obesity, his 2009 lecture, “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” has been viewed over 7.3 million times on Youtube. His new book is The Hacking of the... Read More

This week welcome to the show Robert Lustig. He is a professor of pediatrics in the UCSF Division of Endocrinology, a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies and director of the UCSF Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with basic and clinical training relative to hypothalamic development, anatomy and function. He previously worked at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, where his work with obese children and adults led him to explore the specific role of fructose as a mediator of both chronic disease and continued caloric consumption. His 90-minute UCTV lecture, titled Sugar: The Bitter Truth, has garnered more 5 million views on YouTube. Questions we ask in this episode: Your YouTube video ‘Sugar: The Bitter Truth’ has almost 7 Million views. Did you expect that kind of response when you released it? What’s the issue with fructose in particular? You were recently quoted in the Australian media as saying; ‘if you feed your kids breakfast cereal, you might as well be giving your kids alcohol’. Please explain... What about fruit, should we be wary of the fructose content? Shop: http://shop.180nutrition.com.au/   Full Transcript & Video Version: This week, we are doing it with the amazing Robert Lustig. Now, if you're not familiar with Robert, in a nutshell he is a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, if I can say that correctly, where essentially he specializes in childhood obesity. You might have heard the name before, and essentially, Robert released a YouTube video back in, I think it was 2009 or 2010. It went viral and has had nearly 7 million views, which is quite incredible. Even if you type his name up, it's called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth." Better than a video of a double rainbow or whatever going viral, or a cat playing in the kitchen. It was actually something of a very serious message and it was great to get Robert on the show today to basically share with us all his discoveries and what he's finding with sugar, fructose and insulin production, as well. Robert does a fantastic job of simplifying it back down for us, as well, and I promise you, if you do have a lot of sugar in your diet, you're going to think twice about it after today's interview. [00:02:00] Anyway, I have no doubt you're going to enjoy it anyways. It's all good. It's all good news. Great guy and gets the message across perfectly. Very excited to share that with you. As always guys, if you're enjoying our podcast, please subscribe to us, five star us and leave a review on iTunes, only if you're enjoying them of course and only if it's an honest review. That just helps us get this message out there every week and grow us internationally, as well. Anyway, it is all much appreciated. Let's go over to Robert Lustig. Enjoy. Hi, this is Guy Lawrence. I'm joined by Stuart Cooke, as always. Hi Stu. Stu Hello Guy. Guy Our awesome guest today is Mr. Robert Lustig. Robert, welcome to the show. Robert Thanks for having me, both of you. Guy Very excited mate, very excited. Now Robert, we kick off with one question we ask everyone on this show, and that is if a complete stranger stopped you in the street and asked you what you did for a living, what would you say? Robert Right now, I take care of fat kids. http://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/robert-lustig-interview/ ‎

We are joined by paediatric endocrinologist Dr Robert Lustig. Dr Lustig is well known in the field of nutrition for his epic lecture titled Sugar: The Bitter Truth, which has attracted millions of views on youtube. The issue that Dr Lustig was calling to the world’s attention in that lecture is that when we think of sugar in terms of “calories”, we’re really missing the point. The problem with sugar is that it’s a major source of fructose, and fructose overconsumption is underpinning many of the deadly metabolic diseases of our time, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, dementia, diabetes and yes, obesity. Dr Lustig is also the author of the acclaimed book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity and Disease. We live in an era in which, in addition to the societal obesity epidemic, there’s also an epidemic of babies being born with obesity, and also of young children developing the same constellation of diseases that we used to only attribute to alcoholism. These problems are not because unborn babies are lazy and gluttonous or because parents are giving their small children alcohol. These are issues being driven by sugar overconsumption and more precisely, by the fructose that’s in sugar. But how much is too much when it comes to sugar? And should obesity rates be the metric of success we use in the current war against sugar? In this discussion we break out the difference between glucose and fructose and the deadly effects that fructose overconsumption causes in the human body.

Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review   To change a habit, you have to get to the source. In the case of nutrition, you first have to tackle your kitchen if you want to change things around and start eating healthy. As part of our October Nutrition Month, this week, Devon and I are sharing our favorite kitchen clean out hacks with you. We'll go over what foods you should get rid of what healthier substitutes you should replace them with. Because we have so much information to share on this podcast, we are saving our tips about family health and nutrition for next week's episode. Have a specific question about nutrition? If you have any specific questions or concerns about nutrition, contact us by email at rob@openskyfitness.com and devon@openskyfitness.com. Talk about nutrition with us! We've already been discussing nutrition and motivation tactics on the Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group. It's a great group to talk with other people about health, share tips, and encourage each other to keep living a healthy lifestyle. Click here to join the conversation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794246394138633/ Each week, we'll be discussing a different nutrition topic in the following order: 9 Weeks of Nutrition Topics Week 1- Which Popular Diet is Best for You? Week 2-Kitchen Clean Out Hacks Week 3- Tools to Help to Tweak Your Diet  Week 4- Gut Health & Foods That Heal Week 5- Hot topics: Gluten, Sugar, and Carbs Week 6- Nutrition Out of the Kitchen Week 7-Eating Habits During the Holidays Week 8- Holiday Meal Plan Week 9- Food Hangover Week: Getting Back on Track After the Holidays   How Do You Know If A Diet is Right For You? Last week, we discussed the pros and cons of 15 different popular diets. With all of the information we shared, it can be difficult to know if a new diet is actually right for you. To know if a specific diet is right for you, think about what health goals you want to achieve and whether you're actually achieving them or not. Do you want to lose weight? Have more energy? Improve your gut health? If you're not seeing results, you may need to stop your diet and change to something different. When you begin a new diet, start with the basics. Devon and I agree that an elimination diet helps people to understand which specific foods cause different symptoms such as gas, dizziness, low-energy etc. To begin an elimination diet, start with just eating the basic non-reactive foods to have a starting point. Next, begin adding in different foods again and keep a food journal. Note down anything important such as a change to your energy level or if your poop changes significantly because it can tell you a lot about your diet.  How to Start a Kitchen Clean Out To begin a kitchen clean out, get rid of any empty calorie trigger foods including: Potato chips and similar snacks Ice cream and similar dairy based desserts Regular soda and diet soda Candy Frozen pizza Frozen TV dinners like lean cuisine and Weight Watchers meals Make sure you take your time to clean out the kitchen. You don't have to go cold turkey and throw everything out in one day. Maybe you want to do it all in one day, but it can be hard.  Clean out your kitchen in steps by taking it day by day or get rid of something each week and replace it with something healthier.   Pay Attention to Unhealthy Ingredients on Food Labels Look out and avoid the following unhealthy ingredients on food labels. If you see any on the packaging of the products in your kitchen, get rid of them.   MSG - Monosodium glutamate   Artificial flavors and coloring (can also contain MSG) Pesticides on farm-grown fruits and vegetables  Low-fat and labeled "heart healthy" whole-grain foods Hydrogenated oils High fructose corn syrup  Oils: Vegetable oils, canola oils for baking foods Artificial sugars such as Splenda, aspartame, saccharin artificial sugars If you don't know the ingredients listed and you need to decide whether to keep it or not, do some research online to decide what to do. What a Healthy Kitchen Looks Like   There are always plenty of healthy substitutes and items that you should have in your kitchen. For example, when it comes to sugar substitutes, we highly suggest Stevia, coconut sugar, molasses, and real maple sugar. We suggest always have the following on hand: Coconut oil Avocado oil Olive oil Grass-fed butter Plenty of seasonings including salt and pepper And always keep your kitchen clean. If you always come home to a messy kitchen with dirty dishes piling up, you won't feel motivated to cook and could take the easy way out by eating processed foods rather taking time to cook a healthy, easy meal.  For all of our Clean Out Kitchen Hacks, listen to the entire podcast. The What You'll Hear on This Episode section will direct you to specific topics that we discuss during the episode.    0:00 Open Sky Fitness Introduction 1:15  Opening comments with Rob and Devon 5:30  How some protein shakes or a mixture of it with food can make you gassy 8:00  How to eat vegetables with the Ketogenic Diet 9:25  How do you know if a diet is working for you? 13:35  How to begin a kitchen clean out 17:35  Take your time to clean out your kitchen 18:30  What to look out for when looking at nutrition labels. Why some ingredients aren't healthy for you and you need to avoid them. 19:00 MSG - Monosodium glutamate  23:00  Artificial flavors and coloring (can also contain MSG) 26:50  Pesticides on farm-grown fruits and vegetables 34:20  Low-fat and labeled "heart healthy" whole-grain foods 35:20 Hydrogenated oils 36:45  High fructose corn syrup: Sugar-The Bitter Truth 39:46  Oils: Vegetable oils, canola oils for baking foods 40:45  Artificial sugars such as Splenda, aspartame, saccharin artificial sugars 41:00  What foods should we replace with what we've cleaned out from the kitchen? 41:30  Sugar replacements 42:45  Replace low-fat and non-fat foods with whole, fat nutritious foods 43:45  How to replace grain products with Paleo friendly substitutes. 45:00  How can you replace snack foods like chips? 46:25 What's the best kind of protein powder and supplement to take? What about food products like protein bars and cookies? 50:30  Food that you always want to have in stock in your kitchen 53:35  The difference between salt, sea salt, iodized salt, kosher salt 54:55  What are some other great, healthy snacks? How do you have them ready to go and eat? 57:55  Food and meal prep tips for fast cooking and batch cooking 59:35  Clearing the actual, physical space of the kitchen and getting rid of what you don't need. 1:05:45  Rob and Devon's favorite kitchen hacks and tips 1:09:50  Closing comments with Rob and Devon 1:12:00 Open Sky Fitness Closing     Start Building Your Own Workouts and Meal Plan! Download Results Tracker here! Click To Download Home Workout Templates or text the word, "lifting," to 33444 to download the templates.  Download the OSF Food Journal Now! Check Out The Brand New Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Page That's right! We've started an Open Sky Fitness Podcast group, where you and everyone will have the opportunity to talk about your health and fitness goals in a safe environment. We'll be posting workouts and starting discussions about how to be strategic around finding a healthier you. Check it out! Have a Question or Review for Rob or Devon? We love answering questions and getting feedback from you, our listener! If you have any questions to ask us, want to share a review of the show, or tell us any suggestions for guests/topics that you think would be great to have on the show, just email Rob at rob@openskyfitness.com or Devon at devon@openskyfitness.com or you can also leave us a review at www.openskyfitness.com/review and even text OSFreview to 33444 to get the link. What You'll Hear on This Episode 0:00 Open Sky Fitness Introduction 1:15  Opening comments with Rob and Devon 5:30  How some protein shakes or a mixture of it with food can make you gassy 8:00  How to eat vegetables with the Ketogenic Diet 9:25  How do you know if a diet is working for you? 13:35  How to begin a kitchen clean out 17:35  Take your time to clean out your kitchen 18:30  What to look out for when looking at nutrition labels. Why some ingredients aren't healthy for you and you need to avoid them. 19:00 MSG - Monosodium glutamate  23:00  Artificial flavors and coloring (can also contain MSG) 26:50  Pesticides on farm-grown fruits and vegetables 34:20  Low-fat and labeled "heart healthy" whole-grain foods 35:20 Hydrogenated oils 36:45  High fructose corn syrup: Sugar-The Bitter Truth 39:46  Oils: Vegetable oils, canola oils for baking foods 40:45  Artificial sugars such as Splenda, aspartame, saccharin artificial sugars 41:00  What foods should we replace with what we've cleaned out from the kitchen? 41:30  Sugar replacements 42:45  Replace low-fat and non-fat foods with whole, fat nutritious foods 43:45  How to replace grain products with Paleo friendly substitutes. 45:00  How can you replace snack foods like chips? 46:25 What's the best kind of protein powder and supplement to take? What about food products like protein bars and cookies? 50:30  Food that you always want to have in stock in your kitchen 53:35  The difference between salt, sea salt, iodized salt, kosher salt 54:55  What are some other great, healthy snacks? How do you have them ready to go and eat? 57:55  Food and meal prep tips for fast cooking and batch cooking 59:35  Clearing the actual, physical space of the kitchen and getting rid of what you don't need. 1:05:45  Rob and Devon's favorite kitchen hacks and tips 1:09:50  Closing comments with Rob and Devon 1:12:00 Open Sky Fitness Closing BLOGS & OSF PODCAST EPISODES SIMILAR TO THIS EPISODE:     To read Paleo Eats: 101 Comforting Gluten-Free, Grain-Free and Dairy-Free Recipes for the Foodie in You by Kelly Bejelly, click here: https://www.amazon.es/Paleo-Eats-Comforting-Gluten-Free-Grain-Free/dp/1628600438 To check out products from Tera's Whey, click here: http://simplyteras.com/ To check out Nutiva's hemp protein, click here: http://store.nutiva.com/hemp-protein/ To read The Real Truth About Sugar: Dr. Robert Lustig's "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" by Samantha Quinn, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Truth-About-Sugar-Lustigs/dp/1468161776 To watch Sugar: The Bitter Truth, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM To check out the article, The Truth About the Weston Price Foundation, click here: http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/07/the-truth-about-the-weston-price-foundation.html To check out Trade Joe's products, click here: http://www.traderjoes.com/ To check out natural whey protein products from Jay Robb, click here: https://www.jayrobb.com/ To check out Paleo friendly FATSBAR, click here: http://fatsbar.com/ To Download Rob’s FREE workout templates click below** Download Templates Ask Rob a Question or tell him what is working for you: Email Rob@OpenSkyFitness.com To leave a Review for Rob and the Open Sky Fitness Podcast CLICK NOW!  Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! 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In this Media Club episode, your ReThink True Health podcast host, Nathan Brammeier, talks about Dr. Robert Lustig's YouTube video, Sugar: The Bitter Truth. Dr. Lustig breaks down the difference between glucose and fructose and explains why fructose is so bad for you.  He also gets into cholesterol lipid values such as LDL, HDL, and triglycerides. Be sure to head over to www.ReThinkTrueHealth.com and sign up for your free eBook and free monthly newsletter. In the eBooklet, Nathan provides a daily checklist of lifestyle habits that you should be doing every day. Book Nathan as a speaker by emailing him at Nathan@ReThinkTrueHealth.com. Send Nathan an email to request one-on-one consulting. Social Media: Facebook.com/ReThinkTrueHealth Twitter.com/ReThinkTruth

[button link="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-help-podcast/id663490789" bg_color="#2d7ec4"]Subscribe to The Self Help Podcast in iTunes[/button] What's Coming This Episode? Why detox? Well, if we cleanse our mind by meditating, then we can cleanse our bodies by undertaking a detox. Sean detoxes regularly and he's currently part way through a serious, 90 day detox. Wowzers! Sean and Ed are discussing all things food this week and the show contains more than one disclaimer. We'll repeat it now for clarity: consult your doctor or a qualified nutritionist before undergoing any major changes to your diet. Enjoy the show! Show Notes and Links A good place to start reading is Sean's recent blog post about his 90 Day Detox Here's Sean's original 13 Day Detox page Robert Lustig's YouTube talk 'Sugar: The Bitter Truth' is a must watch Interested in these Blue Zones that Ed mentioned? Start here... Yet another mention for out friend Conrad Rafique, a fine, fine personal trainer and nutritional expert It's been a while since we mentioned the great folks at Lift App and their Quantified Diet is well worth a look if you're thinking about changing your eating habits (great blog post about it here by the founder, Tony Stubblebine) Check out the No Meat Athlete site for info on how to get energy in your body minus the meat Does milk cause cancer? 'Fauja Singh becomes oldest marathon runner' That quote that Ed attempted, by Uncle Monty in Withnail and I Resource of the Week Sean gave another mention to his own 13 Day Detox which is a great intro for everyone to the world of the detox Ed suggest you take a look at Jamie Oliver's TED Talk: Teach every child about food Stay in Touch We're all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch: Follow Live in the Present on Twitter and Facebook for daily doses of inspiration Follow presenter Edward Lamb on Twitter Follow therapist Sean Orford on Facebook and Twitter Subscribe to our weekly podcast on iTunes Leave us an Honest Review on iTunes We'd be amazingly grateful if you could leave us a review on iTunes. It will really help us to build our audience. So, if your like what you hear (and would like to hear more great free content) then visit our iTunes page and leave us an honest review (all feedback gratefully received!).

Dr. Robert Lustig, UCSF Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, updates his very popular video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.” He argues that sugar and processed foods are driving the obesity epidemic, which in turn affects our endocrine system. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25641]

Dr. Robert Lustig, UCSF Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, updates his very popular video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.” He argues that sugar and processed foods are driving the obesity epidemic, which in turn affects our endocrine system. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25641]

Dr. Robert Lustig, UCSF Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, updates his very popular video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.” He argues that sugar and processed foods are driving the obesity epidemic, which in turn affects our endocrine system. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25641]

Sugar The Bitter Truth. Toxic Nature of Sugar: HFCS and all refined sugars and sugary drinks. Is Sugar a dangerous disease causing addictive drug? Pink Slime ground beef additive consumer controversy. Health defenses. Media and political update.

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717]

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717]

Dude was a champion runner in his youth, then went down the tired road of decline to become an overweight, fatigued office worker with 45 pounds of excess weight. A portal opened by way of his exposure to the incredibly awesome sport of Speedgolf. After Dude’s first round, he was hooked! But he was also awakened to the idea that carrying around an extra 45 pounds was not helping his performance. Duly inspired, Dude dropped a quick 25 pounds with a traditional calorie restriction and regimented exercise approach. Then he stalled and started looking for a better way that would enable further progress. Dude did some careful research and planning and decided to adopt the Primal Endurance approach to his weight loss and endurance-related goals for Speedgolf. Boom! Dude dropped another 20 pounds in short order using Maximum Aerobic Function (180-age) training and a low-carb, Primal-style eating strategy. From his entry point as a dude trying to lose weight, Dude has gone off the deep end of health research and lifestyle practices. He talks about the dangers of blue light exposure and how to mitigate it. Did you know your computer screen is four times as bright as the midday sun? Blasting your eyeballs with this powerful artificial light source, especially after dark, can result in all manner of hormonal dysregulation. In particular, you will mess up your appetite and metabolic hormones such that you crave more sugar and store more fat. Enjoy this wide-ranging discussion with Primal Health Coach Dude (or watch it on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRZmdjg5Ndo ) !) as we cover weight gain and long-term weight loss and the importance of protecting yourself from blue light exposure, as well as Dr. Robert Lustig’s book The Hacking of American Mind (which I covered in a previous episode ( https://www.bradkearns.com/2019/12/20/hacking-the-american-mind-1/ ) ) that apply to Dude’s own personal experience with healthy living. We ask ourselves: how much should we worry about things like EMF, without letting our awareness create more stress and negativity? Can fasting be the most effective way of recovering from grueling endurance performances? Dude may not be a household name pushing a hot new book or product, but hearing real people’s stories about living real life on the edge will be very inspiring and informative. He ends the show by delivering five quick tips to improve your health and daily energy levels - things that are simple, easy to apply, and do-able for anyone! *TIMESTAMPS:* The constraints of modern life have impacted our ability to take care of ourselves [7:20]. How Dr. Robert Lustig’s video Sugar: The Bitter Truth, changed Dude’s life [15:45]. Brad and Dude share effective parenting tips and talk about setting boundaries for kids growing up in the digital age [23:15]. The Biology of Belief and letting go of childhood programming to take control of your life [30:45]. Brad and Dude talk about applying The Four Agreements to daily life [38:30]. “Humans have a great propensity for fooling themselves”  [47:15]. Why 4am meditation sessions will rejuvenate your body better than sleep [48:30]. Why Dude thinks we were never meant to eat high quantities of vegetables [55:50]. How plant foods factor into our dietary history and Dude’s weight loss journey [1:00:15]. Studies show you don’t actually need glucose for your brain [1:11:10]. Dude lists his top 5, life-changing health habits [1:20:50]. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-get-over-yourself-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands