474: The Bitter Truth About Sugar: It’s Poisoning You! | Dr. Robert Lustig

Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drrobertlustig474

Dr. Robert Lustig (IG: @robertlustigmd) is a neuroendocrinologist, New York Times bestselling author, and Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. He’s authored 125 peer-reviewed articles and 73 reviews.

Rob 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.

Today we’re discussing his latest book, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine.

If you're addicted to sugar, you're going to want to listen to this!

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why we should be talking about metabolic health... not nutrition
• Understanding the science of fiber
• The definition of sugar
• Fructose is destroying your health
• Do you absorb the fructose from fruit?
• Stop eating “dessert” for breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Are there limits on the amount of sugar being added to foods?
• How to determine the amount of fat in your liver
• Causes of fatty liver
• Fructose consumption increases insulin resistance
• How to reverse metabolic syndrome in 10 days
• You can’t outrun a bad diet
• Why eating properly is complicated + what to avoid
• The 3 supplements Rob recommends
• The history of processed sugar
• Why low-fat diets became popular in the 70s
• Understanding LDL and heart disease
• Rob's approach to breaking your sugar addiction

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