#099 - Dr. Robert Lustig: Secrets Of The Food Industry, Processed & Ultra Processed Foods, The Hazard Of Added Sugar, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Metabolic Disease, Whole Food As Medicine, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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GET TRANSCRIPT AND FULL SHOWNOTES: melanieavalon.com/metabolical 2:10 - IF Biohackers: Intermittent Fasting + Real Foods + Life: Join Melanie's Facebook Group At Facebook.com/groups/paleoOMAD For A Weekly Episode GIVEAWAY, And To Discuss And Learn About All Things Biohacking! All Conversations Welcome! 2:20 - Follow Melanie On Instagram To See The Latest Moments, Products, And #AllTheThings! @MelanieAvalon 8:10 - Dr. Lustig's Background 10:10 - What Is Processed Food? 12:40 - The Nova System (Classes Of Processing) 14:45 - Class 4 Ultra Processed Food 16:50 - The Diet Debate 18:20 - Leaky Gut 19:25 - Could The Microbiome Adapt To Processed Food? 23:55 - What's Better: Quality Food Or Fasting? 28:10 - NAFLD 29:40 - Liver Fat & Metabolic Disease 32:40 - Visceral Fat And Clinical Depression 34:40 - Burning Liver Fat With Fasting 37:20 - Which Comes First: Insulin Resistance Or Weight Gain? 42:40 - Overproducing Insulin And Blocking Leptin 43:50 - The Role Of Personal Responsibility 46:10 - De Novo Lipogenesis With Carb Intake 46:55 - The Role Of Choline 47:55 - Is Over-Processing Food A Moral Hazard 50:30 - Health Insurance 51:10 - The Immoral Hazard 51:50 - Commercialization Of Organics And Whole Food 54:05 - Pesticides 54:45 - Labeling Processed Foods As Toxic 57:45 - The Real Disease; The 8 Pathologies 1:00:35 - Low Fiber High Sugar 1:01:20 - Fixing The Problem 1:03:20 - Research With Fiber And CGM 1:04:35 - UCSF Soda Ban 1:06:40 - Expanding The Soda Ban 1:07:45 - GRAS List 1:10:15 - Removing Items From The GRAS List 1:11:40 - Addictive Food robertlustig.com metabolical.com

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0:00.0	You cannot fix chronic metabolic disease until you fix liver insulin sensitivity.
0:06.0	It's not like the weight comes first, the insulin comes first.
0:12.0	Insulin blocks leptin. And if your brain can't see the leptin, your brain thinks it's starving,
0:17.0	and so you're going to eat everything in sight.
0:19.0	We have to have food that protects the
0:21.9	liver and feeds the gut. When you understand what the difference between healthy and unhealthy is,
0:28.9	you understand how processed food is poison. Welcome to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast,
0:34.8	where we meet the world's top experts to explore the secrets of health,
0:40.2	mindset, longevity, and so much more. Are you ready to take charge of your existence and biohack
0:47.1	your life? This show is for you. Please keep in mind. We're not dispensing medical advice
0:52.9	and are not responsible for any outcomes you may
0:55.7	experience from implementing the tactics lying herein. Are you ready? Let's do this.
1:04.1	Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast. I'm so honored friends because I have been a
1:10.3	follower of Dr. Robert Lustig's work for years,
1:12.9	years, years. He's done a lot of research on fructose, for example. That's how I first came to him.
1:18.1	And then recently he released his book Metabolical, which friends, this book, oh my goodness,
1:23.8	it's one of those books that I am just telling everybody about all the time. It was really
1:28.7	an eye-opening, mind-blowing shocker of a read. You guys know me. I was already hesitant about
1:35.1	processed foods and that whole industry, but Dr. Robert Lustig has really dived deep into
1:40.0	what is actually going on, and it's shocking. I was supposed to air this episode way, way later, like in the fall, but it was so mind-blowing
1:49.1	and contains such valuable information that I decided to release it as soon as I could,
1:54.0	which is now, so I really think you guys are going to love it.
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