What's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of the Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugovier, filmmaker, health and science journalist and author of the

New York Times bestselling book Genius Foods and the Genius Life.

It is the first Monday of May and you know what that means a bonus episode.

That's right every first Monday the month you guys get a bonus episode of the show.

And today I'm so excited to bring you my good friend Dr. Carlos Haramiyo.

Carlos is the founder and director of the Institute for Functional Medicine in Bogota, Colombia.

Carlos focuses on nutrition as a therapeutic axis of multiple acute and chronic diseases.

He is the author of the Colombian bestsellers El Milagro Metabolico.

I hope I pronounced that properly.

Which in English is the metabolic miracle and his latest book El Milagro Antiestress,

the antistress miracle.

Yeah, I know my Spanish needs work.

Anyway, in today's episode we discuss why obesity and type 2 diabetes are as prevalent

in Central and South America as they are in the United States in spite of having access

to a wide diversity of fruits and vegetables.

We chat about our fears of obesity simply becoming the new normal over two thirds of people

living in Chile, Ecuador and Mexico are overweight or obese and according to the CDC almost half

of Americans are obese.

We also talk sugar, both its metabolic and hormonal consequences because sugar is an

innocent in this.

Carlos shares ways for us to tell the difference between foods that are processed to a reasonable

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