What up family, welcome to episode 243 of the Genius Life. Let's go.

What's going on everybody? Welcome to another episode of The Genius Life. I'm your host Max

Lugovere, a filmmaker, health and science journalist and New York Times best selling author.

I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices, including what we eat and how

we live affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel and our health span and risk for

disease. This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a

genius. Guys, on today's episode of the show, we welcome Dr. Robert Lustig. Dr. Lustig specializes

in the field of neuroendocrinology with an emphasis on the regulation of energy balance

by the central nervous system. His research and clinical practice is focused on childhood obesity

and diabetes. On top of his academic credentials, he's also a best selling author. He's published a

number of books, his most recent being Metabolical, The Lore and Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition

and Modern Medicine. And over the course of the next hour and some odd minutes, we are going to talk

about sugar and the epidemic of excessive fructose consumption and what that does to our bodies.

You're going to discover the various types of dietary sugar, the difference between dietary

sugar and blood sugar and why we have no biological requirement for dietary sugar, even though glucose

does provide the primary fuel source to our brain cells. We're going to talk about why fiber makes

all the difference in the way that your body handles fructose, which is often found in fruit. We're

going to talk about the three types of fat in the body, which is the most dangerous and why it's

possible to appear thin, but still have dangerous levels of fat and poor metabolic health. On the inside,

the difference between coke and diet coke and why Dr. Lustig believes that the latter comes with

gut health risks and so much more. Remember to always think critically, Dr. Lustig does share

some views on branch chain amino acids, which I don't share necessarily. However, as you know,

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