488: How to Stop Gaining Weight by Turning off Your Fat Storage Switch | Dr. Richard Johnson
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drrichardjohnson488
Dr. Richard Johnson (IG: @drrichardjjohnson) is a practicing physician and has been a medical scientist for over 25 years.
He is internationally recognized for his seminal work on the role of sugar and its component fructose, in obesity and diabetes. Rick’s work has also suggested a fundamental role for uric acid (which is generated during fructose metabolism) in the metabolic syndrome.
He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver.
Today we’re discussing Rick’s latest book, Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent - and Reverse - It.
We’ve evolved to put on fat to survive during times of food shortage - stick around to learn about the switch that puts us into this fat storage mode and how to avoid flipping it so we can maintain a healthy weight.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why does nature want us to be fat?
- Animals that hibernate gain weight and live off fat for months
- Obesity in pets & zoo animals is a huge issue
- The surprising link between climate change and obesity
- How fructose activates "the switch"
- Fructose causes leptin resistance
- The connection between uric acid and fructose
- Ditch sugar & high fructose corn syrup/processed foods
- A low fructose diet = a low carb, high fat diet
- Don’t fear fruit in moderation + the truth about smoothies!
- Fruit juices have been associated with obesity in children
- How glucose can get converted to fructose in the body
- What chemical reaction is activated by salt and dehydration?
- When you burn fat, you produce water
- Umami foods are high in glutamate
- Foods & drinks that activate "the switch"
- The stages of obesity
- Over-activating "the switch" long-term will beat up your mitochondria
- Obesity is associated with high blood levels of vasopressin
- Simple ways to heal your mitochondria
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Dr. Richard Johnson - Nature Wants Us to Be Fat (book)
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Dr. Richard Johnson - The Sugar Fix (book)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the ultimate health podcast. So there's like different phases. So there's this initial phase |
| 0:05.9 | Where we we can regulate our weight well and you know when you're young you can regulate your weight well |
| 0:11.2 | And even if you turn on the switch, it's only for a little while and then you can rapidly lose it and then pretty soon |
| 0:18.0 | Then you have to switch on most of the time and you start accumulating the weight you can still beat it but |
| 0:25.5 | You know, but you have to modify that pretty significantly and then there's a point where |
| 0:31.5 | You have to do something special to recover from your overweight because at that point the mitochondria has been injured |
| 0:39.4 | So you actually have to stimulate their growth |
| 0:41.9 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 488 |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take your help to the next level |
| 0:55.4 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world |
| 1:00.2 | This week I'm chatting with Dr. Richard Johnson |
| 1:02.7 | Rick is a practicing physician and has been a medical scientist for over 25 years |
| 1:07.7 | He's internationally recognized for his seminal work on the role of sugar and its component fructose and obesity and diabetes |
| 1:14.6 | Rick's work has also suggested a fundamental role for uric acid |
| 1:18.5 | Which is generated during fructose metabolism and the metabolic syndrome |
| 1:23.0 | He's currently a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver |
| 1:27.3 | And today we're discussing Rick's latest book nature wants us to be fat |
| 1:31.4 | The surprising science behind why we gain weight and how we can prevent and reverse it |
| 1:36.8 | We've evolved to put on fat to survive in times of food shortage |
| 1:40.7 | Stick around and learn about the switch that puts us into this fat storage mode |
| 1:44.7 | And how to avoid flipping it so we can stay at a healthy weight |
| 1:48.0 | Highlights include the surprising link between climate change and obesity |
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