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If I put food into my mouth and it goes into my stomach and my GI tract,

no matter what the food is, it's going to drive inflammation because inflammation is the body's natural protection against foreign material.

Frutose, when it's metabolized, detoxified by the liver,

it's handled the same way or in a very similar fashion to alcohol.

It produces fat and it damages the liver eventually and

drives this fatty liver disease. Stress is not what happens in the world.

Stress is how we respond to what happens in the world and stress is affecting our

inflammation you know directly drives inflammation drive sitzel and

resistance all these things I was blown away by the fact that both physical exercise but

also mental exercise could show within a short amount of time actually changes

in the brain presumably related to its effects on B, D, and F, brain-derived neurotropic

factor, which you know certain parts of the brain like you'd expect the hippocampus can

actually increase in size with these various activities.

So it's really amazing.

Rob as a conventionally trained doctor who later went on to teach other doctors,

I'm curious where along that journey did cracks start seeping in that what you had

learned might not be totally right. Thanks, Jesse.

It actually came all of a sudden,

just my background.

I've spent my whole career as a professor

in a couple of different medical schools here in Southern California.

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