8 Reasons Why Obesity Isn’t the Problem, Metabolic Dysfunction Is – Dr. Robert Lustig with Dave Asprey : 820
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Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L., the New York Times bestselling author of several books about the problems caused by sugar, processed food and the health conditions of obesity, shares his expertise and research about metabolic health.
He addresses nutrition, food science, and global health, and explains how by focusing on real food we can reverse chronic disease and promote longevity. He also challenges the current healthcare paradigm and the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government.
Dr. Lustig is a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who’s spent his 40-plus year career treating and finding ways to prevent obesity and diabetes. He’s emeritus professor of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.
He's authored 130 peer-reviewed articles, 80 academic chapters and reviews, and dozens of op-eds for the public. He now has a new book to explain the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease and document how processed food has impacted our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years.
“So all these medicines that we currently throw at these various chronic diseases, they are treating the symptoms of the disease but they are not treating the underlying pathology,” Dr. Lustig says. “The disease is still there.”
The eight pathologies we discuss include glycation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, membrane instability, inflammation, epigenetics, and autophagy.
“It’s not about obesity, it never was,” Dr. Lustig says. “The key to the kingdom is that it is not about obesity, it is about metabolic dysfunction and anyone can get it, and that’s what makes it a public health crisis, because obesity is a result of the problem, not the cause. I never want to hear any of you talk about the obesity epidemic ever again, because that is the food industry’s mantra, that is what they use to obfuscate the truth, and you play right into it when you talk about it.”
In his new book, “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine,” Dr. Lustig proposes a strategy to cure both us and the planet.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:10.9 | My guest today is Robert Lustig, who is a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who spent |
| 0:17.4 | 40 plus years treating and finding ways to prevent obesity, diabetes, New York Times |
| 0:24.4 | bestselling author of several books about sugar, processed foods, and what happens when |
| 0:30.4 | we get fat. |
| 0:31.4 | This is personal for me because I weighed 300 pounds. |
| 0:35.2 | I got very heavy as a teenager by the time I was 23. |
| 0:39.0 | I hit three hundred pounds. |
| 0:40.9 | If I'd have known what he knows, it wouldn't have happened. |
| 0:45.3 | If I'd have known of his work when I was 20, which did exist, it would have helped me |
| 0:51.6 | greatly, but I didn't. |
| 0:54.0 | This newest book is looking at eight pathologies that underlie everything that happens with |
| 1:00.8 | chronic disease, and he just teaches us how processed food has impacted our health, our economy, |
| 1:07.0 | our environment over the past 50 years. |
| 1:09.3 | Basically this is how we've been screwed by big food. |
| 1:12.0 | In fact, you should have used that title. |
| 1:13.9 | Welcome to the show, Dr. Lustig. |
| 1:16.2 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:17.9 | I appreciate the intro. |
| 1:20.6 | I've only actually been doing obesity work for about 25 years. |
| 1:26.2 | Before that, I was taking care of short kids, but the short kids got fat on me. |
| 1:30.8 | Man, I guess if you can't grow up, you grow out. |
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