BITESIZE | The Truth About Sugar and Ultra-Processed Foods with Neuroscientist Dr Tommy Wood #526

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Today’s guest, like myself, is passionate about empowering individuals to take control of their health by simplifying the wealth of information that exists and giving people practical, realistic recommendations. Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my weekly podcast for your mind, body, and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests. Today’s clip is from episode 404 of the podcast with Dr Tommy Wood. Tommy is Assistant Professor of Paediatrics and Neuroscience at the University of Washington, US. He holds a degree in biochemistry from Cambridge, a medical degree from Oxford, achieved his PhD in physiology and neuroscience in Oslo, and has published papers and lectured across the globe. It’s fair to say that when it comes to health and longevity, Tommy knows what he’s talking about. In this clip, we cut through some of the confusion on the hot topics of sugar and ultra-processed foods and try our best to give some nuanced, practical advice. Thanks to our sponsor https://www.drinkag1.com/livemore Support the podcast and enjoy Ad-Free episodes. Try FREE for 7 days on Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/feelbetterlivemore For other podcast platforms go to https://fblm.supercast.com Show notes and the full podcast are available at drchatterjee.com/404 DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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0:50.8	bite size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend.
0:57.8	Today's clip is from episode 404 of the podcast with Dr. Tommy Wood.
1:04.5	Tommy, like myself, is passionate about empowering individuals to take control of their health
1:10.8	by simplifying the wealth of information that exists
1:14.6	and giving people practical realistic recommendations.
1:18.6	In this clip, we cut through some of the confusion
1:22.6	on the hot topics of sugar and ultra-processed foods
1:26.6	and try our best to give some nuanced practical advice.
1:32.6	Where do we go wrong with sugar?
1:34.1	Is sugar intrinsically problematic for us,
1:37.5	or is it more the volumes that we're consuming?
1:41.8	Of course, I think it's the latter. It's both the quantity and the context of it. So basic sugar, chucrose, which is 50-50 glucose and fructose. It's a disaccharide. It just means two sugars bound together. And fructose has really come under the microscope recently because it can affect our uric acid levels, which is often used as a risk factor for gout, but it's often used as like a sort of marker of our metabolic health.
2:09.9	And fructose can affect cellular energy levels if it's, you know, in the way that it's metabolized and it can be quite intensive on the cell
2:17.5	particularly in the liver. What does that mean? Cellular energy levels. Yeah, so inside the cell,
2:21.7	we have this energy currency called ATP. And in order to metabolize fructose, we end up using
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