Ep25 Robert Lustig and Fat Emperor - The Bottom Line on Processed Food Toxicity
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Needs no Introduction - the great Professor Robert Lustig on the real problems that we face in chronic disease (hint: it ain't "cholesterol"). In this podcast Robert reveals that he and his team have discovered the specific metabolite which gives sugar its dangerously damaging effects - it's all downhill from there. Sugar, refined carb and seed oils: the "unholy trinity" that sits at the processed-food center of modern chronic disease!
Recorded in London at the PHCUK annual conference in the College of General Practitioners.
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| 0:00.0 | It drives all these chronic diseases. |
| 0:02.2 | So we now have the toxic metabolite. |
| 0:05.0 | We know why sugar is doing this. |
| 0:08.1 | We know why sugar is bad for you. |
| 0:10.0 | We know why sugar is toxic. |
| 0:12.3 | That is detrimental unrelated to its calories. |
| 0:15.3 | And we know why everyone's getting sick. |
| 0:18.1 | And we know what to do about it too. |
| 0:23.5 | And I'm very comfortable with this. |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. I'm your host, Ivor Cummins. We're supported by the Irish Heart Disease Awareness charity, which advocates a simple CT scan to reveal your CAC score. |
| 0:38.7 | So know your score and take action to prevent that premature heart attack. |
| 0:43.5 | Everything you need to know will be right here. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm here in the Royal College of General Practitioners and I have a very special guest today who I'm honored and privileged to finally meet |
| 0:56.5 | with. Dr. Robert Lustig, welcome. My pleasure. Thank you for having me, Iver. Oh, not at all. |
| 1:02.3 | Early in my research journey way back, I found pretty early on your bitter truth. It's now at |
| 1:07.3 | 8 million views. So I'm told. Yeah, I checked last night. |
| 1:11.5 | And it was incredible. |
| 1:12.7 | I was enthralled because it actually appealed to a mass audience, which is highly unusual for such a complex lecture. |
| 1:19.2 | For someone like me who is biochemical background, it was, I watched it several times in a row. |
| 1:24.9 | And I'll have to admit, I used your slides in my talks with |
| 1:27.7 | engineers and without getting permission but right it's called the academic |
| 1:31.7 | binge watch oh big time yeah big I have no idea why anyone would watch a 90-minute |
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