Episode 337: Dr. Robert Lustig
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Robert Lustig is Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig has become a leading public health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases. He is also the author of many popular and influential books on the topics of nutrition and metabolic health (see links below). His qualifications, education, and full list of accomplishments are too extensive to list in their entirety here (see link below for his full bio).
In this episode, Tro, Brian, and Rob talk about how Rob first discovered that fructose was so unhealthy, why suppressing insulin is key to metabolic health, why Western people in general are still opposed to or wary of the message that ‘sugar is bad’, why whole food diets are the ideal for human health, reasons why fiber in the diet is beneficial, why processed food may be a necessary evil in our modern food landscape and how we can make ultra-processed foods healthier in light of that possibility, the basic principles of making ultra-processed food healthier and what makes food healthy for humans in general, mitochondrial toxins (what they are, and where they come from), and the amygdala’s role in psychiatric disease.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.0 | As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.0 | but none of this is medical advice. |
| 0:15.3 | Please seek out input from your own doctor. Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast. We have a legend today, you know, and he's nice enough that we don't have to call him Dr. Lestig, we could call him Rob. |
| 0:33.6 | So, you know, and just as a background before we get Star Trow, |
| 0:37.0 | before you do the intro, a friend of mine, |
| 0:39.1 | we went for a big run one day and we got back and I said, |
| 0:42.4 | hey, why don't you come over at my house we'll squeeze some |
| 0:43.8 | orange trees I have a fresh orange tree in my backyard and we can sit and talk about life and |
| 0:47.8 | stuff and he looks at me he's like are you kidding me you drink orange juice no wonder |
| 0:51.0 | you're struggling with your weight I was was like, what are you talking about? |
| 0:53.7 | You should listen to this interview or Dr. Lustig's Sugar, The Bitter Truth. |
| 1:00.0 | And I watched that and I was like stunned. I go, it's natural sugar, right? |
| 1:03.8 | It's fructose, right? |
| 1:05.1 | And then you started realizing how we've been misled. |
| 1:08.2 | So Truro, you could do the intro, but I just wanted to thank you, Rob, |
| 1:11.2 | for that because that was a huge impact on me as a doc I had I just thought |
| 1:16.6 | it was like all these processed sugars and not really looking at fructose until you brought |
| 1:20.4 | that point so true. |
| 1:22.4 | A brief introduction I'll say about Dr Robert |
| 1:25.4 | Lustache if you've been living under Iraq he's a very well known author New York |
| 1:29.6 | Times best-selling author he's is a physician, a pediatric |
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