Sugar: The Bitter Truth with Dr. Robert Lustig
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Back in 1955, President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, prompting a nationwide inquiry as to what was causing cardiovascular disease. The two camps of thinking centered around either fat or sugar as the culprit. Fat won out and was subsequently demonized. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, author Robert Lustig and Dr. Daniel Amen explain why this was the wrong decision, and the eventual fallout that resulted from this misconception.
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| 0:50.0 | Welcome back. I'm here with Dr Robert Lestig, professor at UC San Francisco in the Department of Pediatrics. |
| 0:57.7 | He's a neuroendocrinologist. |
| 1:00.8 | And on the Brain Warrior's Way podcast, we've talked a lot about hormones because it's very important in our bright minds, |
| 1:07.0 | nemonic. |
| 1:09.0 | And one of the things I've learned, I saw this study that showed if you get a sugar burst, it drops |
| 1:17.1 | testosterone by 25%. And so I thought to myself, if you know I go to the cheesecake factory and share |
| 1:26.9 | cheesecake with my sweetheart nobody's getting dessert when they get |
| 1:32.3 | home because there are aitos not going to say no one's getting anything. |
| 1:38.8 | So let's talk about the sugar story and why that became demonized and sugar became the darling that in many |
| 1:52.2 | ways ruined our society. |
| 1:54.0 | I couldn't agree more. |
| 1:56.3 | This is a very sorted story and was very specifically driven by the Sugar association, a trade group, you know, of the |
| 2:07.2 | industry from way back. Started back in 1943, but really sort of picked up steam in the 50s and 60s. |
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