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Dhru Purohit Show

The Bitter Truth About Sugar & How It's Destroying Your Health with Dr. Robert Lustig

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and InsideTracker. Seventy-four percent of products in the grocery store are spiked with some kind of sugar. The food industry has done this on purpose to keep you coming back for more.  Here’s the thing: The liver can innately process a small amount of sugar packaged in a real food, like a piece of whole fruit. But when it comes to large amounts in our food supply—and regularly eating lots of concentrated fructose in particular—we are poisoning our liver and mitochondria, and severely disrupting our microbiome.  Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to Dr. Robert Lustig about the real dangers of eating too much sugar and how to take better care of our metabolic health. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He’s the Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. He is also one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry, in part through his game-changing books. His latest work is Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. In this episode, we dive into:  -Understanding the difference between cells growing and burning, and what this has to do with disease (7:51)  -The eight chronic metabolic diseases (16:04) -The eight subcellular pathologies that underlie metabolic diseases (19:24) -How to fix the eight subcellular pathologies (22:47)  -The calorie myth (31:10) -The biggest sources of fructose in our diet (45:40) -The four substrates in our food supply that damage mitochondria (53:11) -How fructose can cause leaky gut (58:24)  -Alcohol, sugar addiction, and how to safely enjoy dessert (1:19:24) -What you can do to create change in our food system (1:33:49)   For more on Dr. Robert Lustig, follow him on Facebook @drrobertlustig, Twitter @robertlustigmd, YouTube @robertlustig, and through his website https://robertlustig.com/. Get his book, Metabolical here. This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and InsideTracker. Magnesium Breakthrough from BiOptimizers really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. It contains seven different forms of magnesium, which all have different functions in the body. There isn't anything else like it on the market. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off. Just head over to magbreakthrough.com/dhru and use code DHRU10. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 25% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

One sugar laden meal. It's a delight. It's a feast.

0:05.0

10,000 sugar laden meals is death. Every meal is now a sugar laden meal because they're sugar in everything.

0:15.0

So if I had to pick one supplement that's made the biggest difference in my overall health, it would have to be magnesium.

0:24.0

This super mineral is needed for over 400 different enzyme reactions in your body.

0:31.0

And this is the thing because you know I'm obsessed with sleep. It's so critical for your sleep plus your heart, brain health, your muscles, and so much more.

0:41.0

When you don't get enough magnesium, you can struggle with things like muscle twitches, insomnia, palpitations, constipation, migraines, and the list goes on and on.

0:51.0

I personally started taking magnesium to help my sleep, especially when I travel. And it's been a game changer.

0:58.0

But I don't just take any old magnesium. I take bio optimizers magnesium breakthrough. It contains seven, yes, seven different forms of magnesium, which all have different functions in the body.

1:11.0

I haven't found anything else like it on the market. Honest to God. Magnesium breakthrough can help reduce cortisol and stress. And it promotes deeper relaxation and helps with even anxiety.

1:24.0

I have so many friends reaching out to me saying that they feel infinitely more relaxed after they incorporated some form of magnesium supplement into their routine.

1:33.0

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1:46.0

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2:01.0

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2:22.0

So I'm turning 40s here and I can honestly say that I've never felt better. So many people have this looming fear around getting older by the way 40s young 50s young 60s young 70s young 80 can be young but so many people are afraid of getting older because they're afraid of what's going to come along with it, which usually means chronic disease, losing their mobility maybe even losing their minds, which also means not being able to do the things that they love anymore.

2:51.0

If that were the case, I'd be worried about getting older too. That doesn't have to be the case. I've learned that through the power of epigenetics I can turn off my aging genes and turn on my longevity genes simply by living a healthy lifestyle, optimizing my diet and taking the right supplements.

3:08.0

But don't just take my word for it. My friend Dr. Care Fitzgerald proved this in the first of its kind study published in the journal aging she discovered that eight weeks of diet and lifestyle changes was enough to reverse the participants biological age by three years three years not bad right.

3:26.0

It is possible to get older and stay young, but sometimes we need a little help knowing exactly how to do it.

3:33.0

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3:44.0

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4:01.0

That's the key personalized tips on how you can improve your health spin.

4:05.0

Their new inner age test allows you to see how your inner age compares with your chronological age and gives you a longevity focus plan with science back recommendations to help you make sure that your best days are still ahead of you.

4:19.0

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