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The Dr. Hyman Show

The Truth About Sugar Addiction And How It Affects Your Health

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.59.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens, Paleovalley, and Rupa Health.   Sugar lights up the addiction center in our brains, just like heroin and cocaine. Yet many of us consume more sugar than we are aware of because it’s lurking in so many foods that we would never expect. The average person consumes 152 pounds of it per year! Sugar is not just responsible for an increased waistline but also impacts our metabolic health, immune systems, mental health, and more.   In today’s episode, I talk with Keegan Allen and Tom Hopper, Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai, and Dr. Casey Means about why sugar addiction is so detrimental to our health and what we can do about it.   Keegan Allen is an American actor, musician, photographer, and author. He’s known for his main role as Toby Cavanaugh on the Freeform series Pretty Little Liars. Allen’s passion in his younger years tended towards photography, cinematography, and other roles behind the camera.   Tom Hopper is an English actor. He has appeared as Sir Percival in Merlin, Billy Bones in Black Sails, Dickon Tarly in Game of Thrones, and Luther Hargreeves in Netflix’s new show The Umbrella Academy.   Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai is a double board-certified physician in Obesity Medicine and Psychiatry. She is the Founding Director of Stanford University’s Metabolic Psychiatry program and Silicon Valley Metabolic Psychiatry, a new center in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on optimizing brain health by integrating low carb nutrition, comprehensive psychiatric care, and treatment of obesity with associated metabolic disease.   Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a Guest Lecturer at Stanford University. Dr. Means’ perspective has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more.    This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens, Paleovalley, and Rupa Health.   Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.   Paleovalley is offering my listeners 15% off their entire first order. Just go to paleovalley.com/hyman to check out all their clean Paleo products and take advantage of this deal.   Rupa Health is a place for Functional Medicine practitioners to access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, Great Plains, and more. You can check out a free live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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0:00.0

Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy. We eat about a hundred and fifty two pounds of sugar per person. Yeah, it's almost half a pound a day. Yeah, it's sugar. Let's hit in every single thing that you could pick up.

0:15.0

Hey, doctor's pharmacy listeners. If you're a fan of the show, I love your help. My team and I put together a brief survey to hear your feedback on the podcast and learn a bit more about our audience and continue to provide you with free content around the biggest issues of our time.

0:29.0

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Oh, it's like fan again, that's drheimen.com. Boy, such fan if they and just thanks so much for your support. I really, really appreciate it.

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2:03.0

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2:19.0

I mean, hypocrite is was even known to prescribe it for different elements. So it's easy to see why it stuck with us for so long and we found benefits in using it for things like blood sugar regulation supporting a healthy weight and improved digestion.

2:33.0

It might sound surprising that many of us lacks efficient stomach acid, which is pretty key for extracting nutrients from food.

2:40.0

Apple cider vinegar counteracts that problem and supports the right environment on our stomachs for optimal nutrient absorption considering that more than 90% of us are nutrient efficient.

2:50.0

It's a good thing to think about, but drinking vinegar doesn't appeal to most people when I get it. And it can actually even damage the enamel of our teeth.

2:59.0

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3:30.0

Now let's get back to this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

3:34.0

Hi, this is Lauren Fien, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast. We know that sugar wreaks havoc on your body and your mind. Yet the average American eats in a standing 152 pounds of refined sugar every year.

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