Upgrade Your Metabolic System with the Right Foods – Dr. Robert Lustig – Best of 2021
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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IN THIS “BEST OF” EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™…
… Dr. Robert Lustig’s knowledge about the metabolic system landed with listeners in a big way.
He’s a New York Times bestselling author of several books about the problems caused by sugar, processed food and the health conditions of obesity.
In his latest book “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine,” he focuses on how real food can reverse chronic disease and promote longevity. He also challenges the current healthcare paradigm and the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government.
“I wrote Metabolical to basically explain what is healthy,” Dr. Lustig says. “And based on the empiric data, based on the science, based on the pathologies that I describe in the book that belie chronic disease, I distilled all of the information down to six words – two precepts, six words: ‘Protect the liver, feed the gut.’”
These are the eight cell pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, according to Dr. Lustig:
- glycation
- oxidative stress
- mitochondrial dysfunction
- insulin resistance
- membrane instability
- inflammation
- epigenetics
- autophagy
"[When] you look at the entire molecular mechanism of every single one of those eight subcellular pathologies, none of them have a medicine," he says. "None of them are druggable. They're all foodable."
His book also documents how processed food has impacted human health, the economy, and the environment over the past 50 years.
“It’s not about obesity, it never was,” Dr. Lustig says. “The key to the kingdom is that it is not about obesity, it is about metabolic dysfunction and anyone can get it, and that’s what makes it a public health crisis, because obesity is a result of the problem, not the cause.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:11.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm closing out this year by thanking you for listening to the show. |
| 0:19.0 | I've sat down with the team we've combed through every episode this year |
| 0:23.0 | and one of the year's most popular episodes that I really want you to hear |
| 0:27.0 | is with Dr. Robert Lustig. |
| 0:30.0 | He is very candid. He's a Godfather and a great figure in the movement to understand |
| 0:35.0 | what sugar is doing to your metabolism. |
| 0:38.0 | And when we're talking about metabolic dysfunction, |
| 0:41.0 | we're talking about energy dysfunction, which means that you're actually weak. |
| 0:45.0 | You might not feel weak today. |
| 0:48.0 | You might feel empowered by someone else, but your ability to turn air and food |
| 0:53.0 | into electricity to power who you are and what you do and how you feel. |
| 0:58.0 | It is weakened. It is degraded. |
| 1:01.0 | And Dr. Lustig will teach how to use food instead of drugs to protect your liver, to feed your gut. |
| 1:07.0 | And he doesn't pull any punches when we talk about big food, big pharma, |
| 1:11.0 | and big government influences on your health and on human health |
| 1:15.0 | and how we have destroyed the environment over the past 50 years |
| 1:19.0 | based on disproven and false health assumptions and environmental assumptions. |
| 1:24.0 | So he is one of the greats in the movement of biohacking, the movement of nutrition, |
| 1:29.0 | very well credentialed, and this is a powerful episode that tells you how to have more energy to be. |
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