Hi everyone, Drew Proud here on today's podcast. We're sharing some of the key moments, some of the top moments from our episode with Dr. Robert Lustig.

Now, I know not everyone always has two hours. Some of our podcasts run really long. So in today's 20 minute episodes, you're going to hear from one of the top renowned experts and medical doctors and researchers in the topic and area of metabolic health and how to stay lean healthy and fit Dr. Robert Lustig.

And he's going to be chatting about the calorie myth, all the myths that we have around calories as the primary driver of weight gain.

He's going to be chatting about the connection between fructose and metabolic disease. He's also going to be talking about the top sources of fructose in our diet and how fructose in particular is a big driver of weight gain and poor metabolic health.

And lastly, Dr. Lustig is going to break down the four substrates in our food supply that damage our mitochondria, our bodies, energy power plants. These things, these four things that are in our diet on a regular basis are damaging not only our short term health and making it harder for us to have energy and lose weight and do all those great things, but also our long term health too.

I hope you enjoy this mini episode. And as always, if you know someone who could benefit from it, share it with a friend.

Give us some of the questions. You know, the subtitle of the book is The Lore and the Lies of Process Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine.

Give us a few examples of the questions that either the process food industry or that modern medicine was asking that led them down to different but parallel paths.

So let's start with myth number one. Okay, and this is the myth that has to be debunked until this one is debunked, nothing will nothing good will ever come.

All right, this is the the the the the the nugget of truth. We've got to start here.

It's with this notion that a calorie is a calorie.

Food industry says it's about calories. It's about energy balance. It's about calories in calories out.

Therefore, it's about two behaviors. What mean sloth?

Therefore, because it's about two behaviors, if you're fat, it's your fault.

Therefore, diet and exercise. Therefore, any calorie can be part of a balanced diet.

Therefore, don't pick on our calories, go pick on somebody else's calories.

All right, all of that comes from this notion that calories are fungible.

That it doesn't matter what you eat, it matters how much you eat. That's basically what they say.

And they say that that's personal responsibility.

So what they've done in one fell swoop with one concept is put the onus on the victim and the swage their own culpability works for them.

The question is, is it true? Is a calorie a calorie?

And the answer is we have so much data to show that this is the biggest lie in the history of medicine.

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