Why High Starch And Sugar Diets Drive Insulin Resistance And Chronic Disease
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The leading cause of inflammation is a poor diet—specifically one rich in addictive starches and refined sugars that keep us eating more than we need to because they don’t fill us up. This standard American diet (SAD) of refined flour and sugar is the gateway to insulin resistance, diabetes, and other metabolic issues, which cause rapid aging and chronic disease.
In today’s episode, I talk with Dhru Purohit, Gary Taubes, and Dr. Ronesh Sinha about why we need to ditch the high-starch diet if we want to improve our metabolism and reduce chronic disease.
Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.
Gary Taubes is an award-winning science and health journalist and cofounder and director of the Nutrition Science Initiative. He is the author of The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat, Good Calories, Bad Calories, and The Case for Keto. Gary is a former staff writer for Discover and a correspondent for Science. He has written three cover articles on nutrition and health for The New York Times Magazine.
Dr. Ronesh Sinha, author of The South Asian Health Solution, is an internal medicine physician who runs a lifestyle clinic in Silicon Valley focused on reversing insulin resistance in ethnically diverse patients. He is also an expert in corporate wellness and serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Silicon Valley Employer Forum, where he serves as a global adviser to shape health benefits for over 55 major Silicon Valley companies.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy. |
| 0:03.3 | When you have start your sugar in the morning, whether it's a muffin, a bagel, oatmeal, |
| 0:07.6 | french toast, pancakes, fruit smoothie, whatever people are eating, it's the worst thing you can do. |
| 0:13.6 | Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. I know a lot of you out there are practitioners like me helping |
| 0:19.2 | patients heal using real food and functional medicine as your framework for getting to the root cause. |
| 0:24.7 | What's critical to understanding what each individual person in body needs is testing, |
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| 0:35.7 | nutrient levels, inflammatory factors, gut bacteria, and so many other internal variables can help us |
| 0:41.5 | find the most effective path to optimize health and reverse disease. But up till now, that |
| 0:46.9 | menu are usually ordering tests for one patient from multiple labs. And I'm sure many of you can |
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| 1:37.2 | Now so many of my patients ask me how I managed to work multiple jobs, travel frequently, |
| 1:42.0 | and spend time with my family and still focus on my health. I know it can seem hard to EOL when |
| 1:46.8 | you got a lot going on, but the trick is to never let yourself get into a food emergency and to |
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