Why Quitting Sugar Could Save Your Life - ENCORE

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Nutrition

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

As we wind down for the holiday season, we’ll be taking a short break. But I didn’t want to leave you without something meaningful to explore. So for today’s Monday episode, we’re revisiting one of our most powerful deep-dive topics of 2025.Thank you for being part of this community. We’ll be back in the new year with brand-new episodes and I truly can’t wait to share what’s coming next Did you know that sugar is lurking in more places than you might think, and it could be sabotaging your health in ways you never imagined? In this episode, I look back on my conversations with Dr. Richard Johnson and Dr. Robert Lustig. We examine how certain foods, especially those loaded with sugar, can trigger overeating, disrupt your metabolism, and lead to a cascade of health issues. Plus, I'll share practical strategies for detoxing from sugar, managing blood sugar levels, and reclaiming your health. ⁠This episode is brought to you by BIOptimizers. Head to ⁠bioptimizers.com/hyman⁠ and use code HYMAN to save 15%. Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here: ⁠Why Sugar And Fructose Are So Deadly with Dr. Richard Johnson⁠ ⁠Depressed or Anxious? You May Never Eat Sugar Again After Watching This⁠ ⁠The True Dangers Of Sugar with Dr. Robert Lustig (0:00) Introduction and overview of health tools (0:57) The impact of sugar on weight gain and metabolism (2:18) Obesity, calorie intake, and food triggers (7:27) Weight regulation and survival mechanisms in animal studies (10:05) Processed foods and increased caloric intake (21:36) Sponsor: Benefits of quitting sugar for 14 days (23:19) HealthBite on sugar addiction and mental health (29:05) Gut health and its impact on mental health (34:20) Steps for a sugar detox and diet composition (45:29) Supplements, exercise, sleep, and stress management for blood sugar (47:52) Eight metabolic processes driving chronic disease (1:04:01) Summary and key to fixing metabolic processes

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the Dr. Hyman Show.
0:03.0	There are certain food that trigger you to want to eat more and triggering you to not satisfy
0:10.0	your appetite so that when you eat you don't feel, you know, you don't feel full, so you
0:14.0	want more.
0:15.0	This time of year can be packed with connection and joy, but it can also be hard on our health.
0:21.5	Stress goes up, sleep goes down, and we often feel tired, tense, or overwhelmed.
0:25.7	One simple reason why, most of us are deficient in magnesium.
0:29.2	Magnesium is involved in energy production, calming the nervous system, regulating mood,
0:33.3	relaxing tight muscles, supporting digestion, and improving sleep quality.
0:37.0	But most magnesium supplements
0:38.5	only include one or two forms, which your body can't fully absorb. That's why I take magnesium
0:44.0	breakthrough from bioptimizers. It includes all seven essential forms of magnesium, so it gets
0:49.0	into your cells where it actually works. I take it every night to support deep sleep and help my
0:53.7	body manage stress, especially this time of year. If you want to feel calmer, sleep better, and support your overall health during the holidays, I highly recommend trying it. Just go to bioptimizers.com slash Hyman and use code Hyman to get 15% off your order. Before we jump into today's episode, I want to share a few ways you can go deeper on your health journey. While I wish I could work with everyone one-on-one, there just isn't enough time in the day, so I've built several tools to help you take control of your health. If you're looking for guidance, education, and community, check out my private membership, the Hyman Hive for live Q&A's exclusive content and direct connection. For real-time lab testing and personalized insights into your biology, visit Function Health.
1:31.1	You can also explore my curated doctor-trusted supplements and health products at Dr.hyman.com.
1:36.3	And if you prefer to listen without any breaks, don't forget, you can enjoy every episode of this podcast,
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1:47.9	Sugar contains glucose and fructose, and these are two different sugars that are bound
1:53.2	together to make table sugar are sucrose. And it turns out that fruct dose can activate a biological switch that tells a person or sets off a program to gain weight.
2:10.0	So when you eat sugar, you're actually triggering, you know, this biological process to gain weight.
2:18.2	At the same time, sugar tastes really good.
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