Why We Get Fat & How to Turn Off the Fat Switch with Dr. Rick Johnson (Re-Cast)
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
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šļø 12 December 2022
ā±ļø 65 minutes
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Summary
Hi friends! This episode is the original conversation with Dr. Rick Johnson exploring his important research discoveries on what is causing the obesity epidemic with regards to fructose, uric acid and the mitochondria!Ā
DR. RICHARD JOHNSON is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and is both a clinician, educator and researcher. He isĀ board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and kidney disease and is the founding editor of Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, one ofĀ the main textbooks on kidney disease. For more than 20 years, he has led research on the cause of obesity and diabetes, with especial interest in theĀ
role of sugar (especially fructose) and uric acid. His research has been highly cited, published in top medical journals, and supported by grants fromĀ the National Institutes of Health. He is the author of The Sugar Fix and The Fat Switch. His latest work contains state-of-the art discoveries on theĀ cause of obesity and potential cures. Currently Dr. Johnson lives in Colorado with his wife, kids, and two rambunctious puppies.
NatureĀ wants us to be fat, and when we understand why, we gain the tools we need to lose weight andĀ optimize our health. Check out Nature Wants Us to Be FatĀ
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa, and I am so pumped for today's |
| 0:10.1 | episode. We have Dr. Rick Johnson's first interview that he did on the Optimal Protein podcast, |
| 0:16.8 | which came out at the end of summer. After listening to the interview that he did last week, |
| 0:21.5 | it was so mind-blowing, so amazing, which I recapped on Thursday, all the top highlights and |
| 0:26.7 | takeaways. But his paradigm shift of how we are approaching excess weight gain and obesity |
| 0:32.4 | is truly so compelling. I think it just makes so much sense. And when you listen to the two |
| 0:38.9 | episodes together, I think it is just so powerful, all the takeaways. So I'm so excited for |
| 0:44.4 | today's episode. I want you to be able to listen to that first interview with him again, |
| 0:48.9 | without having to go back and find the episode yourself. And we will discuss more of those |
| 0:53.4 | takeaways on Thursday's episode, |
| 0:55.8 | kind of putting the two together. And it really is so compelling, so exciting. And, you know, |
| 1:01.6 | he really had so many actionable takeaways that we talked about on Thursday in order to |
| 1:06.1 | improve and optimize mitochondrial health and just understanding, you know, more of the science. A lot of the |
| 1:12.2 | science that he did himself, a lot of these discoveries he made himself about fructose and uric acid |
| 1:17.7 | and a lot of the topics that we talk about. And the way that fructose impacts the mitochondria's ability |
| 1:23.2 | to make that active energy for us, it's just mind-blowing. So if you miss last week's episode, |
| 1:28.8 | I highly, highly, highly recommend listening to it |
| 1:31.2 | and listening to the recap or just listening to the recap episode |
| 1:34.4 | that I did on Thursday where I summarized, |
| 1:36.7 | you know, his new paradigm shift and all of the big takeaways there |
| 1:40.5 | and it will really blow your mind. |
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