The Bitter Truth About Sugar with Dr Robert Lustig (Re-release) #616

We underwent a revolution back in the 1930s, 40s with antibiotics, where we thought a pill could treat everything. Now we're undergoing a revolution where we realized that was a mistake. It's time to rethink health. It's time to rethink health care. You can't fix health care till you fix health, you can't fix health until you fix diet, and you can't fix diet until you know what the hell is wrong.

And what you thought was wrong was basically propaganda for the last 50 years. Hi, my name is Rongan Chastji. Welcome to Feel Better, Live More. My guest on this week's podcast is Dr. Robert Lustig.

Now Robert is a professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, but he's also a leading public health expert who for years has been eloquently exposing the myths of modern medicine and the food industry. Now one of his great passions is communicating how sugar and ultra-processed food is fueling the chronic disease epidemic that we are all facing today. Obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, heart disease and so much more in Robert's view are primarily caused by the foods that we are eating. In his latest book, Metabolical, he outlines what he calls the hateful eight, the eight root causes in our body that underlie all chronic disease, and explains how food can impact every single one of them. In our conversation, Rob explains why too much sugar can be so damaging and explains

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