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Dr. Richard Johnson

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Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

Right. And it also can induce insulin resistance. So now I'm going to tell you this story of how we started putting together Alzheimer's.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

So the first thing is you look at what are the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. And dietary ones, guess what they are? Eating sugar. Sugary foods has been reported to be a risk factor for developing Alzheimer's. Eating high glycemic carbs. They make fructose, right? A risk factor. Salty foods. There are all these papers showing that high salt diets increase the risk for Alzheimer's.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

So the first thing is you look at what are the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. And dietary ones, guess what they are? Eating sugar. Sugary foods has been reported to be a risk factor for developing Alzheimer's. Eating high glycemic carbs. They make fructose, right? A risk factor. Salty foods. There are all these papers showing that high salt diets increase the risk for Alzheimer's.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

So the first thing is you look at what are the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. And dietary ones, guess what they are? Eating sugar. Sugary foods has been reported to be a risk factor for developing Alzheimer's. Eating high glycemic carbs. They make fructose, right? A risk factor. Salty foods. There are all these papers showing that high salt diets increase the risk for Alzheimer's.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

What sometimes they do is like they take these little shrimp and they'll inject them with salt water. Saline water, right? Yeah. And then what that does is it makes the shrimp big, looks big.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

What sometimes they do is like they take these little shrimp and they'll inject them with salt water. Saline water, right? Yeah. And then what that does is it makes the shrimp big, looks big.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

What sometimes they do is like they take these little shrimp and they'll inject them with salt water. Saline water, right? Yeah. And then what that does is it makes the shrimp big, looks big.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

And then people go into the market and they see these big shrimp and they go, oh, they look good. And they bring them home and then they start grilling them. And then the water comes out and they shrink. But they keep that salt in there.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

And then people go into the market and they see these big shrimp and they go, oh, they look good. And they bring them home and then they start grilling them. And then the water comes out and they shrink. But they keep that salt in there.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

And then people go into the market and they see these big shrimp and they go, oh, they look good. And they bring them home and then they start grilling them. And then the water comes out and they shrink. But they keep that salt in there.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

So now you're getting the salt. Yes. Processed foods.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

So now you're getting the salt. Yes. Processed foods.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

So now you're getting the salt. Yes. Processed foods.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

They contain so much salt, so much sugar, and they're associated with Alzheimer's too.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

They contain so much salt, so much sugar, and they're associated with Alzheimer's too.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

They contain so much salt, so much sugar, and they're associated with Alzheimer's too.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

Processed foods. Bread rolls, pasta sauce.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

Processed foods. Bread rolls, pasta sauce.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

Processed foods. Bread rolls, pasta sauce.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why Excess Added Sugar is Driving Modern Diseases and How to Take Back Our Metabolic Health and Overcome a Sedentary Lifestyle

All these things. All these things we get in the grocery store. So first off, there's this association of foods that can make fructose or that contain fructose. Correlate, you know, and I don't mean natural fruits. I mean like soft drinks and fruit juice. You know, these things are associated with Alzheimer's.