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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

Except one of the controls had high fructose, but when they went back and looked, they decided, they realized that that patient had early Alzheimer's too. So there is an association there. Okay. But here's one of the most interesting bits of data.

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

Except one of the controls had high fructose, but when they went back and looked, they decided, they realized that that patient had early Alzheimer's too. So there is an association there. Okay. But here's one of the most interesting bits of data.

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

Except one of the controls had high fructose, but when they went back and looked, they decided, they realized that that patient had early Alzheimer's too. So there is an association there. Okay. But here's one of the most interesting bits of data.

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 if you give fructose to a human, you, you, well, so let's go back. I want to talk about this foraging response again. Yes. So when animals get, so when animals get fructose, they start searching for food and foraging is a, Actual behavioral response, it's more than just looking for food. It involves a lot of things.

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 if you give fructose to a human, you, you, well, so let's go back. I want to talk about this foraging response again. Yes. So when animals get, so when animals get fructose, they start searching for food and foraging is a, Actual behavioral response, it's more than just looking for food. It involves a lot of things.

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 if you give fructose to a human, you, you, well, so let's go back. I want to talk about this foraging response again. Yes. So when animals get, so when animals get fructose, they start searching for food and foraging is a, Actual behavioral response, it's more than just looking for food. It involves a lot of things.

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

First, you have to have exploratory behavior because you're going to go out into areas we've never been. So you have to be a little exploratory. You can't deliberate on anything very long because you got to get in and get out. So you had to look around very quickly. You have to have good visual cues for food, you know, so that if you see that little piece of food up there, your eye catches it.

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

First, you have to have exploratory behavior because you're going to go out into areas we've never been. So you have to be a little exploratory. You can't deliberate on anything very long because you got to get in and get out. So you had to look around very quickly. You have to have good visual cues for food, you know, so that if you see that little piece of food up there, your eye catches it.

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

First, you have to have exploratory behavior because you're going to go out into areas we've never been. So you have to be a little exploratory. You can't deliberate on anything very long because you got to get in and get out. So you had to look around very quickly. You have to have good visual cues for food, you know, so that if you see that little piece of food up there, your eye catches it.

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

You can see it, you know. that latch onto that chocolate cake, you know, that light up that part of the brain. You have to have less self-control. If you have too much self-control, you're not going to go into an area that's dangerous, right? Sure. You have to be bold, impulsive, So this is a behavioral set.

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

You can see it, you know. that latch onto that chocolate cake, you know, that light up that part of the brain. You have to have less self-control. If you have too much self-control, you're not going to go into an area that's dangerous, right? Sure. You have to be bold, impulsive, So this is a behavioral set.

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

You can see it, you know. that latch onto that chocolate cake, you know, that light up that part of the brain. You have to have less self-control. If you have too much self-control, you're not going to go into an area that's dangerous, right? Sure. You have to be bold, impulsive, So this is a behavioral set.

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

In some respects, it's sort of like a hero, you know, the scout, the guy that's going to go out and try to, you know, get through the enemy lines. And, you know, I mean, there's some aspects of it that are admirable. And I think it is an admirable response. You know, you're willing to go out there and try to try to find that. But it's a it's a real behavioral response.

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

In some respects, it's sort of like a hero, you know, the scout, the guy that's going to go out and try to, you know, get through the enemy lines. And, you know, I mean, there's some aspects of it that are admirable. And I think it is an admirable response. You know, you're willing to go out there and try to try to find that. But it's a it's a real behavioral response.

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

In some respects, it's sort of like a hero, you know, the scout, the guy that's going to go out and try to, you know, get through the enemy lines. And, you know, I mean, there's some aspects of it that are admirable. And I think it is an admirable response. You know, you're willing to go out there and try to try to find that. But it's a it's a real behavioral response.

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 it turns out that to do that, you have to stimulate certain parts of the brain and you have to inhibit other areas of the brain. So a lot of the cerebral cortex is involved in self-control, especially the frontal cortex. So you would want to inhibit that if you're going to forage.

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 it turns out that to do that, you have to stimulate certain parts of the brain and you have to inhibit other areas of the brain. So a lot of the cerebral cortex is involved in self-control, especially the frontal cortex. So you would want to inhibit that if you're going to forage.

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 it turns out that to do that, you have to stimulate certain parts of the brain and you have to inhibit other areas of the brain. So a lot of the cerebral cortex is involved in self-control, especially the frontal cortex. So you would want to inhibit that if you're going to forage.

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

Yes. You want to reduce the activity there so that you have the self-control is not so strong.

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

Yes. You want to reduce the activity there so that you have the self-control is not so strong.