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Dr. Robert Lustig

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298 total appearances

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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

Exactly. But the fat in your liver is the primary driver of that chronic metabolic disease. And today, 45% of Americans have fatty liver disease. considering that no one had ever heard of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease before 1980. And now 45% of Americans have it. That is the biggest epidemic in the history of the world, including COVID.

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

Exactly. But the fat in your liver is the primary driver of that chronic metabolic disease. And today, 45% of Americans have fatty liver disease. considering that no one had ever heard of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease before 1980. And now 45% of Americans have it. That is the biggest epidemic in the history of the world, including COVID.

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

Exactly. But the fat in your liver is the primary driver of that chronic metabolic disease. And today, 45% of Americans have fatty liver disease. considering that no one had ever heard of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease before 1980. And now 45% of Americans have it. That is the biggest epidemic in the history of the world, including COVID.

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

Exactly. But also our obesity epidemic? Well, if you become insulin resistant and your pancreas has to make more insulin and your insulin levels rise, and then that insulin works on your adipocyte, yes.

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

Exactly. But also our obesity epidemic? Well, if you become insulin resistant and your pancreas has to make more insulin and your insulin levels rise, and then that insulin works on your adipocyte, yes.

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

Exactly. But also our obesity epidemic? Well, if you become insulin resistant and your pancreas has to make more insulin and your insulin levels rise, and then that insulin works on your adipocyte, yes.

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 22 pounds of sub-Q fat equals five pounds of visceral fat equals one pound of liver fat. You tell me which one's worst. What is the worst?

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 22 pounds of sub-Q fat equals five pounds of visceral fat equals one pound of liver fat. You tell me which one's worst. What is the worst?

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 22 pounds of sub-Q fat equals five pounds of visceral fat equals one pound of liver fat. You tell me which one's worst. What is the worst?

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 what do you make? What do you give to the goose to make the foie gras? Corn, I believe. Well, refined carbohydrate. But you know what makes it go faster?

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 what do you make? What do you give to the goose to make the foie gras? Corn, I believe. Well, refined carbohydrate. But you know what makes it go faster?

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 what do you make? What do you give to the goose to make the foie gras? Corn, I believe. Well, refined carbohydrate. But you know what makes it go faster?

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

Oh, well, I don't eat it. They don't serve it. They stuff 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

Oh, well, I don't eat it. They don't serve it. They stuff 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

Oh, well, I don't eat it. They don't serve it. They stuff 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

They shove it down.

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 shove it down.

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 shove it down.

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

Yeah.

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

Yeah.