Doctor Sounds The Alarm: "You May Never Eat Sugar Again After Watching This" | Robert Lustig
Rangan Chatterjee
May 12, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Reduce sugar intake to protect mitochondrial function
Sugar inhibits your body's energy production by poisoning key mitochondrial enzymes, similar to how cyanide works, just less severely.
Reject ultra-processed food for health and growth
Based on the definition of food as something that contributes to growth or burning, ultra-processed food fails on both counts as it inhibits them.
Recognize sugar's rise from the low-fat craze
When the food industry removed fat from products in the late 1970s to make them 'healthier,' they replaced it with sugar to make them palatable.
Avoid man-made trans fats to protect mitochondrial health
Because our mitochondria are refurbished bacteria, they cannot process man-made trans fats, which is the same reason bacteria can't break them down for preservation.
Limit ultra-processed food to support bone growth
Recent research from Hebrew University shows that ultra-processed food consumption actively inhibits the growth of bones in both length and width.
Manage sugar intake to protect liver health
Your intestine can convert a small amount of sugar into fat to protect your liver, but this capacity is easily overwhelmed, leading to liver damage.
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