Doctor Sounds The Alarm: "You May Never Eat Sugar Again After Watching This" | Robert Lustig

Rangan Chatterjee

May 12, 2025

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Dr Robert Lustig, a leading public health authority who for many years has been trying to expose the truth behind the food industry and the many myths within modern medicine. Rob is Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics, Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. He’s also the author of multiple books including Metabolical: The Truth About Processed Food and How it Poisons People and the Planet – which was published back in 2021.

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You're Eating Too Much Sugar! - You May Never Eat It Again After Watching This | Dr. Robert Lustig
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Episode description

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.

#mitochondria

#sugar

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.

#nutrition

#processed-food

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.

#nutrition

#sugar

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.