“This Is Worse Than Alcohol – And You’re Eating It Every Day” | Dr. Robert Lustig
Rangan Chatterjee
Aug 27, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Shift focus from symptom matching to addressing root causes in medicine
The current medical system often treats chronic disease like a game of matching a symptom to a diagnosis and a drug, rather than addressing the underlying problem.
Revamp food supply to enhance COVID-19 defense
Fixing the food supply by reducing ultra-processed food is as crucial for COVID-19 defense as masking, hand washing, and social distancing.
Incorporate fiber to combat viral responses
Short-chain fatty acids, produced from digesting fiber, help temper the deadly cytokine storm response to a virus, but processed food lacks this fiber.
Reduce processed foods to lower COVID-19 risk
High insulin levels from processed foods increase the number of ACE2 receptors on your cells, making it easier for the COVID-19 virus to infect you.
Address root causes of chronic diseases for better health
Eight underlying metabolic processes, including mitochondrial dysfunction and insulin resistance, are the true root causes of most chronic diseases, not the diseases themselves.
Protect liver and nourish gut microbiome with fiber
A core dietary philosophy for health is to protect your liver from being overloaded by things like sugar and to feed your gut microbiome with fiber.
Recognize sugar's damage to liver like alcohol's harm
People should think about the damage excess sugar does to the liver in the same way they think about the damage caused by excess alcohol.
Establish insulin reduction clinics to combat chronic disease
If doctors ran clinics focused on reducing insulin, they could potentially eliminate 75% of chronic disease in the world.
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