"let's be clear and honest about this calories are not the issue this is all about that's the problem that's how you lose weight do Robert lustig is an endocrinologist whose firsthand research has expl..."

"but they paid off scientists to say it wasn't you've been hacked but a lot of people don't have time to be doing a fine tooth comb over every single thing that they're putting into their body they're ..."

"hacked and who is doing the hacking yours mine everyone's who's been doing it well pretty much anyone with a A belief system that's not yours and that's pretty much everybody the bottom line is uh we ..."

"the planet are clinically depressed and here in America it's at 22% so we're really unhappy the question is why is this if you know our goal is to be happy it's in the Declaration of Independence life..."

"substances the extremes of pleasure whether they be substances or behaviors so substances Like Cocaine amphetamine nicotine alcohol sugar or behaviors uh shopping gambling social media internet gaming..."

"structure in the brain which you can see on Imaging when dopamine is released there and it binds to its receptor like so you get the you transduce the feelings of reward okay and reward is good reward..."

"dopamine receptor it's got a plan B it's got a way of mitigating that negative response it downregulates the receptor so now more dopamine less receptors less chance that a molecule will find a recept..."

"it's actually calming okay right so there's no such thing as being addicted to too much happiness because the receptors are still there but there's one thing that downregulates serotonin and that's do..."

"only is it a problem I personally think it's the biggest problem it's not the only problem but I think it is the biggest one now why do I say that from a systemic health issue the biggest problem was ..."

"since the 1920s the scientist who first figured out that trans fats were dangerous Fred Kumo figured this out in 1957 but it wasn't until 1988 that anybody took him seriously and then we started doing..."

"Etc what about if you have three drinks a day you're going to get pretty tipsy maybe you shouldn't be driving a car right what if you have four drinks per day you know they might have to you know uh s..."

"you think about for instance kid in America what you know 29% of kids in America consume the National School breakfast program breakfast in school okay 29% so what is the National School breakfast pro..."

"has societal complications do you think it has neurological consequences without question it's the it's a primary driver of add it's not the only driver but it's one of them it's a primary driver depr..."

"they lost weight so we needed to maintain their weight so we had to put something back in that was we caloric we gave them extra starch so in the vernacular we took the pastries out we put the bagels ..."

"a serum lactate level you're not supposed to have a lactate level that means your mitochondria are dysfunctional if you have a lactate level okay their lactate cleared everything got better most impor..."

"consequences on us and the studies are there to prove that the consequences are very real MH it sounds like a scandal in the sense that nobody's doing something about it ah well yes that way it is the..."

"$50,000 in today's money to produce two articles for the New England Journal saying saturated fat was the bad guy and that sugar was exonerated and they did and they did it that's just one thing they ..."

"health and when we look across Society at the consequences of this sort of corporate interference some of the crazy stats in your book fat chance that I really sort of highlighted were that by 2050 ob..."

"it for sugar and fatty liver disease and of course we have it for sugar and tooth decay we're working on sugar and cancer and sugar and dementia we're not there yet in your book fat fat chance um on a..."

"of death in 40% of death certificates exactly right so this is a big problem so you know that's demonstrating its toxicity at you know shall we say medium dose you know at low dose you can handle it b..."

"Health consequences we have those data and the fact that they work both on the way up and on the way down is like you know take it to the bank now that's for the sugar beverages you asked me about die..."

"good why number one you put something sweet on the tongue message goes tongue to brain Sugar's coming message goes brain to pancreas Sugar's coming release the insulin so I still get an insulin releas..."

"diabetics get retinopathy nephropathy neuropathy um uh kidney disease nerve nerve nerve damage and um eye disease but insulin is also a problem because what insulin does is it causes cell growth insul..."

"other physiological consequences to diet sodas outside of the insulin response indeed so the other thing that we've learned about uh uh uh non-nutritive sweeteners across the board is that they alter ..."

"relationship between sugar and our hormone levels of course I mean the main one of course is diabetes I mean you know insulin but um high sugar uh you know I mean if you if you have U uh high sugar co..."

"medicine calories suck now why do I say that if you take a mole of glucose and you throw it into a bomb calorimeter you will get four calories per that's true if you take fructose and you throw it in ..."

"Thrive thriving and Alive okay so mitochondria are essential now glucose stimulates mitochondria to work better glucose is actually good it it stimulates two enzymes necessary for mitochondria to work..."

"health problems not the heat so all of these people as far as I'm concerned anyone who ever uses the word calorie fire them because they don't get it they are part of the problem not part of the solut..."

"potatoes and the sugar what's a better plan then if I'm trying to cut a couple of pounds what's a better approach to take versus sort of calorie counting or these kind of things get the insulin down t..."

"all right so cut the refined carbohydrate cut the sugar the dietary sugar that is the single best way to mitigate this process by improving insulin resistance by getting the insulin down and we have d..."

"dysfunctional and so it basically tells you hell with it I I don't have any sugar Cravings in the morning I've come to come to learn I don't feel the need for sugar in the morning it's sometimes when ..."

"advice do we give that is simple and actionable for Jennifer or Judith or Dave who's listening to this now they are you know 40 years old potentially they have a nine-to-five job they're very busy may..."

"did not get obese by dieting and exercising by gluttony and sloth they came out of the womb behind the eightball it's my job as a pediatrician to fix the problem that's what I care okay can you just g..."

"brought you to the subject of sugar because sugar increases insulin levels well sugar causes insulin resistance okay so there are two phenomena in with insulin insulin release yeah which is an acute p..."

"reversible it is very reversible for a while so let's be let's be clear and honest about this there is absolutely no doubt that what doctors learn in medical school is wrong we are told and I know cuz..."

"and we've shown numerous Studies have shown that as you restrict calories that leptin resistance does not get better quickly it takes years for that leptin resistance to finally go away like five year..."

"the behavior why don't they have leptin injections well they do oh really but it turns out it doesn't work in leptin resistance because the problem is not that you're missing leptin the problem is you..."

"problem in your book you talk about environmental obesogens I've never heard that term before what does it mean so obesogens are chemicals in the environment that actually drive weight gain they cause..."

"cell and that will cause um uh inflammatory cells to congregate to try to clean up the grease and then they secrete um proteins called cyto coses which end up causing the metabolic dysfunction in any ..."

"alcohol because that's where sugar and alcohol go in order to be processed okay and so that's why so many people now have fatty liver disease that never had it before that's why children have fatty li..."

"correct but there's a you know reason they have to declare that from the FDA why because they can't call it juice if it's not juice if they've done something to it I mean how would I know it says appl..."

"gone since 1972 Rachel Carson you know Silent Spring you know was all about how DDT was you know environmentally affecting you know the entire world okay we banned DDT in 1972 but you can measure the ..."

"weight gain not because of its calories okay now you say how can something cause weight gain if it doesn't have calories the answer is if it causes the differentiation or growth of fat cells it will c..."

"you're born exposures to all sorts of things um BPA bisphenol a okay when you get your receipt your paper receipt from Target that's bisphenol a phalates or plasticizers you stick a binky in a baby's ..."

"osity so what's an endocrine disruptor so our cells have receptors that way communication from one area of the body to another can occur like hormones binding to receptors well sometimes they're not h..."

"think of it like a remember those toys you used to play with when you were a kid and it shows like a triangle shape and a circle shape and a square shape and you've got to pick up the corresponding pi..."

"that yet I want to make that clear but without question some of these chemicals can cause fat cells to differentiate and grow so if they're everywhere what do I do about it because it's I feels like I..."

"foods if you look at the inside of the can what color is it is it silver isn't it silver or is it White H if it's white that's BPA so canned foods have high BPA levels BPA is an estrogen okay and it d..."

"calories doesn't make it a food what's the definition of food Stephen I will tell you you was going to say don't ask me substrate that contributes to either growth or burning of an organism so here's ..."

"and we need some method for being able to distinguish those we have it we made it it exists on your computer it will ultimately soon exist on your phone and you will actually be able to order your foo..."

"of a grocery store ever again how would that be and just buy the stuff that's good for you instead of chancing the stuff that's bad for you it's called perfect and what it does is it will filter out a..."

"you've Juiced the fruit we were told forever that the uh uh the juice had the essential vitamins and minerals like the vitamin C or the lopine if you're a tomato and that's true they do but turns out ..."

"eat fiber now we humans don't have the enzymes to digest fiber you need specialized enzymes the bacteria have them so the fiber is the food for the bacteria when you take the fiber out of the food you..."

"lack of ability to fend off Foreign Invaders because their immune systems were not tamped down where did the fiber go they took it out why the because you can't freeze fiber so that Apple okay yeah ok..."

"you can't sell fruit like that because it'll go rancid by the time you've sold it anywhere so all these people are doing this to us um what responsibility do I have on a personal level because you kno..."

"hours okay and we don't have it but do we have free will yes or no complicated question it's a complicated question and it's one I've actually been researching this week funly enough for a different p..."

"you exercise personal responsibility I have just shown you that the behaviors associated with obesity the gluttony and the sloth are actually secondary to the biochemistry which you have absolutely no..."

"it's a loser in terms of its mechanism and it's a loser in terms of its uh efficacy doesn't work can I throw a thought into there as well because in some areas of Our Lives where we do have discipline..."

"addiction does it portend uh need for societal remediation ra or is this really just a personal responsibility issue well everything that is both toxic and addictive has required some sort of societal..."

"would and actually who found out that it would work the UK you did it it did it back in the 2000s so in 2003 the Blair government brought all of the uh UK uh food manufacturers to the table in secret ..."

"uh it's called Kuwaiti Danish Dairy kdd it's like the Nestle of the Middle East and they make all sorts of junk they make flavored milks they make ice cream they make frozen yogurt they make biscuits ..."

"principle to the food supply can any individual apply it to their own grocery purchases use perfect you'll get it can the government do it yeah they did it in the UK they can do it again it's not craz..."

"the American or contemporary mind I talk about ways to lower your dopamine reduce your cortisol and raise your serotonin and they're all four things your mother told you and they're all free and they'..."

"can fix it Dr Robert leting what is the thing we haven't talked about the most important topic we haven't talked about that we should have wow well we have a systemic Health crisis diabetes metabolic ..."