You May Never Eat Sugar Again After Watching This - Quit For 7 Days To Heal | Dr. Robert Lustig

Do we eat too much sugar? This is a question I pose myself, as I like to trick myself into thinking that because I eat so well the majority of the time it makes up for my sweet tooth. But actually when I review my eating habits, I always choose dessert, I tend to snack a lot during the day and I eat way too much ‘healthy’ chocolate.

And perhaps after hearing Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, talk on the subject today, you might be inclined to review your sugar intake yourself.

Dr. Lustig has become a leading public health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases.

Today we talk about why excess sugar is so bad for our health, what the benefits of cutting our sugar intake could be, why there is nothing wrong with fruit, the differences between sugars, the blood tests we should be ordering and of course why a calorie is not necessarily a calorie.

Dr Lustig also reveals some incredibly exciting research that he and friend of the podcast Dr Rachel Gow have collaborated on, where they re-engineered ultraprocessed food to be metabolically healthy. Could this be the answer to a public health crisis? Only time will tell.
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CHAPTERS:

Timecodes:
00:00 - Are you addicted to sugar?
11:20 - Fibre vs Fructose
16:30 - Overloading the liver!
23:04 - Early Biomarkers
32:26 - What the food industry is hiding!
42:40 - Changing the food industry
54:10 - Nothing is without poison.
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[FortisKev]

3 years. 3 years i have avoided every sugar base products that I usually consume and I went from 178 to 145 lbs. I usually sleep 9 hours and weekdays would be 12 hours now I sleep max 7 hours and I exercise 2x in day, eat once and work w/o feeling fatigue during the day. Best decision of my life.

[stephaniewalsh]

I have given up sugar and processed foods because food has taken over my life since the age of 4. I am 56 now and overweight weighing nearly 200 in January. I have reduced my weight to 171 and still going down. But the best part is the cravings and binge eating have stopped. My mood is so much better and no body pain. Sugar was and is a drug that for me was very toxic.

[ropedb]

The first 3 days are the hardest. I quit drugs after 7 yr addiction and sugar was way harder.

[ElizaRad]

After listening to another interview of Dr. Lustig on sugar, I stopped drinking sodas, and I have avoided eating all types of sweets. I did it for about a week and I realized I have more energy and I don't snack anymore in between meals. And If I get hungry, I eat like 10 pistachios, and I am good until the next meal. I work at a hospital, and the cafeteria is filled with sweets and ultra processed food. Now when I go for water even though the sweets are attractive I don't have the urge to buy them, even though I usually used to cave in.
After like a week, I went on a trip, and I ate a gyro at Arby's, which it just didn't taste the same! And it sat very bad, I indulged a bit this past weekend and I just didn't feel well.
I am going to continue to see how I feel in a month from now and see if I lose weight. I definitely have more energy and I feel less bloated

[davinawonderling]

No doubt dumping sugar would also go a long way in cancer prevention and cancer treatment ❤

[wellardme]

Over the past two years I thought I came off sugar. It was a response to my pancreas and liver being messed up due to visceral fat caused by consuming too much sugar over the years, namely Cola. I did lose weight, but i found myself returning to a bit of chocolate here and there. Why so? When i really started checking, sugar is found in pretty much everything. Even when i was informed that i should opt for black bread as a healthier option, i discovered many brands contained sugar but under a different term.

Now i have gone cold turkey. 3 weeks ago i cut out everything. I only eat meat, vegetables, berries and some fruit for fiber. I know I've cut out sugar totally because the effects are now different. It was never this hard before. The symptoms: feeling like I'm depressed, no desire for anything, want to stay in bed, moody, lack of energy. I do feel I'm getting better: I've lost weight, i can fall asleep without melatonin (having some chocolate before would make me sleep badly and give me restless leg syndrome at night). I do have less brain fog, my taste buds are more effective, i pass MUCH MORE liquid i.e. less water retention.

I was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, high levels of insulin, basically pre-diabetic. A lot of that has been reversed but i need another week or so to come out of feeling crap. I also have this feeling of wanting something sweet but know I'd punish myself if i did.

It really is insane what sugar does to us. I'd also add that people might think they've totally cut sugar out but still consume some products unknowingly that contain it.

[pjbenoit]

🦋 Dr. Lusting, I was diagnosed with sugar, grain, acid, dust, feather allergies. What I thought to be a curse as a child, turned out to be a blessing. In my 70s, 5'1", 110 lbs. exercise 6 days a week, no pain and no meds.

Three sisters who smoked and drank alcohol excessively died at 46, 64 & 65.

Genes are only 20% of who we are. My 85 year old sister who doesn't smoke or drink alcohol just started her Spring cleaning.😂

Life is a wonderful adventure! Quality of it is important and not to be taken for granted. Happy, Healthy New Year! 🦋

[monikakress]

Another thing to keep in mind when listening to Dr. Lustig is that he is from Brooklyn and got his bachelor’s degree in nutrtional biochemistry from MIT. So if you’re wrong, he is going to let you know it 12 ways from noon. He is a scientist’s scientist. More power to him.

[Matthewzilla]

I was a chronic-bingeing sugarholic. Some days I’d eat a dozen donuts a morning. Other times I’d eat a 40oz bag of skittles in 5-7 days. I had a terrible addiction. I quit cold turkey on Feb. 10th, 2018. I would pass by a sweet snack and would involuntarily reach for it. I would get this surreal feeling kind of like being somewhere that you shouldn’t be. It took a long time to break that feeling. Now, I have 1 cheat day every year. I eat my birthday cake.

[riverstun]

I've learned to cut down dramatically on sugar. The odd thing is that as you cut out sweet foods, everything starts to taste sweeter. Apples are now too sickly sweet for me; tomatoes (garden, not shop) taste decently sweet. When I walk through the supermarket and walk past cereals and biscuits, my stomach churns just looking at it. The bread aisle here in USA smells disgusting, like a nasty caramel smell. I still like real bread, although now I eat it only as a rare treat, but the added sugar bread is just revolting to me now. Garden green beans and zucchini taste sweet to me now. So dont think your food will taste bad if you cut out most sugar. Your taste buds will adapt and you'll get the same pleasure, just at much lower levels of sugar. I would love to drink cola occasionally, but its way too sweet - I wish someone would make a cola with just 25% of the sugar, and I dont mean by adding sweeteners or allulose. So on the rare occasion I drink cola now, I dilute it heavily with soda water. Not the same because all the other flavors dilute also. So its important to be aware that if you drastically cut down on sugars (and possibly carbs, I cut out most of those too), your taste becomes much more sensitive, and your food tastes much better. Fruit and veg in particular.

[camillakilleen]

I m going on 3 weeks of no process sugar and my friends and family tell me I don’t need to cut sugar out because I’m thin. But in doing it because inflammation in my joints and bad memory. I feel so much better and I actually have more energy and I’m never hungry because I eat fruit and Whole Foods!

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Dr. Lustig is full of it. Full of the most brilliant, insightful, and scientific facts you will find on the subject. Listen to him if you value truth and health.

[danmyshrall]

Years ago, I watched Dr. Lustig's lecture titled 'Sugar, the bitter truth'. It changed my life... and my body!

[livelearnandteach]

I finally gave up sugar in April 22 because of Dr Lustig. Thanks to a great man.

[garysmith]

He is 1 billion correct in what he says. He has said it over and over again and the world won't listen.

[brendamorales]

I quit red meat & pork, caffeine, sugar, & processed foods only 8 days ago & already my psoriasis is almost gone, brain fog gone and all my aches & pains are gone. I'm never going back! And I lost 8 pounds so far- just water so far but feeling great!

[ZsuzsaKarolySmith]

I'm always amazed how dr Lustig is able to pull very specific information and data out of the bag without relying on any notes during these unscripted conversations. It sounds like he really knows what he's talking about, which is why I tend to believe him.

[ms.rivera]

I have decided to go on Whole30 for the month of Jan. 2024. I was hooked on sugar, and my hormones have been out of whack these past couple of months. I am allowed no added sugar, no processed food, no dairy, no fried food, no caffeine. My skin is already clearing up. My energy is not high, yet. But it is getting better every day. I will be buying more sea moss gel to take daily. My digestive system is still getting used to this, but it is also improving. I mostly cook at home so I know what’s going into my food. I have found some fantastic recipes for Whole30 so excited for this journey.

[bellers]

Absolutely top talk. I’m subscribing to this channel. Please hurry and spread this to all UK GPs. My gp laughed at me for going ketovore. However, my bp, which has been high for 35 years, is down 20 points, was 140/95. Now 120/75. A1c down from 38 to 30( UK measurement)That’s all in 8 months. Even my cataract has started to clear.
Update. 4 weeks after first post. Eye exam yesterday at the clinic, not the opticians. Cataract gone! I am truly amazed. Could the sugar in my old diet have caused it?

[valencia]

A first-time listener here, and I've only listened to the first half of the podcast, but I absolutely agree with Dr. Lustig. Growing up, my stepfather was a baker and my mother baked cakes, pies, and other goodies throughout the year. We were all sugar addicts. Every time I wean myself off of it, I am less sluggish, tired, achy, and lose belly fat (along with exercise). Inevitably, I return slowly back to desserts. I tell myself, oh just one little piece. After listening to Dr. Lutig, I got up and threw away the cookies I bought yesterday. Now, I'm beginning to dry out again.