A Root Cause Stopping You From Losing Body Fat (Not Carbs Or Sugar) | Dr. Robert Lustig

[@DrChatterjeeRangan]

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[@maredumaurier9102]

episode about nutrition, UPF and you are recomending a suplement that is made from ultra processed ingredients? Am i missing something?

[@ดวงกมล-ล1ฑ]

😊

[@orionxtc1119]

I like both full interviews and short ones...Dr Lustig is very enlightening...

[@orionxtc1119]

@@maredumaurier9102 in tiny amounts...

[@rawmilkmike]

32:19 Are you vegan? Every picture in your free nutrition guide was of fruits and vegetables.

[@jamesgarner2103]

stress, constant stress. never ending stress. it all starts from childhood. non-stop blaming, always being called lazy, working harder and harder and harder, until there's nothing left of you to survive.

[@PhyllisWalls-nr2tl]

I understand. Why do couples even have children if they're going to be abusive to them & always tell them they're inadequate

[@michaelmelamed9103]

Sounds like my life story. Healthy stress. Goal directed efforts. Great education. Working hard and getting rewarded for it is a hobby. Rational living. Stress from having to spend money earned and not enough time left. 75yo. 6’00” 200lb. No visceral fat. 35 hour work week. Habitual exerciser.

[@linda-ks9pf]

I think you had a dysfunctional family like mine. I had sexsual abuse on top of that. So know how you feel.

[@erin758]

no alarms and no surprises

[@pamelagood8077]

I have started focusing on managing stress, sleep and sugar intake. Can definitely feel a positive difference after decades of holding lots of extra weight. ❤

[@Eteraz]

It’s because of Dr. Lustig that I stopped eating sweet breakfasts and cutting down on sugar throughout the day. He is the only person who had an effect on me cutting down sugar. His book changed the way I think about food.

[@shellihemans9958]

You may want to listen to Vinnie Tortorich’s podcasts & movies, too!

[@bokky24]

Same here🎉

[@7SlicesOfPizza]

I discovered him recently and It's only been around one week since I cut all added sugars and alot of carbs and I can already feel the difference. most noticeably, I always got crushed around 4pm and would always feel sleepy but that is gone. like you, he is the only person who had an effect on me cutting down sugar.

[@markinnis8404]

Which book of his was so powerful for you?

[@patriciacolombini6567]

Hi pls give me the name of his book and where you bought it. Thanx.pat

[@JY_creatives]

It’s because of Dr. Lustig that I cut eating sugar and I am now in my 9th month and I feel so much better now than before! ❤❤❤

[@JackBT928]

Ever since I moved out, I’ve never been happier and healthy both mentally and physically, stress is the biggest killer indeed

[@myworld9746]

Wow this guest is in another level! His detailed analysis shows just how complex we are and that there is no short, quick fix to our health issues! Amazing guest.

[@Breezeyogi]

Dr. Lustig is renowned.

[@susanmarich5487]

Heavy stress (from bad relationships, too much exercise, and parent care) has affected me chronically for many years. It's disheartening to gain some weight but never lose it even with a good diet and exercise.

[@deegir3354]

I can relate completely. I think my diet is 95% clean. No white bread No sugar etc. Stress is the target for sure.

[@darscassel]

I’m with you!

[@alexanderwindh4830]

You can never lose it?

[@alankuntz6494]

Sounds like a major blame game to me.

[@deegir3354]

@@alankuntz6494 whose blaming what? Just curious. Stress = cortisol = metabolic wackiness/weight gain. Some people handle stressful situations than others. I don’t think anyone is to blame, or blaming others.

[@mcgdoc9546]

Professor Lustig’s book “Metabolical” is a must ready for better understandings of what is happening in our metabolic health.

[@lindadurand247]

I just ordered it 😊

[@brendastranack4512]

I actually have it.but haven't read it.yet! Lol

[@sharongill1595]

Enjoyed the discussion. Great timing. I've had my liver blood test done today, along with my HBA1C. I will now ask my ALT number. I've spent the last 8 months, changing my lifestyle. HBA1C in June was 93. September I got it to 52. 🤞 I'm even lower now. I decided not to take medication. I stopped eating highly processed food & refined sugar, cut out seed oils, low carb, walked more and now lift weights. Whole food is medicine. I've lost nearly 4 stone too. Keep up the great content ❤ I just wanted to add, I got my HBA1C score today and its 37! 💪

[@whowhy9023]

Refined sugar?? All sugar is bad.

[@100PtsGrp]

Awesome job!! 😊

[@tanitshkatanjusha]

Look into keto and carnivore diet..dr ken berry.. dr anthony chafee

[@jansmith3158]

For eliminating belly fat start sprinting. This works wonders for eliminating viseral fast. Channel Dr Sean Omara has excellent vds on this.

[@Mary-zv7mo]

Great job! You must be feeling much better.

[@Hee-o1p]

Thank you dr. Rangan for hosting dr Robert Lusting, one of the best who can name it, explain it and nail it, I never get tired of listening to him.

[@ed5540]

How can we find solace amidst the relentless onslaught of dire warnings about looming threats like microplastics, burnout, toxic mold, sugar, ultra processed food, seed oils, visceral fat, early onset cancer, warfare and societal collapse that inundate us every single day? How do we shield ourselves from this overwhelming stress?

[@Annapurna818]

Disconnect. I did it for 5 years.

[@TomSmith-cv8hk]

That's what alcohol is for.

[@jackmaddesty]

I live in an offgrid cabin waaay out in the woods. Works perfectly fine. No rent, no bills, almost no notthing👍🙂 Next step is to get my hunting lisence and a big ass shotgun to get my own meat👍🥩🙂

[@kmsongbird]

Best and really only answer? Pray to, surrender to, believe in, worship and get to know God Almighty through studying the Bible, and then relax knowing He wins in the end. Put on the yoke of Jesus Christ and obey the Holy Spirit and remember the buck stops with Him and not us as long as we are in that yoke. People are stressed because they want to control but cannot. Quit controlling. Choose whom you will serve, because ya gotta serve somebody. We are either slaves of Satan who amplifies and abuses us through our own appetites and desires, or God, and if God, our appetites and desires die and His take over eventually through the practice and discipline of worship, prayer, study, obedience, trust that He is in control.

[@khanduraj]

Make changes that are within your control. Move away from ultra processed foods and carbs in favour of fats and proteins. Build exercise into your life with the family and friends. Sharing your concerns will help lift the weight from your shoulders.

[@afifahhamilton8843]

Dr Lustig is a super wonderful man. I met him at a conference in London and he was very generous with his time, answering my questions, encouraging me in what I''m doing as a clinician, and generally giving, giving, giving.

[@brendafarris7350]

This was excellent! TY 😉

[@Enoch940]

You lucky. Im a fairly unattractive person and on meeting him he advised me that losing a lot of fat propably wont make any difference.

[@Vivungisport]

​@@Enoch940That's an assumption. Everybody have days where they can't be their best.

[@ashatambare3530]

​@@Enoch940sszssss

[@EarlLedden]

@@Enoch940 What was the question? If anybody asked him if losing a lot of fat would make a difference he wouldn't respond with something inconsistent with what he has spent his life studying, no matter what the person looked like.

[@samjoshi1984]

Stress is the biggest stress 😢

[@charlottelabbe5734]

❤

[@gaelledelaunay5752]

Ok but what's the solution??

[@samjoshi1984]

Don't stress about the solution....live life :)

[@gaelledelaunay5752]

@@samjoshi1984 sure... But we watch these podcasts to learn and then apply it in our lives... 😉

[@gaelledelaunay5752]

@@geocam2 yes obviously but how. They don't really offer easy solutions. Everyone knows stress is a silent killer...

[@karahamil3657]

Well when he said, majorly depressed, people don’t want to eat because they want to die. There are those people who have eating disorders who stuff crappy food down their throats because they can’t stand living the life they have may not necessarily want to die but it’s a partial death, stuffing food into your face that you don’t wanna eat, that you know it’s bad for your health but you can’t handle the stress in your life….. I wish Dr would recognize that there are people who try to eat themselves away along with those who try and starve them selves away

[@autumnkeller443]

They mention that around 25 minutes

[@johnharvey2798]

Also many depressed people can easily drink 1000 to 2000 calories of beer, wine etc

[@Heddanofarsan]

You just recognized them!

[@giatasha2181]

He was talking g about major depressive disorder people where one of the main indicators is not eating. Your garden variety depression is the type who may eat their way to death - major depressive disorder is different to garden variety depression. Comments always pick apart small chunks of information without considering the whole or the specifics of what is being said at that time. He does not dismiss over eating as a symptom of depression however in major depressive disorder this is not usually the case. Also eating disorders are not ness about depression they are a form of obsessive compulsive disorder so merging these into on won’t work. Major depressive disorder usually means the patient does not want to eat and looses all interest in food to sustain life.

[@chazwyman]

I have had a stress free life - I still ended up with 15lbs of belly fat, which disappeared with fasting.

[@AntoniettaNapolitano-eg2wr]

How long did you fast for? 24 or 36hours? And how many days per week? Thank you

[@dilettanter]

Yes I’d love to know too!@@AntoniettaNapolitano-eg2wr

[@matthewhook3375]

@@mikecollon100 wow, good work sir/ma'am! That's a pretty extreme fasting regime.

[@autumnkeller443]

He is talking to people who can't lose despite diet or exercise. In the 1st 10 minutes he shares a study where suicidal people had fasted/starved themselves and did lose weight, but under an mri they still had excessive visceral fat which increases due to cortisol/chronic stress not from diet. There are different types of fat with different causes. The title says A root causes...not THE root cause...they aren't claiming this is the only cause of a big belly, just a major reason that is being overlooked.

[@alexr6114]

@@autumnkeller443 Excellent points. How many beer-drinkers do not have a beer belly?

[@greghanson-w3d]

thank you for having Rob on your show. you draw him out beautifully. you are a great physiologist, host, and encourager

[@mark-ish]

Indeed. Dr Rangan has learned the art of active listening is more powerful than talking.

[@amemabastet9055]

This explains a lot. Childhood ptsd from accident here, always struggled with my weight, always felt unsafe, always felt as if I was hunted by something.

[@jimdollinger]

so many podcasts one can watch. you are a fav, great questions, allow guests to talk, and do it with class. thank you for your work.

[@tonyprice1526]

Having had a widow maker heart attack two years ago, I can only thank Dr. Lustig for allowing me to understand what was behind it. A combination of processed food, alcohol and stress lined up to take me to deaths door.This video explains a lot about what we need to do with our health. It's not necessarily just one thing. I found limiting my eating window and only eating quality home made food worked well initially which allowed me to move to increasing exercise and stress control. Discipline is important but I have found that seems to have been a welcome side effect. Weight loss was fairly rapid and a better perspective developed. I had news this week that my left ventricular ejection fraction had returned to 66% which if you know, you know.

[@tonyprice1526]

@marklampo8164 lots of people eat a poor diet just through convenience and ignorance. Some highly processed foods can be quite expensive, so it's not always an economic choice to eat rubbish.

[@karstenbettin1453]

Many thanks to Robert Lustig for making sure that we now know better again what healthy food is and what really makes us ill. Here in Germany, his work continues to spread and I expect that sugar will finally be branded in five years' time. I don't know of any work that should be more important for our civilization than his work. I personally have found even more physical and mental health through him. I bow to his work. Thank you very much.

[@kiltedsasquatch3693]

Low carb (10-15%) diet, 16 hour fasting, 45 minutes of high intensity bodybuilding weight training daily, 7-8 hours of sleep, avoid alcohol, and listening to baroque music, helps me to reduce fat. It's a lifestyle, not a diet.

[@ChinMikaa]

❤ baroque❤️

[@dogcatfamily2476]

So what is the 85-90% of foods eaten if not plants is it a high fat high animal protein diet? KETO or PALEO? I believe the Dr. Greger How Not to Diet Book is MOST successful. I start Monday.

[@joseftraunmueller3844]

You forgot to mention your age

[@kiltedsasquatch3693]

​@joseftraunmueller3844 60 years young and 205 lbs. Presently on a cut, would like to get to 195. With more muscle mass, losing weight is easier.

[@joseftraunmueller3844]

@@dogcatfamily2476 If you want to look and act like Dr. Greger, go ahead 🙂

[@keithzastrow]

Well Dr. Lustig must want to meet me then because I have VERY little stress in my life and yes I have a full time job (I'm an RN). I couldn't always say this but I was fortunate enough to land a very low-stress RN position back in 2011. I'm literally livin' the dream. I live 1 mile from where I work. M-F 7am-3:30pm. No weekends or holidays. I'm 54 and have learned to cut out as much stress as possible, get enough sleep, eat right and exercise. Goes a LONG ways.

[@thegeorges2384]

That’s awesome, God has blessed you with the wisdom to de- stress. Living the dream, with or without Jesus. We all need Jesus 💭 ✝️

[@57colliegirl]

In work, the way to avoid stress is to say " No." to extra assignments you haven't the time for or are not in your job description. Employers want to use workers up with little concern for their health or personal time. Do your work. Do it well. Leave it there when you go home.

[@Sweepdog700]

Whats is an RN?

[@keithzastrow]

@@Sweepdog700 Registered Nurse

[@Sweepdog700]

oh ok thank you@@keithzastrow

[@armandzottola1626]

So correct. I was diagnosed with T2 over 40 years ago. Started to learn and change so much and still had relatively high glucose tests. my endocrinologist told me to quit some elements that were full of worry in my life and I found that the high stress was worse than jelly donuts. Yes…ate better, walked faithfully and slowly…slowly lost weight. One pound per month. I learned how to deal with worry. Almost 84…great lab work… caregiver at home…maintain my home inside and out. In cruise control!!!

[@pamelahunter8591]

Excellent discussion (as always). The more the general public is educated on health, the more we can take proactive steps in healing and preventing disease in our bodies. The health care systems can then be utilized with real emergency health issues. Thanks so much to both you Dr Rangan Chatterjee and Dr Lustig 🙂🙏

[@dorothyl9604]

Dr. Lustig , I love listening to you. You are a great educator. Everything explained plain and clear. Thank you for this podcast.

[@nicolamcbain5293]

Love how Dr Lustig explains things. Masterful!!!

[@mark-ish]

and he's so passionate with educating society despite the countless times he has been asked to communicate it. from his perspective it must be tiresome yet he cracks on with endless enthusiasm. I suspect he gets a serotonin kick out of teaching, which would probably lower his stress levels. the ultimate win-win scenario.

[@rowandowland1391]

This knowledge should be taught to kids from the moment they begin school.... Bite size dietary education could change the world.

[@vacation_generation]

Great interview with a total legend. Been following Dr Lustig for a long time. Its about time folks like him were put in in charge of the 'food' information and his (and many others) interpretation of how we metabolise sugar and fat.

[@cattleprods911]

Dr Lustig keeps it simple and therefore understandable, we need more doctors like him.

[@jehanariyaratnam2874]

The art of being a doctor is to make everything as complicated as possible to try and sound clever

[@Heddanofarsan]

It's funny how his name is actually swedish, meaning "funny". It's a soldier name. Someone way back got that name as a means of bullying, which is very sad but how Sweden was 150 - 300 years ago. Greetings and good luck americans, from Sweden.

[@cattleprods911]

@@Heddanofarsan my great great grandfather immigrated from Sweden, his name was Ludwig Johansson…at Ellis Island, the immigration officer changed the family name to Johnson.

[@chriswalker7972]

Thankyou Dr Lustig for explaining the process so clearly for the audience unfamiliar with the repercussions.

[@esotericsolitaire]

48:05 Eliminate all ultra-processed food from the diet. Get active. Cook for yourself more. Eat when you're hungry only. Stop eating before you're full. Keep a journal recording what you eat and how you feel. Are you bloated? Have indigestion? Can you sleep? Are you craving junk? That is a start trying to figure out what foods your body tolerates.

[@Grannievore]

Did all that for several years, still gained weight. Carnivore lifestyle change and stopping heavy workouts is the only thing that has helped me start dropping weight. I think it’s a combination of less stress, and consuming high fat high protein and less than 10 grams of carb per day.

[@nancyhjort5348]

I am non-diabetic, but I've got the expanding middle girth at age 68, so I purchased a CGM and the readings have empowered me to self-regulate and self-educate. I have learned so much about what I can and will not eat. I will follow up with my PCP to monitor lab work. I was going through the stress of grieving several losses. I believe the stress was part of the weight gain, but I also tend to choose unhealthy foods when I lose motivation. Great talk. I learned so much.

[@karahamil3657]

Where did you get the CGM. I thought you had to have a prescription for one ?

[@Kellysher]

Sorry for your loss, I hope that you find some mental peace soon. I don’t own a CGM, but do occasionally finger sticks to try and understand. I think part of this equation is our gut microbiome. Dr B author of Fiber Fueled has a lot of talks on improving your microbiome by eating a diversity of plants. I wonder if certain foods would stop spiking our glucose if our microbiome changed. For me being in Nature is a stress reducer.

[@dilettanter]

You can ask your dr for a prescription for a free Libre. It’s about $70 for two of them. And each one lasts 2 weeks. They are pretty accurate (most of us in my family have tried them and then Compared values to blood work with the lab testing companies o@@karahamil3657 It’s a little pricey and quite annoying that you need to see your dr to get a prescription. But once you have the prescription you can refill without seeing dr

[@dilettanter]

Or maybe it’s called freestyle libre 14

[@henrybrowne7248]

@@KellysherI'm in your ballpark on the Microbiome. Here's a tidbit I got from one of Dr. Pearlman's interviews. Some guy running a business doing microbiome assessments was talking about his and his wife both using a CGM. The guy--I forget the name--said that the CGM showed that when HE ate white potatoes, his blood sugar spiked; but sweet potatoes did not. His wife was the EXACT OPPOSITE.

[@Q-Space]

Chronic stress should be educated, monitored and managed in this chronic stress triggers rich and fast evolving environment which is the mismatch of human body slower evolution pace, human need to adapt and adjust wisely but not blindly. But first thing is the knowing and then start managing.

[@SkepticalTeacher]

Totally agree: was given prednisolone (ie, fake cortisol) a few weeks ago for bronchitis, and it's completed effed up my blood sugar, even though I didn't have a problem before. Stress is the root of all health issues nowadays.

[@deepost2604]

I had one poor night of sleep with only four hours. The next day my CGM showed glucose 20 points higher. I had heard of the importance of regular sleep, but the CGM really clarified the effect of that variable.

[@angelanowak5448]

The whole western way of living is super stressful cause it’s super materialistic. I took my son to visit Georgia a few years ago. The way of living there is entirely different. People make time for the family gathering, they eat and talk and drink good wine and sing and dance. On one occasion, as we sat at the restaurant, my son had ordered some green tea. He turned around saying how relaxing this tea is - made me laugh- that was the cherry on the cake, because being in this country, experiencing everything - from organic,Delicious, freshly prepared food to visiting sulphur bath and taking trips to the mountains had the over role affect on him.😊

[@sblaising1]

Our country is unhealthy

[@robinaugustine5998]

Cake is already unhealthy

[@Neophema]

My ALT at 38 years old is 15. I guess that's good, then. When I was 23 it was 21, so I'm glad it seems to have improved. Only difference from then is I have a lot more muscle mass now.

[@ΙωάνναΜουστάκα-χ4π]

We are so lucky to be able to watch this !!!

[@philippabertacco7919]

This was so watchable... much more engaging than many other podcasts out there. Thank you for hosting a wonderful guest and for an informative, easy to digest episode.

[@FiscalWoofer]

When depressed our body is screening something is wrong “you gotta make a change”. We feel stuck but have to find help to get unstuck, just do anything different - you can take back control and little at a time, it’s quicker with real friend to share your journey. Great video!

[@jenpalencia4480]

This is one of the best conversations I have heard. Dr Robert “KNOWS” his thing and Dr Rangen is focused on delivering the messages in ways we, the general audience can understand. Now I am clearer about so many stuff. This is a conversation that you will learn more and more every time you hear it. Thank you, I appreciate this very much. ❤

[@VMac-eg7fb]

TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE, THANK YOU DR. LUSTIG, THANK YOU DR. CHATTERJEE IN YOUR DETERMINED PURSUIT FOR TRUTH.

[@elizabethmoore4358]

Another truly informative, interesting, educational podcast. It’s shameful how weight loss companies only focus on weight loss and profit from peoples misinformation. This podcast needs to get more publicity. Thankyou for sharing R &R 👍

[@golflouis52]

Outstanding interview Rangan... You guided the path with your clever questions to unleash the top-of-the-line knowledge that Dr Lustig possesses; An ocean of pertinent details put together to understand what's going on with us Humans, the food industry, and the causes of disease.

[@jakobw135]

We know from the experiences of Wim Hof that cold exposure stimulates norepinephrine and as you just said, that causes visceral fat to be released into the the rest of the body. It would seem therefore, that exposing yourself to cold, is actually a good way to mitigate your visceral fat.

[@DOGOID]

Cold exposure turns white fat into brown thermogenic fat.

[@jakobw135]

@@DOGOID But it also causes what I mentioned above.

[@dilettanter]

That’s a good thought!

[@raquel5401]

true, so does caffeine, maybe follow your cold exposure with a cup of black coffee

[@jakobw135]

@@raquel5401Actually, I do. 😁

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

This man is so level headed and say it all . Ill never use a cgm it would drive my stress higher where i need to relaxe as much as I can controling suger . Thankyou for yhis interview . Great questions and answers.

[@scoobtoober2975]

Always learning new things every time rob opens his mouth. Very helpful. I do find it's taken a while for fasting blood glucose to come down. Resting level a year ago was mid the high 90's. Home monitor or lab taken, similar. Lately it's in the mid to upper 80's. And excursions are less during high carb intakes. It's mitochondria improvement is what it sounds like. Hormone adjustments, stress, fasting. Better overall food choices. Less to no processed. Many things to change. I can't tell you what to do un-equivocally, you may be broken for life. Tim nokes is, type 2 diabetic and can't eat carbs in general without insulin. But he knows he can't handle it with out that. So he sticks to keto and does good.

[@dilettanter]

I don’t think anyone is broken for life - just may take more meditation etc

[@Susie462]

@@dilettanterI think you’re missing the point.

[@frankfallows3137]

In Alberta Canada I can download all my labs and diagnost imaging results and review them before my doctor even sees them. When I see my doctor I know exactly what I want to discuss.

[@TimothyDowney-v5g]

Dr. Lustig also helped changed my life, thank you Dr. Great messages as always.

[@tyler5649]

00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:22 Fatのお話 (Story of Fat) - Dr. Lustig discusses the different types of fat and their effects on the body. 00:25:22 Sugar and Stress and Fat - Dr. Lustig talks about how sugar and stress can cause visceral fat to accumulate. 00:42:22 How to measure visceral fat - Dr. Lustig discusses two ways to measure visceral fat: waist circumference and ALT test. 01:00:11 Non-alcoholic fatty pancreas disease - Dr. Lustig talks about a new condition called non-alcoholic fatty pancreas disease. 01:03:33 Sugar is the problem, not the dessert - Dr. Lustig argues that sugar is the real problem, not десерт (desert). 01:12:22 Perfect -の紹介 (Introduction of Perfect) - Dr. Lustig talks about a tool he and his colleagues developed called Perfect to help people make healthy choices at the grocery store. 01:21:22 Eat real food - Dr. Lustig emphasizes the importance of eating real food. 01:24:22 Conclusion - Dr. Lustig talks about the importance of understanding the root cause of the problem in order to solve it.

[@elisenieuwe4649]

These are wrong. He doesn't talk about perfact until 1 hour 49 minutes. -> yes it's spelled perfact.

[@breesechick]

Thank you!

[@MarijkeWillemsen990]

Food also causes visceral fat, especially carbs. By reducing my carbs a lot and keeping my insulin down I lost all my visceral fat.

[@angiebee598]

I wish Dr. C would have pressed him on that one. So are all those guys with beer bellies out there under chronic stress?

[@sophie4636]

​@angiebee598 those men actually have really advanced liver disease, they have Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and the ubiquitous beer belly is actually Ascites, a fluid build up, not visceral fat.

[@sophie4636]

You can't see your visceral fat, that's the fat around your organs. Without a Dexa scan you won't know if it was visceral fat loss. If you could see the fat loss it was subcutaneous, which is what Dr Lustig says food causes.

[@angiebee598]

That's not the same thing, I've seen both.

[@vincec727]

same

[@dianamanser5879]

Fabulous, love watching both of you. Your knowledge is outstanding but your compassion shines through first

[@jukkam1575]

Thank you for providing this great discussion and greetings from Finland! Points raised related to accumulation of visceral fat (cortisol) and releasing visceral fat(norepinephrine) at 3:42 and 8:28 are very interesting! Raised levels of norepinephrine are reported with people practising immersion in cold water, which in known to be beneficial related to metabolical health (brown fat, subcontaneous fat).

[@WatchingPlanesnbirds]

Dr Lustig is brilliant 👏

[@dilettanter]

Always a pleasure to listen to dr Lustig. Like that he makes it clear but also gives us names so e can go look up details later if we like!

[@scuffd3542]

This talk is so loaded with critical info. Great podcast!

[@45876]

Use CGM to experience on different kinds of food is eye opening. Mash potato serving hot shot up my blood sugar. Shredded potatoes cooked briefly in water mix with vinegar and serving cold will even out my blood sugar. This is a good example of how you eat the same food differently impact your health.

[@angela2094]

I love your podcast, you ask very real thoughtful questions that are practical and relatable that a patient would want to know. Thank you so much.

[@janchaffee2211]

Wonderful conversation. Thank you for the impactful, informative content, and for making it accessible and actionable for the general public. I also appreciate links to tools and further learning.

[@PaulTempesta-id8wr]

This man is fantastic most knowledgeable Man I have heard so far. Fantastic memory!

[@mariejimpowerful]

MERCI Dr Lustig! I picked up your book at the library yesterday! I will read with pleasure and passion! Continuez à prendre soin de vous et de nous!

[@SHOOTERGAMING-777]

For everyone reading this, finding the banned book called the hidden herbs by anette ray should be your top priority

[@cshmama]

How is this a banned book when it's easily available?

[@TheSpecialJ11]

​@@cshmama They're just bots with a marketing strategy. Incredibly annoying.

[@kimjolly7103]

The information Dr Lustig offers in invaluable, but more importantly it's well researched, scientific, evidence based and practical. Makes it easy to understand and apply in daily life. Doesn't get any better than that!

[@rogerp6903]

Always learn so much as Dr.Lustig is brilliant at interpeting some very complex bodily functions as well as the psychological aspects .Thanks for this very informative discussion

[@isobel8788]

Dr Lustig is an amazing man 👏👏 thank u . WOW nearly 1 million subscribers 🎊 🎉

[@esotericsolitaire]

50:28 Glycemic load matters. I'm eating fresh beets/beet green right now. Keto folks would probably freak. Glycemic index of beets: 68 Glycemic load of beets: 5 BFD

[@vimalneha]

Dr Rangan, this is the video I have been looking for 5 years. This will help me enormously as I use homoeopathy.

[@sarahhastings2457]

This is a really interesting and helpful discussion. I had ALT and ultrasound earlier this year and was diagnosed with NAFLD but have not been provided with any guidance on what to do next. I’m doing research myself, but find it so frustrating that UK GPs aren’t equipped to provide any advice other than ‘eat a balanced diet and move more’!

[@minutemartialarts3152]

I had a food problem. Now that I only eat processed foods and do not consume sugar or alcohol, I find my issue is stress. Childhood trauma is a great driver of that for me. Not easy to get a hold of. But having this information regarding stress and what it does is very helpful.

[@KJ-lb4tj]

Processed food contains sugar, maybe eat real single ingredient foods? Sorry you experienced childhood trauma. A good therapist might be an idea.

[@KJ-lb4tj]

Processed food contains sugar. Maybe consider eating real single ingredient food? Sorry you experienced childhood trauma. A good therapist might be worth finding.

[@lindadurand247]

You only eat processed foods, why not whole foods, you're not doing you're self any favors on a diet of processed foods, it's the worst thing you could eat!

[@overcomer4226]

I think this person meant UNprocessed foods

[@ninibits]

Completely mind blowing and super essential health information! Thanks to you both! Every minute of this video is worth gold! 😍

[@behroozrostami259]

If Dr. Lustig were to read this, I would want you to know that you have profoundly impacted both my life and my mom's life. Thank you immensely. LOVE U ❤

[@markwhite6782]

I put a post down on a different video with Dr. Lustig telling him exactly, "I hope you read my post because you saved my life." After a not so good visit to my doctor my weight was up, had fatty liver disease, high triglycerides, asthma, arthritis and high blood pressure. On 7 daily medications fixing to add another due to uncontrollable blood pressure. I went to KZbin for help because I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT DIET AND NUTRITION!! The first video I saw set me back in my chair, it was Dr. Lustigs "Sugar the Bitter Truth". This was August of 2021 when I was 59 years old. I was packed with visceral fat and sick and discovered why. Now I find myself almost 62 years old. I'm 52 pounds lighter and off all medications. I run 2 miles every other day now and feel 20, all because of this man. Remember my asthma I mentioned? It wasn't asthma, it was visceral fat crowding my lungs out making me wheeze. Congratulations to you and your mom!

[@sheejaeldo9311]

Thank you for this wonderful podcast between two brilliant doctors.

[@Chuzzlewits]

Hope Dr. Lustig will begin to include data on hormone deficiencies in women to describe the fat shift from subcutaneous to visceral in women with the loss of estrogen through ovarian senescence from a physiologically healthy level to zero. Sleep, bone, brain deprivation equals severe stress to the body.

[@ridefastcoaching]

Another really fascinating interview. I'm particularly interested in liver health as I had a liver transplant over 30 years ago as a result of a super acute disease. So, I've had liver function tests every few months for over half of my life. My ALT is normally in range (sub 30) but it's interesting to hear what Rob Lustig had to say. I can certainly voucher for the importance of liver health because, let me tell you, having chronic liver disease is a poor existence, not living. Don't drink too much, or better still, not at all. Eat right and train!

[@9111logic]

Thank you both for the in-depth conversation, excellent questions with eye-opening answers 🙏

[@peacefulisland67]

Seems to me people throughout history have been able to tolerate what we label stressors because they have a deep understanding of their ultimate worth spiritually. Even if (and frequently) they have no language to define that next level of experience which science rarely tolerates, it registers as foundational to mental and therefore physical stability. We are not sacks of meat and bone. If we were, human experience and expression would have been perfected by now.

[@Kinkle_Z]

I bought a big fat roasting chicken at the grocery store a couple months ago. I didn't "check the label" because it was a whole chicken. When I got it home I found an ingredients label. It had been injected with propylene glycol and saline! Antifreeze in my chicken?! omg!

[@LK-pc4sq]

hahaha yes gross right? better to buy local chicken!

[@StevenGrant_Photographer]

Mind blown for sure but in the end this makes perfect sense. love you guys for this. Ty so much. Also works to understand how my dog got sick and the underlying issue. But this is for me ty.

[@marianelasalazar6509]

About and pro professor Lustig, I have to say he is one of the few talking about wellness and health who does not look weird… you see many people talking about wellness and they look puffy, faces swollen, with dark areas around the eyes, or they look bad in general.

[@ginalee7704]

A growing number of studies have found that eating fiber-rich vegetables, protein or fat at the start of a meal, and eating refined carbohydrates like rice, bread or pasta last, can improve blood sugar levels and stimulate higher levels of hormones that promote fullness and satiety.

[@lennynijland186]

This is a great and nuanced podcast and has very important info. However one question: if 93% of the population in metabolically unhealthy, how can 20% of obese people be metabolically healthy and 60% of regular weight population be metabolically unhealthy? This doesn't seem to add up?

[@sarahpage8097]

Great conversation. Thanks to both of you. Great timing for me too. I think it's time I re-read The Stress Solution.

[@QUANTUM508]

Interestingly my stress does not come from any sort of fear. It comes from major impatience about the world around me. If something takes longer than I think it should I will come unglued pretty quick. But I have this thing that I feel like my time is being robbed from me because of that event is taking longer than it should. It's a strange thing but difficult to harness. Maybe in a way.I'm fearful of just running out of time in my life to get the things done that I need too. I would love to control this one thing the most in my life.

[@chrismacfly6122]

I have that problem also, a lot of people do. One thing that has helped me is writing in a journal and making lists of things I want to get done that day. A realistic list. Going to bed with it all marked off gives relief and compounds the notion that we will get it done and there's plenty of time to do it. Hope that helps

[@vernacrawford2954]

I like deep breathing to relax

[@Mariana-ud7dw]

Learning to stop judgement of others/situations and having understanding/compassion, goes a long way to a stress free life.

[@acools07]

This was an amazing conversation! Thank you!

[@kellybishop7238]

Dr Lustig is just brilliant, I could listen to him all day

[@anyaroz8619]

When I grew up in a SHC, I ate sweets on Birthdays and major holidays which all together amounted to maybe 6 or 7 times a year. And I mean cakes, chocolates and sweet soda. Jams were a different story - these we'd eat at least once a week. We did put sugar in tea but mom told us early on that this is not the proper way to drink tea. We had about one kid per 25-pupil class that was overweight in my school. When I moved to the US at 18, I saw that not only kids, but grown ups too are drinking cola and sprite whenever! The university diner had a soda station one could come to and pour a cup any time. I was shocked and oh so happy for them. Pretty soon I noticed most people, especially women talk about their desire to loose weight a lot. Hm.. why is that? It took me three years to fatten myself up with all the sodas and sweets and chips and to start wondering how to get rid of all the excess too. I went on to become a registered dietitian, and learned a lot about nutrition and how it relates to health. Dr. Lustig is one of my favorite speakers on the subject. Thank you for inviting him!

[@MrCiaranm]

The US has been a tough place to stay thin for 50+ years now and unfortunately, we are exporting that lifestyle all over the world.

[@scoobtoober2975]

Rob as laid out many circles of life and what to do and why. So thoughtful and in depth. A cyclic path that needs to be dug into more is blood flow, pressure, vasodilation or constriction, nitric oxide. etc etc. Very complex topic when discussing how to improve it or what hurts it. How anti-biotics, preservatives, emulsifiers, all of these things you may not know are in various things or area. Endocrine disruptors. It's a house of cards. Or cars as you say with 4 brakes and they all need to work well for good health. Nasal breathing definitely was part of getting my BP in check. or was the stopping fluoride toothpaste, or mouth taping, or seed oils, wim hoff method. Cold showers.

[@llkoolbean4935]

Great conversation. Thank you gentlemen ❤

[@StevenGrant_Photographer]

This should be standardized for every school and human. If everyone understood this where would we be as a society and our individual selves Getting this info at 53 very helpful but earlier in life would have changed my life.

[@everydaycookingwithsarahflower]

Excellent interview. A must watch for everyone

[@01spiropent]

One of the best podcasts this year! Awesome. Thank you both.

[@patriciaching100]

What I love and probably heard Dr. Lustig say before.. is about the Dessert .. how many desserts are you having a day?.. to self correct do a inventory what you are eating during the day that includes sugar and processed food (bread).. Alcohol/drugs you can put on a shelf.. food you have to walk it.

[@tmtb80]

Food journal/ledgers can be very helpful for people who eat without registering what/when/how much they eat. Keeping a notebook with a list of what was eaten/drank and date/time. Just developing the habit of noticing is helpful. Then patterns can be figured out. It is empowering

[@israelschurek9046]

Thank you both for the great Show. Very good Questions by Dr. Rangan, and Great explanations and answer by Prof. Robert Lustig

[@anynimus1617]

Damn! Dr. Lustig is looking AMAZING!!!! For a while, while he was doing the circuit he was packing on the pounds and was looking generally really unwell, and now he's looking ten years younger and glowing! Well done, doc!

[@brendaallen6404]

Agree. I was a lil worried, but he looks radiant now. Love that man.

[@cb2ndjml]

Heh heh - the chronic stress of being a doctor in the US…

[@scarlettenoir]

25:17 stress eating /emotional eating, reward supressing stress pathway and dopamine

[@REIMARAValk]

thank you, Dr. Ranjan and Dr. Lustig for another insight generating educational podcast. thank you for sharing your knowledge. question: with all your research and clinical practice endeavours, how do you maintain your work-life balance and mitigate stress??? with gratitude, Reimara

[@idostuff5766]

Thank you doctor lustig 👏 and doctor ranjan Chatterjee 💎🙌

[@RanjanNag-bz6vo]

One just not eble to eliminate stress ... what ever u do ..just tell me can u predict stress or consider fight or flight response... its always comes.... so what u can control is foods u ingest do that one thing rest u learn to unlearn

[@MsOtisRegrets1]

So informative and interesting. I was told, recently, that I'm pre-diabetic although I'm a healthy weight for my height. Since then I've kept to 'real food', hardly any fat or sugar in the diet ,maybe one or two slices of toast per week because I love it and I have cut out Ice Cream! Ice cream used to be my 'go to' comforter every evening! I haven't had any for 4 months! Blood test again in 2 months so I hope I have reversed the diagnosis but without Dr Lustig, I wouldn't have known nearly enough to control everything. I have also listened to his conversation with Stephen Bartlett, Diary of a C.E.O. That's great too.

[@islaadele1212]

Top quality conversation. Thank you very much.

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

Wow , thankyou . You answered many questions . Even getting afraid of food . He answered all the questions and with fiber .important .