Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL

There's a reason that the WHO and the USDA have provided upper limits of sugar -- because dietary sugar fries your kids' liver and brain, just like alcohol.

New Food Guidelines: Progress or Missed Opportunity? | Dr. Robert Lustig Dr. Robert Lustig joins Dr. Kara Fitzgerald to break down the new USDA dietary guidelines, sugar, ultra-processed foods, GLP-1s, and food policy.

Dr. Kara Fitzgerald and I sort the “wheat” from the “chaff” (hint, the chaff is fiber) in this freewheeling episode.

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New Food Guidelines: Progress or Missed Opportunity? | Dr. Robert Lustig Dr. Robert Lustig joins Dr. Kara Fitzgerald to break down the new USDA dietary guidelines, sugar, ultra-processed foods, GLP-1s, and food policy.

What’s wrong with RFK’s dietary guidelines? What about fats and protein? How can we make ultraprocessed healthy? How can we improve the food and save money at the same time?

Real food, containing endogenous micro-nutrients, prevents metabolic syndrome. Processed food causes metabolic syndrome.

How Kennedy Is Trying to Revamp Medical School

The push to get nutrition into medical schools needs to be around metabolic health, and has to be evidence based, something RFK wouldn't know if it bit him in the a**.

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How Kennedy Is Trying to Revamp Medical School

The rest of it is hogwash. Protein? A scam. Saturated fats? There are two, RFK doesn't distinguish. Fiber? Not even mentioned. And on and on.

How Kennedy Is Trying to Revamp Medical School

I'm all for U.S. Medical Schools teaching nutrition, but not MAHA nutrition.

RFK's inverted food pyramid gets three things right:

1) Cut the added sugar.

2) Reduce ultraprocessed food consumption.

3) Eat real food.

I sure wouldn't, as much as I want to see these drinks shrink as well.

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The problem is that the GRAS list currently only looks at acute, not chronic toxicity. Of course, RFK wants to do away with GRAS. But that's up to Congress. And the way things are going, don't expect anyone in Congress to believe anything RFK says.

Now we're talkin'.... maybe.

Does 115 grams of sugar in one drink destroy your liver and pancreas? Not acutely. Just like smoking one pack of cigarettes doesn't cause lung failure. This is a chronic exposure.

Hey, all you Bay Area neuroscientists!

Come hear why autism and Alzheimer's might be the same disease, and what to do about it. April 2, Los Altos.

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The Japanese have a saying:

‘Eat until you are 80 percent full.’

By the way, here's a free pdf of Fat Chance Cookbook: robertlustig.com/wp-content/u...

And, if you're interested in a physical copy: a.co/d/0eaqSQnO

More than 100 recipes in here, designed to help lose the sugar and the weight.

Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It’s turned into a diet staple, and it’s killing us.

MIT Alumnus Dr. Robert Lustig on Metabolical Health & Brain Disease Meet Dr. Robert Lustig—endocrinologist, best-selling author, and creator of the viral YouTube lecture “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.” Join the MIT alumnus for a talk on metabolic health, mitochondria, and ...

Friends in Los Altos, join me on April 2nd for an insightful evening of sharing research. Metabolism and cognitive health will be the tip of the iceberg...

Register here: alumcommunity.mit.edu/events/16131...

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UPF's are a primary hazard today in the U.S., but we are working to make UPF healthy in the Middle East. See my meeting in Davos last month:

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Surprise! They find that UPF is a primary correlate with depression, even after demographic and socioeconomic variables are factored out.

Global Mind Project | 2025 Report | Sapien Labs A view of the mind health of the Internet-enabled world and the factors that drive it.

This report from Sapien Labs has assessed correlations between ultraprocessed food and depression worldwide:

sapienlabs.org/global-mind-...

Catch my episode of the Decoding Health podcast, with Dr. Urban Kiernan! The big question: how do we fix the food system, when policy won't?

Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/IuRvUg52Q6w?...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/23msOiI...

Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

RFK Jr. fought pesticides for years. Now he's backing their production Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his support for an executive order that would aim to boost the production of a controversial weedkiller ingredient called glyphosate, even though it is wideni...

Of course, it was always transactional. Trump gave RFK vaccine power, and RFK gave Trump insecticide power. And of course, America loses both ways.

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Clearly, low-fat products didn't perform as advertised. They were supposed to reduce heart disease and obesity, but instead they increased both, and added type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease into the mix.

This didn't matter to the food industry because the profits soared.

The impact of sugar | 60 Minutes Archive YouTube video by 60 Minutes

More than 10 years old, but just as relevant as ever:

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Can we make ultra-processed food...healthy?

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MIT Club of Northern California The mission of the MIT Club of Northern California is to further the well-being of local MIT alumni by connecting them with each other and by fostering a continuing relationship with MIT. The club is ...

For all you Bay Area Tech Tools out there, hope to see you April 2nd in Los Altos...

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If I had a magic wand, I would change the word “Type 2 Diabetes"; no one knows what it means. I would change “Type 2 Diabetes” in all governmental materials and in medical textbooks, et cetera, to what it really is: processed food disease.
Call it what it is.

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In case you missed it, I got to chat with Yuval Noah Harari at a World Economic Forum event called “Breaking Bad: Targeting Food for Health”.

Our focus was the metabolic revolution. Watch here for free:

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Eat Real - Putting Real Food on the Cafeteria Table - Eat Real Certified Help us continue our mission.

1. Watch Nora crush it.

2. Get your school food service director to check out EatReal.org for your kids’ sake!

youtu.be/qWJ9LRAbXoY

Eat Real - Putting Real Food on the Cafeteria Table - Eat Real Certified Help us continue our mission.

Can I do a little bragging? Eat Real Certified is our non-profit dedicated to getting real food into K-12. Jordan Shlain and I co-founded Eat Real in 2013. Our CEO, Nora LaTorre, just got interviewed on the Mark Hyman podcast.

Ad Insights | The Metabolic Health Knowledge Gap Can Have Consequences for Health

80% of Americans don't know what metabolic health is. Do you?

Those who don't understand metabolic health are doomed to succumb to it.

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Protect the liver. Feed the gut. Support the brain.