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Dec. 29th, 2023 05:58 pmDid I share this yet? I've listened to it through 3x in its entirety. Dr Lustig is someone I've been following for many years, long before I found Huberman, so it was a treat to see them together.
This episode is helpful and important and I'm especially attuned to this stuff right now because my favorite DJ is very very sick and his health is very bad and he's a really big dude who posts youtube joke videos eating really terrible processed foods like Halloween themed cereals and hostess type goods for laughs, and now that he's in his 40s, this abuse is coming to haunt him hardcore. I cannot lose any more friends and I am so scared for him. He also drinks a lot and his lifestyle is going to have to change if he wants to stick around. How do you unaddict yourself from such things without also losing the will to live? Those domapine receptors are primed for all those hits and it will be a painful adjustment.
One thing I really like about this stuff, for myself, is that even with all the scary facts about what sugar (fructose in particular) can do to damage our bodies, there is flex - 7-10% of our daily intake can have this stuff in it. So it's not like you can never eat a Reeses peanut butter cup (or whatever your indulgence of choice). As Lustig put it, it's totally fine to have dessert for dessert. The problem is having dessert for breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks.
And I adore this really long game big picture he has of getting Nova class 4 foods out of all institutions for health to start, he treats it just like tobacco - smoking was first banned in hospitals. "We have to lead by example," he explains. The dig about the notion of "personal responsibility" being invented by the tobacco industry (he has research to back this up) is astonishing and thought-provoking for sure, we're so indoctrinated with this idea of "personal choice" and personal responsibility and personal freedom and it's really interesting to think about how much of this may come from industry influence without us realizing it. We saw how toxic this individualized attitude can be in our culture during pandemic. And just in general for our mental health. Sigh.
This episode is helpful and important and I'm especially attuned to this stuff right now because my favorite DJ is very very sick and his health is very bad and he's a really big dude who posts youtube joke videos eating really terrible processed foods like Halloween themed cereals and hostess type goods for laughs, and now that he's in his 40s, this abuse is coming to haunt him hardcore. I cannot lose any more friends and I am so scared for him. He also drinks a lot and his lifestyle is going to have to change if he wants to stick around. How do you unaddict yourself from such things without also losing the will to live? Those domapine receptors are primed for all those hits and it will be a painful adjustment.
One thing I really like about this stuff, for myself, is that even with all the scary facts about what sugar (fructose in particular) can do to damage our bodies, there is flex - 7-10% of our daily intake can have this stuff in it. So it's not like you can never eat a Reeses peanut butter cup (or whatever your indulgence of choice). As Lustig put it, it's totally fine to have dessert for dessert. The problem is having dessert for breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks.
And I adore this really long game big picture he has of getting Nova class 4 foods out of all institutions for health to start, he treats it just like tobacco - smoking was first banned in hospitals. "We have to lead by example," he explains. The dig about the notion of "personal responsibility" being invented by the tobacco industry (he has research to back this up) is astonishing and thought-provoking for sure, we're so indoctrinated with this idea of "personal choice" and personal responsibility and personal freedom and it's really interesting to think about how much of this may come from industry influence without us realizing it. We saw how toxic this individualized attitude can be in our culture during pandemic. And just in general for our mental health. Sigh.
