Show Notes
How much sugar are we really consuming, and what might it be doing inside our bodies long before illness appears?
In this episode, Julia is joined by Doctor and Professor Robert Lustig, one of the world’s most outspoken voices on sugar and metabolic health.
Robert explains why he believes we have focused too heavily on calories and body weight while overlooking the way different foods are processed by the body. Plus, the difference between glucose and fructose, why whole fruit and fruit juice can affect us differently, insulin, blood pressure, ultra-processed food, artificial sweeteners and why sugary drinks are the first thing Robert would remove from our diets.
This conversation was recorded at the Integrative & Personalised Medicine Congress in London.
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