8 Reasons Why Obesity Isn’t the Problem, Metabolic Dysfunction Is – Dr. Robert Lustig with Dave Asprey : 820

<p>In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L., the&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;</em>bestselling author of&nbsp;several books about the problems caused by sugar, processed food and the health conditions of obesity, shares his expertise and research about metabolic health.</p><p>He addresses nutrition, food science, and global health, and explains how by focusing on real food we can reverse chronic disease and promote longevity. He also challenges the current healthcare paradigm and the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government.&nbsp;</p><p>Dr. Lustig is a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who’s spent his 40-plus year career treating and finding ways to prevent obesity and diabetes. He’s emeritus professor of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.&nbsp;</p><p>He's authored 130 peer-reviewed articles, 80 academic chapters and reviews, and dozens of op-eds for the public. He now has a new book<em>&nbsp;</em>to explain the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease and document how processed food has impacted our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years.&nbsp;</p><p>“So all these medicines that we currently throw at these various chronic diseases, they are treating the symptoms of the disease but they are not treating the underlying pathology,” Dr. Lustig says. “The disease is still there.”</p><p>The eight pathologies we discuss include glycation,&nbsp;oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, membrane instability, inflammation, epigenetics, and autophagy.&nbsp;</p><p>“It’s not about obesity, it never was,” Dr. Lustig says. “The key to the kingdom is that&nbsp;<em>it is not about obesity, it is about metabolic dysfunction</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>anyone can get it</em>, and that’s what makes it a public health crisis,&nbsp;<em>because obesity is a result of the problem, not the cause.&nbsp;</em>I never want to hear any of yo