Dr. Robert Lustig has a degree from MIT, a medical degree from Cornell University and a law degree from U.C. Hastings. He is bold in his messaging: Our metabolic health as a nation has been negatively affected by our nutrition---We are not eating real foods, whole foods. Sugar is added to ultra-processed foods and it is making us sicker. 75 percent of our health care costs in the U.S. are due to our poor metabolic health which is related directly to our poor nutrition. Doctors treat the symptoms of metabolic disease and do not urge prevention through eating real food.

The food industry and big pharma are all financially highly incented to keep us addicted and they know sugar and ultra-processed foods are addictive.

His Youtube video, Sugar: The Bitter Truth has gone viral with over 24 million views.

His most recent book Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of
Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine offers an excellent account of what is truly going on: Food and sugar addiction are real, the food industry knows this and adds sugar to foods, our doctors are treating the symptoms of obesity and metabolic syndrome by throwing pills at the problem and the pharmaceutical industry is motivated to be complicit.

Dr. Lustig is a vocal advocate for placing Food Addiction in the DSM-V as a substance use disorder just like alcohol and drugs so that insurance companies will pay for treatment. What a brilliant and inspiring man Dr. Robert Lustig is! Listen in!