#141 – AMA #18: Deep dive: sugar and sugar substitutes
“Is glucose a sugar? Yes. Is fructose a sugar? Yes. Are they the same? Not even close.” —Peter Attia
Sugar substitutes: deep dive into the pros, cons, available options, and impact on metabolic health
Sugar substitutes offer sweet taste with minimal calories, yet they remain controversial. How well do they solve the problems associated with traditional sugar, and where do they fall short?
The five main tools for managing blood glucose numbers
This clip is from AMA #26: Continuous glucose monitors, zone 2 training, and a framework for interventions, originally released on…
Sugar & Cancer: Does Fructose Cause Cancer?
This clip is from episode #187 – Sam Apple: The Warburg Effect—Otto Warburg’s cancer metabolism theory, originally released on December…
Is natural sugar from fruit just as ‘bad’ as added sugar?
This video clip is taken from episode #194 – How Fructose Drives Metabolic Disease with Rick Johnson, M.D., originally released on…
#211 – AMA #36: Fruits & vegetables—everything you need to know
“There’s also a very significant cultural and social component to this thing as well. So I think that’s where the tribalism comes from around nutrition.” —Peter Attia
Hydration for Athletes: Should you drink sports drinks with glucose?
This video clip is from episode #200 – AMA #33: Hydration—electrolytes, supplements, sports drinks, performance effects, and more, originally released…
Why you should stop drinking sugar
This video clip is taken from Podcast #194 – How Fructose Drives Metabolic Disease with Rick Johnson, M.D., originally released on…
#194 – How fructose drives metabolic disease | Rick Johnson, M.D.
“Fructose turns out to have been meant to be this wonderful system for survival, but in our culture with the amount of sugar in foods that we are eating (that either provide sugar or can be turned into fructose), this pathway has become hazardous.” —Rick Johnson
Replacing sugar with allulose
Allulose is on the top of my sweetener preference list for both objective and subjective reasons.
#110 – Lew Cantley, Ph.D.: Cancer metabolism, cancer therapies, and the discovery of PI3K
“If I get a result that suddenly doesn’t make sense, to me that’s more exciting. . .if you figure out why it didn’t work and what was wrong, then that’s where most breakthroughs come from.” — Lew Cantley