#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
Replacing sugar with allulose
Allulose is on the top of my sweetener preference list for both objective and subjective reasons.
#88 – Paul Grewal, M.D.: Treating metabolic disease and strategies for long-term health
“You could say our food supply has changed more in the last 100 years than it has in the last 10,000.” — Paul Grewal
#87 – Rick Johnson, M.D.: Fructose—The common link in high blood pressure, insulin resistance, T2D, & obesity?
“Fructose turns out to be used by animals as a mechanism to store fat.” — Rick Johnson
#69 – Ronesh Sinha, M.D.: Insights into the manifestation of metabolic disease in a patient population predisposed to metabolic syndrome, and what it teaches us more broadly
“The way we raise our kids early on might actually set a pattern for how much of an accelerated life, or how much of a stressed out nervous system they might have later on. . . a lot of the behavioral patterns that we’re instilling in our kids are kind of setting the foundation for insulin resistance and inflammation early on.” —Ronesh Sinha
#14 – Robert Lustig, M.D., M.S.L.: fructose, processed food, NAFLD, and changing the food system
“Neurons like to be tickled, not bludgeoned.” —Rob Lustig
The straight dope on cholesterol – Part IX
In this post we’ll address the following concept: What should you eat to have the greatest chance of delaying the arrival of cardiovascular disease?
The straight dope on cholesterol – Part VIII
In this post we’ll double-click on a paper covering cholesterol and heart disease risk factors.
The straight dope on cholesterol – Part VII
In this post we’ll address the following concept: Does “HDL” matter after all?
The straight dope on cholesterol – Part V
In this post we’ll address the following concept: Does the size of an LDL particle matter?