The Metabolic Mind: Sugar, Addiction & Ultra-Processed Food with Guest, Dr Robert Lustig

About this episode

Dr Rachel Gow sits down with friend and colleague Dr Robert H. Lustig , Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics at UCSF, physician, scientist, bestselling author and one of the world’s leading voices on sugar, ultra-processed food, addiction and chronic metabolic disease. Recorded while Rob was visiting London to speak at the IPM Congress , this is a wide-ranging conversation about the systems shaping our health — from the food we eat and the environments we live in, to the biology of the liver, gut and brain. Rachel and Rob discuss why metabolic disease continues to rise, whether chronic disease can be prevented or even reversed, the addictive nature of ultra-processed food, the metabolic…