You May NEVER EAT Sugar Or Starch Again After Watch This! | Dr. Mark Hyman

I thought I'd start with something you wrote in your new book if I were to prescribe one intervention to extend life to prevent and reverse chronic disease it would be to drastically reduce or eliminate sugar and refine starch from your diet yeah why is that so important the idea that sugar and starch are driving the dysfunctions that we see as normal aging but a really abnormal aging is is not really new we know that underlying all the chronic diseases of Aging heart disease cancer diabetes obviously dementia these are all related to disturbances and our ability to regulate our blood sugar to what we call insulin resistance where our body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin and this creates this whole Downstream Cascade that is like a wildfire on the aging process it causes you to gain belly fat it drives up inflammation it lowers your hormones it increases cortisol increases your stress hormones it actually also causes abnormal cholesterol fatty liver all sorts of problems it shrinks your hippocampus and your brain fuels cancer cells I mean it is the nightmare if you want to be someone who's healthy and healthy for a long time I mean the idea basically is to have your lifespan which is how long you're alive be equal to your health span which is how many years of your life you're healthy and for most people they're about 20 years short on the health Span in their lifespan yeah it is incredible you have been talking about this for Years yet the consumption of these Foods the consumption of ultra processed foods all over the globe appear to be on the rise so can you talk to us a little bit about Ultra processed foods what are they exactly and why are they so problematic for our health well historically you know we've evolved eating Foods in their original states and the complex Matrix of fiber vitamins minerals protein fat and carbohydrates and they're in the rich array of phytochemicals and other matrices that make our bodies be able to manage and handle these things Ultra processed foods are essentially who like substances that are made from highly processed ingredients from some commodity crops soy wheat and corn mostly that are then turned into all size shapes colors of chemical extruded substances they know bear no resemblance to the original form and cause all sorts of havoc in our biology aside from all the preservatives you know additives thickeners artificial sweeteners things that are also problematic for healthy just just the processing of the food itself in a way that pulverizes it into some thing that isn't resembling food at all and then reassembles it in a way that actually is harmful to our biology It's Quickly absorbed it sends signals to our biology that we're not getting any real food in fact people who eat Ultra processed food if given you know compared to a and this is a controlled trial where the gay people either Ultras processed food or they give them whole food and the same amount of food they could sort of eat as much as they wanted the people who had the ultra processed food ate 500 calories more a day that's based basically the equivalent to gaining a pound a week or 52 pounds a year so it's no wonder we're such an obese Society increasingly in the UK I think the United States has you beat a little bit but not by much I think uh the the reality is that this Ultra processed food is driving so much of of the challenges we see in our society for every 10 percent of your diet that's Ultra processed food your risk of death goes up by 14 and in America 60 of our diet is ultra processed food and kids it's almost 70 percent of their diet this is just a deadly combination that not only causes long-term problems of you know shorter lifespan and we're seeing our life expectancy go down but also immediate problems of of all sorts of conditions that we now know are related to the Starship sugar whether it's fatty liver and kids that need liver transplants or kids who are you know having heart attacks and 20 years old because of this I mean it's it's really pretty frightening you said that for every 10 increase in Ultra processed foods your risk of death goes up by 14 14 yeah that's from the global burden of disease study huge study of 995 countries uh in 11 million people die every year from eating the wrong food that's more than smoking or Wars or anything else it is the number one killer in the world today smoke despite all this knowledge why is consumption still going up what's going on is it an individual problem yeah is it the food industry right yeah yeah yeah well this is this is my last book which was a food picks where I mapped out the problems with our food policies and our food industry and how everything that we're doing is fostering the the production the growing the production the marketing and the sale of these Ultra processed foods in ways we've never seen in human history and and that's really what's what's driving it and I'm working hard on my nonprofit the food fix campaign to change those food policies to address you know food marketing to kids for example Boris Johnson thankfully he he got uh wise once he got covered that food was related to his poor health and that he understood that the reason he ended up in the ICU from covid was because he was in poor metabolic health and that was because of the starch and sugar and processed foods and he then started to restrict marketing and other kinds of initiatives that actually were trying to lower the consumption sugar and Ultra processed food which I think is great but that needs to happen you know globally in America you can you know the effect of this is not just on on Aging but is on everything if you look at America it's four percent the world's population but it was 16 of the coveted cases in deaths which means we have a 400 percent increase compared to what we should have in terms of our population why is that because covet hit a population that was pre-inflamed that was metabolic and healthy and that was at high risk for having complications in Death from from covet and that's why we're we're not because we have a crappy Health Care System we spend more than any other country by double and yet we we did the worst yeah in your experience Mark and you have been you know you've seen tens of thousands of patients over maybe what three decades now a long long time I'm scared to say that I started Medical School 40 years ago this is fine well one of the reasons I I actually love talking to you Mark is because you have been a practicing clinician for so long you know you have real world experience with patients and as much as we both enjoy talking to researchers yeah it can be very you know very interesting to learn about new research but I think there is something special certainly for me about talking to clinicians because the research doesn't always apply to that person in front of you but what a some of the common traps that people fall into would you say when they're trying to choose their their food for example you know what are some foods that maybe people think are healthy from the way that the that their Market said but actually are causing them them short-term and the long-term problems that's a great question I think you know just it's more directly answer your question uh which I indirectly answered about whose responsibility is it is it a personal responsibility that we need to just all eat less and exercise more is there something else going on and there's something else going on which is that we are highly addicted to these Foods they're designed to hijack our brain chemistry our hormones our metabolism and they do a very good job at that and so we have to realize that there's there is some level of responsibility but there's also the food environment and the food that's available and the the compounds that are in the food that hijack our biology so that that I think is important to understand to not blame the person who's overweight that is one of the most um I think damaging things that we do as a medical profession and as nutritionists in our health policy it's certainly the Mantra of food companies which is there's no good and bad calories it's all about moderation and if you want to sort of have Coca-Cola or Pepsi and and it's part of your caloric intake that that's okay and that's just that's just a bunch of nonsense uh as far as far as the foods that we think are okay that aren't okay well I think maybe we sort of don't understand when we see things like whole grains that actually a lot of the whole grain foods out there are highly processed whole grains that are you know put in Cheerios or Frosted Flakes so we have you know like new Frosted Flakes with extra extra you know whole grains in them it just is insane I think we need to be very careful of food marketing and food labeling if you want to have food try to have in its original form whole grains are actually that whole grains and you can cook them yourself at home uh and and that's really important to not fall for these sort of marketing claims I think also low fat is a terrible thing that we should be avoiding and a lot of low-fat foods are high in sugar and that was really the the damaging message of the 90s with the food pyramid in America where we're told to eat six to eleven servings of bread rice cereal and pasta day and cut our fat consumption and we did that and and subsequently became the you know increasingly obese around the globe because of that advice that was really shared globally so there's some really simple things like avoid low-fat foods eat good fats and don't don't fall for for false marketing labels where it says it's healthy for you if it's a processed food yeah I definitely agree breakfast cereals are a huge culprit so I think you know the majority of breakfast cereals not all of them but the majority probably not helping people they're certainly not helping them start the day they're probably putting them on a blood sugar roller coaster right from the start of the day yeah but can I just clarify what you said on uh low fat there because there's obviously foods that are natural you know whole foods that are naturally low fat and there's yeah um low-fat products that the food industry have made are used broccoli is low fat I mean that's fine asparagus are low fat that's okay but it's it's all the low-fat processed food I'm talking about yeah as a marketing claim or if it says high fiber or if it has whole grain on it these are these are ways in which are the the food industry uh uses sort of marketing on the front of package labeling to confuse people and for example Cheerios is a great example that everything's cheers of the health food it's oat bran it's old fiber it's healthy lower your cholesterol it sounds good but in fact the glycemic index of Cheerios is worse than table sugar so that is a problem you know the glycemic index 74 out of 100 table sugar 65. so I think we have to be very careful when we kind of eat these foods and how they impact our blood sugar and it's really important for us to understand that you know how how food affects our blood sugar as we discussed at the outside of the podcast is the most determined important determinant of our long-term health and well-being including things like depression fertility acne uh all sorts of problems that aren't just about heart attack Strokes cancer dementia and diabetes if you enjoyed fat clip here's another powerful clip that I think you are really going to enjoy

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Published: Tue Jul 25 2023