Lustig taught me a lot about why my body betrayed me: sugar. Against my will, thwarting every effort i made to cease the inexorable slide toward sickness.

Only after I came to understand that SUGAR DID THIS TO ME did I ever begin to make any progress whatsoever.

This is not the environment our genes optimized to help us survive. Those very same mechanisms that would have saved us in a world where we had to forage for every calorie and we hadn’t yet learned how to preserve edible biomass against rot and infestation are killing us now that we can glut ourselves on what used to be the rarest and most precious biological resource possible for our ancient ancestors.

WE AREN’T SUPPOSED TO HAVE FOOD SEVERAL TIMES A DAY EVERY SINGLE DAY! The people who TOLD you that you do are the people trying to sell you the very thing they’re telling you you need. Nutritional studies funded by WHO exactly? General Mills. Kellogg. Post. Keebler. Nabisco. While we absolutely do need water on a daily basis, “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” and such were absolutely nothing but pure marketing slop. Slop to SELL YOU slop.

Dr. Lustig’s lectures on YouTube have shown me things I can’t un-see. But I’m glad to know them now. It all makes too much sense to ignore.