Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL

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In case you missed it, I got to chat with Yuval Noah Harari at a World Economic Forum event called “Breaking Bad: Targeting Food for Health”.

Our focus was the metabolic revolution. Watch here for free:

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Eat Real - Putting Real Food on the Cafeteria Table - Eat Real Certified Help us continue our mission.

1. Watch Nora crush it.

2. Get your school food service director to check out EatReal.org for your kids’ sake!

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Eat Real - Putting Real Food on the Cafeteria Table - Eat Real Certified Help us continue our mission.

Can I do a little bragging? Eat Real Certified is our non-profit dedicated to getting real food into K-12. Jordan Shlain and I co-founded Eat Real in 2013. Our CEO, Nora LaTorre, just got interviewed on the Mark Hyman podcast.

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Protect the liver. Feed the gut. Support the brain.

Making the Case for a Metabolic Revolution - Full Edit This is "Making the Case for a Metabolic Revolution - Full Edit" by Metabolic Matrix on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Better late than never — I attended an event at the WEF in Davos called “Breaking Bad: Targeting Food for Health”.

I got to spend some time with historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens. Enjoy!

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A calorie burned is a calorie burned. That's the first law of thermodynamics. But that doesn't mean a calorie eaten is a calorie eaten...

AAP Maintains Routine Vaccine Recs in 2026 Schedule Despite CDC Changes Several medical societies backed the 2026 AAP childhood vaccine schedule, prioritizing longstanding scientific evidence for pediatric public health protocols.

ICYMI, remember: science informs public health, and public health saves lives...

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Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers

Do ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have more in common with cigarettes than they do with fruit or vegetables?

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New research shows eating less ultraprocessed food supports healthier aging A new study found older adults whose diets consisted of only 15% ultraprocessed foods – rather than the usual 50% – had lower weight, insulin and cholesterol.

Research shows that limiting ultra-processed foods is associated with healthier aging outcomes:

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From the Cafeteria to the Capitol | Eat Real Certified 👉 1 in 5 U.S. adolescents is pre-diabetic. 🚨 67% of kids’ calories come from ultra-processed foods. 📈 Underserved communities bear the greatest burden of nutrition-related disease. This is why this l...

Eat Real Certified has much to be proud of, with more good on the way:

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When the liver is overwhelmed with too much fructose, the liver has no choice but to turn the extra energy into liver fat, which can lead to metabolic disease.

Sugar:

...half glucose (six-membered ring, energy of life that every cell on the planet burns for energy) and half fructose (five-membered ring, sweet molecule that only the liver can metabolize).

Ozempic & Obesity Is it worth $1.5 trillion to fix a problem the food industry created? Almost certainly, yes.

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GLP-1's are now ingrained into the fabric of American society with 30M people having tried them. The big question is, should Big Pharma profit off a problem that Big Food made? This is an existential question about the health of America going forward. Don't miss this episode:

If you're on Substack and you have an hour to spare, this Drug Story podcast on GLP-1's (the good, the bad, and the ugly) by award-winning journalist and former WIRED editor Thomas Goetz is well worth your while.

YouTube video by Dr. Urban A. Kiernan How To Fix The Food System When Policy Won’t With Dr. Robert Lustig

How do we fix today's food system when policy isn't always on our side? Hear me discuss this, and more, with Dr. Urban A. Kiernan on this episode of Decoding Health:

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“If you don’t have metabolic health, you don’t have anything” Robert Lustig (Interview) Robert Lustig is a distinguished pediatric neuro-endocrinologist renowned for his extensive research on the intricate relationship between hormones and the brain. Over the past three decades, he has d...

If you don’t have metabolic health, you don’t have anything...

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AAP Maintains Routine Vaccine Recs in 2026 Schedule Despite CDC Changes Several medical societies backed the 2026 AAP childhood vaccine schedule, prioritizing longstanding scientific evidence for pediatric public health protocols.

If you’re a doctor, good news. Other doctors (including me) agree with you. If you’re a politician, ask yourself: how many measles cases are there in the U.S. now? Science informs public health, and public health saves lives.

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QSS 2026 Encore Weekend Welcome to the World's Largest Sugar Summit Encore! January 23rd - 25th, 2026!

The Quit Sugar Summit encore ends today.

Before it's too late, access this fantastic slate of interviews by registering at: quitsugarsummit.com/register-2026

Today's metabolic health crisis is very much an environmental problem. My appearance on "Decoding Health" goes live first thing on Monday -- we'll get into the details.

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And who could have imagined that something so innocent, so delicious, so irresistible — just one glucose molecule (not so sweet) plus one fructose molecule (very sweet) — could propel America toward economic deterioration and medical collapse?

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Berkeley's Talking About Sugar -- And the Conversation Isn't Sweet | KQED "Soda: the Series" is built around six events leading up to November vote on Measure D, a sugar tax.

Remember, a calorie burned is a calorie burned. But a calorie eaten is not a calorie eaten.

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What Is ‘Metabolic Health,’ and Why Does It Matter?

Also, this article states that obesity is the cause of poor metabolic health. In fact, poor metabolic health is the cause of obesity. This is why only 65% of Americans are obese or overweight, but 93% of Americans manifest some form of metabolic dysfunction.

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What Is ‘Metabolic Health,’ and Why Does It Matter?

Read with caution. Visceral and liver fat affect metabolic health. Subcutaneous fat in the absence of visceral or liver fat is quite benign.

South Park on Instagram: "Have some steak with his butter. #SouthPark" 53K likes, 317 comments - southpark on January 14, 2026: "Have some steak with his butter. #SouthPark".

Well, not quite...

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Today's the last day of the Quit Sugar Summit, and my interview is on the slate. Enjoy it! Register here:

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Enjoy the last couple days of the Quit Sugar Summit everyone! Plenty of revelatory interviews with experts at the top of their fields.

Not too late to register for free... here's the link: quitsugarsummit.com?a_aid=68ee55...

What is metabolic health and why does it matter? The world is facing not just an obesity epidemic, but a metabolic health crisis that silently affects millions who are of normal weight but still at risk.

The World Economic Forum in Davos starts next week.

Metabolic health has finally broken through as a major issue. Of course, the solution starts with food.

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There are three things right with them: 1) eat real food; 2) lower the sugar; and 3) cut back on ultraprocessed food. If they just stopped there, the guidelines would be perfect. But unfortunately, there's all sorts of gobbledygook about saturated fat, protein, and whole grains.