Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL

No. 1 Sugar Expert: 17 Seconds Of Pleasure Can Rewire Your Brain! Podcast Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 10/02/2025 · 1h 51m

Enjoy my new talk with Steve Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO💪

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Join us on 10/5 to see Roberta Ruggiero at the Kick Sugar Summit, her talk is titled "Hypoglycemia: The Forgotten Blood Sugar Disorder". Visit the link to sign up (for free):

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I'll be at the summit as well, speaking tomorrow (10/3).

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Kick Sugar Summit 2025: Special Documentary Fundraiser Edition Our most powerful summit yet! Featuring exclusive new interviews and beloved past favorites! This year’s Kick Sugar Summit is extra special becaus...

Kick Sugar Summit, starting October 2nd:

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Reminder:

Take care when trusting online content. In the recent past, my name and likeness has been used for brands and accounts I’m not associated with. I talk about it here:

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Sugar is celebratory.

Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues.

It’s turned into a diet staple, and it’s killing us.

YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO The Glucose Expert: The Only Proven Way To Lose Weight Fast! Calorie Counting Is A Load of BS!

I first appeared on The Diary of a CEO early last summer. Ahead of my new appearance, landing this Thursday, please give a listen to my first chat with Stephen Bartlett:

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Food now matters even more than it should.

Food is beyond a necessity; it’s also a commodity, and it has been reformulated to be an addictive substance. This has many effects on our world: economically, politically, socially, and medically.

YouTube video by Blue Oak Nutraceuticals, Inc. Not your Grandma’s Nutraceutical - Dr. Robert Lustig

Fructose is not a nutrient. It is not required for life. In fact, it is a chronic dose-dependent mitochondrial toxin.

5 minutes here, where I cover this (and more).

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First Annual Symposium on Mitochondrial Health, Healthspan, & Aging - BlueOakNx First Annual SymposiumMitochondrial Health, Healthspan, & Aging Date & Location Thursday, September 25, 2025 (8 am - 6 pm)Robertson Auditorium, Mission Bay Conference CenterUCSF Medical Center, San Fr...

San Francisco! Come see me in-person on Thursday, September 25th.

I'll be at the Mission Bay Conference Center speaking at the First Annual Symposium for Mitochondrial Health, Healthspan, & Aging.

Register at the link:

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I'm glad to share that I'll be appearing on Diary of a CEO on Oct 2nd.

My conversation with Stephen Bartlett is wide ranging; it's about our society at a turning point. Stay tuned.

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Kick Sugar Summit 2025: Special Documentary Fundraiser Edition Our most powerful summit yet! Featuring exclusive new interviews and beloved past favorites! This year’s Kick Sugar Summit is extra special becaus...

A free virtual event to keep on your radar.

October 2nd-12th, 2025.

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Our chronic disease crisis begins with our sugar consumption. Eat real food when you can and Monch Monch when you can’t! 💚💜🍩➡️🥦 #insulin #insulinresistance #glutenintolerant #bloodsugarcontrol #weig... Our chronic disease crisis begins with our sugar consumption. Eat real food when you can and Monch Monch when you can’t! 💚💜🍩➡️🥦 #insulin #insulinresistance #glutenintolerant #bloodsugarcontrol...

It all starts with the sugar you eat:

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The worst habit in America is the sugary drink habit.

Last year, I discussed this truth with PARADE Magazine:

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Eat Real Certified HUGE NEWS! 📍🍓 We are officially in 18 states across the country, with 8 new states joining our certification program. This is our LARGEST group of districts to date, bringing our nationwide impact....

800,000, and more to come.

YouTube video by Doug Bopst How To Break Free From Sugar Addiction - Do This Today To Stop Craving Sweets! | Dr. Robert Lustig

If someone is looking to break free from an addiction to sugar, what should that process look like? Last year, I talked about this (and more) with Doug Bopst:

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Why climate change could ramp up our sugar intake A new study says Americans buy more soda and ice cream as temperatures rise. That could have implications in a warming world.

No surprise -- they don't have access to clean or tasty water. So they choose soda.

More reason for public health efforts to help reduce sugar consumption.

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For those of you with a Washington Post subscription, here is a study of sugar consumption going up with ambient temperature. A big focus here on sugared beverages, especially in lower in socio-economic status populations.

Kennedy Report Won’t Solve America’s Food Issues, Experts Say

As I said, when the going got tough, RFK abdicated.

I agree with Kelly Brownell — if the food industry doesn’t have to change, they won’t. And RFK pulled his punches, because he doesn’t want the fight.

All talk and no action. Just like a politician.

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There are more metabolically ill people with normal weight than those who are overweight. Metabolic disease is the problem. Obesity is a marker, not a cause – thin people suffer from metabolic disease too.

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13th Annual Thought Leaders Consortium: Clinical Advances in Personalized Lifestyle Medicine - Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute This event brings together leading experts to discuss how advances in personalized medicine, wearable tech, and data-driven strategies can revolutionize the

Resharing an announcement about my upcoming speaking event in Dana Point, CA:

I'm excited to be speaking at the 13th Annual Thought Leader Consortium, hosted by PLMI, on October 17th–18th. This event brings together top leaders in the functional and integrative medicine space to share insights.

The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds

I spoke to @nytimes.com about the surge of AI scammers using faces like mine to sell health products and trick viewers.

Read the details:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

I thought RFK would help fix pharma transparency, but things are as opaque as ever.

RFK must go. Period. And we have to get rid of his HHS toadies too.

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I thought RFK would help fix the food. He hasn't, he's abdicated. He thinks getting rid of food dyes will make us healthy.

I thought RFK would help fix the chemicals in the environment. He hasn't, he's abdicated.

He's a lawyer, not a doctor. He's a lawyer who believes in precedent, not a public health official who believes in probability. He has the worst confirmation bias of anyone in power, and they all do. That's why they're in power. The rest of us know we're not sure.

And RFK knows how to diagnose mitochondrial dysfunction, just by looking at them. I'm a mitochondrial specialist, and I can't.

RFK Jr. Must Go. And He's Not the Only One.

On RFK, I've held my fire, on purpose, hoping for some good things to happen. But no longer.

I know Susan Monarez. She's a career scientist-civil servant. She was a guardrail. Now gone. Along with 4 top CDC officials.

The Metabolic Imperative: A Strategic Framework for the Future of Food A Common Framework for Reformulation

For those of you with Substack access, I recommend this treatise on fixing the food supply from my friend and colleague Carter Williams:

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Essay | My Family Went Off Ultra-Processed Foods for a Month. The Results Surprised Us. What started as an experiment has become our new diet.

A living story that illustrates the impact of dietary habit changes, this essay explores what happened when Michaeleen Doucleff and her daughter eliminated ultra-processed foods for a full month... and how the experiment sparked meaningful transformation.

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Mark Twain said, “Education is mainly what we have unlearned.”

If the last fifty years of medicine has taught us anything, it’s that we physicians have a whole lot to unlearn—except when it comes to nutrition, in which case you can’t unlearn what you were never taught in the first place.