Robert Lustig explains how the Maillard reaction, the same browning that happens when you cook food, also occurs inside your body and accelerates aging. Browned tissues generate inflammation and reactive oxygen species that drive diseases like fatty liver disease.
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Hit. Hit number one. So that explains the liver fat, but it doesn't explain the inflammation because fatty liver disease is fat plus inflammation. So we have to talk about the inflammation. Well, that has to do with reactive oxygen species which you guys are expert at. So here we have five pictures of food. They all share one thing in common. What is it? They're all brown. Exactly right. Thank you, Rodney. They're all brown. It is the Maillard reaction. So you can roast your meat at 375 degrees for an hour or you can roast your meat at 98.6 degrees for 75 years. The answer is the same. We're all browning. And here's proof. Because here's newborn rib cartilage, nice and brown. And here's 88 year old cartilage, nice and. Sorry. Nice and white. Nice and brown. Okay. You are browning as we speak. It is part of life. The only way to stop it is to be dead.