Robert Lustig explains how diet and air quality shape your metabolism and health. He connects what you eat and breathe to your body's basic functioning, arguing both matter equally for well-being.
You know the old saying, you know, you are what you eat. You kind of modified it. It's you are what you metabolize, you.
Are what you do with what you eat, therefore you are what you metabolize. But in my book Metabolical, I made it very clear, actually, you are what they did with what you eat.
Got it.
Because what they did was they altered the food in such a way as to alter your metabolism. You are what you breathe.
Right?
Right. Air pollution plays a role in this.
Right.
You are what you drink. Because there are obesogens in the water like pfas, polyfluorated alkylated substances.
Yeah. They're fermented.
Right. We banned DDT in 1972, so it's over 50 years since DDT has been around. But you can still measure levels in the urine of pregnant women here in the Bay Area. And the level of that DDE metabolite predicts obesity in their offspring at age 5 years and 10 years.