Robert Lustig describes CARB Syndrome, a cluster of 22 behavioral symptoms linked to metabolic dysfunction that clinician Bill Wilson identified in 6,000 obese patients. The symptoms improve on low-carbohydrate diets.
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My colleague, Bill Wilson, who wrote that book Brain Drain, he is a clinician. He does pattern recognition, and he's taking care of, like, 6,000 obese patients. And he stuck them all in DEXA scanners so he could actually measure their body composition. And he also gave them questionnaires, and he found 22 specific symptoms that correlated with metabolic dysfunction. And here they are. Read them. They're all behavioral. Okay. They're all really common. Maybe you have them. Okay. And he calls this because when he puts people on low carb diets, they all get better. So he calls this carbohydrate associated reversible brain, or carb syndrome. And he actually runs a blog called Carbsyndrome. Org, which you can access for free.