Robert Lustig argues type 2 diabetes is reversible and not genetic. Shared diet, not genes, explains why it runs in families. Ultra-processed foods, especially sugar, damage mitochondria and drive the disease.
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It is not chronic because you can turn it around. It is not unrelenting because you can turn it around. It is not genetic. The reason your mother had it and you got it too is because you eat the same crap she did. It is occurring in children because children are exposed to the same reasons for getting type 2 as are adults. Question is, what's the exposure? That's where ultra processed food comes. Is that the main problem in ultra processed food? It's not the only problem. But the main problem is sugar, for reasons that we discussed when I was here last time. Because sugar is a unique, chronic dose dependent mitochondrial toxin, and we will talk about exactly how that works today. In addition, there's trans fats, there's branched chain amino acids, and then there are the things that affect the microbiome and increase inflammation.