Dr. Richard Johnson is a practicing physician and has been a medical scientist for over 25 years. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver.
Rick is internationally recognized for his seminal work on the role of sugar and its component fructose, in obesity and diabetes. His work has also suggested a fundamental role for uric acid (which is generated during fructose metabolism) in the metabolic syndrome.
Rick’s book is Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent – and Reverse – It.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What activates the fat storage switch?
- Allulose stimulates GLP-1
- Does fructose cause cancer?
- Dark chocolate stimulates mitochondria to grow
- How glucose can convert to fructose
- The most practical diet for weight loss
- How fructose causes Alzheimer’s
- Umami foods raise uric acid
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Related links:
Dr. Richard Johnson’s website
Follow Dr. Richard Johnson on Instagram
Listen or watch Dr. Richard Johnson previously on TUHP (episode #488)
Dr. Richard Johnson – Nature Wants Us to Be Fat (book)
Dr. Richard Johnson – The Sugar Fix (book)
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Dr. Charles Cavo
Listen or watch Dr. Benjamin Bikman previously on TUHP (episode #448)
Dr. Benjamin Bikman – Why We Get Sick (book)
Listen to Gary Taubes previously on TUHP (episode #387)
Gary Taubes (books)
Listen or watch Dr. David Ludwig previously on TUHP (episode #516)
Dr. David Ludwig (books)
Blue Oak – Mitokatlyst – E
Mitopure – Urolithin A
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Breyers – CarbSmart Ice Cream
Listen or watch Dr. Dale Bredesen previously on TUHP (episodes #255 and #504)
Dr. Dale Bredesen (books)
Listen or watch Dr. David Perlmutter previously on TUHP (episodes #273, #289, #332, and #457)
Dr. David Perlmutter (books)
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