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Robert Lustig: "Processed Food, Metabolism, and The Ills of Society"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Role of Sugar in Poly Addiction

Sugar is a supernormal stimuli to our evolved brains the same way that pornography or gambling or, you know, video games are. Anything that stimulates the reward center in the extreme is addictive. We have shopping, gambling, internet gaming, social media, pornography. Every one of those has an aholic neck - shopaholics, ca, ca,. ca, ca, alcoholic, sexaholic, alcohol, you pick it.

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