The Benefits of Red Meat in the Brain

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I'm not convinced that a plant-based, purely plant-based diet is going to be great long term. Glutamate and these umami foods can drive obesity in China. I believe that this will if we could develop ways to block fructose metabolism in the brain, I think it would have a fantastic benefit. It's just that we only eat four grams of glutamate a day and we eat 75 grams of sugar a day.

Dr. Richard Johnson is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, and is a clinician, educator, and researcher. For more than 20 years, he has led research on the cause of obesity and diabetes, with special interest in the role of sugar (especially fructose) and uric acid. His latest book, Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent—and Reverse—It, is out now.

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