#225 - How sugar harms kids’ bodies and brains and what parents can do to foster healthier eating habits | Austin McGuffie & Dr. Robert Lustig (Replay)
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The Importance of Understanding Nutrition
The food industry says, well, wait a second, but sugar is energy. It's helping your mitochondria, but it's not. If it's inhibiting mitochondrial ATP production, then you are actually depriving your brain of the chemical energy it needs to operate. And those excitatory neurotransmitters are going great guns. You are actually putting your brain at a major disadvantage. So understanding nutrition is so important.
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