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How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health | Dr. Robert Lustig
A long Huberman Lab podcast episode with Dr. Robert Lustig on the calories-in, calories-out model and how sugar, fructose, fiber and processed foods affect insulin, liver and metabolic health.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN mentions it mostly as a source for the argument that sugar is toxic, though some commenters push back on claims like fructose being addictive.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Andrew Huberman
- Topic
- sugar and metabolic health
- Format
- podcast
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Sugar is poison. Check out the latest talk from Dr Robert Lustig [VIDEO] Its a 3.5h video, but roughly sugar is as toxic as alcohol and the food industry is adding it to most products. In short if it has a label (like most processed …
plexman on Hacker News · 2024-01
In Reasons to grow and keep big musclesThis explains how sugars and fast carbs can be healthy [VIDEO] Tldr; highly processed food looses vitamins(micro nutrient starvation) and starch/fiber are needed to slow absorption until it gets to bacteria producing drugs(barbiturate and precursors to neuromediators including), and give signals over vagus nerve to …
dlahoda on Hacker News · 2026-07
In Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight
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