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#53 Metabolical Part I - Book Summary

• Jes Oliphant & Tristan Alexander • Season 1 • Episode 65

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Hello Wise Wordians,

Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.

This week we are summarising ‘Metabolical’ by Robert Lustig which explores the relationship between processed foods and its overwhelming consequences on our health. 

In this episode, we cover topics such as:

  • How food has become poison
  • Debunking “Modern Medicine”
  • Does Modern Medicine Treat the Disease or Just the Symptoms? 
  • Is Obesity the Root Cause of Health Problems or Just a Symptom?
  • Why Doctors Need to Unlearn Nutrition
  • The Relationship Between Mouth Health and Metabolic Health
  • The Birth of Big Pharma 

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In addition, if you fancy implementing any of the actionable ideas we mention in this episode, head over to our website at wisewords.blog where the ‘Metabolical’ book summary will be waiting for you.

Next week we will summarise Part II of Metabolical, so stay tuned for that.

We hope you enjoy it.

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00:00:00-Overview and Author Introduction

00:07:54-Introduction

00:08:01-How food has become poison

00:09:31-The difference between nutrition and food science

00:11:30-The scope of the book

00:13:19-There are two keys to understanding the breakdown of our health and healthcare model

00:21:44-The immoral Hazard

00:26:53-Part I Debunking “Modern Medicine”

00:26:56-Chapter 1 “Treatment” Is Not “Cure”—It’s Not Even Treatment

00:29:50-Modern Medicine Is Not the Solution to the Problem, Modern Medicine Is the Problem

00:35:06- Chapter 2 “Modern Medicine” Treats Symptoms, Not Disease

00:35:10-Insulin 101

00:36:10-Obesity Is a “Red Herring”

00:44:49-The Blood Pressure Blow-out

00:47:21-Blood Glucose—Dude, Are You High?

00:49:04-Chapter 3 Doctors Need to “Unlearn” Nutrition

00:50:23-Conflict or Confluence of Interest?

00:56:33-What holds clinicians back?

01:01:07-Nutritional “Know-Nothings”

01:03:20-Who’s on the Hot Seat?

01:07:55-Chapter 4 Dietitian's Lost Their Mind

01:09:47-Chapter 5 Dentists Lost Their Way

01:16:08-Chapter 6 Because Big Pharma Was Their Teacher

01:16:11-The birth of Big Pharma

01:23:05-Big Pharma on the Rampage

01:25:45-Polypharmacy Kills People

01:29:02-Who funds medical research?

01:33:19-Disease A Plus Treatment B Still Equals Death

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