His work has also suggested a fundamental role for uric acid (which is generated during fructose metabolism) in metabolic syndrome.ĭr. He is internationally recognized for his seminal work on the role of sugar and its component fructose, in obesity and diabetes. Richard Johnson is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver and has been a practicing physician and clinical scientist for over 25 years. Richard Johnson to talk about his team’s discovery of the fructose-powered survival switch-a metabolic pathway that animals in nature turn on and off as needed, but that our modern diet has permanently fixed in the on position, becoming a fat switch-and how it has revolutionized the way we think about why we gain weight.ĭr. This week on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sat down with Dr. Or could there be a single common cause that explains the sharp increase in not only obesity, but conditions as disparate as heart disease, cancer, and dementia? Is it our lifestyle or our diet that’s to blame? Why do we get fat? As Americans have gotten heavier over the past century, and disease rates have skyrocketed, there have been many theories: We’re eating too much fat.
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