How Finance Changes Biochemistry and Causes Disease... Metabolical Book Review

How Finance Changes Biochemistry and Causes Disease... 'Metabolical' Book Review.

'Metabolical' is the latest book by Dr. Robert Lustig, who wrote it after retiring as a pediatric neuroendocrinologist at the University of California at San Francisco (one of the top academic medical centers in the country).

Dr. Lustig explains how the food industry strategized to increase profits by adding sugar to our food supply starting in the 1970s. Sugar not only makes food more palatable, but also is an addictive substance causing us to eat more.

Increased sugar consumption causes our bodies to produce chronically high levels of insulin... called 'hyperinsulinemia.'

Hyperinsulinemia is a major driver of disease... and not just obesity and diabetes as many people already know.

Hyperinsulinemia increases the risk of breast, colon, pancreatic, kidney and many other cancers. Hyperinsulinemia also increases cancer mortality by 2X.

Hyperinsulinemia increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (e.g. heart attacks) independent of any other risk factors such as high cholesterol or diabetes. In other words, even if you do not have high cholesterol or diabetes, hyperinsulinemia alone will increase your risk of cardiovascular disease... and this fact has been known for almost 30 years.

Dr. Lustig's book is a must read for those who want to understand the root cause of chronic disease in America.

**CORRECTION: Insulin is not a steroid hormone and therefore, is not a transcription factor. Insulin binds to cell membrane receptors to create biochemical changes within the cell.

Sources:
Metabolical by Robert Lustig, MD

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8596596/

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