Metabolical

The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

By: Robert H. Lustig

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

The New York Times best-selling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.

Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science, challenges our current healthcare paradigm which has gone off the rails under the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government.

You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what the problem is. One of Lustig’s singular gifts as a communicator is his ability to “connect the dots” for the general listener, in order to unpack the scientific data and concepts behind his arguments, as he tells the “real story of food” and “the story of real food”.

Metabolical weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society into a completely new fabric by proving on a scientific basis a series of iconoclastic revelations, among them:

• Medicine for chronic disease treats symptoms, not the disease itself
• You can diagnose your own biochemical profile
• Chronic diseases are not "druggable," but they are "foodable"
• Processed food isn’t just toxic, it’s addictive
• The war between vegan and keto is a false war - the combatants are on the same side
• Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government are on the other side

Making the case that food is the only lever we have to effect biochemical change to improve our health, Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut. He insists that if we do not fix our food and change the way we eat, we will continue to court chronic disease, bankrupt healthcare, and threaten the planet. But there is hope: this book explains what’s needed to fix all three.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

©2021 Robert H. Lustig (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

So important!

I thought I was going to learn a little about my own metabolic issues, and perhaps add a little research to my arguments against sugar and junk food. I received so much more! This should be required reading in all earnest Nutrition Science courses everywhere! I cannot recommend it more highly and plan to listen to it several more times with pdfs in front of me, to be part of the solution, not another one of the problems on this planet.

Oustanding

Tremendous. No more excuses. A Proper Human Diet (PHD) is available for healing your body.

Great book!

I've listened to this book three times in the last 12 months! it's pack with great jewels of information that's life transforming!

Illuminating

This is a bright light in an area of misinformation and chaos. It is so difficult to now know that so many people, government officials, associations and companies prefer sick, unhappy, addicted individuals to happy, and healthy ones. How sad that the people who were supposed to look out for us, helped put us in our current situation. Even sadder, is how many people don't even realize how bad that situation is.

very informative and interesting

great read. might be hard for me to take the challenge of changing food to less sugar

Very enlightening

Comprehensive explanation of many issues interrelated to the health of a nation, farming practices, and all the tangents associated with it in business and what we can do at home

Educational

I feel I learned quite a bit. Going to check out some of his other books.

Everyone should know!!

This book is absolutely fabulous. The research is astounding! So many, many facts we should all know. It may be a little technical but one gets the jist of what Dr. Lustig is getting at even if u don’t have a medical background. I would recommend reading it as opposed to listening to it. You might remember more😉.

Wow

This was my first book I purchased through Audible and more or less the reason I why I signed up. I heard of Dr Lustig through YouTube and his talks resonated with me. I have listened to this book a few times because it was so good. I've even listened to his one hour plus lectures and interviews over and over. There are a couple of chapters towards the end where I felt it a little hard to digest, heavy on the medical stuff. It'll probably take a few more listens for me to fully grapple the concepts. I really enjoyed this book.

Informative

US food industry is a scam. Processed food make us all sick. Eat real food!