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The Dr. Hyman Show

The Dr. Hyman Show

The Truth About Sugar Addiction And How It Affects Your Health

Feb 4, 2022 · 59m

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This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens, Paleovalley, and Rupa Health. Sugar lights up the addiction center in our brains, just like heroin and cocaine. Yet many of us consume more sugar than we are aware of because it’s lurking in so many foods that we would never expect. The average person consumes 152 pounds of it per year! Sugar is not just responsible for an increased waistline but also impacts our metabolic health, immune systems, mental health, and more. In today’s episode, I talk with Keegan Allen and Tom Hopper, Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai, and Dr. Casey Means about why sugar addiction is so detrimental to our health and what we can do about it. Keegan Allen is an American…