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EP 435 Why Your Gaining Weight (Even If You Eat Healthy) | The Fructose Switch with Dr Richard Johnson.

Sep 9, 2026 · 56m

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About this episode

Why is it that we can eat whatever we want when we’re younger, stay relatively lean, and then suddenly our bodies seem to change? For many people, this starts happening much earlier than they expect. Why does weight gain become easier? Why does belly fat appear? Why can stress make us gain weight even when we’re not eating very much? And what happens to our metabolism as we age? In this episode, I sit down with the legendary Dr. Richard Johnson, whose research has transformed our understanding of fructose, uric acid, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and the body’s survival response. We go right back to the beginning of Dr. Johnson’s work with kidney disease and blood pressure and follow the…