The Optimal Protein Podcast
Why We Get Fat & How to Turn Off the Fat Switch with Dr. Rick Johnson
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23 Aug 2022 · 1h 2m
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Nature put a "fat switch" in our bodies. Stuck in the "on" position, it's the hidden source of weight gain, heart disease, and many other common health struggles. But you can turn it off. Dr. Richard Johnson has been on the cutting edge of this research for more than a decade. 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—re