Robert Lustig is an American physician and researcher who has written extensively about how our modern food environment is poisoning us. His 2012 book “Fat Chance” was a New York Times bestseller. He recently came out with a new book, “Metabolical”, in which he lays out in detail the science of how and why modern processed foods destroy our health. He also explains why the … Read more
Category: Interviews
Why we get fat, with David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson
David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson are biologists who have dedicated their careers to trying to understand how animals decide how much to eat and what to eat. They started with insects, and then moved on to small mammals, and ended up looking at humans, and they’ve chronicled their research in their book “Eat like the animals”.
What they’ve discovered is that most animals, including … Read more
Why medicine is broken, with Seamus O’Mahony
Seamus O’Mahony is an Irish physician who’s written a trilogy of books that explore the varied ways in which modern medicine is broken. The first book, “The way we die now”, discusses how the movement of death in to hospitals in the modern era and a culture of denial around mortality has resulted in horrendous overtreatment of dying patients up until the very moment … Read more
The true causes of heart disease, with Malcolm Kendrick
I’ve been thinking about starting a podcast of my own for a while now, where I talk to the most interesting and original thinkers in health and medicine. I listen to a lot of medical and health science podcasts, and there are some that are truly excellent, such as The Drive with Peter Attia, Ivor Cummins’ Fat Emperor podcast, and the Diet Doctor podcast with … Read more
Covid: Everything on the table
A group of German celebrities have started the campaign “alles auf den tisch”, which literally means “everything on the table”. It’s a reaction to the shocking lack of indepence and critical oversight that has been exhibited by journalists ever since the pandemic began. The purpose of the campaign is to break through the blinkered media narrative that exists in relation to covid, and allow a … Read more
Covid interview with Ivor Cummins
Some of you may remember the interview I did with Ivor Cummins of the Fat Emperor podcast back in October, to talk about covid-19. We’ve now done a follow-up interview where we continue the discussion and talk about covid-19, my new book, and what’s been going on in Sweden these last few months. I think many of you might find it interesting. You can … Read more