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Life expectancy, quality of life and health-span are going down, and not because of Covid. We are witnessing an epidemic of chronic noncommunicable disease (CNDs) (such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, fatty liver disease, cancer, dementia) as well as mental health issues (addiction, depression, anxiety) and autoimmune conditions which are increasing in prevalence and severity. These diseases of metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction cannot be helped with a pill, but rather with food. But not just any food. “Let food be thy medicine” is true only if it is the right food. The wrong food, however, will poison you over time. 

Prof. Robert Lustig, paediatric neuro-endocrinologist and best-selling author of “Fat Chance”, advises us to take our health into our own hands in order to dodge the agendas of big food, big pharma, and to an extent, modern doctors who don’t have the time (nor often the knowledge) to teach us about prevention, lifestyle and the power of food to heal.  

So how do we take our health into our own hands when there is so much conflicting and confusing information out there? And what should we eat, and should we supplement, given the various diet trends (Keto, Vegan, Paleo, Mediterranean etc.) and advice on nutrition and supplementation? And each person’s dietary and nutritional needs vary!

In this live streamed event in collaboration with the How To Academy, Prof. Lustig gives us some clear guidelines to follow for greater health, longevity and happiness.

Learn about:

• The eight subcellular pathologies that underlie all chronic conditions (glycation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, membrane integrity, inflammation, epigenetics, autophagy) and how to make them work for you rather than against you
• How to protect your liver (from sugar and other nasties in processed foods which cause oxidative stress) and feed your gut (with fibre rich food which protects the microbiome and intestinal lining) by eating real food
• Which diet (keto, paleo, mediterranean, traditional Japanese, vegan, etc.) is best for your health, longevity and happiness (spoiler alert – it’s personal) and why the key is keeping your insulin low
• How chronically high insulin leads to mitochondrial dysfunction and chronic disease
• Why fructose rather than glucose is the enemy, and how it acts on the reward centre to foster addiction
• Why it’s not the food that you eat but what’s been done to the food that you eat that matters, and how we can process our own food (through juicing or grilling for instance) to make it less healthy
• How and when intermittent fasting and probiotics work for our health
• Why dairy is actually good for you, and what to do if you are intolerant
• Why grass-fed meat is so much better for our health and for the planet