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by beebmam 884 days ago
What evidence does he present for this claim?
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Here's Layne Norton's response to Lustig and that exact Huberman episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZPKTaVB1IU

It'll answer your question.

Are these people unable to write?
You don't "go viral" writing something.
I guess on the plus side the medium acts as a good bs filter.
Writing or video production?
I find Layne unconvincing, and in fact many of his links in the supposed debunking do not speak to the point:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-hnlCHsVjiLH6aQoj4gU-j7n...

He's a poor debater in that video, and he's begging the question in many cases.

He actually agrees with Lustig that highly processed food is addictive (he gives different reasons), but he pretends to disagree (go virality!). He's inventing strawmen in order to have something to argue with. They are actually making the same prescription but for different reasons: eat less processed food and reduce caloric intake if you want to lose weight.

He agrees that fruit is harder to consume, and is therefore a better vehicle to consume fructose if one is trying to limit caloric intake.

There are lots of papers https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497...

Surely you can provide a better summary than just linking to a video that's an hour long. No one is gonna watch all that on your "trust me bro".
> No one is gonna watch all that on your "trust me bro".

I see you've never met the UFO/UAP community.

Here's Lustig's argument, lightly paraphrased:

The intestine is made of intestinal epithelial cells, bound together by proteins to form a barrier. That class of proteins is called tight-junction proteins (eg zonulin). Fructose nitrates those proteins, causing them to be transiently permeable, allowing some of the sewage in your intestine to enter your bloodstream, leading to leaky gut. Leaky gut leads to inflammation of the liver, which leads to systemic inflammation. A biomarker of that inflammatory immune response is creactive protein (CRP). Lustic says 93% of Americans have leaky gut.

Transcript for reference: https://www.happyscribe.com/public/huberman-lab/dr-82a32683-...