Robert Lustig MD

Robert Lustig MD The official page for Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor emeritus of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
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He specializes in the field of neuroendocrinology. Robert Lustig has been a pediatric endocrinologist for 32 years. In that time, he has watched the obesity and metabolic syndrome rates climb, first to the level of epidemic , and now the rates in other countries qualify this as a pandemic. Worse yet, these problems are occurring in infants and toddlers, who clearly cannot be guilty of character flaws. Something else is going on. You can also read, see, and hear what Robert is up to at: http://chc.ucsf.edu/coast/fatchance.html


MISSION

Robert is devoting his public effort to making a difference in the lives of today’s children. And by helping children, it will no doubt help adults as well. Robert has the science, the clinical experience, and the policy training to shine a light on our current medical assumptions, and have society rethink obesity and its associated diseases. Just like efforts against tobacco and alcohol, these efforts includes education, research, and as necessary, litigation.

Friends in Los Altos, join me on April 2nd for an insightful evening of sharing research. Metabolism and cognitive healt...
02/27/2026

Friends in Los Altos, join me on April 2nd for an insightful evening of sharing research. Metabolism and cognitive health will be the tip of the iceberg...

Register here:

Meet Dr. Robert Lustig—endocrinologist, best-selling author, and creator of the viral YouTube lecture “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.” Join the MIT alumnus for a talk on metabolic health, mitochondria, and brain disease prevention.

This report from Sapien Labs has assessed correlations between ultraprocessed food and depression worldwide:https://sapi...
02/25/2026

This report from Sapien Labs has assessed correlations between ultraprocessed food and depression worldwide:

https://sapienlabs.org/global-mind-health-report/

Surprise! They find that UPF is a primary correlate with depression, even after demographic and socioeconomic variables are factored out. This makes perfect sense to me, as UPF is low in tryptophan (low serotonin), high in fructose (mitochondrial dysfunction and ATP reduction), and microbiome changes (gut and systemic inflammation resulting in insulin resistance). UPF's are a primary hazard today in the U.S., but we are working to make UPF healthy in the Middle East. See my meeting in Davos last month:

https://vimeo.com/1161828692/be464bf563?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

A view of the mind health of the Internet-enabled world and the factors that drive it.

Of course, it was always transactional. Trump gave RFK vaccine power, and RFK gave Trump insecticide power. And of cours...
02/24/2026

Of course, it was always transactional. Trump gave RFK vaccine power, and RFK gave Trump insecticide power. And of course, America loses both ways.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his support for an executive order that would aim to boost the production of a controversial weedkiller ingredient called glyphosate, even though it is widening a political fault line for the administration ahead of the midterm elections.

02/23/2026

Clearly, low-fat products didn't perform as advertised. They were supposed to reduce heart disease and obesity, but instead they increased both, and added type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease into the mix.

This didn't matter to the food industry because the profits soared.

I'm very, very proud to be a part of this movement:
02/21/2026

I'm very, very proud to be a part of this movement:

You can’t fix health, until you fix diet…
02/20/2026

You can’t fix health, until you fix diet…

For all you Bay Area Tech Tools out there, hope to see you April 2nd in Los Altos...
02/19/2026

For all you Bay Area Tech Tools out there, hope to see you April 2nd in Los Altos...

The mission of the MIT Club of Northern California is to further the well-being of local MIT alumni by connecting them with each other and by fostering a continuing relationship with MIT. The club is run entirely by volunteer MIT alumni.

02/18/2026

If I had a magic wand, I would change the word “Type 2 Diabetes"; no one knows what it means. I would change “Type 2 Diabetes” in all governmental materials and in medical textbooks, et cetera, to what it really is: processed food disease.

Call it what it is.

In case you missed it, I got to chat with Yuval Noah Harari at a World Economic Forum event called “Breaking Bad: Target...
02/15/2026

In case you missed it, I got to chat with Yuval Noah Harari at a World Economic Forum event called “Breaking Bad: Targeting Food for Health”.

Our focus was the metabolic revolution. Watch it here for free:

This is "Making the Case for a Metabolic Revolution - Full Edit" by Metabolic Matrix on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

02/13/2026

Some highlights, from the event called “Breaking Bad: Targeting Food for Health”. Enjoy!

Can I do a little bragging? Eat Real Certified is our non-profit dedicated to getting real food into K-12. Jordan Shlain...
02/13/2026

Can I do a little bragging? Eat Real Certified is our non-profit dedicated to getting real food into K-12. Jordan Shlain and I co-founded Eat Real in 2013. Our CEO, Nora LaTorre, just got interviewed on the Mark Hyman podcast.

1. Watch Nora crush it.

2. Get your school food service director to check out EatReal.org for your kids’ sake!

https://youtu.be/qWJ9LRAbXoY

The childhood health crisis is reaching a breaking point, and the most powerful lever to fix it isn't in the doctor's office—it’s in the school cafeteria. Jo...

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