EP 435 Why Your Gaining Weight (Even If You Eat Healthy) | The Fructose Switch with Dr Richard Johnson.

Why is it that we can eat whatever we want when we’re younger, stay relatively lean, and then suddenly our bodies seem to change? For many people, this starts happening much earlier than they expect. Why does weight gain become easier? Why does belly fat appear? Why can stress make us gain weight even when we’re not eating very much? And what happens to our metabolism as we age?

In this episode, I sit down with the legendary Dr. Richard Johnson, whose research has transformed our understanding of fructose, uric acid, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and the body’s survival response.

We go right back to the beginning of Dr. Johnson’s work with kidney disease and blood pressure and follow the path that eventually led him to investigate fructose and what he calls the Fructose Survival Switch.

We discuss:

🔹 The Fructose Survival Switch and why it may be activated during stress and sympathetic nervous system activation

🔹 Why we can seemingly eat anything when we’re young and then suddenly start gaining weight

🔹 Mitochondrial health, metabolic wear and tear, deuterium, and glycation

🔹 The connection between fructose, uric acid, obesity, and metabolic syndrome

🔹 Why muscle mass, exercise, and healthy mitochondria may influence how well we tolerate carbohydrates

🔹 The difference between fructose from whole fruit and high-fructose corn syrup

🔹 Why high-glycemic fruits may be different from lower-glycemic fruits

🔹 Stress, insulin resistance, visceral fat, and the dreaded “stress belly”