The Bittersweet Reality" Dr. Jamnadas, MD - Galen Foundation Lecture 2019 · Dr. Pradip Jamnadas, MD · Radar

L'histoire du sucre et les hormones0:48 – 5:04

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So the sugar consumption has really gone crazy.

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So where did sugar come from? It came all the way from Borneo, Papua New Guinea, and that was around the 12th century.

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And slowly, slowly, it made its way over to India.

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And in India, right around 1400 or so, somebody decided that, hey, we can make this molasses into crystals and the crystals will last forever.

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And then when, of course, Alexander the Great and all the other people came, they saw the crystals, they took them back to Europe and they could transport them.

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And that's how the Europeans got sugar.

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And then they got addicted to it.

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And then they went out and found the new lands.

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And in those new lands, new discovered lands, that's what started all the trade and all the plantations, et cetera.

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And you know the rest of the history.

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But basically, sugar has only been around for a very, very short time in our history, in our genetics.

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We really have not had exposure.

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If we look at our entire hundred years, let's say, of existence, sugar is just coming in the last millisecond.

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So our body has not been able to adapt to sugar.

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And if you look at the growth of the industry, it's phenomenal.

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And then, of course, came World War II when at that time the sugar levels went down.

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And then high fructose corn syrup came onto the scene in the 80s.

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And that, of course, added even further impetus to the sweetness on our sweet tooth.

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And then there you go, sugar, sugar, sugar all the way.

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So what's happened is man has evolved.

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Man did not evolve genetically.

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And I'm saying that we are now evolving hormonally.

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So we are now hormonally modified humans.

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Because if you take the genome of this fellow over here, it's not that different from this guy's genome or this guy's genome.

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And yet, how come they look so different? Because this guy's hormones are completely different from this guy's hormones.