Jun 28, 2026 · 1 hr 49 min · 30 segments
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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.
And in India, right around f- 1400 or so, somebody decided that, "Hey, we can make this molasses into crystals, and the crystals will last forever." And then when, of course, um, Alexander the Great and all the other people came, they saw the crystals, they took them back to Europe, and they could transport them.
And then they went out and found the new lands, and in those new lands, new discovered lands, that's what started all the trade and all the m- plantations, et cetera.
But basically, sugar's only been around for a very, very short time in our history.
If you look at our entire hundred years, let's say, of existence, sugar is just coming in the last millisecond.
So our body has not been able to adapt to sugar, and if you look at the growth of the industry, it's phenomenal.
And then, of course, came World War II, when at that time the sugar levels went down, and then high-fructose corn syrup came onto the scene in the '80s.
And that, of course, added even further impetus to the sweetness on our sweet tooth, and then there you go.
[laughing]
[laughing]
Man did not evolve genetically, and I'm saying that we are now evolving hormonally.
'Cause 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, and yet how come they look so different? Because this guy's hormones are completely different from this guy's hormones, and I'm gonna show you tonight that our hormones are changing.
The other guy, I give him 1,000 calories, and all of a sudden he puts on weight.
So where did sugar come from? It came all the way from Borneo, Papua New Guinea, and that was around the 12th century.
And in India, right around f- 1400 or so, somebody decided that, "Hey, we can make this molasses into crystals, and the crystals will last forever." And then when, of course, um, Alexander the Great and all the other people came, they saw the crystals, they took them back to Europe, and they could transport them.
And then they went out and found the new lands, and in those new lands, new discovered lands, that's what started all the trade and all the m- plantations, et cetera.
But basically, sugar's only been around for a very, very short time in our history.
If you look at our entire hundred years, let's say, of existence, sugar is just coming in the last millisecond.
So our body has not been able to adapt to sugar, and if you look at the growth of the industry, it's phenomenal.
And then, of course, came World War II, when at that time the sugar levels went down, and then high-fructose corn syrup came onto the scene in the '80s.
And that, of course, added even further impetus to the sweetness on our sweet tooth, and then there you go.
[laughing]
[laughing]
Man did not evolve genetically, and I'm saying that we are now evolving hormonally.
'Cause 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, and yet how come they look so different? Because this guy's hormones are completely different from this guy's hormones, and I'm gonna show you tonight that our hormones are changing.
The other guy, I give him 1,000 calories, and all of a sudden he puts on weight.
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