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How an everyday ingredient is quietly ruining your brain, liver
Professor Robert Lustig says fructose triggers dopamine release in the brain’s reward centre, making it as addictive as heroin, cocaine or gambling. He traces poor diets to 1957’s high-fructose corn syrup boom, blaming the food industry for profiting off sugar-linked chronic disease while offering no real fix beyond quitting fructose entirely.
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