Mark Hyman on Refined Flour and Starch: warns against

Hyman warns against refined flour and starch, saying white flour has a higher glycemic index than table sugar and that the refined-carbohydrate load is what makes fat consumption problematic. On Huberman Lab he placed starch alongside sugar as worse than fat “by a huge factor.”

His stated reasoning links refined starch to the same metabolic harms he attributes to sugar: rapid blood-sugar spikes, insulin demand, and obesity. This is why his detox eliminates grains, his Pegan diet is gluten-free, and his seed-oil rule pairs with the admonition to keep refined starch out of the meal — “Don’t eat butter with a bagel, put it on your broccoli.” (All claims are Hyman’s, presented in his voice per house rules.)

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