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title: "Researchers We Cite | RealFoods"
url: https://realfoods.app/authors
description: "Independent researchers whose published work on insulin and blood sugar RealFoods cites. None is affiliated with RealFoods. Articles are by Dino Pohilj."
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# Researchers *RealFoods* cites

RealFoods cites the published work of independent metabolic researchers, clinicians, and authors, and its articles are written by founder Dino Pohilj. The researchers listed below are not affiliated with RealFoods, and none of them has reviewed or endorsed the app or the Weight Impact Score.

## Written by

![Dino Pohilj](https://realfoods.app/dino-pohilj-112.webp)

### [Dino Pohilj](https://realfoods.app/authors/dino-pohilj)

Founder, RealFoods

Founder of RealFoods. Builds tools for people who want to eat for weight loss without counting calories, by estimating how meals affect blood sugar and insulin.

## Researchers we cite

These are independent researchers. Their profiles summarize their published work and link to their official sites. Inclusion here is not an affiliation, review, or endorsement.

[BB](https://realfoods.app/authors/benjamin-bikman)

### Benjamin Bikman, PhD

Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Brigham Young University

Dr. Benjamin Bikman is a metabolic scientist at BYU whose research centres on the role of insulin in how the body holds on to fat, obesity, and chronic disease. He argues that chronic hyperinsulinemia, not excess calorie intake, is the root cause of the modern metabolic crisis.

[JI](https://realfoods.app/authors/jessie-inchauspe)

### Jessie Inchauspé

Biochemist, Author

Jessie Inchauspé is a French biochemist known as the Glucose Goddess whose work on blood sugar curves examines how food sequencing and meal composition change the blood sugar spike.

[DJ](https://realfoods.app/authors/jason-fung)

### Dr. Jason Fung, MD

Nephrologist, Intermittent Fasting Expert

Dr. Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist and author who has written widely on therapeutic fasting and type 2 diabetes. His framework treats chronically elevated insulin as a primary driver of obesity.

[DR](https://realfoods.app/authors/robert-lustig)

### Dr. Robert Lustig, MD, MSL

Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Endocrinology, UCSF

Dr. Robert Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF whose research on fructose metabolism examines how processed food affects the liver, leptin, and insulin. He argues that fructose is processed largely by the liver, driving fat synthesis and suppressing leptin, the satiety hormone, so that processed food can drive metabolic disease independently of total calorie intake.

[DE](https://realfoods.app/authors/eric-berg)

### Dr. Eric Berg, DC

Doctor of Chiropractic, Nutritional Educator

Dr. Eric Berg has educated millions through his YouTube channel and books on the link between insulin, cortisol, and body fat. He is known for practical frameworks for ketogenic eating and intermittent fasting, and for his emphasis on electrolytes and nutrient density.

[DM](https://realfoods.app/authors/mark-hyman)

### Dr. Mark Hyman, MD

Functional Medicine Physician, Author

Dr. Mark Hyman is a functional medicine physician and founder of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine whose work frames food as hormonal medicine rather than a collection of macros. He writes on blood sugar regulation, ultra-processed food, and metabolic root-cause medicine.