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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re  going to talk about agave nectar now I get  

a lot of questions on this I just want to cover  it you know people say it’s low glycemic or it’s  

low carb you know it’s in all these little bars  and it’s in recipes but let’s just take a look  

at a couple things if we take table sugar table  sugar is composed of half of it is fructose and  

half of it is glucose okay high fructose corn  syrup 55 percent of is fructose in 45% of it  

is glucose but agave nectar is 90% fructose and  10 percent glucose now what’s the significance  

of that basically fructose is metabolized very  very very differently in the body now I’m going  

to talk about fruit in a second let’s just put  fruit to the side for a second but if we just  

take this concentrated fructose which is 90%  of it is in that form what happens it puts a  

tremendous stress on your liver because there  isn’t any cells in your body except the liver  

that can deal with fructose like regular glucose  all the cells can absorb it and deal with it and  

metabolize it but none of the cells can deal  with it except the liver so what’s happening  

when you consume this is it puts a lot of stress  on the liver the metabolism of fructose on the  

liver is almost identical to consuming alcohol  so you talked about creating a fatty liver this  

will do it so it creates fatty liver because that  fructose is converted over into triglycerides and  

it also will cause insulin resistance I’ll put  some links down below as well so basically it  

creates the pre-diabetic State it creates bad  cholesterol LDL it creates high triglycerides  

which are blood fats it creates high uric  acid which turns into gout so if you had a  

unit choice between high fructose corn syrup and  agave nectar I would go for the high fructose corn  

syrup even though I wouldn’t consume either  one but now let’s just shift over the fruit  

when you consume fruit you normally consume  it in an actual fiber whole fruit right that  

fiber in there and all the other things in  there majorly buffer the amount of fructose  

in there so it does have near the effect that  actual concentrated fructose or concentrated  

nectar will have on your liver and that’s  why fruit has a lot less damaging effect  

you know the main problem with fruit is it  can slow down weight loss okay but the main  

thing with this this is not a health food or low  glycemic thing it’s a very high sugar high sweet  

liver damaging product I would definitely  avoid it okay thanks so much for watching