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I’d like to discuss the most deadly

sugar that you can possibly consume we

all know that sugar is bad for us okay

in several aspects and there’s many

different types of sugar but the most

common types of sugar if we look at

table sugar high fructose corn syrup

honey so all these items are made up of

two things glucose and fructose and you

really need to understand how each one

affects the body if we take glucose for

example every single cell in the body

can metabolize glucose so glucose is

really spread out through the entire

body

but fructose on the other hand is a

completely different animal only our

liver can break down fructose because

fructose doesn’t really increase the

blood sugars or trigger insulin very

high at least initially so a lot of

times people think it’s healthier

because it’s low on the glycemic index

which is the index describing things

that will raise your blood sugars but

here’s the thing when glucose hits the

liver okay

the first thing it’s going to do it’s

going to start building up your glycogen

Reserve now that’s the amount of sugar

molecules that are all attached together

as a stored sugar and really for most

people they don’t usually have a

depleted amount of glycogen that’s

pretty much a substance that’s

sufficient in our livers so what’s going

to happen next is this fructose is going

to then start to create a fatty liver

and with that comes a lot of

inflammation scar tissue

and damage in other parts of your body

too like in your arteries this is why

fructose is so bad for heart problems

and as the liver gets fatty now you’re

going to start developing insulin

resistance and problems with insulin and

pre-diabetes and diabetes and metabolic

syndrome which is high blood pressure

high glucose high cholesterol and belly

fat you’re also going to develop a lot

of uric acid which is behind gout and

some types of kidney stones as well as

more damage inside the arteries the

endothelial cell layer that contributes

blood flow to the heart so even uric

acid levels is a prediction of heart

disease so fructose as a type of sugar

it’s a monosaccharide which means mono

meaning one saccharided meaning sugar

even though it’s low on the glycemic

index is very very deadly and on top of

that your body deals with fructose the

same as it would with alcohol and even

when you think about what makes alcohol

it’s the fermentation of fructose and

glucose so fructose is really a liver

Toxin and if we look at all these items

like honey table sugar beet sugar high

fructose corn syrup all of those are

about 50 50 fructose to glucose but

there’s one additional sugar that has 85

percent fructose and if you guessed

agave nectar you are correct the agave

plant in Mexico is what they use to make

tequila but they also process it to make

this refined highly processed sugar

called agave nectar which is very

different than other sugars because it’s

so high in fructose so I just wanted to

give you this Awareness on fructose and

the dangers of what it can do to your

liver now if you haven’t seen my other

popular video on what would happen if

you gave up sugars for two weeks I put

it up right here check it out