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today I’m going to talk about the only

sugar

that won’t raise your blood sugar

now I see you’re getting pretty excited

about this but before you get too

excited let me explain sugar is

classified in a certain way you have

something called a monosaccharide and

you have disaccharides so let’s just

talk about those first so a

monosaccharide is like a one individual

sugar molecule like glucose that would

be a monosaccharide mono meaning one

saccharide means sugar and you also have

another monosaccharide called fructose

and if you combine these different

monosaccharides together you have

different types of sugar

for example table sugar is about 50

percent fructose in 50 glucose and then

you have honey which is 30 percent

fructose and 70 glucose then you have

other sugars like lactose that’s like

milk sugar that would be glucose plus

another type of monosaccharide called

galactose and then you have something

called high fructose corn syrup because

it’s a combination of glucose and

fructose could range anywhere between

55 to 90 percent fructose and then you

have agave nectar which is combined with

glucose and fructose and fructose in

agave nectar is about 85 percent okay so

it’s a lot of fructose then you have

fruit fruit is a combination of glucose

plus fructose but the fructose in fruit

can vary between one percent and 30

percent now you’re probably saying like

what would be one percent well it could

be like avocados that would be

considered fruit or maybe olives that

would be considered a fruit very low

sweetness right very low fructose what’s

interesting about fructose is that it’s

the only sugar that does not activate

the beta cells that’s the cells in the

pancreas that release insulin it does

not increase your blood sugars at least

initially when you think about it when

you go to the doctor to get your blood

sugar tested they’re not going to be

checking how much fructose that’s in the

blood they’re going to be checking how

much glucose is in the blood two

completely different monosaccharides and

fructose as a sugar is like twice is

sweet as table sugar and this is another

reason why manufacturing companies might

be putting fructose in our food because

it’s just sweeter if you take artificial

sweeteners you’re talking about a factor

of like ten thousand to a hundred

thousand times sweeter than sugar so

that’s when you tiny bit and humans lack

the enzyme to convert fructose into

glucose so when this was studied and

realized that wow fructose does not

increase your blood sugar they started

to recommend it for diabetics but let me

explain the other half of the story okay

because fructose

follows a different biochemical pathway

than glucose glucose is absorbed by all

the cells but fructose is only really

absorbed by the liver some of it passes

through the intestine because it’s not

easily absorbed and it can get into the

colon where your microbes have a frenzy

okay it’s kind of like cracked to your

microbes and they will start eating this

up and start growing rapidly and you’ll

get a lot of gas and sometimes diarrhea

and a lot of digestive bloating and all

sorts of digestive problems this is why

a lot of people cannot do fruit or just

fructose in general but what about the

stuff that’s absorbed to the liver I

want to talk about that because that

fructose in your liver that can be

converted to glucose and stored as

glycogen now if there’s enough glycogen

stored in the liver then the body will

instantly start making triglycerides

which are blood fats and cholesterol

it’s been well documented that fructose

will make a liver very fatty very

quickly if you consume enough of it

right but we don’t consume very much of

it well this is what happens that uh

kids for example 25 of their calories

are in the form of fructose on average

that is crazy so we’re consuming a

massive amount of fructose in many

different forms the other problem with

your liver becoming fatty and you

producing all these triglycerides is

that will now create insulin resistance

in a bad way okay more potently than

glucose so now we’re going to actually

go right into diabetes a lot quicker and

now the body is going to produce more

insulin indirectly so just because

fructose is low on the glycemic index

and it won’t raise your blood sugars it

will do it indirectly and create

problems way worse than glucose

but in a different way I’m sorry you

just kind of got excited there right you

thought maybe you could start consuming

fructose well

you don’t want to do that that fructose

will also be converted to uric acid

right so now your gout increases as well

and the more uric acid you have in the

kidney the less vitamin D you’re going

to activate because the activation of

vitamin D happens mainly in the kidney

so that could be another problem and

we’re going to end up with more

inflammation and also profound

atherosclerosis that’s right it leads

right to the clogging or the plaquing of

your arteries now in certain my studies

and by the way like mice and humans

don’t have that enzyme to convert

fructose to glucose there is shown a

spike in homocysteine by 72 percent also

you’re going to get low leptin levels

and that has everything to do with your

appetite so you’re naturally going to

not get satisfied and you’re going to

overeat when you consume fructose

probably another reason why they use

high fructose corn syrup and so many

drinks is to get you to drink more and

more because you’re not going to be

satisfied given that information you can

have alternative sugars okay these are

called sugar alcohols and for that

information you should watch this video

right here