Fructose

Quick summary of the science :

Fructose, or fruit sugar, is one of the three dietary monosaccharides, along with glucose and galactose, that are absorbed directly into blood during digestion. The human body, is also able to make fructose, under certain circumstances.  Thanks to it’s chemistry, it is a little harder to process than glucose and this makes it potentially more damaging than glucose, when consumed in excess.

Metformin stubbing out his cigar on a fructose sugar

How metformin works to “fix” type 2 diabetes

Metformin has some intriguing effects on fructose metabolism hinting that reducing fructose spikes should be a priority if you’re metabolically challenged.

Bunch of grapes shooting fat at the idea that five fruits a day improve your health

Finally a way to have your coke and be “healthy”

Drinking sugar laden beverages is not a health move. BUT, they taste GOOD. So can you enjoy them without the consequences ? Maybe. It is all in the timing.

Coco cola cup looking like a devil with a pitch fork

Finally a way to have your coke and be “healthy”

Drinking sugar laden beverages is not a health move. BUT, they taste GOOD. So can you enjoy them without the consequences ? Maybe. It is all in the timing.

Unhappy liver accumulating fat being tormented by a fructose sugar

Too much fructose whatever form it’s in makes you fat

Small amounts of fructose aren’t a problem. In fact, they’re a treat, but large amounts of fructose are a metabolic CRISIS.

Small intestine swallowing fructose

What happens when the fructose in your sugar treat, “gets” away

From your small intestine, because you ate too much, too quickly – your liver has to deal with it. Now, it can, but fructose is unbalanced, so it’s not easy

Vasopressin squishing the kidney

Rehydrate with water, it’s easier on your kidneys

Rehydrating with a cold drink, puts back the water, along with some sugar. The glucose is FUEL, but the fructose………is a challenge, for a dehydrated kidney.

Fruit sugar taunting a very confused insulin

A spoonful of fructose makes the fat cells full

Spoonfuls of table sugar in tea, soda containing high fructose corn syrup or a glass of fruit juice –they all contain fructose. And fructose makes you fat.

Hung over bat popping sugar cubes into it's mouth

Fructose is a hangover cure for bats. And humans ?

Bats don’t have access to aspirin and silencing a thousand shrieking neighbours is not an option. So what does a bat do when it eats fermenting fruit ?

Uric acid collage

Uric acid (a fructose by product) insulin resistance 

Uric acid levels, are up, when you’re insulin resistant – now this can be VERY OBVIOUS, if it brings on a gout attack, but for most, it goes unnoticed. It needs to be.

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