I saw an exceedingly health conscious 40 years old male who, 6 months before, successfully adopted a low carbohydrate life-style losing 20 pounds. During the last three months , however he added a morning smoothie with bananas and various „healthy“ juices, as well as whey protein.
He has also commenced eating bananas and apples during the day and after work-outs. His up to date lab tests prove his fasting sugar has increased above 100 mg/dl, his triglycerides have gone up by 50 points and his VLDL’s (very low density lipoproteins) doubled.
In addition, his weight loss leveled out and regardless of working out a good deal , gained weight and some fat round the mid-section. Do you wonder what is occurring here? He's demonstrating indications of fructose overload.
Sugar, or table sugar, is made of 50 pc Fructose and 50% glucose. Juices, apples and bananas have higher concentrations of fructose approaching 60% fructose and 40% glucose. Fructose is a toxin. The metabolic rate of fructose in the liver causes the elevation of triglycerides, VLDL and acyl-glycerols that get trapped in your liver causing fatty liver changes (raised uric acidity levels that cause Gout and even raised blood pressure.)
Fortunately , these changes are rapidly reversed by becoming free of sugars and high fructose foods. Do you wonder what’s the physiology behind why fructose is really a toxin?
When you eat products containing sugar or high fructose corn syrup, your body breaks it down to glucose and fructose in your intestines. Glucose is used by your brain. muscles, organs systems and even some by the heart, but the heart runs miles better on fats.
When glucose hits your liver for metabolism, 80 p.c of it is already employed by your body, and the leftover 20 % is broken down in the liver. Sadly fructose is totally different. Fructose isn't used by your cerebral cortex; it isn't used by your muscles or any organs in your body.
Actually it does not even cause insulin levels to go up, and therefore leptins won't signal your brain that you have lots of food and are satisfied. So you are still hungry. It is then transported 100 percent untouched to the liver for metabolism. And here is the big problem. It overloads your liver’s capability to metabolize substances.
Fructose enters the liver cells and is eventually converted to 4 main compounds. The 1st involves a number of enzyme systems and is named de novo lipogenesis new fat formation. So it is fructose that causes fat formation, NOT fat!
The second produces compounds that gum up the liver leading to elevated liver enzymes and a condition called fatty liver. The 3rd is the production of VLDL’s or very low density lipoproteins which are currently being considered more atherogenic (arterial plaque manufacturing) than the „bad“ LDL’s.
Finally excess triglycerides are pumped out of the liver leading to the classic metabolic syndrome lipid issues of high triglycerides, high VLDL’s, and low HDL’s. And it get’s worse. Due to the incredible load on the liver it causes an increase in uric acid. This is known to cause gout, but another problem with uric acid is that it blocks the relaxing of arterial veins, therefore causing hypertension.
So to sum up, what do you call a substance that our body can’t use, and that the only way it is metabolised is through the liver? And the breakdown products result in products that are threatening to our body? That's the ideal definition for a poison and fructose is a poison. So getting control over sugar consumption and sugar addiction is a lifesaving goal.
Robert Carlson, MD, FACS, is a heart surgeon turned preventive care physician whose main focus today is keeping patients off operating tables. His quest to help patients overcome sugar cravings and sugar addiction led to his creation of a revolutionary product, Stop-It.
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