Controversial Thoughts: Is Fructose something to fear?

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Paul Saladino, MD

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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I ate bananas with my steak and liver after I filmed this! Lots of people love to hate on fructose, but is this molecule really harmful for humans when found in fruit and honey? You know, foods that we've been eating for millions of years and foods that the Hadza and other hunter/gatherer groups around the world LOVE and seek out? Find out in this week's episode of Controversial Thoughts! Cleansed of all controversial CX V i D related talk for the instagram droid's pleasure. Take home: There's zero evidence that fructose in honey and fruit is harmful for humans. If you feel better on a diet without them, more power to you. But if you are one of the many individuals who benefit (electrolytes, energy, sleep, libido, etc.) from including carbohydrates in your diet, I say eat them from the least toxic plant foods! Don't know what the least toxic plant foods are? You'll love what we are doing at @heartandsoilsupplements this month with our #AnimalBased30! It's free and there are a ton of resources for you! Join us at Animalbased30.com!

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0:00.0	What is up you guys? Welcome to another edition of Controversial Thoughts. I've got my
0:05.5	kale is bullshit shirt on and I'm ready to get a little controversial. I think that one
0:13.5	of the most controversial things that I've talked about in the last year is not COVID,
0:19.5	but fructose. And why I don't fear fructose. And so in this video, I want to counter
0:26.6	much of the fructose fear mongering that I think happens in the nutrition community. Now, not
0:32.4	everybody does this, but there are definitely people in the carnivore community and the
0:36.0	ketogenic community who love to cite studies that are done in mice, done with hypercaloric
0:42.5	ingestion of fructose or done with other poor study designs of fructose that cause major
0:48.6	problems and use these to advance the hypothesis or advance the idea that fructose is harmful
0:54.2	for humans. If you guys listen to the debate that I did with Steven Dundry, he's no fan of
1:00.1	fructose and he used studies like this one to prove his point or to corroborate his point.
1:08.1	And I want to show you guys why studies like this really, I don't think are super relevant
1:13.1	and why they can be quite misleading. So this first study is about fructose versus glucose,
1:22.8	sweetened beverages, increasing visceral adipose and lipids and decreases insulin sensitivity
1:29.4	and overweight, no beast humans. And so what you can see is that in this study, which was 10 weeks
1:38.3	glucose consumption and fructose consumption with glucose or fructose sweetened beverages,
1:44.1	providing 25% of energy requirements, which is quite a bit. There were some negative changes
1:48.5	in these individuals. And many will use studies like this to say that see fructose is bad for humans,
1:56.7	glucose, not so bad, but we should not be eating fruit, we should not be eating honey. And this
2:02.0	is a problem. Now, I have many problems with this way of thinking. The primary issue here is that
2:07.2	this is nutritional reductionism. And I challenged Steven Dundry and I said, show me a study that shows
2:12.6	negative metabolic outcomes with fruit or honey. And he was unable to do that. He never responded
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