Today I'd like to discuss the myth around metabolic syndrome. They call it syndrome X, and that's a

combination of several conditions. Central abdominal fat, blood pressure, glucose levels are starting

to go up. We have high triglycerides with insulin resistance for sure. And also we have higher

levels of insulin in the blood. It's called

hyperinsulinemia. An association with an increased amount of uric acid. We automatically associate

Metablock syndrome with something really, really bad. It's a disease that you get, and doctors

are going to put you a lot of medications. There's going to be a lot of testing, and it's very complex, and no one really knows what it causes it. But today I'm going to give you a completely

new viewpoint on metabolic syndrome as it relates to a type of sugar called fructose. Now, what I believe

metabolic syndrome really is, it's a protective mechanism. Now, if we look at our

history as a hunter-gatherer down the evolutionary trail, humans did eat fruit and they did eat honey,

not very often, which has a really good amount of fructose. Okay. So I want to just talk about

fructose for a second it's a unique type of

sugar and when you consume glucose there's receptors all over your body that can

metabolize glucose but fructose is different the liver is really the only place where

your body can metabolize fructose and there's some very unique things about fructose that relate to this topic

that i'm going to talk about number one it's a lot more lipogenic which means that it produces

more fat than other types of sugar also fructose enhances the fat genes much more than glucose

and other sugars.

If you just think about fructose for a minute and what would be the survival benefit of

consuming some fructose, you know, infrequently in the past, as we're trying to survive

in our environment.

Food did not come very easily and any time that you had some fruit or honey it was a survival thing

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