Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

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 a higher levels of insulin in the blood, it's called hyper-insulinemia,

an association with an increased amount of uric acid. We automatically associate metabolic 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 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 an 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. 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, infrequently in the past as we're trying to survive in our

environment, food did not come very easily, and anytime that you had some fruit or honey, it was a

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