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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

The DEADLIEST Sugar in the World

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

We all know sugar is bad. But can you guess the deadliest type of sugar?


DATA: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222424/



Transcript

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0:00.0

I'd like to discuss the most deadly sugar that you can possibly consume.

0:05.2

We all know that sugar is bad for us, okay, in several aspects, and there's many different

0:09.2

types of sugar.

0:10.2

But the most common types of sugar, if we look at table sugar, high fructose corn syrup,

0:15.9

honey, so all these items are made up of two things, glucose and fructose.

0:20.9

And you really need to understand how each one affects the body.

0:24.6

If we take glucose, for example, every single cell in the body can metabolize glucose.

0:30.1

So glucose is really spread out through the entire body.

0:33.6

But fructose on the other hand is a completely different animal.

0:37.6

Only our liver can break down fructose because fructose doesn't really increase the blood

0:44.4

sugars or trigger insulin very high, at least initially.

0:49.9

So a lot of times people think it's healthier because it's low on the glycemic index, which

0:54.2

is an index describing things that will raise your blood sugars.

0:58.3

But here's the thing.

0:59.3

When glucose hits the liver, okay, the first thing it's going to do, it's going to start

1:03.2

building up your glycogen reserve.

1:05.5

Now, let's amount of sugar molecules that are all attached together as a stored sugar.

1:09.8

And really for most people, they don't usually have a depleted amount of glycogen.

1:13.7

That's pretty much a substance that's sufficient in our livers.

1:17.1

So what's going to happen next is this fructose is going to then start to create a fatty liver.

1:22.6

And with that comes a lot of inflammation, scar tissue, and damage in other parts of

1:28.4

your body too, like in your arteries.

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