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What happens if you only eat fruit for 30 days?

Well, to tell you the truth, not only would you gain a ton of weight, you would absolutely destroy your health.

The truth is, the main purpose of fruit is to help us put on weight.

Yes, you heard that right. It turns out we have a genetic mutation that we inherited from great apes that allows great apes and us to take fruit, particularly the fructose in fruit, and turn it into

fat in the form of triglycerides. And there are entire books written about the fact that

grade apes only gain weight during fruit season. And contrary to popular belief, fruit only ripens once a year, even in the jungle.

And that fruit season happens right before the winter, which even in the jungle is a time of less food and certainly

less fruit.

That genetic mutation to use fruit as a way of putting on weight, we inherited from our great ape cousins.

That means that fructose is the best way to produce weight gain,

primarily by, get this,

destroying your mitochondria's ability to make energy. So fructose consumption

is so bad for you that papers in humans and in animals show that fructose consumption inhibits

gassotransmitter production. Now you're going, wait a minute, what the

heck does a gassotrans transmitter have to do with anything?

If you've read the energy paradox and unlocking the keto code, my last two books,

you know that gasso transmitters are gases that actually communicate information to our

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