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The ONLY Sugar That Won't Boost Your Blood Sugar

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Get access to my FREE resources 👉 https://drbrg.co/3UfEJUg Watch this episode next: Reset Your Body in 5 Days (With Zero Food) Just so you know, my full line of high-quality supplements is available on Amazon — search Dr. Berg Supplements. This is the only sugar that won’t raise your blood sugar levels. But is it healthy? Learn more! DATA: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC552336/ 0:00 Introduction: What is the best type of sugar? 0:10 Sugar explained 1:45 Is fructose bad? 4:02 Is fructose keto-friendly? 5:00 The problem with fructose 6:00 Learn more about alternative sugars! Today, we’re going to talk about the only type of sugar that won’t raise your blood sugar: fructose. Fructose doesn’t increase your blood sugar levels, at least initially. Fructose is often recommended to diabetics because it doesn’t increase blood sugar levels, but there is another side of this that’s important to look at. Fructose follows a different biochemical pathway than glucose. Glucose is absorbed by all of the cells, but fructose is only absorbed by the liver. What’s not absorbed can end up in the colon, where your microbes consume it, which can lead to digestive problems. Fructose absorbed in the liver can be converted to glucose and stored as glycogen. When glycogen is stored in the liver, the body will start making triglycerides and cholesterol. Fructose can potentially lead to a fatty liver very quickly, which can then lead to insulin resistance and diabetes. Even though fructose is low on the glycemic index and won’t directly raise your blood sugar, it can indirectly raise your blood sugar and lead to various health problems. The good news is that there are keto-friendly alternative sugars that you can consume. Learn more about these in my next video. #sugar #fructose #bloodsugar Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio: Dr. Berg, age 57, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media. Follow Me On Social Media: Facebook: https://bit.ly/FB-DrBerg Instagram: https://bit.ly/IG-DrBerg TikTok: https://bit.ly/TikTok-DrBerg Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. #keto #ketodiet #weightloss #ketolifestyle Thanks for watching! Even though fructose won’t raise your blood sugar, you should avoid it at all costs. I’ll see you in the next video. ---------------------------- ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The ONLY Sugar That Won't Boost Your Blood Sugar

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Today I'm going to talk about the only sugar That won't raise your blood sugar now. I see you're getting pretty excited about this, but before you get too excited Let me explain sugars classified in a certain way you have something called a monosaccharide and you have Disaccharides, so let's just talk about those first So a monosaccharide is like one individual sugar molecule like glucose that would be a monosaccharide Mono meaning one saccharide means sugar and you also have another monosaccharide called fruit toast And if you combine these different monosaccharides together, you have different types of sugar For example, table sugar is about 50% fruit toast in 50% glucose and then you have honey Which is 30% fruit toast and 70% glucose then you have other sugars like lactose That's like milk sugar that would be glucose plus another type of monosaccharide called galactose and then you have something called high fruit toast corn syrup because it's a combination of glucose and fructose could range anywhere between

55 to 90% fruit toast and then you have a galvanector, which is combined with glucose and fructose In fructose and a galvanector is about 85% Okay, so it's a lot of fructose Then you have fruit Fruit is a combination of glucose plus fructose But the fructose and fruit can vary between 1% and 30% Now you're probably saying like what would be 1% well It could be like avocados that would be considered a fruit or maybe Olits that would be considered a fruit very low sweetness, right very low fructose. What's interesting about fructose Is that it's the only sugar that does not activate The beta cells. That's the cells in the pancreas that release insulin It does not increase your blood sugars at least initially when you think about it when you go to the doctor to get your blood sugar tested They're not going to be checking how much fructose that's in the blood. They're going to be checking how much

glucose is in the blood two completely different monosaccharides and fructose as a sugar is like twice is sweet as table sugar And this is another reason why manufacturing companies might be putting fructose in our food because it's just sweeter If you take artificial sweeteners, you're talking about a factor of like 10,000 to 100,000 times sweeter than sugar So that's why you need just a tiny bit and humans lack the enzyme to convert fructose into glucose So when this was studied and realized that wow fructose does not increase your blood sugar They started to recommend it for diabetics, but Let me explain the other half of the story. Okay, because fructose Follows a different biochemical pathway than glucose glucose is absorbed by all the cells But fructose is only really absorbed by the liver some of it passes through the intestine because it's not easily absorbed

And it can get into the colon where your microbes have a frenzy, okay It's kind of like crack to your microbes and they will start eating this up and start growing rapidly And you'll get a lot of gas and sometimes diarrhea and a lot of digestive bloating and all sorts of digestive problems This is why a lot of people cannot do fruit or just fructose in generally But what about the stuff that's absorbed to the liver? I want to talk about that because that fructose in your liver That can be converted to glucose and stored as glycogen Now if there's enough glycogen stored in the liver, then the body will instantly start making triglycerides which are blood fats and cholesterol It's been well documented that fructose will make a liver very fatty very quickly if you consume an eczema Is unpredictable But you can flare less with eczema A once monthly treatment for moderate to superior eczema After an initial four-month or longer dosing phase about four and ten people taking eczema Achieved itch relief and glare are almost glare skin at 16 weeks

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The other problem with your liver becoming fatty and you're producing all these triglycerides is that will now Create insulin resistance in a bad way. Okay more potent than glucose So now we're going to actually go right into diabetes a lot quicker And now the body is going to produce more insulin Indirectly so just because fructose is low on the glycemic index and it won't raise your blood sugars It will do it indirectly and create problems way worse than glucose But in a different way I'm sorry. You just kind of got excited there, right? You thought maybe you could start consuming fructose well You don't want to do that that fructose will also be converted to uric acid, right? So now your gout increases as well And the more uric acid you have in the kidney the less vitamin D you're going to activate Because the activation of vitamin D happens mainly in the kidney So that can be another problem and we're going to end up with more inflammation And also profound atherosclerosis. That's right. It leads right to

The clogging or the plucking of your arteries now in certain mice studies and by the way like mice and humans Don't have that enzyme to convert fructose to glucose There is shown at a spike in homocysteine By 72 percent also you're going to get low leptin levels and that has everything to do with your appetite So you're naturally going to not get satisfied and you're going to overeat when you consume fructose probably another reason why they use high fructose corn syrup and so many Drinks is to get you to drink more and more because you're not going to be satisfied given that information You can have alternative sugars. Okay, these are called sugar alcohols And for that information you should watch this video right here This episode is brought to you by athletic brewing company no matter how you do game day on the couch in the crowd

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