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Dr. Eric Berg DC — The ONLY Sugar That Won't Boost Your Blood Sugar. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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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
And most of those people maintain skin that's still more glare at one year with monthly dosing Epglyce, LibriKizumap, LBKZ, a 250mg per 2mL injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40kg with moderate to severe eczema Also called atopic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin Or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies Epglyce can be used with or without topical corticosteroids Don't use if you're allergic to ebglyce, allergic reactions can occur that can be severe Eye problems can occur, tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with ebglyce Before starting ebglyce, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection Ask a doctor about ebglyce and visit ebglyce.lily.com or call 1-800-LilyRX Or 1-800-545-5979 Off of it, right? But we don't consume very much of it Well, this all happens that kids, for example, 25% of their calories are in the form of fructose on average. That is crazy So we're consuming a massive amount of fructose in many different forms
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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