Frucoste And Sugar - Dangers To Health
September 21, 2011I saw an exceedingly healthy 40 years old male who, 6 months before, successfully adopted a low carbohydrate lifestyle losing 20 pounds. During the past several months nonetheless he added a morning smoothie with bananas and various “healthy” juices, as well as whey protein.
He has commenced eating bananas and apples throughout the day and after work-outs. His up to date lab tests prove his fasting sugar has increased above 100 mg/dl, his triglycerides have risen by 50 points and his VLDL’s (really low density lipoproteins) doubled.
In addition, his weight loss leveled out and despite working out a good deal , put on weight and some fat around the mid-section. Do you wonder what is going on here? He is demonstrating indications of fructose harm.
Sugar, or table sugar, is made of 50 % Fructose and 50% glucose. Juices, apples and bananas have higher concentrations of fructose approaching 60% fructose and 40% glucose. Fructose is dangerous. The metabolic rate of fructose in the liver causes the elevation of triglycerides, VLDL and acyl-glycerols that get trapped in your liver causing fatty liver changes (raised uric acidic levels that cause Gout and even raised blood pressure.)
Fortunately , these changes are swiftly reversed by becoming free of sugars and high fructose foods. Do you wonder what’s the physiology behind why fructose is really a toxin?
When you eat products containing sugar or high fructose corn syrup, your body breaks it down to glucose and fructose in your intestines. Glucose is employed by your brain. muscles, organs systems and even some by the heart, but the heart runs much better on fats.
When glucose hits your liver for metabolism, 80 % of it is already utilized by your body, and the remaining 20 % is broken down in the liver. Sadly fructose is totally different. Fructose isn't utilized by your cortex; it is not used by your muscles or any organs in your body.
Actually it doesn't even cause insulin levels to go up, and thus leptins won't signal your cerebral cortex that you have lots of food and are satisfied. So you are still hungry. It is then transported 100 percent intact to the liver for metabolism. And here is the big problem. It overloads your liver’s ability to process substances.
Fructose enters the liver cells and is finally converted to 4 main compounds. The first involves a considerable number of enzyme systems and is called de novo lipogenesis new fat formation. So it is fructose that causes fat formation, NOT fat!
The second produces compounds that gum up the liver leading to raised liver enzymes and a condition called fatty liver. The third is the production of VLDL’s or extraordinarily low density lipoproteins which are currently being considered more atherogenic (arterial plaque manufacturing) than the “bad” LDL’s.
Ultimately excess triglycerides are pumped out of the liver resulting in the classic metabolic syndrome lipid problem of high triglycerides, high VLDL’s, and low HDL’s. And it get’s worse. Because of the incredible load on the liver it causes an increase in uric acid. This is the cause of gout, but another problem with uric acid is that it blocks the relaxation of arterial arteries, so causing hypertension.
So to summarize, what do you call a substance that our body can’t use, and that the only way it is metabolised is thru the liver? And the breakdown products result in products that are dangerous to our body? That is the perfect definition for a poison and fructose is a poison. So getting control over sugar consumption and sugar addiction is a lifesaving goal.
Robert Carlson, MD, FACS, is a heart surgeon turned preventive care physician whose main focus today is keeping patients off operating tables. His quest to help patients overcome sugar cravings and sugar addiction led to his creation of a revolutionary product, Stop-It.

















