Posted on 08/30/2021 9:54:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
In today's fast-paced world, the dependence on the widely available "fast" foods and beverages has risen. These foods are typically low in fiber and essential nutrients, and often consist of high amounts of added sugar. This shift in dietary trends, accompanied by a sedentary lifestyle, has been attributed to the rise in various metabolic disorders like diabetes, fatty liver disease, and heart disease. The concerning thing about sugar is that the more you eat it, the more you crave it—leading to a vicious cycle of excessive sugar consumption and poor health.
So what exactly is this added sugar and why is it so bad for us? To understand this, let us first understand the basics. Refined sugar (or "sucrose") is structurally composed of two simple forms of sugars called "glucose" and "fructose." Although these simple sugars are structurally similar to each other, they are metabolized via different pathways in the body. And while excessive fructose intake (even within "normal" ranges, to some extent) has been shown to be harmful for us, the underlying mechanisms behind fructose metabolism and their potential role in metabolic disorders have not been fully understood so far.
…Now when fructose enters circulation, its levels in the blood (albeit much lower than glucose) are kept at bay by the kidney and liver, both crucial metabolic hubs in our body. In these organs, fructose is redirected for glucose production, via a process called "gluconeogenesis." However, this reaction requires the breakdown of a molecule called "ATP" (the main source of energy in cells). Thus, an excessive intake of fructose can lead to ATP depletion in cells, which activates another pathway involved in uric acid metabolism—leading to an accumulation of uric acid in the blood and joints and increasing the risk of developing "gout" (a condition causing severe joint pain).
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The issue is the same with sugar, high fructose corn sweetener, fruits, or fructose. There is a limit to how much fructose the body can properly detox before creating dysfunction.
The good news is that some vitamins and other supplements can help bolster ATP production. Exercise and sleep also help.
Imagine not getting any of those.
Thanks for posting this.
Cinnamon helps stabilize blood sugar levels, and helps prevent diabetes. It’s a good idea to take a couple of cinnamon pills before eating sugary food. Also, instead of sprinkling your food with sugar, try cinnamon powder.
[[The good news is that some vitamins and other supplements can help bolster ATP production]]
Do you know what they are off hand?
[[It’s a good idea to take a couple of cinnamon pills before eating sugary food. ]]
Or combine cinnamon and sugar and eat cinnamon buns
THIS is why. I ferment my sugar first......
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If your liver is all full up with glycogen, then all the bad things happen when you eat fructose. If you have spare liver glycogen capacity, your liver converts the fructose to glucose, stores it as glycogen, and you’re good to go.
You maintain spare liver glycogen capacity by not eating too many carbohydrates.
Source: Dr. Lustig. (Sugar, the Bitter Truth guy).
Probably being added to the PRC’s “Social Credit” matrix. Imagine those billions keeping food diaries, daily blood sugar/weight/BP, and all such! An autocrat’s dream!
Done as an individual, it is fine, regimented for a population, it is BAD!
Actually, while fostering the consumption of fatty foods (from frosting to fudge) sugar itself does little to add fat, unlike those food such have large percentages of fat calories, and accompanied by a sedentary lifestyle this is a killer. But for which Covid is often blamed. So forsake the chicken skin and you can have a soda (not artificially sweetened) and keep active or at least stay lean.
Just lay off the soda pop and add years to your life. We drink water at meals. I have a friend who has been eating a pop tart and a diet coke for breakfast forever. She now has high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. I do not.
More information, here:
https://www.naturalwellness.com/nwupdate/8-ways-to-fight-fatigue-and-increase-atp-production/
https://draxe.com/nutrition/adenosine/
https://draxe.com/health/mitochondria/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribose
Each of the above help create ATP in the body, but you can get it as a supplement, which may give similar benefits:
https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=atp&ref=nb_sb_noss
It sounds like she was keeping her calories low, but creating dysfunction that made her body have the same eventual effects she thought she was preventing.
Thanks, I be,even I have some kind of mitochondrial dysfunction, or a breakdown in how the body turns food I to fuel so every along the process. I note that at is mentioned a lot when trying g to research the issue
Yep.
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