Why Fructose Is Toxic to Liver with Doctor Mike Hansen
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Doctor Mike Hansen in this video what will happen when large quantities of fructose reach the liver, the liver uses excess fructose to create fat, a process called lipogenesis. Eventually, people who consume too much fructose can develop nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition in which too much fat is stored in the liver cells.
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There is a big point that needs clarification. Fructose in sugar and fructose packed with fiber in whole fruits act differently. Not all fruits affect the liver the same. The glycemic index and the form of the fruit counts. Whole fruit with the fiber and fruits low on the glycemic index do not have harmful effects on the live. Only 2 or 3 .servings of whole, low glycerin a fruit. If a study doesn't control for the confounding variables, it is not reliable.
That's exactly it. Whole fruit is NOT toxic to the liver.
Yeah it's an important note he forgot to add here. Many people will misunderstand this and think whole fruits are bad for you. It's a recurring theme already with many of the diet "experts" on social media. And I'm not looking down on people who will misunderstand this, I did myself for way too long ...
Yeah, fiber slows down the rate of absorption big time. Fruit vs. fruit juice for instance is a whole different ball game. In the end though you still need to limit your overall intake of sugars from any source if you have diabetes or other related diseases.
@@MsNooneinparticular Have you checked out the Mastering Diabetes UA-cam channel? They both have diabetes and their take on insulin resistance and diabetes is quite different, and actually goes back to research from the 1920s.. One of them has a Phd, both both are managing their diabetes very well on a high fruit diet. They are living proof that it's not about limiting
carbs/fruit but about limiting something else entirely.
Good information! But we should not skip the fruits, they are very important for our health.
I would also like for him to discuss the fructose in fresh and dried fruit, especially raisins and dates.
+1 (I was thinking the same! I'd also be curious about apples, carrots, and cherries which I worry about eating in excess as alternatives to processed snacks.)
Me too. I eat a tremendous amount of fruit, fresh, frozen, and dried. Is that bad?
@@MelindaGreen I would guess there's a big difference between just table sugar or high fructose corn syrup, and then fruit. The fruit contains lots of fibre, antioxidants, and nutrients. Eating some fruit along with a healthy diet of vegetables, healthy protein/carbs is not going to damage your liver or make you fat. Drinking coke, and eating chocolate, or just consuming processed foods all day containing added sugars may well over time cause liver damage and so on. Drinking fruit juice is potentially a problem though, I'd avoid that.
@@rainflowers1099 I don't think the type of sugar matters. The fiber definitely does. I'm wondering if that negates any of the downsides of all the sugar.
Short answer: it's crazy concentrated in dried fruit. Avoid
Thank you. This topic has so much crackpot noise and information surrounding it. You explained it in a way that makes complete sense.
As someone who has recently become more aware of what to eat as a pre-diabetic with fatty liver, I have found that about the only thing I can eat without harming my liver, etc, is grass.
😂 Very funny! But, of course, not true.
Start eating 'grass fed cows' that would line up nicely! :-)
You probably should have explained the difference between fructose in processed foods and fructose in fruit, because now you're going to have tons of people who watch your videos become even more afraid of fruit. Fruits are nutritionally dense, low calorie foods that humans are built to consume. They are necessary for your bodily function. Please, everyone, keep eating your fruit. Fruit can even help curb processed sugar cravings by providing you that sweet flavor without the toxic effects of processed food.
Most fruit never had much sugar in it until it was hybridized.
Whole fruit.
I totally agree with you. It’s a huge difference between fructose from fruit and fructose from processed food like cake,candy etc
Fructose is fructose no matter where it comes from. Fructose from fruit comes with fibre and vitamins and minerals but should should be managed.
@@lizhall2961 Yes, whole fruit. You want to eat fruit whole for the fiber because fiber slows the absorption of the fructose and fiber is necessary for a health gut microbiome.
Looking like your health is back Doc🙂
1:10 "added sugar is fructose and glucose and usually its more fructose that glucose". Table sugar, sucrose, is 50% fructose. High fructose corn syrup, HFCS, is typically 42% fructose or 55% fructose. HFCS42 is used mostly in processed foods, while HCFC55 is used mostly in soft drinks. With the exception of apple juice, sometimes used as an added sugar, most fruit juices are 50/50 G/F. How do you conclude that processed foods have more fructose. My understanding is the primary problem with processed foods is that they contain so much sugar of any kind, not an excess of fructose. Some added sugars do contain significantly more fructose than glucose. The sugars in apple juice, pear juice and agave nectar are 65% to 75% fructose.
It's awesome to see a doctor actually talking about nutrition like this.
I'm so used to doctors just recommending grains and seed oils and statins.
I quit fructose of all kinds from my diet a few weeks ago: my sleep improved, no one single pimple in my skin, wrinkles are disappearing. No sugar, no refined carbs, not too many carbs per day, no fruit, not too much sodium, enough water. My father suffered from fatty liver, despite not eating too much. He ate 2-3 pieces of fruit per day, and white bread
Thank you for good informations about the food ,that we have in market. God bless you.
Yes, you are correct but the fruits are available nowadays throughout the year, in the past fruits were seasonal and limited. The moderation intake of fruit per week is recommended but you must intake the seasonal natural fruits.
If the focus was to shed light on the negative effects of added sugars, then referencing a study on sucrose and dextrose would have been more appropriate than a study on fructose, since fructose is associated with whole fruits
Thanks for the excellent explanation & nutritional information. I used to get sweet coffee drinks from Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts and wonder why I felt so tired despite the caffeine. Those highly marketed food/drinks are bad for our health.
Dr. Hansen it would be amazing if you did a video on alcohol consumption!
Soon comming up
THANK YOU DR. HANSEN,
This is something I've been trying to figure out. I've been changing my eating habits, greatly reducing salts and sugars in what I'm eating. I basically have to stop eating the foods I enjoy and find new ways to prepare them and eat them.
Can you do a video that details more about healthy diets and ways to avoid pitfalls so that the diets can be successful?
Keep Safe and Always Inspiring,
Matt - Toronto, Canada
I wish you would have addressed fructose in fruit. Some may take your presentation as a warning against eating anything with fructose, even foods that are good for you.
We evolved from frugivores…seems like our livers should be able to handle it.
Thank you Dr. Hansen. Very happy you talk about various topics. Cheers.
Thanks for getting to the nut
of the issue, Dr. Mike. ... For,
Diabetes, Obesity, Lethargy, ...
all kinds of Saa..ad fallout!
Hi Dr. Mike!! Thank you for also nutritional information. ☺️🙏🏼
Ohhhhh, you like breathing?? Breathing is bad for your heath. Ohhhhhhh, you like sleeping?? Sleeping is bad for your health. And on and on and on
You are late to this space, but welcome. We need more Dr's on board.
So, in short, (1) fructose metabolizes directly into fat, and bad fat, at that, with the worst being "flood fructose"-"high fructose."
Plus, (2) fructose does not satisfy hunger, but increases it, by actively suppressing satiety while creating compounds that are detrimental to other health needs.
So, (3) minimize consumption of packaged/preprocessed/fast food, because they are reservoirs of fructose.
I eat 100g of sugar a day love fruit but also 100g of fiber
Fruit is very good for you. Don't let anyone tell you it isn't.
This video is great. Straight to the facts without being bombastic. I need to memorize this list to help me avoid added sugar and to explain to others why. 💯❤
Read labels helps.
What is there to memorize ? Look at the label. Assume most sauces, dressings, etc. have added sugar.
Dr Richard Johnson is the world's expert in fructose metabolism in my opinion. If you want to learn about fructose, Johnson is the guy to listen to along with Dr Hansen. BTW there is no such thing as bad cholesterol...the human body evolved to survive, barring genetic mutations, cholesterol is necessary for survival, and we evolve to survive. It's not possible something natural that evolved in our bodies to be both bad for us and good for us.
The only reason cholesterol is bad is because of something you are doing wrong to make it bad. Cholesterol is actually good for us. Dr. Hansen is smart enough to understand this.
We don't have bad red blood cells, bad testosterone, bad macrophages, bad serotonin, or bad dopamine. To label natural body chemicals designed to keep us alive ad bad is a poorly thought out opinion and needs to be questioned.
It’s hard to take someone serious when they write desises instead of diseases…
Very well presented
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According to this video my husband should be dead by now. He's an 81 year old non diabetic man who can eat sweets like there is no end. I bake weekly, all kinds of desserts, including custards, cheesecake, pound cakes, etc. Ah, and he maintains a healthy weight.
No alcohol, no smoking.
This is a great and informative article
Would have liked more detail
I keep hearing that fruits are good for you, but they are full of fructose too. If fructose is bad for you, why are fruits good for you? Are they? What makes it different if it's different?
Would have been useful to add another 30 seconds to discuss that 25g added sugar amount, explaining primary small intestinal clearance versus liver involvement (jang et al cell 2018). Otherwise you risk giving people the idea that all fructose causes liver injury, and the public health recommendations are ‘compromises’ on what people will accept vs minimising the damage, whereas in reality there is (as far as currently known) no injury until a threshold amount is breached and spillover occurs.
Well if I die because what I have, then I die! Simple as that. Can’t survive on only water for the rest of my life!
Next time, for videos like these, it might be best to take a picture of the label and put that up.
The sweet chili was soooo out of focus it was utterly useless.
Salt, sugar and oil are highly addictive and damaging to the body. Reading labels is definitely a good idea, but so many people eat restaurant food and never think about what they are actually eating. You should always assume that restaurant food is highly processed, especially if you have diet related health issues.
Evolutionary we are meant to desire salt and sugar since salt is needed to survive and sweet means high calories. For modern humans, moderation is important.
Dr hansen: I was worried that taking a statin/daily to lower the production of cholesterol by your liver might also harm the liver. Are there any case studies to shed some light on this topic?
And, just like cooking oil, I hear drs says it's bad for you, yet corporations are allowed to sell it.
Thank you Dr. Mike
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Sugars in fruit are healthy. Eat fruit. I am a doctor , too.
Not as much as vegetables but many are not bad either. Even with juices, 100% cranberry is so much healthier than any other fruit juice. I still dilute it.
Would you please consider making a video on listeria?
Feels like this need more information about fructose in food. Because this just processed food bad, but fructose is beyond just processed food.
Good information, thank you 🙏
Wonderful. Very clear.
Spike protein is toxic too.
I believe everything should be a balanced diet as in, relation to food guide, how much a person should consume to have a daily balance diet
Rip vAXed. Does a magnet stick to their head ?
Fructose is the sugar in fruit, isn't it? Are you talking about naturally occurring fructose or processed? Because I suggest you need to define the difference. For people to void healthy natural fruit would be disastrous.
Heinz is different in the UK and EU - no added sugar here.
Dr. Mike: All carbs are nominally toxic. The key is not surpassing your body's ability to utilize them.
And fructose has been shown, in human studies as best I recall, to not be any worse than other forms of sugar, despite its idiosyncratic processing by the body.
It's just not excess sugar that posses a danger to health, but metabolic syndrome is also characterized by a surplus of energy in the form of fat too.
Getting back to getting too much sugar in your diet, that needs to be personalized and depends on any individual capacity to store glycogen and also depends on physical activity, and metabolism.
Afaik, a run of the mill triglyceride test will indicate whether one is consuming too many carbs or sugars. So there's no need to fear monger.
boxerfencer Not so at all. Most people could forgo adding table sugar and eating sweets but still overdo sugar intake due to hidden sugars in processed foods.
@@nora22000 I've always avoided hidden sugars, but it's hardly a hidden Boogie man, for anyone eating a sane diet. Who lives on a diet consisting of highly processed foods and expects to not have issues with excess sugar and fat?
And some hidden sugars are there for very good reason, cooking chemistry. For instance the sugar in bread is there to feed the yeast during preparation. Without that sugar all our bread would be flat bread. Again, there's no reason to fear monger.
There's obvious signs you're in a caloric surplus for your height and frame. The first tip off is being overweight, then body composition being off, and lastly triglycerides are a great indication you're getting too many sugars and carbs.
Of course all this is relative to your energy expenditure and glycogen storage capacity, which are highly individual.
This is why I don't go to a mechanic for medical advice, as I've said elsewhere to another of the good doctor's nutrition videos. For nutritional advice you go to a dietitian or nutritionist.
@@boxerfencer The good doctor is doing a great job here; the consequences of sugar overconsumption are the sell, not fear.
And alerting those not on a sane diet takes a LOT is selling, for sure.
I recall that McDonald’s was adding sugar to their hamburger buns. So many things when they lower the fat they add more salt and sugar
And another point to ad. You should be aware that multitude upon multitudes of hospital patients get dextrose drips. Sometimes for months and months. What about this practice and their livers?
Ok, the direct infusion of dextrose by passes the liver. Does this somehow rescue the patient from the effects of sugar? That one litre IV bag of 5 % dextrose contains 50 g of dextrose. It is easy for a patient to get several bags a day. That greatly exceeds your 25 g per day dietary limit.
Hi Dr.Hansen good see you again great video, your videos are always awesome you the best take care pal have a great day !! Dr.Hansen if you can would you do one on enlarged thyroids with mass and turns out be cancer had have both moved !! Thank you very much pal 👊💪💪👍👍
I needed this, thank you!
That's right Doc..thanks 👍🏻👍🏻
I thought fructose was the best type of sugar that you could consume.
So, does this mean that eating fruits can harm our liver?
can you do a vid on vegetable oils too. I just wanted some plain nuts and they all had added veg oils. Lots of mixed info about them online not sure how bad they are
Thanks Dr Mike always great insight 💯
Nice!!!!!
I see 220 likes and 4 dislikes. I guess that the 4 dislikes are from the processed food industry lobby. :)
921 to 129, now, at least there is a symmetry even though not even, Monk reference
Fruits contain a lot of fructose too. So, do we cut out fruits from our diet?
I eat a tremendous amount of fruit, fresh, frozen, and dried. Is that bad?
How about fruits?
My wife puts ketchup on almost everything.
HFCS, or fructose from fresh fruit come on doc!
Summary :Eat less sugar; move more
Does it applies to fructose in fruits too?
but it is okay doc to consume fructose from fruits?
I researched it some. Fructose with fiber in whole fruits doesn't have the same effect. Low glycemic fruits are the best for individuals with obesity, diabetes, non alcoholic fatty liver disease. No more than 2 or 3 servings of low glycemic fruits a day if you have these problems.
@@lizhall2961 great,thanks for the info
Hi doc.
Does that mean High Fructose Corn Syrup is a big no-no for the issue of this vid?
How about fructose from fruits tho?
Added fructose, isolated fructose. Not the fructose in fruit
My triglycerides were pretty high and I lowered them by avoiding fruit. I lost about 10 lbs, but then again, I calculated that I was eating a Sympathy Basket of fruit a week. I've reintroduced fruit in limited amounts.
I gave up alcohol and I am feeling much better. And also Sucrose which is added sugar. But giving up fruit which contains fructose, No, not giving that up. What does Dr Greger and Dr Furnham say about fructose? They say fruits are good to eat. Fruit contains a lot of antioxidants and micronutrients which are beneficial to health.
don't stop eating fruit.
Lately I have been craving ketchup lol which I thought was strange, maybe I am just craving the sugar? Actually last time I had a check up the doctor did ask me if I drink alcohol because my liver seemed enlarged. I never drink at all, but I do have sugar
Oh no! One Trader Joes frozen fruit bar contains 24 grams of added sugar!
What about the sugar in alcohol?
He mentions it, watch again
Milk thistle repairs the liver (silemarin). It works
Yes it does :)
Smirnoff Milk Thistle coming to the stores
Supposedly the virgin Mary's breast milk dripped on a spotted leaf. Don't waste your money.
@@harryd5650 🤡
Lactose is a sugar contained in milk
Desises? :)
Now we all know that there is no such thing as "bad" cholesterol.
Call it what you will but high levels of LDL are associated with increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and peripheral artery disease.
@@Patrick_Ross Yes, as is almost anything that one has too much of, however, it is also necessary to life. Too much calcium, potassium, water, etc. will also kill you. It is all about balance, not demonization.
Maybe vaccines
You make it seem like eating foods with lots of added sucrose (1:1 glucose/fructose) is better than, say apples which contains ~2g glucose and ~12g fructose per 100g (1:6).
Yeah, the fructose isn't added, but fructose is fructose.
Yeah, I know I'm ignoring fiber, vitamins, minerals etc.
Another example of America being weird.
Here in the EU, food labels do show the amounts per official serving size.
But since one table spoon of ketchup is ridiculous, they also have to put on the amounts per 100 grams.
That makes is really easy to see how much percent of a food item is added sugar 👍🏼
Food manufacturers have successfully lobbied the government so that they can continue to mislead customers.
Dr Mike, I do not recollect in the video that you have said anything about why fructose should be more dangerous than glucose. Both are 6 carbon simple sugars and as is commo ly known, human blood typically has 4 to 8 millimoles of glucose.
Sorry I forgot to complete the units. Blood glucose concentration is typically 4-8 millimoles per litre.
So what about Fruit? Theres fructose in that as well. The medical community flip flops on so many issues ... Eggs BAD no Eggs GOOD ... Coffee BAD no Coffee GOOD
Great video. Can you talk about Salt as well. The medical industry has demonized the very vital mineral.
This is bad but I take a toxic amount of acetaminophen daily (~6,000mg) in divided doses along with n-acetyl cysteine (1,800mg) and have done so for 3 years. I get my blood drawn every 6-8 months and have never had any abnormal readings--enzymes are perfect as are all my blood & kidney readings. Does that mean no damage is being done? Or can acetaminophen cause liver damage that *doesn't* show up on a typical blood test for liver enzymes like bilirubin, AST, ALT, albumin, alkaline phosphatase, etc? I've also had CT scans of my abdomen that looked normal save for a tiny benign liver cyst. I drink 0 alcohol, don't have hepatitis or other liver problems nor am I overweight/obese. Aside from the obvious "quit taking so much Tylenol!" warnings, can any medical professional here tell me whether APAP induced liver damage can happen without any causing signs on these tests? I cannot get a straight answer on Google.
Maybe you should talk with your doctor about this
No one dares to speak about fruit...
Low carb diabetics
Ok but fruits in their natural form also contain lots of fructose which is ok, isn't it?
Well maybe the stuff called high fructose syrup is bad. Because that's a lot of fructose....
Many do NOT contain a lot, get educated before spewing
@@toriless the question was for Dr Mike, no need for your opinion , make sure you don't write a reply to my post
Hey doctor mike, you seem to have bounced back. You face doesn't seem to be showing signs of stress any longer . I'm glad the results of your covid bout is finally passed you.
Hey doctor I want to drink some real water can you do a video on real water on the planet what can I drink.
Question why do we have to pay so much to see a Endocrinologist doctor who specializes in hormone replacement therapy .I want some growth..hormones and testosterone and hcg , why can't men get those hormones from your G.p doctor , it is crazy I tough they want men to have good health , but it is all about hormones balance .💪😳🇬🇧
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Interesting how corporations are allowed to sell these dangerous (processed) products with such high levels of fructose.
hmm videos like this go a bit into the radical nutjob category. so fructose is fruit sugar so never eat fruit or fruit juice? rather austere. i'd rather die young than live forever eating dirty fruit lol
Well, bye bye fruits then
LOL.
Fruits don’t have added sugar…
Not all fruits affect the liver the same. The glycemic index and the form of the fruit counts. Whole fruit with the fiber and fruits low on the glycemic index do not have harmful effects on the live. Only 2 or 3 .servings of whole, low glycerin a fruit. If a study doesn't control for the confounding variables, it is not reliable.
@@ericbumbera664 we'd sprinkle sugar on grapefruit. I wish I had all the money spent on my teeth.
@@RichRich1955 lmao we really are just conditioned to put sugar on everything in this country. No wonder everyone’s so fat
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