🫑Why also slimer persons may develop type 2 diabetes and a fatty liver? The continuation of the last post...
🫑There are a few causes. One of them I will describe in this part. The reason is fructose metabolism into the body. You may have heard or not that in some diets fructose is considered a very bad guy. I will tell you a secret. Fructose per se or glucose per se are neither bad guys. They are just nutrients. But how did these two become villains and also started acting like villains and now may be villains? In my culture there is a saying: "Tell me who you are friends with and I will tell you what you are!". The problem is that glucose and fructose made an alliance with refined sugar and corn syrup and, most of they're alliance is favoured by corn syrup and because of that their glycemic index is in the fast absorbed range.
🫑The glycemic index of refined sugar is 70 and that of corn syrup is 87. What is over 70 is a very dangerous area for diabetes and fatty liver. Why? Because fructose, a carb usually found in nature that is, most of the time, slowly absorbed, slower than glucose, because fruits that mostly contain it have a lot of fiber, from sugar and corn syrup it is very fast absorbed. What happens in the liver when fast absorbed fructose passes by?
🫑 When you eat a low glycemic index fruit, like an apple, something similar to what I am explaining now happens: fructose is used to make energy by the liver right away. Glucose, when fructose is available in the liver, is set aside by the liver, until the fresh fructose is depleted.
🫑 If too much fresh fructose arrives all of a sudden in the liver, like when you are eating too much sugar or corn syrup, the liver can't use it all right away, so puts the excess "into the freezer" - his fat stores making "freshly" liver fat.