Microblog: Sugar Metabolized Like Alcohol
Watch the clip here.
Watch the full interview here.
Sugar breaks down like alcohol in the body.
🍺Alcohol and fructose break down in the liver and the brain, just like alcohol
🍷The fermentation of fructose, is wine.
💡People consider wine as healthy because of the antioxidants and polyphenols but we for many, these are antinutrients. For some it causes a reaction.
🌾With alcohol, yeast does the first step of metabolism (glycolysis).
🍇With fructose we do our own first step of metabolism.
And then it gets broken down the same
❗️The mitochondria sees both alcohol and fructose the same = excess energy.
Both excess in alcohol and sugar get punted as fat.
⚠️It’s how alcohol causes fatty liver and how sugar causes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
The breakdown of alcohol (by enzymes) in your body occurs in two stages:
1️⃣Alcohol to acetaldehyde
2️⃣Acetaldehyde to acetate (done primarily in the liver)
☣️Acetaldehyde is very toxic for the body. It’s what causes hangovers and adverse symptoms with alcohol.
⚠️Increased levels of acetaldehyde can also contribute to higher risk of cancers in the digestive tract.
Acetate is essentially vinegar.
💡Most alcohol is broken down by the liver but some gets broken down in the gut. In the gut it stays as acetaldehyde.
🧫The microbes in your gut produce alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes, converting alcohol into acetaldehyde.
⚖️Alcohol and fructose breakdown the same.
🔬While many carnivores know that fructose isn’t ideal in fruits and honey, alcohol isn’t ideal either.
🪞It’s something to consider when I see advocates yell at the sugar consumers but sip on alcohol.
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📺 Full interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7KH0SvKzLqM
🎙Full interview on podcast: https://nutritionwithjudy.buzzsprout.com/1848795/10693876-dangers-of-processed-foods-dr-robert-lustig
