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Iirc, what we normally call “sugar” is sucrose, made up of glucose and fructose. Glucose is used all over the place and too much is definitely bad (ask diabetics), while fructose is processed in your liver. Like a poison.
Just trying to remember that from stuff I’ve seen from Robert Lustig MD. There’s a very old “sugar: the bitter truth” lecture of his on YouTube, plus lots of media since then.
Too much glucose is a great way to get diabetes.
Kind of? Getting fat and eating too much regularly are great ways to get diabetes, and sugar is a great way to get fat.
There are plenty of skinny type 2 diabetes (look at china). Persistently elevated glucose levels cause insulin resistance.
Sugar is also acidic. Not enough to kill you, but that's why ketoacidosis kills people. It also increases blood viscosity, making it pump harder and causing hypertension. Plus, it causes chronic inflammation, which calcifies triglycerides in your blood to form clots.
Sugar has tons of negative effects.
Honestly not sure how I should respond to this. I'd rather you either research it yourself and call me out or simply nod and follow along. But you chose this weird middle ground.
Gluconeogenesis is a thing, go look it up. Again, you're doing these half-assed "gotchas" without doing any research of your own
100% Agreed
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The body can produce glucose on demand from stored fat, its not a essential macronutrient.
Not the commenter but as a type 1 diabetic yeah you’re right, but when most say diabetes they mean type 2, which is the kind where you eat unhealthy and don’t exercise where type 1 is when your immune system just doesn’t like your pancreas
I was going somewhere with this but completely lost my train of thought
To be fair, limiting carbs/sugar as a T1D has lots of positive effects.
https://hackertalks.com/post/7605728/7228331
Oh 100%. I’ve been getting into cooking more and using fried chicken recipe that replaces the breading with pork rinds and doing recipes like that I just feel a little better day to day
That sounds delicious
It really is, i actually prefer it cus the pork rinds have more flavor than bread crumbs IMO
Slow your horses there hombre. Type 2 diabetes is not a problem of insufficient insulin, most type 2 diabetes have more insulin in their blood then they ever had in their entire lives.
Insulin Resistance is indeed the problem, what is the primary driver of insulin resistance? Persistently elevated blood glucose levels. Insulin is a super hormone that touches every part of the body (literally), it also is used to acutely reduce blood sugar. People eating a carbohydrate heavy diet have high blood glucose and high insulin levels... all the time - this is what causes insulin resistance.