The Metabolic Classroom, Ep. 13: Fructose and Fatty Liver Disease

[@jokekelleey2071]

I think these are the greatest lectures you have to go to college and pay tuition to hear people like this I'm listening to it for free this is what I need to hear

[@HB-pu7tf]

Thank you Dr. Bikman for awakening the humanity🙏 God bless you/ your family and your team 🙏♥️

[@karinabloom135]

So glad I found your show, I srarted mixing juice in my waterbottle 50/50 to get flavour, my ankles swelled for 1st 🕰️ in my life & scared me good

[@jokekelleey2071]

Steve Jobs died from pancreas cancer and we know that's the insulin organ and it's really affected by sugar glucose fructose fruit bread the name of his company is Apple Macintosh. Maybe that's why he was so creative he drank all that sugar

[@mattizzle81]

He was also a fruitarian who refused cancer treatment thinking fruit would cure his cancer.

[@cormchm2853]

He did not communicate in the form of a word-salad though, and he also new how to use punctuation. Maybe that is why you are difficult to accurately comprehend with any degree of certainty. You use too much salad, of the word variety.

[@disnalee]

Best interview ever on subjects we love sweet!

[@laurelthompson6167]

I strongly feel that about 75% of all orange juice in the US is chugged straight from the carton while standing in front of the refrigerator... with the door open

[@stephen6324]

Very good channel, really enjoying the content, keep it up.

[@danielevans5864]

Have you researched and addressed how melatonin affects glucose intolerance? I read a paper by NIH published 2019 or 2020 that largely concluded that melatonin (endogenous and exogenous) starts it's effect a few hours before bedtime (as dictated by circadian rhythms) and a few hours after awakening. The paper recommends not eating late at night and delaying breakfast until a few hours after awakening so as to not inhibit glucose from being metabolized. Thoughts?

[@rosebugnay7919]

This denotes intermittent fasting. I have my last meal at 6pm and have my first meal at 12nn.

[@wocket42]

​@rosebugnay7919 it's not about the time on the clock, though, but about your personal circadian rhythm and actual day light rhythm.

[@sdluedtke7803]

Thank you Dr Ben !!!

[@tamara23ish]

Always so brilliant and a blessing to learn 🙏🙏🙏

[@samuelspade889]

So what’s the take on dried fruits raisins, apricots and figs?

[@wocket42]

It's all the fructose minus the water, but with the fiber. So worse than the original fruit, not as bad as juice.

[@CoachStephen]

Great meeting

[@heachi5000]

Great information. i leave fruit juice now for forever

[@disnalee]

I think homemade juice is okay but if your body cannot support it it's best to avoid it.

[@heachi5000]

@@disnalee Home made juice is also not ok because its all Fructose in 1 glass If You eat apple than you can eat Maximum 1 or 2 apple but if you drink a juice than its minimum 4 to 5 apple Fructose in 1 Glass and yours Insulin level take a Huge Spike and one day you will get Insulin resistance And Third class bull shit Cheap and selfish Doctors diagnose you Diabates 2 patient and give You wrong information and give you bundel of Medicine only because of their commission which they get from Medicine Industry.. This is the biggest Crime in 21st Century to play with Ppls lives and earn money..

[@disnalee]

@@heachi5000 they are doing it and getting away with it. I have T2D and was told to eat foods as those listed on the ADA guideline. Those are all high carbs that will keep my blood sugar highest all the time and was also told to eat every 2 hours with snacks in between meals!!! I actually followed their recommendation for a month then I stopped bc it did not helped me in keeping my blood glucose down. My PCP wanted to double up on my meds and add more down the road!!! I think my dietition and pcp wanted to slowly poison me with the meds and food recommendations to keep my disease control yet kill me at the same time. My hands and foot will go first if my heart don't pop or my vision. Money really is the greed of all evil!!! My life is on the line and they do not care about healing or curing my disease. I paid money for all the damn visits and meds!!! And they are not doing anything to help but harmed me and other people! There are a lot of people on diabetes meds that still follows the food recommendations and meds leading to their downfall in their health. OMG a lot of people are dying and they tell me there is no cure but give me an advice to follow that will damage my health and condition. It makes it worst too with the endless meds we have to take for our entire life. The real truth should be told such as DO NOT EAT ANY SUGAR OR HIGH CARB DIETS BC YOU WILL SPIKE YOUR BLOOD GLUCOSE TO THE MOON!!! DO NOT EAT EVERY TWO HOURS AND SNACK BETWEEN MEALS BECAUSE IT WILL SPIKE YOUR BLOOD GLUCOSE CONTINUOUSLY WHICH IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO YOUR CONDITION. IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THESE ADVICE YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR LIMBS, GO BLIND, OR WORST. When people in the health field professional lies and it kills millions if not more people they get away and still gets paid!!! Something gotta be done about this. They are suppose to help get to the root and treat it but they actually create more opportunity for the healing business. No help to the victim or patient, just draining their pockets and taking their lives as numbers only. Criminals serve times for taking lives or crimes but professional get to walk and gets paid doing it!!

[@heachi5000]

@@disnalee Yes You are Right..👍 They are Criminals although they know what is cause of Type 2 Diabates they don't tell you..You are Customer and they want to earn from you and also play with Yours life. The Food Industries and Medicine Industry are playing big role to make Ppls Type 2 Diabates.. The Type 2 Diabates is not a Disease The real Disease is Insulin resistance. But they tell you to eat more Carb and 5 time eat in they day because they want to make yours health more worse and than they earn money from you whole life.. I had also Dignosed Type 2 Diabates 3 months before and i asked Doctor what should I eat or what Should I don't .Doctor Told me to eat every thing and also get a Pill every day than i asked Doctor how long Should i take this bull shit Medicine than he answerd me maybe Whole life than i just laugh and told him that I am yours worst customer. Actually at that time ,i already watched Dr Jason Fung ..Dr Sten eckberg .Dr kennd . Dr Eric berg and other Doctors video Lectures and i am sure that Diabates 2 is not life long Progressive Disease its just a Life Style ,i changed my life Style i went to Keto Diet and Intermittent Fasting as told Dr.Jason Fung and Dr Sten eckberg ,i did it and I beat the Diabates 2 with in 21 Days. I regularly check my Glucose level its stay under 4.8 mmol to 5.9 mmol in last 70 Random tests.. So do you know How f***ing ass hole Doctors and Drugs Mafia spoil Ppls life since 1960 .They are Criminals.. Food Industries are also criminals, Today Million of Million ppls are reversing Type 2 Diabates and recovered their health with out any medication.. So be aware Doctors don't help You. You should test yours blood every 6 months and if you have Problem than just check online . We are living in 21st Century modren World . we can find every thing online You tube..Social media..

[@disnalee]

@@heachi5000 yes your right on that!!! Don't listen to their food advice it's poison to your condition and more. It's causing us more harm than good. Our drs, dietitions, and pharmas are not looking to help but makes it worst. It's all for money only and lives does not matter to them! It's unjust!!!

[@pookiecatblue]

I would like to know what sort of diet they were eating in the examples with the 25% fructose. Were they eating a high fat or low fat diet? In what fashion were they eating fructose? Was it in fruit? I would think context matters.

[@strictnonconformist7369]

To some degree, yes: remember that glucose is digested/handled by the whole body, but fructose is only handled by the liver, so it”s a huge factor regardless of the rest of the macronutrients.

[@starfish7558]

What about Warren Buffett who apparently drinks several cans of soda everyday?!!!😮

[@EvolveFiRE]

Don’t believe him. Does he own coke?

[@ld9044]

❤❤❤ Dr. Ben !

[@ketobauer7633]

Could you talk about sweeteners ( Artificial and Natural )?

[@disnalee]

Sugar is sugar even natural sugar. Artificial sweetener maybe worst. If your body cannot support it, avoid it.

[@Aliciaskinsecret]

I’d love to know about any studies done with monk fruit, stevia.. etc. as it takes such a small amount to sweeten things

[@Fishouta]

How long to fast for fatty liver?

[@gtm5650]

Consuming more salt will increase thirst for water which can increase urination.

[@zerrodefex]

It's the other way around, lack of salt makes you thirsty so you drink more water but you lose more electrolytes so you get thirstier. This was studied on cosmonauts as well and that's as controlled of an environment as it gets. I have considerably less thirst on days I keep my sodium above 3g/day.

[@jamesgordon8867]

Thanks

[@karinabloom135]

Other than Milkthistle & Dandelion, to cleanse a liver, what else is there?

[@cassieoz1702]

The liver is 'self cleansing' if you stop filling it with crap

[@jellybeanvinkler4878]

Fasting.

[@diablominero]

I'm pretty sure I don't have fatty liver disease because my AST and ALT are on the low end of the reference range.

[@johnprice7358]

Pain in the right side sometimes, specially on the toilet when turn around, sharp pain when sitting down to laces up bloated ,belly feels hard and soft it changes, and spider veins on the lower leg around the ankles, 70%carnivore ,informative video any suggestions, thankyou

[@benbikman]

Thanks for your questions. You may want to go to our website and ask my team: www.insuliniq.com

[@johnprice7358]

@@benbikman thankyou

[@MrMediterrano]

Dr. Gundry recommends to avoid most fruits excepts a few which are known to have little fructose. So what’s now, should we eat fruits or not?…

[@sorrykay3450]

In moderation

[@wocket42]

You can have avocado

[@swimfit57]

What ever happened to the Metabolic classroom?

[@das6708]

After you are on low carb/keto and restrict all sugars, how long does it take to repair fatty liver?

[@SK-VJA]

Same doubt

[@codegate615]

As I understand it, visceral fat will leave the body first as you lose weight. So organ fat first to be healed. Who knows if you've had actual liver dmg... If you lose a piece of liver how long does it take to come back fully? Hmmm

[@cassieoz1702]

Robert Lustig MD talks about a study where they took children with fatty livers and substituted starches for the sugars in their diet, they fixed their livers in weeks

[@Agerhell]

@@codegate615 As I understand things you may get sligthly different results if you lose weight in a low insulin state versus in a high insulin state. In a low insulin state, from fasting and also I guess from a seriously carbohydratedepressed diet, you lose a lot of visceral fat. I you lose fat in a high insulin state, eat often and a lot of carbohydrates but small portion, you lose somewhat less visceral fat. As long as you do not have cirrhosis fatty liver should be reversible?

[@zerrodefex]

​@@Agerhell I'd say so, when I lost fat while not cutting below 100g/day of carbs I lost a lot of subcutaneous fat but rather little visceral fat.

[@ktortora611]

So are we supposed to give up whole fresh fruit. If we are allowed to have fresh fruit, how many ounces daily?

[@iss8504]

He said no. Eat fruit don't drink it

[@jellybeanvinkler4878]

Modern fruits are selectively modified for their sweetness. Not like the original more fibrous, smaller, and less sugary seasonal fruits. Berries are healthier, but I do love a small, tart Granny Smith apple!

[@WillFalconerDVM]

@@jellybeanvinkler4878 agreed. I have a friend who dropped 200 lbs with IF and low carb diet, and he calls modern apples “fructose bombs!” Granny Smith would be a clear exception, sour as it is.

[@seraph4581]

You can eat fruit just fine, just in moderation. One or two pieces of your favorite fruit everyday as a snack or dessert won't hurt. But you have to be careful, as mentioned in the other comments, modern fruit were engineered to have much more fructose, so they're anything but "natural".

[@Agerhell]

What about a low fructose diet versus a low carbohydrate diet and insulin resistance long term? Since the invention of agriculture some 10 000 years ago a lot of ordinary people have eaten a diet very rich in carbohydrates from stuff like wheat, potatoes and rice. Meat was a luxury and green vegetables only available under some part of the year. I am sure when people first shifted over from eating like a hunter gatherer to eating carbohydrates from farming maybe a lot of them got diabetes. What is the situation now though, if you start of with a diet rich in carbohydrates from potatoes, rice, pasta etc. but very low in fructose, how likely are you to develop insulin resistance? If you already have insulin resistance/diabetes cutting down carbs could be a very good idea, but if you do not have insulin resistance maybe cutting down fructose but not carbohydrates in general is enough to reduce the risk for insulin resistance in the future?

[@EthanE3]

If we condensed human history to a year, we have been eating carbs for a day, and we have been eating simple carbs for an hour. Evolution has not had time to adjust. Hence the metabolic health issues existing in 88% of people. The more you eat, the worse you get. Some are worse than others, but it doesnt make any of them GOOD

[@wocket42]

The body creates fructose out of glucose as a protective mechanism when BG is high and glycogen stores are full. All kinds of things happen when BG is high (say above 180). So if BG is almost never in that range and your glycogen stores never get full, then most people are probably fine. How to achieve that? I guess running around and working all day shirtless in the sun is one way. Which I assume is what people were doing back then.

[@Fishouta]

How was visceral fat measured in the first study?

[@karinabloom135]

Think I need to cleanse my liver now that I know that fructose isn't healthy

[@engc4953]

With respect for the professor, fruit isn’t that innocuous either especially combined with the sad diet.

[@wocket42]

Yes, it's just one is slightly less bad than the other

[@jokekelleey2071]

I think today is fruit is a lot sugary and sweeter than older fruit 50 years ago

[@wocket42]

For sure. All have been bred to achieve higher yields (but lower nutrients), longer storage life(but lower fiber)and higher palatability (more fructose/sugar). All are bad for human health.

[@diablominero]

I've eaten 4 apples in one sitting, and I'd do it again. Yes, it makes me a bit sick, but it's totally worth it when my favorite apple variety is in season.

[@dalequale9365]

Sorry no help for me. I'm a fit 68 year old, third year of paleo low carb diet and activity. Cannot will not give up my evening 🍻 or 🍷... A1C 5.2, triglycerides 44, HDL 109. Feel greater than age 40, OMAD, appetite control, 2X gym strength workouts. IDK. I'm from an alcoholic family. Maybe I have super ethanol metabolism? Cheers . 🍻🍷

[@loonwengfatt1416]

Dr Ben. is it okay to blend fruits in water, drink them together with the fiber?

[@kshakh]

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[@kshakh]

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[@kshakh]

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[@boondoggle4820]

My understanding is that the process of breaking it down by blending it will cause it to spike your blood sugar and insulin a lot faster.

[@CrumbleLives]

@@boondoggle4820 fortunately fibre tempers insulin release.

[@111Freeman]

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[@jk5245]

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[@urielwong]

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[@jokekelleey2071]

I just always think and want to see some research on Steve Jobs because he named his company Apple or Macintosh and people did say he was a fruitarian it takes a lot of fruit and a lot of sugar to kill you that's what the problem is of course sometimes you see that's what people eat every day is some sugar bread maybe some cream cheese bagel I mean I'd have to admit you know that's a very tasty treat but I got to make sure you know I don't need too much donuts or chocolate or sweets none zero is better I agree even alcohol but you got to taste it you got to do it once