WHY Sugar is as Bad as Alcohol (Fructose, The Liver Toxin)

TBH pretty amazing that 4 million people are interested in the biochemistry of sugar as it pertains to health. May all your liver cells live long and prosper

I stopped eating any foods with added sugar for the last month and most of my hunger went away. I found that most of the time when I thought that I was hungry , I wasnt feeding myself, I was feeding my sugar addiction.

I had an uncle that was special needed. He passed away 2 years ago. The doctors looked at his liver and swear that he was an alcoholic. He didn’t consume alcohol but he was a heavy soda drinker.

“The mitochondria is like the” HE’S GONNA SAY IT “Coal furnace of the cell” …You cruel bastard

Mentally and physically I'm at my worst when consuming sugar, i genuinely think I'm addicted so I have to continuously watch videos like these to motivate myself to reduce it.

Giving up sugar is a true test of inner strength.

It's time we call it as it is. Sugar is a socially accepted drug.. And we're addicted.

Mark my words: 100 years from now, giving a kid a soda or candy will be looked at in the same way as giving a kid a cigarette.

Sugar is addictive. No wonder they add sugar to everything. Profits > people.

I appreciate you mentioning that fiber actually negates many of the negative effects of consuming fructose in whole fruits and berries. There's a reason why no one has ever been diagnosed diabetic as a result of eating too much fruit.

To anyone who gave up/is giving up sugar I'm so proud of you.. I've been addicted to sugar my whole life and only when I gave up carbs as well was I able to give it up. I did meth from ages 14 to 20 and honestly it's harder to quit. It's everywhere, in everything and overly accepted by society as a "treat" so. To anyone reading this who has overcome other addictions this will be your hardest trial

I think I can hear him cringe as he says “coal furnace” instead of “powerhouse”

Sugar and internet..most underrated addictions that people aren’t even conscious of Edit** wow so many likes thanks, you all know! And yes entertainment and sugar is better. Basically pleasing our own innate sexual and gluttonous desires and by such wasting our life and potential

Dr. Robert Lustig would be proud of this video. You have distilled his lengthy lecture - a lecture that not everyone has the patience to watch - into a video that does a damn good job explaining his thesis. Thank you for putting in all the work to make Dr. Lustig's concepts even more accessible to the masses.

there's something this video forgot to tell : the amount of glycogen your liver can store is very limited and this limit is easily reached. When the muscles also are full of glycogen the surplus of glucose is transformed into triglycerides and then stored as fat.

Me and quite a few of my friends were pretty much raised on sugar, especially soft drinks and sugary sweets. When I started hiding chocolate from my wife, just because I was ashamed of being so addicted to it, I noticed how much of a drug it really is. I went from eating a literal kilo of chocolate a week to maybe one chocolate protein bar per month, if any. I don't have diabetes and always had a low BMI, but simply the thought of being addicted to a substance that much was unsettling enough for me to try and deal with it. However, I'm living quite a happy life, so it was surprisingly easy. Can't imagine how terrible it is for people with depression etc.

And this is why I kept getting really mad about my high school health class saying that fat is way worse than sugar, and to eat a high carb and low to no fat diet.

I lost 60 on 6 months cutting out sugar and refined carbs and increasing fat and protein. Off meds in two weeks after being diabetic for 20 years. Reversed my diabetes by quitting sugar. Sugar is toxic and addictive. The reason many people are so resistant to this message is that they are addicted.

I was sitting next to my wife’s grandma who has Alzheimer’s. She was fairly alert and responsive to our conversations. My mother-in-law gave her a Pepsi to drink and by the time grandma finished about a quarter of the drink, she became completely unresponsive and sat quietly with no expression on her face. I observed this but no one else did and I didn’t dare say anything because they wouldn’t have been agreeable to my observation. I still believe her condition could have been improved or even reversed with proper diet.

I've told my husband on multiple mornings that I felt "hung over" after having lots of desserts or too many high carb treats the day before. I've been feeling so much better lately after limiting my consumption to a small portion once or twice weekly. Now, after I eat those things, I feel bloated and lethargic and it turns me off from eating it again for a while.