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.

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.

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

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

I’ve just recently realized my severe anxiety is definitely made worse (maybe even caused) by sugar. I have been slowly removing it from my diet (I was eating a TON of it every day) and I’m feeling so much better. I tried cutting it cold turkey and it made me really sick. I’ve been reducing over the last month.

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.

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.

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

I love Dr Lustig. That dude is low key enraged in his lectures., and he ought to be. Thank goodness at least A FEW people have the integrity to tell us the truth.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

"Mitochondria is like the..." Me: POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL Him: ... coal furnace of your cell Me: ... * unsubscribe*