Alzheimer’s may be driven by overactivation of cerebral fructose metabolism(frontiersin.org)

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Alzheimer’s may be driven by overactivation of cerebral fructose metabolism

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2020.560865/full

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ncmncmvor 6 Jahren

Angiosperms have a lot to answer for.

They invented fructose to trick animals into preferring their reproductive organs over more honest, glucose-baited forms. Fructose is cheaper to make, offering fewer calories per unit sweetness than glucose.

Fructose being such a recent development, its processing is poorly integrated into our metabolism. One of its more nefarious features is that consuming more fructose does not make you less hungry, unlike glucose, starches and fats.

Sucrose is half fructose. Corn syrup starts out as glucose, and is industrially catalyzed to fructose for the soft-drinks industry, because it tastes sweeter when cold.

lowdosevor 6 Jahren

But the food industry has a way to extract basically fructose from fruit and still calling it a 100% Juice instead of 61% fructose on the ingredient list. They even spike baby food with it kicking an early sugar addiction in children.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089990071...

https://analyteguru.com/what-does-it-really-mean-when-the-la...

pierreogivor 6 Jahren

So just fructose, glucose is fine to consume?

_ink_vor 6 Jahren

What does it mean in layman terms?

travmattvor 6 Jahren

> In essence, we propose that Alzheimer’s disease is a modern disease driven by changes in dietary lifestyle in which fructose can disrupt cerebral metabolism and neuronal function.