It's naive to think that only cutting back a little bit on sugar is a golden ticket--it can help in many that do not yet have liver damage, but for the bulk of people that do already have liver damage from years of higher carb eating, this really won't help at all.

People don't understand what volumes become poisonous to the liver, and what a person's liver-health is, and it's a very small amount in reality. I can tell you for younger adults in their 20s with healthier livers, it's going to be consuming less than 80 grams of sugar per day. In older people in their 30s and 40s, it's lower, like 40-60 grams per day or less (and in people like me that is 44 years old, I only do well on less than 20 gramsm per day). In younger kids, it's more in the 30 grams of sugar or less per day to not cause liver damage over time. It's only in the past 100 years that we've been eating sugar like pigs out of a trough, and formed stronger addictions to fructose. In neurological tests this past year, it's been shown that fructose and glucose have different pathways in the brain's response to them: Fructose in particular causes hunger, where glucose helps slow it down. But there's a HUGE issue in the #2 below:

Here are the main factors in-play:

1. How well drained are the muscle glycogen reserves (exercise levels of the person); exericse matters to a point, and this is why anaerobic exercise is optimal to drain it.

2. Carbs need to be monitored for 'metabolized glucose' because, glucose can be re-converted back to fructose at a higher rate in people already overweight or have insulin resistance of an upward of a 30% conversion! This alone is one of the HUGE missing pieces to the obesity problem. In normal people that do not have much insulin resistance (usually the younger the better), the normal conversion rate is 3% or less from glucose-->fructose. So if an overweight person believes it's fine to consume a lot of glucose, sure it's better than fructose, but the problem remains that fructose is still being consumed at a conversion rate.

3. Fructose only gets converted in the liver, so over a longer period of time, the damage accumulates quietly and invisibilty. There are now hundreds of professional athletes on record that have changed from a high-carb to a low-carb eating plan for more energy during their preformance (I'll explain why in a moment), including Olympians that have come down with Type II diabetes because their trainers have recommended silliness like carb-loading behaviors. Just look up Steve Redgrave if you don't believe me as a 5-time Gold Medal Rower.

4. In healthy adults, 12 hours of glycogen is also stored in the liver. This is at the heart of why intermittent fasting works, because the intermittent faster is literally draining the liver's glycogen reserves all of the time, similar to the person exercising all of the time. Tell me, what would you rather do: exercise 5-6 times a week, or exercise 2-3 times a week and skip breakfast for a daily 12-14 hour fast? No brainer. Plus, Intermittent Fasting trains the liver to PRODUCE glucose when the sugar levels are low in the body, so that the person is able to make glucose if it ever does dip too low vs. always being carb-dependent on meals. Plus, the low-carber, low-sugar person is tapping more ketones all of the time and turning on fat-burning--the actual thing people want to see for results on the waistline. Plus, the person isn't going to experience mood-swings and lethargy due to ups and downs of insulin level swings every 2 hours eating like a grazing cow.

In the past 2-3 years, more and more athletes are learning to burn ketones as a fuel source because the human body has access to 10x the volume of ketones at any time compared to carbs. To access keytones, you have to get the blood sugars down to very low levels and train the body over time to use them. This is called nutritional ketosis, and there is no danger even though the medical establishment believes it is a problem. It's only a problem in Type I diabetics that cannot regulate insulin properly.So we're seeing triatheletes switching from consuming gels and carb-loading to eating nut-butters during their races instead, and ending up with BETTER performance and more records being set. The reason why ketone use is better is that the athlete has access to 2 fuel tanks, not just the carb-fuel tank during the performance. It's actually a shattered trade-secret among athletes now that wanted the edge on their high-carb competition.

This is all changing quickly, and on a daily basis, more info is coming out about the toxicity of fructose in particular. There are gonna be a lot of nay-sayers wanting to justify their carb and sugar addictions, but the science of the past 2-3 years says different. Those people can argue all they want and be oblivious to the science for all I care becasue very soon, society is going to learn about these mechanisms as a whole and embrace it to drive back down the cost of Health care and just simply protect our neighbors and children from liver damage.

For me personally, I've gone from 300 pounds down to 170 and I'm now playing on adult league soccer teams competitively at the age of 44, when I was obese and 'dying' in my mid 20s following a high-carb diet. My blood vessels were also popping in my eyes due to cardiovascular damage 20 years ago and was going blind. Now I'm fully cured now due to low-carb eating for so long. So for my own personal experience, I can tell you that the "Proof is NOT EATING the sugar-loaded pudding." This is really an issue about personal responsibilty to remove sugars and carbs than it is about adding nutrients and magic pills marketing hype promises. Good luck to ya all.

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