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The Effects of Frückdose on Insulin Resistance

Frückdose is like activating a survival pathway. But when everyone's eating all these foods, it turns into a fat switch pathway and diabetes and obesity. And as we started studying it, we realized that its characteristic findings are it causes insulin resistance. Even red meats can do it. Red meats produce uric acid. Uric acid converts glucose to fructose. So if you're on a low carb diet, and you don't have a lot of carbs coming in, you're not going to be making much glucose throughout the day. You just make enough to keep your glucose levels normal.

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