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#252: The Latest Science on How to Turn Your Body’s Fat Storage Switch Off with Dr. Richard Johnson

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Glucos and Fruit Dose in Laboratory Mice

Fruit dose is an ensine reaction. Is it's driven by chemical reactions that can occur, like in the liver and stuff. One of the stimulus for making fruit dose is a high glucose. And when the blood glucose goes up, fruit dose synthesis can be turned on. So we gave glucose to animals that could not break down fructos. These were aspecial, genetically modified animals where we blocked their ability to meta is fructos - they ate all the glucose they wanted. When they ate the glucos, inslent levels would go up in their blood, but only while they were eating the glucos. They gained a little bit of fat, but not a

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