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The Effects of Fructose on Weight Gain

When you eat fructose, there's a side chain reaction independent of its calories. It recruits these enzymes that produce oxidative stress to the mitochondria. That causes an activation of a low oxygen system and drives insulin resistance. If we knock it out, if we knock out this pathway just in the liver, we can cure the whole metabolic syndrome.

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