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#225 - How sugar harms kids’ bodies and brains and what parents can do to foster healthier eating habits | Austin McGuffie & Dr. Robert Lustig (Replay)
LEVELS – A Whole New Level
The Paradox of Soda Machines Out of Schools
Sugar is a chronic dose-dependent liver toxin, right? Because it poisons the mitochondria. In fact, in fact, astrocytes in the brain are responsible for turning fructose into glycogen in the brain. Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter and chronic glutamate over signaling can cause neuronal cell death or abnormal behavior. With fructose, what you end up with more glutamate and less GABA.
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