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Originally Posted by eastcoastS14

my cousin had serious stomach problems for a while....it can still flare up on him sometimes but its gone for the most part...but his doctors tried every kind of diet with him, and for a time they told him to not eat high fructose corn syrup...and it was next to impossible cause its in eeeeeverything....shit that you wouldnt even know it was in

We're doing carbohydrate pathways in biochem right now and I read some interesting stuff about fructose this morning. Basically, your liver has much greater capacity to convert it to fructose 1-phosphate than to process F1P further, so if you consume a lot of fructose you end up with it all tied up in this intermediate form. You need the phosphates that are being attached to the fructose to make ATP, so if you go really overboard on the fructose you can injure your liver. They tried using fructose instead of glucose in IV bags for a while because it's not as insulin-regulated, but it just ended up causing liver damage. Note, however, as was said above, that fructose IS a sugar, and is a naturally occurring compound. Sucrose, the common table sugar, actually breaks down into fructose and glucose in the gut. So, you're gonna get some fructose no matter what, you just don't want to overdo it with the concentrated high-fruc. syrups.