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A Fructose Damage Blood Test?

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HbA1c sugar damaged blood protein – are we measuring the
most important thing.?

Whilst I have no doubt that measuring this is a great way to
detect potential sugar damage, it may only be the tip of the iceberg.

Fructose damage should be measured. Fructose has been
increasing in our foods since the now discredited ‘low-fat high-sugar’ food
fads hit the markets almost 40 years ago.

On a ‘High-Fat Low-Car’ regime I have found that keeping below
70mmol/mol (6%) has prevented all obvious diabetes symptoms from developing.

Avoiding refined Fructose products may be most important
because Fructose is 7x more reactive and damaging towards the bodies protein
mechanisms and enzymes.  The benefits of
avoiding high-fructose foods (HFCS on labels) may be many times greater than
simply managing glucose for modern type 2 diabetics if over the last 40 years HFCS
fructose additives are 7x more dangerous than glucose when it come to sugar damage!

We urgently need
to routinely test for Fructose damage in a blood test!

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Excess exposure to fructose intake determines the liver to metabolize high doses of fructose, producing increased levels of fructose end products, like glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyacetone phosphate, that can converge with the glycolytic pathway. Fructose also leads to increased levels of advanced glycation end products.

The macrophages exposed to advanced glycation end products become  dysfunctional and, on entry into the artery wall, contribute to plaque formation and thrombosis.

Sugar-Damaged Proteins

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Ever since I read Medical Myths by Joel Kauffman, I have had trouble believing that treating Blood Pressure with one of 5 different chemicals did anything to address the cause of raised blood pressure. Blood pressure is raised by glycation of arterial proteins (Sugar-Damage) how does a pill other than maybe metformin address that?  Lo-Carb Hi-Fat LCHF will address that issue eventually but best not get glycated to start with!

The Independent.ie said today:-

At least 800,000 deaths may have been caused worldwide in the past decade by preventive drugs which are routinely given to patients undergoing surgery to reduce the risk of heart attacks, researchers said yesterday.

And the source of this story is here

“Even if only 10 per cent of doctors followed the guidelines, and that is a conservative estimate, 100 million patients would have been given beta blockers during surgery in the past decade. On the basis of our findings, that means 800,000 would have died prematurely and 500,000 would have suffered a stroke. If our findings are true, that is death on the scale of a world war.” Devereaux P J Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics  Mc Master University

Beta blockers cost more lives than they save!

Medical Dogma – Fats and Cholesterol

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How did our health authorities miss the role of sugars as the primary cause of age related illness in modern civilization.   There are many reasons why authorities under pressure to debate, judge and decide are confused about the difference between association with causation.   Almost every day we are subject to statistics which are misunderstood.  Although more than 80% of heart attack victims in America are English speaking it is clearly not a cause.  Statistics  can be used to show that  patients travelling to hospital in ambulances have higher morbidities than those travelling by public transport.

The causes of modern diseases have erroneously been attributed to dietary fat and cholesterol.  This erroneous dogma conflicts with the causative evidence that Carbohydrate (Sugar generating foods) are the real issue in modern diets.

AGEs & RAGEs

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Oxidative Stress

One way is the damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) that are produced by the burning of blood sugar (Glucose) and oxygen in our cells to  produce energy. The free radicals produced by this can cause oxidation damage to surrounding tissues (oxidative stress). The body uses a variety of anti-oxidants (e.g. cholesterol & CoQ10) to control or limit such damage but these can be overwhelmed.  The rate of damage may exceed the rate of repair with excessive use of energy from sugar.

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