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Does fructose (you know, the stuff you get from fruit  ) promote fat gain? I read some articles recently suggesting that fructose cannot be stored as carbs in your muscle, so it is stored in your liver. Once your liver is full it is converted to fat. Is this true? I drink fruit juice and I eat fruit, It helps when you have macros at 200p, 600carbs, and 75 fat! |
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Fructose can't be used directly by muscle as energy like glucose. As glucose enters your blood stream, it's fair game and gets used where needed, thus high-glycemic status. Fructose can't be used so it cycles through your body and four minutes later it's in your liver where some misinformed people think it's just automatically converted to fat. In a calorie and carb deficit, it's converted to glucose to refill the liver itself and be released into the blood as glucose to NOW be used. Took time to get to the liver; took time to be converted - thus low-glycemic. Not your best choice if you want mass recovery, but a good carb source. AND, not all fruit is all fructose - there's tons of glucose in it.
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So are you saying it is not converted to fat even if your in a state of calorie and carb surplus, like in my position? What I am asking is it more likely to add fat on a person in my state, or is it still a good, dense source of carbs? |
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If you, at one moment in time, are not in a calorie or carb depleted state: totally filled to the gills - what happens if you have too much glucose? Fat. What happens if you have too much fructose? Fat. When it's time to eat, blood sugar is low, liver glycogen may be lower, and depending on activity, muscle glycogen may be low...even if you're in a state of gaining overall. Meal quantity and meal spacing is obviously creating a surplus, but you're not gainin fat 24/7.
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