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Are You Still Using Agave Syrup? #shorts

3 Jan 2023

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This is a YouTube video titled "Are You Still Using Agave Syrup? #shorts" created on January 3, 2023. The content features Ask AI Mark explaining why agave syrup, despite being natural and plant-based, is not a healthy alternative to high fructose corn syrup or sugar due to its high pure fructose content and associated health risks.

Next question. Agave syrup is a healthy alternative to high fructose corn syrup and sugar. Sounds great. Agave comes from a plant. It's all natural. Yeah, yeah, cool. But no way. That's false because it sounds healthy, but it's pure fructose. Now, fructose is fine when you have it in fruit, but if you have pure fructose, it drives all these metabolic pathways that cause fatty liver, diabetes, inflammation, high uric acid, which causes all kinds of dangerous downstream effects. You can read my friend David Perlmutter's book, Drop Acid, if you want to learn about that. It creates dangerous types of cholesterol, and it's produced with all sorts of toxic chemicals. So, no agave syrup. Sorry, fans.