Robert Lustig, MD: Fructose Tricks Your Brain Into Thinking You're Still Hungry
28 May 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube talk (Dr. Robert Lustig, featured in a video uploaded by Dr. Ron Najafi) explaining how fructose affects the brain and cellular metabolism. In this chunk Lustig claims fructose impairs leptin signaling (making the brain think it is still hungry), produces reactive oxygen species similar to alcohol, and inhibits mitochondrial fat oxidation by impairing three specific enzymes.
Questions this video answers
Leptin
AMP kinase; acyl-CoA dehydrogenase long chain (ACADL); carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT1)










