Robert Lustig, MD: How Excess Sugar Turns Into Liver Fat and Fuels a Silent Metabolic Epidemic
10 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Robert Lustig explains how excess sugar overwhelms the liver's mitochondria, forcing it to convert sugar into fat through a specific biochemical pathway. The liver then packages this fat as VLDL and exports it into the bloodstream, turning dietary sugar into circulating triglycerides.










