Wendie Trubow explains why fruit juice causes glucose spikes and liver overload. Juices strip fiber, and about 90% of fructose gets metabolized by the liver. Whole fruit is better, but even that can be excessive for metabolically unhealthy people.
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Have you found that there's mistakes people make when they're trying to eat clean or they're trying to lose weight?
Yeah. The first one is they're consuming too much fruit and. And fruit juices. A lot of people think, you know, they're having these smoothies and juices, that it's healthy for you, all these antioxidants. If you're metabolically unhealthy, it's not going to be healthy for you. You're going to have a big glucose spike that strips the fiber away. If you're going to have fruit, fruit is better in the whole fruit versus the juice. But fruit in excess is just too much fructose, and the liver has to metabolize about 90% of that fructose.