Fruit and Night Time Biology
I was also wondering what your thoughts are on the studies that show fruit in the evening can ferment in your stomach causing yeast infections and so forth.
I love the way hibernating makes me feel otherwise, is there anything you can reccomend i do?
ThanksFreddie
posted by Hibernation Diet Blogger @ 9:30 AM
1 Comments:
Hello Freddie,
I think you are confusing fructose with fructose oligosaccharides, long chain fructose molecules contained in carbohydrates such as inulin from artichokes.
These long chain fructans do not break down in the stomach, and the small intestine, they pass through and are fermented in the large intestine.
They perform an important function here by acting as prebiotics and promoting proliferation of the beneficial microflora and therefore controlling the pathogens which also flourish in this environment.
This is simply another common misconception put out about fructose:
Fructose = fructose oligosaccharides (wrong) = bloating and promotion of yeast (wrong again).
The beneficial gut bacteria protect against a variety of infections including yeast.
See:
http://youngagain.com/surprising-story-behind-probiotics.html
It is very easy to see just how these links are made.
Natural fructose = high fructose corn syrup = refined sucrose = fructose oligosaccharides such as inulin = bad.
If this were correct then all fruits and vegetables and honey would have to be abolished from the human diet and the proponents would have to explain just why we have the very sophisticated biology of fruktokinase in the liver and the quite wonderful biology of fructose liberating the glucose enzyme (glucokinase) - The Fructose Paradox.
They would also have to explain just exactly how the brain was fuelled prior to farming and the grains.
It may not be surprising that the lay public make these connections but this type of rubbish is frequently propounded by health professionals of various types.
Fructose and fructokinase are central to human energy metabolism, and provide for optimal liver uptake and for maintaining fuel supply to the brain ('the expensive tissue').
Human energy metabolism divides into two transmission systems:
The liver brain axis fuelled by glucose via fructose and fructose regulated liver uptake and muscles fuelled by fat and also by glucose via insulin and hexokinase.
The two glycogen stores, liver and muscle have very different biological roles and are largely independent, except during exercise, when contracting muscles 'steal' the liver glucose and therefore are in effect 'stealing' from the brain store.
This places the brain in a state of metabolic terror and in the absence of refuelling the liver muscle proteins are degraded to create new glucose via the adrenal stress hormones.
Mike
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