Mark Sisson
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 17 Apr
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natural sources of sugar, fruit and honey that's raw and preferably organic, and processed sugar.
So with processed sugar, which is what Mark is describing, you have sucrose on your table as a disaccharide of glucose and fructose.
And there are other monosaccharides,
like galactose found in lactose in milk, but generally we're looking at fructose and glucose.
What's so interesting to me when you look at this research is that glucose and fructose in isolation appear to be harmful for the human body.
Table sugar, like Mark is describing, processed grains in which the phytochemicals in the grains have been stripped away
They're polymers of glucose, amylose and amylopectin that get broken down into pure glucose in your body and past your stomach.
It looks like a glucose bolus.
And so these are harmful for humans, probably at the level of your gut flora, because when these monosaccharides, these simple sugars arrive to these trillions of bacteria that live in your small intestine and in your colon, they just cause overgrowth.
It's just like you're pouring gasoline on the fire and these bacteria kind of grow without any sort of check.
But what's fascinating is that when you consume fruit, it doesn't lead to the same dysbiosis, which is this pathogenic overgrowth to the wrong type of bacteria in your gut.
And the same is true with honey because these foods are complex.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of chemicals and phytochemicals.
I mean, there's some fascinating analyses of honey
It's probably six to 700 chemicals just in honey.
We think, oh, that's just sugar, but it's so complicated.
And then we're disrespecting the bees, which are incredible creatures.
We shouldn't do that.
And the same with the mango or an apple.
This is a complex food with fiber, but with hundreds of chemicals that appear to mitigate pathogenic dysbiosis of the bacteria in your gut.
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