Juicing

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The Problem with Juicing

Juicing strips away the fiber and concentrates the sugars from many servings of fruit into a single serving of juice. Liquids digest faster than solids. All the fructose from the juice is therefore absorbed far quicker than it would be had you eaten the fiber-filled solid counterpart.

Fructose Problems[1]

  • After eating fructose, 100 percent of the metabolic burden rests on your liver. But with glucose, your liver has to break down only 20 percent.
  • Every cell in your body, including your brain, utilizes glucose. Therefore, much of it is “burned up” immediately after you consume it. In contrast, fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL (the small, easy-oxidized and artery damaging form of cholesterol), and triglycerides, which mostly get stored as fat.
  • The fatty acids created during fructose metabolism can accumulate as fat droplets in your liver and skeletal muscle tissues, eventually causing insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Insulin resistance can then progress to metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes.
  • Fructose is the most lipophilic of the carbohydrates. In other words, fructose converts to an activated form glycerol called glycerol-3-phosphate, and this is directly used to turn free fatty acids into triglycerides. The more of this form of glycerol you have, the more fat you store (glucose does not do this).
  • If you eat 120 calories of glucose, about less than one calorie of that is stored as fat. But 120 calories of fructose results in 40 calories being stored as fat. So eating high amounts of fructose is essentially the same as consuming fat!
  • The metabolism of fructose by your liver can create a big list of waste products and toxins, including a large amount of uric acid, which drives up blood pressure and causes gout.
  • Glucose suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin and stimulates leptin, which then suppresses your appetite. But fuctose has no effect on ghrelin and interferes with your brain’s communication with leptin, resulting in overeating.
  • Fructose goes primarily toward replacing liver glycogen, not muscle glycogen. So – unless you happen to be at a huge calorie deficit (in which case your liver may actually get some glycogen storage from fruit juice) instead of replenishing the energy stores in your muscles, you are efficiently preparing your body to store body fat – which is of course the polar opposite of what most people are trying to accomplish when juicing.

Best Way To Juice

  1. Add healthy fats, e.g. flax seeds, olive oil, liquid EPA oil, MCT oil, coconut oil, cod liver oil, butter or ghee
  2. Include performance enhancing compounds
    1. Beet juice
    2. Powdered electrolytes
    3. sea Salt
    4. Marine phytoplankton
  3. Add protein
    1. Powdered amino acids
    2. Collagen protein

What Not To Do

Resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IViQ51mGhZI&t=67s