Can diet cause IBS?
Some dietary factors can make IBS more likely and some can make the symptoms worse While this does not mean that diet is a cause of IBS, it is worth summarising the dietary factors that impact on IBS because its’ not all about FODMAPs and not about gluten at all! Some of the clients who […]
Undigested fructose
Fructose is not easily digested What that means is the poor old fructose transporter “glut-5” is completely overworked and can’t keep up with the demands of that much fructose every day. It is the equivalent of one worker doing five peoples tasks. Some fructose gets a ride across into the blood stream by piggy backing […]
What’s the difference between fructose and other sugars?
FRUCTOSE is blamed as being glucose’s evil cousin, the cause of the pandemic of obesity and it’s resulting chronic disease risk factors. Reflecting on the history of fructose in the human diet and food it seems to have been a “perfect sugar storm”. Fructose a new player Humans have not historically had to process much fructose […]