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One Harmful Ingredient Can Damage Your Liver and Health

Protecting our liver is substantially vital — here’s why

Ange Dim
In Fitness And In Health
3 min readJun 23, 2022

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When I had several food intolerances and allergies, not one doctor mentioned anything about having healthy gut bacteria — which might help this problem.

One doctor would say eat more fibre; the other would say it was all in my head.

None of them had a deeper understanding of our gut’s profound effect on many parts of our life.

Stress, food and emotions trigger our gut. It’s a critical fat-burning powerhouse. Without a healthy gut — you have a very little shot at a disease-free and long healthy life.

One ingredient I’d like to talk about is fructose.

It’s one of those secret ingredients in many food choices we eat — and it’s causing us harm.

Excessive consumption of fructose may be toxic to your liver.

This is because when a significant surge of fructose reaches the liver, it uses the excess to make fat in lipogenesis.

Over time, people who consume excess fructose develop non-fatty alcoholic liver disease. This condition…

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Ange Dim
Ange Dim

Written by Ange Dim

Multi-passionate creative who's immersed in health, wellness, exercise and loves creating healthy recipes. Low carb Recipes: https://bit.ly/4cHgO8r

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