Ray Peat Audio Archive

ewh-110427-glycemia-starch-and-sugar-in-context — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-110427-glycemia-starch-and-sugar-in-context. The excerpt begins at 1:06:01 and runs for 54 seconds.

And the fructose happens to be the best stimulant for the liver to store glycogen. The current phobia people are talking about fructose increasing triglycerides, but before it does that, it powerfully helps the liver to replenish its glycogen stores. And then if you eat too much, you can eat a lot of excess sugar, but since it stimulates your metabolic rate, it takes a big excess before you start converting much of it to the triglycerides. Those triglycerides are then available for storage in your fat tissue.