{"id":34927,"date":"2017-02-26T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T03:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-human-brain-makes-fructose-researchers-discover-heres-why-that-might-be-a-big-deal"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:11:14","slug":"the-human-brain-makes-fructose-researchers-discover-heres-why-that-might-be-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-human-brain-makes-fructose-researchers-discover-heres-why-that-might-be-a-big-deal","title":{"rendered":"The human brain makes fructose, researchers discover \u2013 here\u2019s why that might be a big deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-human-brain-makes-fructose-researchers-discover-heres-why-that-might-be-a-big-deal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Yale University have <a href=\"http:\/\/insight.jci.org\/articles\/view\/90508\">discovered<\/a> that the brain is capable of making fructose \u2013 a simple sugar, usually found in fruit, vegetables and honey.<\/p>\n<p>Not all sugars are equal. Glucose is a simple sugar that provides energy for the cells in your body. Fructose has a less important physiological role and has been repeatedly linked to the development of <a href=\"http:\/\/ajcn.nutrition.org\/content\/86\/4\/899.short\">obesity and type 2 diabetes<\/a>. When there is excess glucose the processes that break it down can become saturated, so the body converts glucose into fructose instead, using a process known as the \u201cpolyol pathway\u201d, a chemical reaction involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18224243\">diabetic complications<\/a>. The researchers at Yale reported in the journal, JCI Insight, that the brain uses the polyol pathway to produce fructose in the brain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psypost.org\/2017\/02\/human-brain-makes-fructose-researchers-discover-heres-might-big-deal-47842\">http:\/\/www.psypost.org\/2017\/02\/human-brain-makes-fructose-re...deal-47842<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Yale University have discovered that the brain is capable of making fructose \u2013 a simple sugar, usually found in fruit, vegetables and honey. Not all sugars are equal. Glucose is a simple sugar that provides energy for the cells in your body. Fructose has a less important physiological role and has been repeatedly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58572,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927\/revisions\/58572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}