A protein in your body called Chrebp helps control how your liver and gut handle sugar from fruit by turning on certain enzymes that break down fructose.

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Recent Progress on Fructose Metabolism—Chrebp, Fructolysis, and Polyol Pathway

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2023 Apr 5

The study says that a protein called Chrebp turns on genes needed to break down fructose in the body, which matches the claim.

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Recent Progress on Fructose Metabolism—Chrebp, Fructolysis, and Polyol Pathway

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DOI: 10.3390/nu15071778

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Eating a lot of fructose (like in sugary drinks) might turn up the activity of certain liver enzymes that process sugar and make fat, especially in people who already have metabolic problems like obesity or diabetes.

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