The Claim

Healthy men with a family history of type 2 diabetes have 94% higher baseline intrahepatocellular lipids and 35% higher total triacylglycerols compared to healthy men without such a family history.

Source: Fructose overconsumption causes dyslipidemia and ectopic lipid deposition in healthy subjects with and without a family history of type 2 diabetes.

What the research says

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In plain English

Men who have close relatives with type 2 diabetes show 94% higher fat levels in their liver and 35% higher blood triglyceride levels than men without such a family history, even when they are otherwise healthy.

See the scientific wording

Healthy men with a family history of type 2 diabetes have 94% higher baseline intrahepatocellular lipids and 35% higher total triacylglycerols than those without such a history, indicating pre-existing metabolic vulnerability even before dietary challenge.

Why this might work

Men with a family history of type 2 diabetes have livers that make more fat from sugar even when they eat normally, and their livers do not respond as well to insulin, so they store more fat inside liver cells and release more fat into the blood.

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What the research says

1 study
  1. Study: Fructose overconsumption causes dyslipidemia and ectopic lipid deposition in healthy subjects with and without a family history of type 2 diabetes.

    Even before eating lots of sugar, men whose parents had type 2 diabetes already had more fat in their liver and higher blood fats than other men. The study proves this difference exists naturally, not because of diet.

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