yoshiesque
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I am reading this statement below i got from a site:
Did you know that your liver stores sugar (called glycogen), and that you NEED a steady flow of sugar to keep glycogen stores topped off? Without a healthy storage of glycogen, your liver won’t convert thyroid hormone T4 (inactive) to T3 (active form) — which FUELS your metabolism. As endocrinologist Ray Peat, PhD puts it “The liver provides about 70% of our active thyroid hormone, by converting thyroxine to T3, but it can provide this active hormone only when it has adequate glucose.” A waking temperature of less than 97.8 degrees is a sign that your metabolism is lacking (and that thyroid conversion isn’t happening like it should).
and it seems that glucose is the primary thing to help T4 convert to T3, which is my issue atm since i have low T3. But all my sugars are now coming from fruit or fruit juices - doesnt this mean im only gettin fructose?
How is fructose beneficial in this case? I thought its not the same as glucose
Did you know that your liver stores sugar (called glycogen), and that you NEED a steady flow of sugar to keep glycogen stores topped off? Without a healthy storage of glycogen, your liver won’t convert thyroid hormone T4 (inactive) to T3 (active form) — which FUELS your metabolism. As endocrinologist Ray Peat, PhD puts it “The liver provides about 70% of our active thyroid hormone, by converting thyroxine to T3, but it can provide this active hormone only when it has adequate glucose.” A waking temperature of less than 97.8 degrees is a sign that your metabolism is lacking (and that thyroid conversion isn’t happening like it should).
and it seems that glucose is the primary thing to help T4 convert to T3, which is my issue atm since i have low T3. But all my sugars are now coming from fruit or fruit juices - doesnt this mean im only gettin fructose?
How is fructose beneficial in this case? I thought its not the same as glucose