June 23, 2022

Fructose

Invisible to the eye, sugar is a disaccharide consisting of two molecules in equal amounts, namely glucose, and fructose.  They get separated early in the digestive process and both get absorbed into the bloodstream but are processed quite differently.  While glucose is the currency of energy in the body, fructose

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Homocysteine

Watching a white minibus taxi on its way to Zimbabwe over a long weekend suddenly created the image that an overloaded taxi is not a patch on what gets loaded into our bloodstreams!   The bloodstream starts with plasma loaded with red and white blood cells as well as platelets made

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