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Andy Harris: “One of the experts said, quite accurately, that when you deal with an addiction--and we won't get into that today, but…”

On the recordMay 22, 2024
One of the experts said, quite accurately, that when you deal with an addiction--and we won't get into that today, but by the way, just so everybody understands, it is now pretty clear from brain chemistry that sugar--and when we say sugar, mostly it is fructose because the other sugar is cane sugar, which is sucrose, a combination of fructose and glucose. Fructose, basically, we understand that it is actually physically addictive in the brain because it results through the modifier of MGO, a chemical called MGO, which binds to receptors in the brain. It actually releases dopamine.
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Andy Harris
Republican · Maryland
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May 22, 2024

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