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Could you imagine your life without pumping every day countless amounts of sugar in your body? If not, you should at least know that it can affect your sexuality: high levels of fructose and glucose entering your blood can deactivate the gene controlling the amounts of sex hormones in both men and women, as revealed by a Canadian research published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

The research made on mice and human cell cultures warns that we should replace simple sugars (like table sugar, glucose and fructose) with complex ones, like starches. Table sugar is a dimer made of glucose and fructose (and as glucose and fructose it
enters the blood), while fructose abounds in sweetened beverages, syrups, and many other products. In North America, the annual average intake per person is of 33 kg (74 pounds) of table sugar and 20 kg (45 pounds) of fructose corn syrup.

The simple sugars (glucose and fructose) go to the liver to be metabolized, and the excess is stored as fats. The cell cultures revealed that too much fat synthesis deactivated the SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin) gene, plummeting the levels of SHBG protein in the bloodstream. This protein tunes the levels of testosterone and estrogen circulating through the body.