Paul Saladino· MD
pure sugar increases endotoxin in the human body, probably because you put a bunch of glucose or fructose into the human gut and there there's nothing there to kind of check the overgrowth of bacteria. gram negative bacteria propagate and you're going to get more endotoxin like a polysaccharide which is a gram negative bacterial cell wall component into the blood circulation but you give someone apple juice and that doesn't happen