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I'v no idea what villi is, but ain't Lustig talking about this for a decade now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB

• Tagbert 5y ago
  Villi are tiny “fingers” of tissue that line your intestines, increasing it’s surface area and allow absorption of nutrients and water. It makes the lining of the intestines resemble wet velvet.
• pieter_mj 5y ago
  Yes, but he is more pointing out that fructose is processed in the liver only (as far as we currently know (glut5)), as such it constitutes an extra stress on the liver. Fatty liver disease is more prevalent nowadays, and it has largely been decoupled from alcohol (ab)use and more related to fructose , hence it's been called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.