Next Time You Cut Yourself While Cooking, Here’s Why Doctors Say You Should Pour Sugar On The Wound

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Murandu explained how it worked. He said, “Sugar is sucrose – you need the enzyme sucrase to convert that into glucose.” But sucrase is only present inside the body, meaning that ingested sugar will activate it and the sucrose’s conversion into glucose. An external application wouldn’t have the same effect, thus supposedly making it a safe treatment for those with diabetes.

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