10 Signs You're Eating Too Much Sugar

Hello Health Champions today we're going to talk  about 10 signs that you eat too much sugar so  

we'll start from the back number 10 is that you  dull your taste buds that if you eat a lot of  

sugar then over time your taste buds don't  appreciate the subtle flavors anymore and as  

a result you need your sweets to be sweeter and  sweeter and sweeter so hamburger buns for example  

most people think of them as bread they don't even  realize how sugary they are hamburger buns in the  

US is basically like cake in other places of the  world cookies soda pies and cakes are getting more  

and more sugary over time and they're much much  sweeter in the United States than anywhere else  

you're going to find and the reason they add so  much sugar is that it sells as people get hooked  

on sugar all they have to do to sell a product is  is just put more sugar in there an example would  

be Starbucks and these popular coffee drinks they  don't sell coffee there anymore it's like a tiny  

tiny percentage is coffee most of what they  sell is just sugar balms and a huge problem  

here is that now regular food becomes boring the  taste buds don't appreciate the wonderful natural  

Aromas and flavors of food like Steak and Fish  and vegetables and natural things and then you  

tend to drift toward fast food where of course  they add in all this sugar and these chemicals  

number nine is sweet cravings and this is similar  to what we just talked about but it goes much much  

further because sugar has the power to stimulate  opiate receptors in your brain and nervous system  

so when you eat sugar you stimulate dopamine and  you feel pleasure so a lot of our reward rewards  

so our Behavior seeking out rewards is tied to  Sugar but the problem is that we're seeking it  

but we never get satisfied and if you have that  Sugar you satiate your sugar Cravings then five  

minutes later they're back so it's a vicious cycle  where you just want more and more and more and the  

problem is that this becomes part of the culture  and it starts already as kids where we're using  

sweet as rewards as bribes basically that if you  eat your vegetables you can have dessert if you do  

your homework you can have a soda and so forth so  we instill this expectation in this behavior that  

sugar equals pleasure equals rewards and I have to  also touch on some pretty significant mainstream  

ignorance about these issues so there was this  video where they told you that you shouldn't eat  

so much sugar but then they go on to saying that  Sugar shouldn't become your worst enemy and they  

say just know your limits and control yourself so  the disturbing piece of ignorance here is that we  

assume people all operate the same whether it's  sugar or alcohol we're very very different some  

people have a much greater tendency to get  addicted so you can't just because you know  

how to control yourself you can't be judgmental  and just assume that because someone else can't  

that they just don't know their limits and  they don't know how to control themselves for  

some people this may be true but for some people  sugar truly becomes your worst enemy and then if  

you realize that and you know that for a fact  then just like alcohol you need to cut it out  

completely no added sugar at all number eight  is skin breakouts it's pretty well known that  

that Sugar leads to acne and sugar feeds bacteria  along with everything else but there's one more  

thing I want to be concerned with and that's ages  Advanced glycation end products so sugar is kind  

of sticky and when it sticks to proteins then it  forms these Ages which lead to premature aging so  

premature wrinkles premature aging of the skin  but not just the skin every organ every cell in  

the body body is subject to premature aging sign  number seven is muscle and joint pain this is also  

known as osteoarthritis when you have a low-grade  systemic inflammation if that inflammation gets  

into the joints now we know that as osteoarthritis  but here's the problem when people have pain most  

people will just go take a pill but is that a good  idea in my opinion you do not want to take a pill  

at least not without addressing the underlying  cause because what happens now is that you're  

not addressing the root cause you're numbing out  the pain but you're allowing the root cause to  

continue and this low-grade systemic inflammation  is the number one cause of heart disease stroke as  

well as 90% of all the degenerative diseases that  people take medication for chronic medication and  

which ultimately kills people sign number six  of eating too much sugar is tooth decay so of  

course that means cavities and plaque and if  you cut out sugar completely what you'll find  

is that the plaque doesn't even develop nearly as  much as when you eat sugar and in fact if you eat  

very little sugar and you have just a single piece  of candy you will notice that plaque building up  

almost within minutes and just how closely sugar  and tooth decay were linked was discovered about  

a century ago by a guy called Western price  he was a dentist and he traveled around the  

world to study tooth decay versus diet and he  studied virtually all of the leftover primitive  

or indigenous cultures in the world where  they had not been in contact with so-called  

civilization and processed foods and sugar and  what he found was that even though most of these  

cultures did not use any toothbrushes they also  had no cavities or virtually no cavities like 1%  

of the cavities of the Western World at the time  and he wrote a book about this which is excellent  

called nutrition and physical degeneration and he  found that basically almost no cavities occurred  

before people had sugar and processed foods and  in doing this he also found that that it wasn't  

just the cavities but people's overall physiology  and health and I have to touch on one more piece  

of mainstream ignorance this is what I found in  another video and what's scary is that this keeps  

coming up this is what I hear from people every  day don't get the wrong idea or anything sugar in  

the right Amounts is good for you because glucose  is what supplies your body energy and there are  

two enormous problems and dangerous problems with  the statements the sugar they're talking about is  

added sugar and the truth is that added sugar  is not the same as glucose we'll touch on that  

in a second and the other problem is that most  of our energy comes from fat so when they say  

that sugar is good because it has glucose which is  where your energy comes from they obviously don't  

know what sugar is when we talking about added  sugar talking about suc white table sugar which  

has one ring of glucose but it's linked to a ring  of fructose so we have glucose and fructose so yes  

sugar has glucose in it but saying that sugar  is glucose is very very misleading so where we  

get most of our glucose would be from starches  if you eat those so if we take here's another  

glucose ring now if we link these together in long  chains then they're called a starch and they can  

be hundreds or thousands of these molecules but  it's 100% glucose there is no fructose that's the  

difference between sugar and glucose sugar and  starch so sugar from starch meaning glucose is  

not the worst thing that's why a lot of cultures  could eat rice and potatoes for centuries and not  

get diabetic not have tremendous health problems  because the starch breaks down into pure glucose  

the sucrose however is a completely different  animal it's a disaccharide which needs a an  

enzyme called sucrase to break it down and then  you get 50% glucose which again isn't the end of  

the world but this fructose is terrible because  it can only be processed through the liver it  

quickly overwhelms the liver causing what's  called a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease so  

when they say that Sugar isn't so bad because we  need glucose they're talking about starch they're  

not talking about sugar they don't understand  the difference so they put them all together  

in the second statement down here that 90% of  energy comes from fat this is a complete and  

total mystery because over and over we are being  told that glucose is what supplies The Body Energy  

we need to eat starches we need to eat bread  we need to eat grains they tell us so that we  

can get energy well if you eat a zero fat diet or  nearly zero fat diet you're still not getting most  

of your energy from glucose because that glucose  you can't the body can't store glucose well at  

all whenever you eat a lot of starch whenever you  eat a lot of carbohydrates the body converts that  

blood sugar into fat before you use it so even  if you eat almost zero fat your body Burns for  

energy probably somewhere around 50 % fat and 50%  glucose so if you eat a healthy diet though like  

a Paleo and a whole food diet with meat and fat  and vegetables over time you're probably as you  

get fat adapted you're probably going to run about  90% of your energy from fat so this statement is  

just extremely inaccurate but this is what we  are told and this is what most people believe  

but what you will get from eating a lot of sugar  and a lot of carbohydrates is unstable energy you  

have highs and lows you have inconsistent energy  because you create blood sugar swings whenever you  

eat a lot of sugar or some processed starches  your blood sugar spikes and then it drops and  

then you eat again and it spikes and this leads  to energy when your blood sugar is high and then  

very low energy when your blood sugar is low the  solution to this of course is to not eat sugar  

or processed foods but rather eat whole food and  now your blood sugar becomes very very stable and  

your energy becomes very very stable so if you  have blood sugar swings this also often leads  

to mood swings and irritability sign number four  is bloating and this comes from all the bacteria  

in your gut when those bacteria are imbalance when  they can process the food coming through then you  

should not have a lot of bloating but if you have  a lot of sugar this sugar feeds the wrong kinds  

of pathogens it creates an imbalance in your gut  flora and it leads to something called dysbiosis  

which is just that an imbalance in the bacteria  and now over time what can happen is that you  

get a gut compromise the intestinal lining might  deteriorate at the mucus layer might deteriorate  

and as a result you could have a leaky gut and  you could have things like immune compromises as  

well and this is really important to understand  that the signs and the symptoms should not be  

our primary concern we should understand that  it's just the tip of the iceberg that this is  

part of an imbalance and we need to address that  root cause so that we can restore full function  

and let's just take an example of how we've been  feeding that gut biome that microbiome over time  

so if we look at the green would be historically  and the blue would be how we eat currently and  

we look at three things soluble fiber we look at  lactose and we look at sucrose so there are some  

other things also that can feed the microbes but  these three things are the primary food for those  

microbes in your gut so when we look at soluble  fiber historically we ate much much much more  

soluble fiber because natural food whole food has  more fiber processed foods and sugar has no fiber  

basically lactose we probably ate a little bit  less so lactose is the sugar in milk and it's  

a disaccharide meaning Two Sugars so we need an  enzyme to break it down before can be absorbed  

into the bloodstream and this is why glucose is  not a primary fuel for these gut bacteria even  

if they could consume it glucose is a single  molecule and because it's single and ready to  

absorb it basically never makes it down to where  the bacteria are living we absorb it in the first  

half of the digestive tract so glucose is not a  f Factor here really and depending on how far we  

look back historically we may or may not have had  Dairy but for about 8 to 10,000 years we have had  

some Dairy and some lactose even though a lot of  it was probably turned into butter and cheese and  

we also had it raw which meant that there were  enzymes and bacteria in the milk to help us break  

down the milk and the proteins and the lactose so  today we eat a lot more of products but also we  

have a lot of pasteurized milk that is much harder  to digest and then when we look at sucrose which  

really has the potential to disturb and unbalance  your microbiome we used to eat maybe a couple of  

grams because we had some in leafy greens and in  fruits and so forth which were seasonal we might  

get a couple of grams a day as opposed to over a  100 grams of sucrose and high fructose corn syrup  

and honey and agave and all that stuff that we're  consuming today so just to give you an idea I'm  

not claiming that these are graphically exact or  anything but just to give you an idea of how much  

it has changed and why our gut biome is probably  not the same because we're not feeding it the same  

things and as a result we end up with a lot of  bloating number three is weight gain so especially  

if it's around the midsection but generalized  weight gain as well and the key here is to  

understand insulin because when we eat sugar and  processed carbohydrates now the blood sugar Rises  

and The Body responds with insulin we'll look  a little bit more at this in a second and like  

we said sugar has glucose and fructose and that  fructose can only be processed through the liver  

so the potential to overwhelm the liver and cause  non-alcoholic fat or liver disease is tremendous  

the vast majority of fatty liver disease today is  from sugar and of course when we get very insulin  

resistant and we have that fatty liver now we are  almost guaranteed eventually to get type2 diabetes  

if we continue on that path but again even  though most typ two diabetics not all but most  

have weight gain and are obese that should not be  our main concern we need to understand what this  

process what this adaptation is doing to the body  and realize that this mechanism this adaptation  

is also responsible for the number one cause of  blindness the number one cause of kidney failure  

and the number one cause of amputations and here  I want to cover some something that I came across  

which I believe is a lazy Viewpoint that everyone  talks about how we eat too much sugar we need to  

cut back on sugar but where do we draw the line so  this Viewpoint was that it's simply not realistic  

to avoid all added sugar in your diet and my  question is that maybe not all people have to  

but why is it not realistic and it's like saying  to an alcoholic that you know I we know you have  

a problem but it's simply not realistic for you  to avoid alcohol because all these parties all  

these stores everywhere you go there's alcohol  available so surely it's not realistic to cut it  

out or if you were misled during a period in your  life where your frontal L wasn't fully developed  

and you ended up at some parties where they  were Distributing certain not so great chemicals  

addictive chemicals Etc would you say that just  because they're available just because everyone  

is doing them because you're kind of on this party  circuit that now it's not realistic to stay away  

from those chemicals anymore of course not and my  point here is if if it's possible and realistic to  

stay away from alcohol and from illicit chemicals  then why would it not be realistic to stay away  

from added sugar because added sugar has no place  in real food so again I'm not saying that 100% of  

people should never have sugar that we should make  it illegal but why wouldn't it be realistic we are  

we're getting lazy and we're allowing all this  garbage in just because it's so abundant sign  

number two would be frequent colds and flu if  you find that you get sick all the time maybe  

cut back some on the sugar so there's many many  different ways that Sugar decreases immunity but  

one more interesting way is that glucose and  vitamin C vitamin C is very important for your  

immune system for Activation of certain white  cells and glucose and vitamin C use the same  

transport mechanism so everything in your body is  shuttled and moved on purpose molecule by molecule  

nothing's just floating around randomly getting  to places by accident the body on purpose will  

transport it and shuttle it across membranes so  the more glucose you have lying around floating  

around the more of the glucose is going to occupy  the sites and compete for this transport mechanism  

meaning we can't move the vitamin C to where it  needs to be if we have too much sugar around and  

interestingly humans and primates and guinea pigs  are the only mammals that cannot manufacture our  

own vitamin C our own ascorbic acid and then you  might wonder well isn't that just a huge defect  

in our genetic makeup if we can't make it what's  what's wrong with us but the way I look at it is  

that it's never been a problem because the food  would provide a certain amount of vitamin C that  

was plenty until we started competing with sugar  for that transport mechanism and the number one  

sign that you're eating too much sugar is that  your blood markers start going up and there's  

lots of blood markers we can look at but three of  the main ones would be glucose A1C and Insulin so  

glucose is how much sugar is in your blood stream  In This Moment A1C is a 3 to four month average  

and insulin is an indirect indicator it tells us  how hard the body is working to keep it down and  

why does this matter well if we look at glucose  and A1C in yellow and we look at insulin in red  

and we see how that would develop over time if we  start at time zero and we are in insulin sensitive  

we're healthy we're metabolically healthy then  there would be a balance between glucose and  

insulin and then the body if we start eating more  sugar if we keep eating more sugar and more carbs  

the body is going to work really really hard at  keeping that glucose down that's what the body  

has to do high levels of glucose is toxic to  the brain so in order to keep the glucose down  

the body is going to increase the insulin levels  so even though the glucose stays the same here  

from year 0 to year five we have become many times  more insulin resistant because it takes that much  

more insulin to control the situation if we go 10  years into the future we see that there's still  

not really a change in the glucose levels maybe a  couple of points but that insulin just keeps going  

up 15 years same thing keeps going 20 years and  now maybe you can see if you look at the size of  

these yellow that this would be maybe a healthy  level around 80 and here we might be at 90 and  

100 and 120 130 which is a diabetic level so the  glucose even going from super healthy to diabetic  

only changes by a few perc it only Chang changes  very marginally because it's a controlled variable  

but the thing that controls it is insulin and the  body has to work that much harder at controlling  

it so insulin might increase 10 15 20 times and  this is one of the biggest problems in my opinion  

that when we test things we don't test the really  important stuff we don't test the things that can  

show us early on the changes that we need to  make so if you really want to find out your  

blood work markers you want to test all three of  these including insulin and for those who really  

want to take charge and understand more about this  I created a course and I'll put some information  

in a link down below and you could also order a  very complete set of blood work to follow along  

with the course if you really want to take charge  and understand it I also created a little document  

where I put all these slides together that you  can click on a link and get those if you want  

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