Is Chewing GUM BAD For You? (Real Doctor Reveals The TRUTH) Dr Ekberg

Chewing gum dangers what do you need to

know to not get hurt and damage your

health. Coming right up. Hey I'm Dr.

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miss anything. So someone asked me

recently about chewing gum because she

wanted to chew gum because it helped her

skip meals, and not get so hungry, and

so many cravings, so I thought I'd

explain a few things. And people will

chew gum for a variety of reasons. I saw

a long list and I disagree with most of

those reasons. The only true benefit is

that it's been shown to improve your

focus your cognitive abilities and the

reason is along the lines of what we

talked on some other videos on different

afferentation on proprioception so that when

you chew when you move then you create

signals that stimulate the frontal lobe

and the frontal lobe controls focus so

when you chew that's a form of movement

with a lot of receptors in the jaw so

that's a very intense form of

stimulation for the brain so you fire up

the frontal lobe. Now there are much

better ways to increase your frontal

lobe activity I would suggest exercise,

getting up standing, and stretching those

and postural exercises you can check out

the three winged friends right here and

doing breathing exercises and meditation

those are way better methods of

improving focus and afferentation and

proprioception. The cons, the disadvantage,

is though... that's a big long list and I

want to touch on a few of them. The first

I think of is that it's rather unnatural

to chew when you're not consuming any

food because chewing is in neurological

signal that there's food supposed to be

delivered to the stomach so you the

chewing activates hydrochloric acid and

enzymes and at best you're just wasting

resources

at worst you're sort of creating ulcers

and digestive issues. So we have to think

about what what's natural what what is

nature intending with all of these

mechanisms what what are we stimulating

what's happening. Another thing of course

is that if the lot of gum has sugar so

we're consuming additional sugar, but

even worse is all the toxic chemicals

that they put in chewing gum these days.

So just a brief history on how this has

gone about so it used to be that regular

gum had sugar and people chewed it and

they got cavities and that wasn't a good

thing. So they said, "Oh let's do sugar

free". And then of course they put

artificial sweeteners in the gum instead

and then they figured out well

artificial sweeteners they're toxic so

let's go back to regular but then by

then they had discovered that the

artificial sweeteners made the flavour

last much longer so now they added

artificial sweeteners to the sugar so

now every (commercial/popular) gum on the market has

artificial sweeteners whether there are

regular or sugar-free so check this it

is every commercial brand out there if

you read the fine print it's gonna say

aspartame, sucralose or acesulfame

potassium maybe one or maybe all three

or any combination. The only chewing gum

out there there are a few that have some

sugar alcohol some xylitol some maltitol

some alternatives and those would be

okay in moderation especially if you

don't have problems with gas or bloating

if you have a tendency to get bloated

you have a bacterial imbalance and the

sugar alcohols such as xylitol are

feeding those bacteria so you can upset

that balance further. The problem with

the xylitol is people don't like it much

because the flavor lasts like 10 seconds

and then it's gone so you spit it out

and have to take another so what's so

bad about the

artificial sweeteners well let's take a

look the the two main ones out today is

aspartame and sucralose and aspartame

was marketed as NutraSweet sounds good

right it's sweet

and it's a nutrient Wow got to go for

that but what is it really well it

breaks down into aspartate or aspartic

acid which in the body is a

neurotransmitter and if you have a

neurotransmitter in the body that's

excitatory then it it serves fulfills a

function in the body but it's very

finely regulated very tightly regulated

in the body and when you add it in large

quantities through your diet or from the

outside then it becomes known as an

excitotoxin so if you stimulate a brain

cell a little bit that's a good thing if

you stimulate it until it works itself

to death then that's an excitotoxin so

msg is an excitotoxin and aspartate is

an excitotoxin and part of what makes

this diet coke and this these aspartame

products so addictive is the fact that

this is an excitatory and it stimulates

the brain so that it wants more it also

breaks down into phenylalanine which is

also a precursor for a neurotransmitter

so anytime we add a lot of stuff from

the outside we create brain imbalances

we upset that delicate balance and

people who are have what's called

phenylketonuria they have to avoid this

at all costs because they can't break it

down at all so it'll actually kill them

it breaks down into methanol also known

as wood alcohol that's that backwoods

party stuff that makes you blind okay

really good stuff and one soda contains

twice the amount of the EPA limit for

wood alcohol or methanol

methanol so they kind of get around this

because the aspartame itself doesn't

have any methanol in it it only becomes

ethanol at body temperature so if they

keep the can cool there's none in the

can but as soon as you drink it it's at

body temperature right and the last

component it breaks down into is

formaldehyde okay so if I didn't get

your attention yet formaldehyde is

embalming fluid it's a very very toxic

substance that they used to preserve

corpses and tissue with so that's the

aspartame so I hope that that got your

attention and that you never touch the

stuff again it is one of the worst

poisons that they have ever put into our

food supply so then they this got a bad

rap and it's still around despite that

bad rap but it's been largely replaced

by Splenda or sucralose so when they

marketed this they told people that oh

well this is so natural it is just made

from sugar so we use that the carbon

from from a glucose ring and then we

just add chlorine which is nothing but

sea salt that's a natural substance in

sea salt but they fail to mention that

the sea salt has a form that's called

chloride that's the salt version

chlorine is a poison gas it's sort of

like the difference between salt water

and Clorox bleach all right a little

molecular shift makes a big difference

and when you put chlorine onto the

carbon in sugar you're you're making a

new compound called a chloro carbon and

these are the most common family of

pesticides and most of these are so

toxic that they've come up with a new

one every few years and every time they

find that it's one of the most powerful

potent carcinogen and environmental talk

that humans have ever produced so it

started with DDT which almost wiped out

the American population of Eagles before

they put a stop to it and the bird

slowly started started coming back so

that was banned in 1972 died Dieldrin found

to be toxic carcinogen banned in 1974

Aldrin banned in 1974 chlordane banned

trichloroethane banned and now we have

Splenda which is a chloro carbon it is

in the family of pesticides so it may

not be as quite as toxic as the others

but it surely is not a health food

it surely is not something that needs to

get into the human body. So if you

haven't got it yet

just realize that when nature makes

things life forms animals have coexisted

with nature nature has produced food

Nature has produced environment for

thousands and millions of generations

and there is a match there is say a

collaboration there's a fit between

nature and animals and then humans have

gone in and just the last couple of

generations and we start manufacturing

all these chemicals in and all these in

test tubes and in labs and we alter and

we changed and if nature didn't make it

it doesn't belong in your body just keep

it that simple and no so there are

different degrees of poison but none of

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