Starbucks Drinks: Diabetes In A Cup? Real Doctor Reviews ☕

Starbucks holiday drinks also known as a cup of diabetes have been released again

this year and today we're going to talk about what's in them what is it that we

need to be concerned with and what sort of damage can they do to your body and

your vital organs coming right up

hey I'm doctor Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former

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so that you don't miss anything around this time of year for the last several

years Starbucks have introduced a series of specialty coffees in special mugs for

the festive occasion and this year of course it was such great news that

there's already multiple news channels such as CBS FOX NBC and ABC that have

posted videos on the internet who tell us about how important this news is and

what a big deal it is that we can now have these specialty drinks this year

there are five drinks that they have introduced and as always when people

comment on the nutritional value then they're only talking about how many

calories there are in them they say and this may not be so good for you because

they have so many calories we don't really care about calories though we

care about the things in there that upset the balance in the body the

hormonal balance in this review we won't comment on the taste or flavor we won't

pick any favorites we're just gonna talk about what are in these drinks and is it

really worth to indulge in them if we take the example of a grande that's not

the biggest drink the grande is 16 ounces and the largest is 20 ounces it

seems like most people are selecting the the grande the 16 ounces and then just

the average among these five drinks not the highest or lowest but average they

contain on average 48 grams of sugar and 60 grams of carbs

one drink and just for comparison a Snickers bar is 28 grams of sugar about

half of that and it has 32 grams of carbs again about half so you could have

essentially have two Snickers bars and get the same amount of sugar as you

would a grande now the Snickers bars probably won't give you even as much of

a blood sugar spike because it also has more fat and some protein in there to

slow down the sugar a Coca Cola has 39 grams of sugar and of course that is

rocket fuel in terms of blood sugar because there's nothing there to slow

down that blood sugar absorption but again a Coca Cola has about 2/3 of the

sugar and carbs of a grande specialty drink this video is not a bash on

starbucks I love Starbucks I think they are pretty much single-handedly

responsible for bringing real coffee to the United States

I remember when coffee was completely undrinkable it had the color of tea and

nowadays you can actually get a good cup of coffee in almost any place and that

is much due to Starbucks so I like them and it is my choice if I go someplace

because it's reliable I know what I'm gonna get what they found as they were

gaining popularity obviously they're in business to make money and they realize

that caffeine is sort of addictive it's something that people really like to

have on a regular basis but what's about a thousand times more addictive is sugar

so if you combine the caffeine with the sugar now you have the perfect business

idea so they have started introducing more and more specialty drinks they have

the ice-t's and the frappuccinos and the lattes and the mocha sand all of these

and they have all these pumps of syrup that adds chemical flavors and sugar and

sometimes artificial sweeteners to the to the drinks and on a rough count

I counted at least 50 I didn't go through all the menus and these were

basically just the lattes and the mocha sand the frappuccinos more than 50

specialty drinks and all of these are going to be roughly in the ballpark of

of this much sugar so what they're doing is they're getting people hooked that

they're creating a habit where people it's sort of a sneaky way of getting

candy in there that a lot of people who said that oh well I don't eat any candy

I wouldn't touch a Snickers bars I don't eat anything like that I just have a cup

of coffee once in a while and they don't realize or maybe they do but they don't

sort of want to realize it that every drink they have is like having multiple

candy bars but again I don't blame Starbucks I think they're doing what

they need to do to make money and we need to do what we need to do to stay

healthy and we just need to keep that in balance so why is Starbucks introducing

it at this time of year why is the holiday season such a perfect moment

well the holiday season some people set it to start after Thanksgiving and run

through the Christmas holiday but in reality it's being stretched more and

more and more and now it pretty much goes from Halloween which is last of

October so like Halloween or the day after November 1st often marks the

beginning of the holiday season so now it's sort of a free-for-all in terms of

indulging we've we've created that culture so what happens is people spend

more money during these two months a lot of businesses make most of their profit

in the last quarter of the year because we were spending money we're spending

money on presents but we're spending more money on everything we're indulging

and it's also the time that we change our mindset we figured oh I've been good

all year and there's all these Christmas parties and all these opportunities and

all these holiday drinks this is the time to indulge we are good

to ourselves we set certain limits but during the holidays we just let

everything fly and again Starbucks is in business they're a for-profit company so

they will do everything smart that they can to to make sales I can't blame them

for that but what else is that that we want to think about that happens during

the holiday season well the holiday season is also the sugar season that's

where the cookies and the candy and the drinks and all these things the parties

come out it is also the stress season okay people have their usual workload

but in addition to that they have all these parties and all these presents and

all these trips to take so people probably stress more in these two months

than they do any other time of year so because it is a sugar season and a

stress season that means it's also the flu season because the two things that

ruin that interfere with your immune system that weaken your immune system

the most are basically sugar and stress so now everybody also gets the flu and

in on top of everything it's also the weight gain season because we let loose

because we eat all this sugar and now this gets us ready for our new year's

resolutions so we can start another round of yo-yo dieting so if you think

about it I don't believe that's what most people really want

I think it's tempting to indulging these things but I also think that we don't

have to we can make some smarter decisions if we have been on a low-carb

diet if we have created some good habits to get fat adapted then if we're truly

honest we don't have that much cravings anymore that most of these temptations

are emotionals it's not something that the body is really screaming for it's

just there and so easy to jump on we also have we can make very satisfying

keto desserts and if you take for example dark chocolate if you get my

favorites about 70 eight percent cocoa in the chocolate

then you can eat a half a bar and only get eight grams of sugar then that means

you could have half a bar of dark chocolate every day and only equal about

one of these drinks per week okay but the drink is going to create a huge

blood sugar spike whereas this is going to be spread out and most of the

calories are going to be from fat so you're not really going to see hardly

any blood sugar fluctuations so once you are fat adapted your taste buds change

and you enjoy these things the dark chocolate is very very satisfying if you

get a piece of 60% chocolate it's almost unable it's just too sweet so once

you've developed these good habits don't let yourself fall back into those bad

habits okay be strong it's not worth it so what is all this sugar do why is it

not a good idea what's the the really big reasons except for the weight gain

and the flus and all that what is it really doing inside the body well the

brain it really likes stable blood sugar it loves if you're in ketosis it loves

ketones but what it does when you're fat adapted is your blood sugar is just rock

solid super stable and when you eat sugar especially when you drink it then

it's absorbed very quickly and you get blood sugar fluctuations you get a blood

sugar rollercoaster and for some people the down part the bottom part of that is

called hypoglycemia so now you get Moody you get irritable you have poor focus

you get cravings you get more prone to anxiety and depression and in the long

run so the first few are in the short run that's what happens kind of

immediately but in the long run glucose causes triggers insulin causes

insulin resistance and as far as the brain goes that will also be very

strongly correlated with dementia there is a strong cause

have link between insulin resistance and dementia today then when we look at the

liver the liver is the first organ to be to become insulin resistant because the

sugar is 50% fructose and fructose is the thing that really really clogs up

the liver and creates fatty liver so most non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

is caused by sugar and especially sugary drinks because they're absorbed so

quickly and we don't even realize that that we're getting all that sugar

because it's just a drink when we look at the heart and the cardiovascular

system it's all of the things associated with metabolic syndrome so high blood

pressure increased cardiovascular disease increased risk of stroke just to

name a few when we look at the pancreas the pancreas has to produce all that

insulin to handle all that sugar so we're putting a tremendous burden on the

pancreas and it's got a lot of other things to do it likes to digest food and

even though there was a different areas in the pancreas that do the food

digestion and the sugar handling it's still one organ that kind of depends on

the same resources and blood supply so the longer you push the pancreas the

more likely that you're gonna have some trouble with it the immune system like

we said at first here the flu season is because sugar weakens the immune system

but the other thing it does it feeds all your pathogens it's a virtual buffet for

all the stuff in the body that you don't want there the yeast fungus bacteria

parasites and even cancer cells they thrive on sugar your immune system

suffers greatly from all that sugar so there are many many reasons why you

would want to avoid it if you care about your vital organs and and your long-term

health and something sort of humorous occurred to me that you know with

cigarettes they have realized now for a while how bad

rats are so all over the world they have to put warning labels on cigarettes so

on every package you buy that basically tell you this product kills you it's

almost like a skull and crossbones on every package so if you get if you use

that product then at least you know what you're getting into and if we compare

the number of people dying from cigarettes versus insulin resistance the

cigarette deaths are basically a drop in the ocean and it'll be a generation or

so before they realize this in the official lines but insulin resistance is

the biggest killer of mankind that we have and once we realize that what if we

actually had to go the same way as the cigarettes what if everything that had

refined sugar especially large quantities had to have a warning label

then I think those those Starbucks cups would look a little bit different what

if they had a skull and crossbones on them and it says warning cup of diabetes

this will kill you and you'd hear in in the Starbucks restaurant then and what

will it be for you sir a cup of diabetes okay and then when you pick up your

order they say alright mr. Smith a cup of diabetes alright next oh you just

want a cup of coffee all right here you go and next a cup of diabetes you get

the picture but it's not as ridiculous as it sounds if we called it for what it

is then I think people would make smarter choices at least they'd think

twice so what if you stick to your guns this year and you stay with your New

Year's resolutions from last year you keep your good habits and you maintain

them through the holiday season then when new year comes you don't have

to start from scratch you are ahead of where you would have been and now you've

got something to build on so your scale will show it your mood will show it and

your vital organs will thank you if you enjoyed this video

I'm sure that you're gonna love this one thank you so much for watching and I'll

see you in the next video