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Welcome back to Chasing Eating, Rediscovering your Body's divine design. Today,
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we're going to talk about something that's probably sitting in
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your kitchen right now, something that's hiding in your cereal,
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your coffee, your sauces, your snacks, and maybe even your
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so called healthy yogurt. I'm talking about sugar, that sweet, comforting,
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but ultimately dangerous substance that has crept into almost everything
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we eat. You've probably heard phrases like sugar is the
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new tobacco, But what does that really mean? Why does
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sugar affect our brains like a drug, and our hearts
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like a tocsin and our waistlines like Quicksand In this episode,
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we're diving deep into the truth about sugar, from the
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corporate manipulation that shaped decades of bad science to the
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latest findings from experts like doctor Robert Lustig, doctor Mark Hyman,
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Gary Brecca, and the viral glucose goddess herself, Jesse Inshaspe,
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who's showing millions how to flatten their glucose curves naturally.
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We'll also look at Damon Gammo's incredible documentary, That Sugar Film,
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where he literally transforms his health in just sixty days
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eating what many people believe is a healthy diet. So
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grab your glass of water or a cup of unsweetened
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green tea, and let's uncover how something's so small, so sweet,
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could be quietly stealing your vitality. Let's start with a story,
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a human experiment that shocked the world. In the documentary
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That Sugar Film, filmmaker Damon Gammeo, who had been living
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sugar free for years, decided to eat what most people
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would consider a normal modern diet, not candy and soda,
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but foods marketed as healthy, low fat yogurt, granola bars, chews, smoothies,
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breakfast cereals, and salad dressings. The result, in just sixty days,
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Gammoo gained nearly twenty pounds, He developed fatty liver disease,
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saw his mood swing wildly, and experienced constant fatigue, all
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without eating any quote unquote junk food. The culprit wasn't obvious,
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it was hidden sugars. He was consuming the equivalent of
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forty teaspoons of sugar a day, tucked away in everyday foods.
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And here's the frightening part. That number is not unusual.
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The average American today consumes about seventeen teaspoons of added
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sugar daily and over sixty pounds per year. Doctor Robert Lustig,
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a pediatric and docrinologist at UCSF and author of Fat Chance,
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has been sounding the alarm for decades. He says sugar
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is not just empty calories, it's a toxin that disrupts
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your body's hormonal signaling, driving obesity, diabetes, and even mood disorders.
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Doctor Lustig explains that fructose, the sweet component in table sugar,
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is metabolized get this entirely by the liver, just like alcohol.
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Over time, this leads to fatty liver disease, insulin resistance,
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and metabolic syndrome. And just like alcohol, sugar lights up
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the dopamine reward centers in the brain. That's why you
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crave more. It's literally addictive. Neuroscientists have even compared sugar's
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brain activity to that of cocaine. When rats are given
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the choice between sugar and cocaine, many of them choose sugar.
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That's not willpower feeling. That's biology hijacked, and it's not
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just physical health at stake. Mark Heymann calls sugar quote
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the root of nearly every modern disease unquote it inflames
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the body, clouds the mind, and fuels anxiety and depression.
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High blood sugar spikes are linked to irritability, brain fog,
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and fatigue, a roller coaster most people mistake for stress
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or low energy. The glucose Goddess, jesse Inshaspe explains it simply. Quote,
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every glucose spike you have is like a small fire
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in your body. Over time, those fires add up, leading
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to inflammation, accelerated aging, and disease. Unquote. She teaches her
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millions of followers simple hacks to flatten those spikes. Eat
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fiber first, add vinegar before meals, pair carbs with protein,
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and take a short walk after eating. These small actions
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can transform your relationship with food without cutting out your
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joy or entire food groups. Let's go deeper into what
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sugar actually does inside your body. When you eat sugar,
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your blood glucose levels rise rapidly. The pancreas release insulin,
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the hormone that helps store that sugar as energy. But
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when this happens too often, your body comes insulin resistant,
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which forces your pancreas to pump out even more. Eventually
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that system breaks and the result type two diabetes weight
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gain hormonal imbalance, and even early aging. Gary Breca, a
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biohacking human biologist known for optimizing longevity, says that high
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glucose spikes cause your body to become quote a pro
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inflammatory furnace unquote. He calls sugar a silent killer that
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prematurely ages your cells by oxidating your DNA and shortening
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your telomeres, which are the protective caps on your chromosomes.
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When I was looking into anti aging about fifteen years ago,
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there was a popular supplement that was on the market
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claiming to stop or slow down the shortening of telomeres
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to protect you and slow down your aging process. So
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this is alarming that sugar can oxidize your cells and
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cause the DNA shortening of telomeres. That's proof in and
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of itself that it is accelerating your aging process. And
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it's not just about your energy or your aging, it's
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about emotional regulation. There are a lot of doctors right
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now on social media discussing the effect of sugar on
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people with ADHD and how often times when they remove
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the sugar from the person's diet, all or most of
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the symptoms disappear. When you're blood sugar spikes your brain
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gets flooded with dopamine, that feel good neuro transmitter. But
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as your sugar levels crash, dopamine plummets also. This leaves
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you irritable, anxious, and even depressed. And this is why
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so many people describe the afternoon crash that they have
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oftentimes after lunch. It's not being weak, it's not a
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weak it's not a part of being weak as far
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as your body or your genetics. It's an actual chemical
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crash that's happening to people, and oftentimes they're just they're
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too out of it from the sugar to make the connection.
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In one fascinating animal study, there is a video on
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social media that I shared, and it is really really
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shocking because in this video, scientists observe that mice given
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high sugar diets displayed signs of anxiety, aggression, and erratic behavior.
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In a swimming test, these sugar fed mice swam in circles,
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panicking and losing coordination, a dramatic contrast to the calm,
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steady swimmers on sugar free diets. Even more amazing, when
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sugar was removed from their diet, the erratic behavior disappeared,
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and their brain chemistry normalized. I have heard a lot
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of debates and back and forth among experts in various
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circles and on social media and interviews on podcasts discussing
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the role of diet and sugar spikes, insulin spikes in
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a lot of different types of disorders, mood disorders, and
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people being diagnosed with all of these different things and
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being prescribed medication for conditions that oftentimes, oftentimes are they say,
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can be taken care of and fixed without medication, with
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just simply changing their diet. Oftentimes they'll say it's a
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keutogenic diet. Most of the time, it's removing sugar from
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the diet. It's a it's a nutritional thing. Sometimes it's
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a nutritional deficiency, and they say that that deficiency can
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also be caused from excess sugar in the diet, because
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excess sugar consumption causes a imbalance in the pH in
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our blood and in our body and creates a deficiency
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in some other vital nutrients. So when the sugar was
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removed from the diet of the mice, their brain chemistry normalized.
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So the takeaway here is that the emotional turbulence that
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so many people experience, like anxiety brain fog, and yes,
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even depression may be less about willpower or mindset and
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more about blood sugar instability. Doctor Hyman says it best quote,
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food is information. Sugar tells your body to store fat,
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to inflame, and to age faster. Real food tells your
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body to heal unquote. And this isn't new. In fact,
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our entire modern nutritional crisis was engineered decades ago. Back
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in the nineteen sixties, the Sugar Research Foundation now known
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as the Sugar Association literally paid Harvard scientists to publish
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studies downplaying sugar's risks, and instead they blamed fat for
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heart disease. Well it worked for the next half century.
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Low fat became synonymous with healthy, but those low fat
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products were loaded with sugar. Cereal boxes became health food,
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yogurts became dessert, and the obesity and diabetes rates soared.
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We were lied to and our biology paid the price.
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Let's talk about how to break free, because awareness is
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the first step, but detoxing from sugar is not easy.
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Doctor Robert Lustig describes it as a withdrawal process. Sugar
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activates the same neural pathways as addictive substances, and when
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you stop you might feel headaches, fatigue, irritability, even flu
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like symptoms, but it passes, and once you cross that threshold,
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your taste buds and energy levels begin to reset. Now
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I will say this, I have over my life my
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fifty six years, I have withdrawed from sugar many times,
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I'm ashamed to say. And what happens is a false
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sense of confidence that you are now in control. And
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I've done this so many times where I think I
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feel pretty good. You know, I don't have any cravings.
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I am in control, and I will go have a dessert,
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and if I just have a couple bites, I might
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be I'm okay. But sometimes I call it falling off
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the wagon. I fall completely off the wagon and I
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eat too much and I have a spike, and I'm
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right back where I started, where I start craving sugar again.
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So it is an interesting thing because after so many times,
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you know, I still think when I come off with sugar,
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I'm in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, hey,
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I'm in control. I can handle this. I can say
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I can say no for sure, but I'm thinking in
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my head, well, you know, I feel like I've I'm
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over this now, I can handle this, and I'll take
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a couple bites of something and then it just starts
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all over again. So keep that in mind if you
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do decide you need to break free from sugar. That
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once you get that confidence and you're no longer craving it,
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it's very easy to take a couple bites of something
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and think you're going to be all right, and then
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the next night take a few more bites and it
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just starts all over again, the whole process. But then
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just remember, you know what I I did this. Once
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I can do it again. I could get off of
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sugar and I can start over. So just keep that
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in mind. Now. The Glucose Goddess recommends starting with simple
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daily habits that don't require perfection. She says, eat fiber first,
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so think in terms of your vegetables, things like chia seed, flax,
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or cilium husk, and because fiber slows glucose absorption, the
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second thing she says is to add vinegar before meals.
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One tablespoon and water before eating can lower glucose spikes
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by up to thirty percent. I've watched her video where
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she discusses this eating vinegar before meals and she does
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say this, any food grade vinegar will do. So if
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you don't have sa apple cider vinegar you could actually
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I've had rice wine vinegar, but any food grade vinegar
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you can use. Number three, she says is move after
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just a ten minute walk can reduce glucose by as
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much as twenty percent. Number four, she says, pair your
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carbs with protein or fat. Never eat naked carbs, always
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balance them with healthy proteins and fats like eggs, avocado,
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or nuts. Doctor Hymen also recommends focusing on whole, unprocessed
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foods like vegetables, clean proteins, healthy fats, and slow carbs
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like sweet potatoes and quinoak. Human biologist Gary Breca adds
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that stabilizing blood sugar isn't just about cutting sugar, it's
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about optimizing mitochondrial function. He often recommends supporting your metabolism
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with key nutrients like chromium pacullinate. This helps regulate your
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insulin sensitivity. If you're having sugar cravings and you're trying
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to get off sugar, you might think about supplementing with
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chromium pacollinate. Another one is el glutamine. This reduces sugar
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cravings by feeding brain cells that crave glucose magnesium. This
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improves your insulin function and helps with energy production. Also
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B vitamins, this is crucial for breaking down your carbohydrates efficiently.
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And another one which is getting more popular lately I'm
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hearing a lot about is berberine. It's a natural compound
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shown to reduce blood sugar and mimic the effects of
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met formIn. Perhaps one of the simplest strategies is just
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to get a good night's sleep, because when you're sleep deprived,
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your hunger hormones go haywire. This spikes leptin drops and
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u crave sugar for quick energy. Now, the hunger signal
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is called Graylin Greenland g h R E l I N,
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and that spikes if you haven't had enough sleep. So
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it's not willpower like so many people think, and then
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they beat themselves up about it. It's actually a hormonal
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imbalance caused by exhaustion. Now there's also a spiritual component here.
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Sugar gives us quick comfort of fleeting pleasure, but in
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many ways it mirrors the world's promise of instant gratification,
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quick eyes, deep crashes, and long term damage. Reclaiming your
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health from sugar isn't just physical. It's about restoring self control, clarity,
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and connection with the body God designed. As we come
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to our final segment, let's zoom out. Our ancestors did
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not eat this way in the garden, and for most
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of human history, sweetness was a seasonal blessing, Honey was rare,
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fruit was special, and food wasn't chemically engineered to override
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our natural sashity. Today, the average grocery store has over
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forty thousand products, and about seventy five percent of them
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contain add sugar. That's not the garden of Eden, that's manipulation.
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Doctor Lustig calls it, quote the ultimate public health crisis unquote.
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He argues that sugar meets all of the criteria for addiction,
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like binging, withdrawals, craving, and tolerance, and like any addiction,
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healing requires both detox and discipline, but also grace. The
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good news the body is astonishingly forgiving. Within just two
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weeks of lowing sugar intake, studies show improved insulin sensitivity,
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better focus, reduced inflammation, and even clearer skin. Your liver
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begins to regenerate your microbiome, that inner ecosystem of bacteria
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starts to rebalance, and your brain fog lifts, and perhaps
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most importantly, your energy becomes stable again. No more midday
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crashes or emotional roller coasters. Doctor Mark Hyman reminds us
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quote food is medicine. Every bite you take is either
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fighting disease or feeding it. Unquote. When we choose real food,
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grown in soil, not made in factories, we align our
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bodies closer to the divine design we were created for.
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So maybe rediscovering Eden isn't about going back in time.
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It's about moving forward with wisdom. It's about saying no