Nov. 2, 2025

Sweet Poison: The Hidden Dangers of Sugar and How to Break Free

Sweet Poison: The Hidden Dangers of Sugar and How to Break Free

Welcome back to Chasing Eden: Rediscovering Your Body’s Divine Design. Today, we’re going to talk about something that’s probably sitting in your kitchen right now — something that’s hiding in your cereal, your coffee, your sauces, your snacks, and...

Welcome back to Chasing Eden: Rediscovering Your Body’s Divine Design.
Today, we’re going to talk about something that’s probably sitting in your kitchen right now — something that’s hiding in your cereal, your coffee, your sauces, your snacks, and maybe even your so-called “healthy” yogurt. I’m talking about sugar — that sweet, comforting, but ultimately dangerous substance that has crept into almost everything we eat.
You’ve probably heard phrases like “sugar is the new tobacco,” but what does that really mean? Why does sugar affect our brains like a drug, our hearts like a toxin, and our waistlines like quicksand?
In this episode, we’re diving deep into the truth about sugar — from the corporate manipulation that shaped decades of bad science, to the latest findings from experts like Dr. Robert Lustig, Dr. Mark Hyman, Gary Brecka, and the viral “Glucose Goddess” herself, Jessie Inchauspé, who’s showing millions how to flatten their glucose curves naturally.
We’ll also look at Damon Gameau’s incredible documentary That Sugar Film, where he literally transforms his health in just 60 days — eating what many people believe is a “healthy” diet.
So grab a glass of water or a cup of unsweetened green tea, and let’s uncover how something so small, so sweet, could be quietly stealing your vitality.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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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

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to what drains life, and yes to what gives it.

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You don't have to give up sweetness, You just have

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to find it in its natural place, in fruit, in community,

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in peace and joy, because true sweetness, the kind that

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nourishes your body and soul, was never meant to come

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from a package. Thank you so much for joining me

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today on Chasing Eden. If you enjoyed this episode, be

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visit us at Chasingeden dot net for more resources, articles

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and upcoming episodes designed to help you live naturally, virently,

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and in harmony with God's design. Until next time, stay well,

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stay grounded, and keep chasing Eden.