10 Signs You're Eating Too Much Sugar

Summary

このビデオでは、砂糖の過剰摂取に関連する10の兆候について解説しています。味覚の鈍化、甘いものへの欲求、皮膚トラブル、筋肉や関節の痛み、虫歯、不安定なエネルギーレベル、腫脹感、体重増加、頻発的な風邪やインスリン抵抗性など、様々な健康問題が説明されています。さらに、砂糖が免疫力を低下させるメカニズムや、血糖値やア1C、インスリンなどの血液マーカーの重要性についても触れています。最後に、砂糖の摂取を減らすことで健康状態を改善することができると結論づけています。

Takeaways

• 🍬 糖的过量摄入会钝化味蕾，导致对甜味的渴望越来越强烈。
• 🍔 美国的汉堡包、饼干、苏打水、派和蛋糕等食品的含糖量比其他地区高，因为高糖食品容易上瘾。
• 🧠 糖能刺激大脑和神经系统的阿片受体，导致多巴胺释放，产生快感，但这种快感是短暂的，会形成恶性循环。
• 🚫 某些人对糖的依赖性更强，对这些人来说，糖可能成为他们最大的敌人，需要完全戒除。
• 🍬 糖的摄入与皮肤问题有关，如痤疮，并且可能导致早衰。
• 💪 糖摄入过多可能导致肌肉和关节疼痛，这是由于低度全身炎症引起的。
• 🦷 糖是导致蛀牙的主要原因，减少糖的摄入可以显著减少牙菌斑的形成。
• 🍠 糖和淀粉是不同的，淀粉（如米饭和土豆）在历史上并未导致大规模的糖尿病问题。
• 📈 血糖波动会导致能量不稳定，出现高低起伏，而吃全食物可以稳定血糖和能量。
• 🌀 糖的摄入过多会导致腹胀，这是因为它滋养了错误的肠道细菌，导致肠道菌群失衡。
• 📊 体重增加，尤其是中段肥胖，是摄入过多糖和加工碳水化合物的一个标志。
• 🤧 频繁感冒和流感可能与糖摄入过多有关，因为糖会降低免疫力。
• 🩺 血液中的葡萄糖、A1C和胰岛素水平是衡量糖摄入过多的关键指标。

Q & A

砂糖を多く摂取すると味覚が鈍くなる理由は何ですか？

砂糖を多く摂取すると、徐々に味蕾が過剰な甘さに慣れてしまい、自然な食品の微妙な風味が感じられなくなります。その結果、より甘い食品を求めるようになります。

なぜアメリカの食品は他の地域に比べて甘いと言われるのですか？

アメリカでは消費者の砂糖への依存を利用して製品の販売を促進するため、食品に多量の砂糖が添加されています。これにより、ハンバーガーバンズやソーダなどが他の地域よりもずっと甘くなっています。

なぜ砂糖が健康に悪いとされているのに、依然として高い消費が見られるのですか？

砂糖はドーパミンを刺激し、一時的な快感を提供するため、人々は砂糖に強く引きつけられます。また、文化的にも報酬や慰めとして砂糖が使われているため、その消費を減らすことが困難です。

肌荒れやニキビと砂糖摂取の関連は何ですか？

砂糖は体内の炎症を促進し、細菌の増殖を助けることがあります。これが肌の問題、特にニキビを引き起こす原因となることがあります。

砂糖を摂取するとなぜ関節痛や筋肉痛が引き起こされるのですか？

砂糖は低度の全身性炎症を引き起こすことがあり、これが関節や筋肉に痛みとして現れることがあります。これは糖尿病性関節炎としても知られています。

なぜ砂糖を減らすと歯の健康が向上するのですか？

砂糖は口内の細菌が繁殖する原因となり、それが歯垢の形成や虫歯を引き起こします。砂糖を控えることで、これらの問題が軽減されます。

砂糖とエネルギーの関係についての誤解は何ですか？

多くの人が砂糖＝グルコースと誤解していますが、砂糖にはフルクトースも含まれており、これが体に悪影響を及ぼす可能性があります。本当は、体のエネルギーは主に脂肪から得られます。

Outlines

00:00

🍬 砂糖摂取過剰の10の兆候

砂糖を過剰に摂取すると、味覚が鈍り、甘いものが求められるようになります。アメリカでは、ハンバーガーバンなど日常的な食べ物も非常に甘くなっています。また、砂糖は快楽をもたらし、依存症を引き起こす可能性があります。砂糖はまた、アセト菌などの細菌を養うだけでなく、身体的老廃を促進するAGP（高度糖化末端産物）を形成します。

05:03

💊 砂糖の依存性と健康への影響

砂糖は、オピオイド受容体を刺激し、ドーパミンを分泌して快楽をもたらしますが、これにより依存性が生じ、満たされない状態が続くことになります。砂糖はまた、自然な食物の風味を味わえなくなり、代わりにファーストフードに頼る傾向があります。砂糖は、関節痛や筋肉痛、歯の腐敗、および慢性的な炎症を引き起こす原因となります。

10:08

🚫 砂糖とグルコースの違いと誤解

砂糖は、グルコースとフルクトースから成る二糖ですが、グルコースとは異なります。グルコースは、淀粉などの多糖から供給され、健康的なエネルギー源となります。一方、砂糖は、肝脏を圧倒し、非アルコール性脂肪性肝病を引き起こす可能性があります。また、砂糖は、エネルギーの安定を妨げ、血糖値の変動を引き起こします。

15:08

🌀 砂糖の摂取過多による腸内環境の変化

砂糖は、腸内環境を悪化させる可能性があります。腸内細菌がバランスを失い、腫脹、腸漏現象、免疫機能低下などの問題を引き起こす可能性があります。歴史的に見ると、私たちは、砂糖を摂取する前に、より多くの食物繊維を摂取していましたが、現代では砂糖や加工食品の摂取が増えています。

20:11

📉 砂糖の依存性と健康リスク

砂糖の依存性は、アルコール依存症と同様に深刻な問題です。砂糖は、体重増加、2型糖尿病、失明、腎臓障害、そして手足切断などの健康リスクを引き起こす原因となります。砂糖を減らすことにより、頻繁な風邪やインフルエンザのリスクを減らすことができます。また、血糖値の増加は、ビタミンCの輸送に影響を与えるため、免疫機能を低下させる可能性があります。

Keywords

💡甘いものへの依存

甘いものへの依存は、脳と神経系のオピオイド受容体を刺激し、多巴胺を放出することで快楽感を与えます。この依存は、人々が満足感を得ることができず、5分後にまた甘いものへの渇望が戻ってくるという悪性循環を引き起こします。これはビデオの主題である砂糖の過剰摂取の問題に直接関係しており、砂糖を避けることができない人々にとっては、砂糖は彼らの最悪の敵になる可能性があります。

💡皮膚トラブル

砂糖は、アクネを引き起こし、細菌を育てることができますが、さらに懸念されるのは、高度糖化末端产物（AGEs）です。砂糖はタンパク質に付着し、AGEsを形成して、皮膚の早い老化やシワの原因となります。ビデオでは、砂糖が全身の細胞や器官に早い老化をもたらすと説明しており、砂糖の摂取量を減らすことが重要だと強調しています。

💡筋肉痛と関節痛

砂糖の摂取は、筋肉痛や関節痛を引き起こす低次級の全身的な炎症に関連しています。ビデオでは、砂糖の摂取により、関節に炎症が移動し、関節炎を引き起こすことが説明されています。また、炎症は心疾患や脳卒中、およびほとんどすべての退化性疾病の原因であり、根本的な原因を解決することの重要性が強調されています。

💡虫歯

砂糖の摂取は、歯の腐敗やプラークの発生に直接関係しています。ビデオでは、砂糖を完全に排除することでプラークの発達が大幅に減少し、歯の健康が改善されることが説明されています。また、Western Priceという歯科医師が行った研究に基づいて、砂糖や加工食品が存在しない文化では虫歯が非常に少なく見られるとされています。

💡血糖値の変動

砂糖や加工食品の摂取は、血糖値の急激な上昇と下降、つまり血糖値の変動を引き起こします。ビデオでは、血糖値の変動がエネルギーの不安定さや気分変動、イライラにつながることが説明されています。また、砂糖や加工食品を避け、自然食品を摂ることで血糖値が安定し、エネルギーも安定するという解決策が提案されています。

💡腫脹

腸内の細菌がバランスを失い、誤った種類の病原菌に砂糖が栄養を与えることで腫脹が引き起こされます。ビデオでは、砂糖の摂取により腸内環境が混乱し、腸内細菌のバランスが失われることが説明されています。これは、ビデオの主題である砂糖の過剰摂取の問題に直接関係しており、砂糖を減らすことが腸内環境のバランスを回復させる手立てになると示唆しています。

💡体重増加

砂糖や加工された炭水化物の摂取は、血糖値の上昇につながり、その結果として胰岛素が分泌されます。ビデオでは、砂糖の摂取により肝臓に負担がかかり、非アルコール性脂肪性肝臓病を引き起こし、最終的には第二型糖尿病に遷化する可能性があることが説明されています。また、体重増加は、特に腹部周りの脂肪増加と関連しており、砂糖の摂取を減らすことが重要だと強調しています。

💡頻発性の風邪やインフルエンザ

砂糖の摂取は、免疫力を低下させ、頻発性の風邪やインフルエンザを引き起こす可能性があります。ビデオでは、砂糖が体内のグルコースとビタミンCの運搬メカニズムを競合させることで、ビタミンCの運搬が妨げられることが説明されています。また、人間や霊長類、モルは自分のビタミンCを製造できない唯一の哺乳類であり、砂糖との競合が始まったことで問題が生じているとされています。

💡血液の指標

血液の指標は、砂糖の過剰摂取を示す重要なサインです。ビデオでは、グルコース、HbA1c、インスリンの3つの主要な血液指標が、体内の砂糖摂取量を示すとともに、健康状態を判断する手がかりとなっていることが説明されています。これらの指標を測定し、砂糖の摂取量を減らすことで、健康リスクを減らすことができると示唆されています。

💡血糖値の制御

体内の血糖値を制御するためには、胰岛素が不可欠です。ビデオでは、砂糖を食べ続けることにより、体内はグルコースを下げようと努力し、そのために胰岛素レベルを上げます。これは、健康状態から糖尿病までの進行を示す重要な指標であり、砂糖の摂取量を減らすことで、胰岛素抵抗性を防ぐことができるとされています。

💡自然食品

砂糖や加工食品を避け、自然食品を摂ることで、血糖値が安定し、エネルギーも安定すると言われています。ビデオでは、自然食品を中心とした食生活が、砂糖の過剰摂取による健康リスクを減らす上で重要な役割を果たすと説明されています。また、自然食品を摂取することで、腸内環境のバランスを保ち、健康を維持することができると示唆されています。

Highlights

Eating too much sugar can dull your taste buds, making you crave even sweeter foods.

Sugary foods in the US, like hamburger buns, are much sweeter compared to other countries.

Starbucks and other coffee shops sell drinks with minimal coffee content, mostly sugar.

Regular food becomes boring to those accustomed to sugar, leading to a preference for fast food.

Sugar stimulates opiate receptors, causing a cycle of pleasure and cravings that are hard to satisfy.

Culturally, sugar is often used as a reward or bribe, instilling a link between sugar and pleasure from childhood.

Some individuals are more susceptible to sugar addiction and may need to eliminate it completely.

Sugar consumption is linked to skin breakouts and premature aging due to AGEs (Advanced glycation end products).

Low-grade systemic inflammation from sugar can lead to muscle and joint pain, and if left unaddressed, to chronic diseases.

Tooth decay and cavities are directly linked to sugar intake, as discovered by Dr. Weston A. Price.

The confusion between glucose from sugar and glucose from starches is misleading and contributes to health issues.

Most of our energy comes from fat, not glucose, contrary to common beliefs.

Unstable blood sugar levels from sugar intake can lead to mood swings and irritability.

Bloating from sugar intake is caused by an imbalance in gut bacteria, potentially leading to a leaky gut.

Weight gain, especially around the midsection, is a common sign of excessive sugar consumption.

Frequent colds and flu may be a sign of high sugar intake, which can decrease immunity by competing with vitamin C for absorption.

Blood markers such as glucose, A1C, and insulin can indicate the level of sugar intake and potential health risks.

It is essential to test and monitor blood work markers like insulin to understand early signs of sugar-related health issues.

Transcripts

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  

to use them to follow along if you enjoyed this  video you're going to love that one and if you  

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