What Happens To Your Body When You Abandon Sugar For 30 Days?

Hello, all champions. Today we're going to talk about what happens to your body if you stop sugar for 30 days. Now, everyone has been told that you shouldn't eat sugar and yet you probably do. So I believe the reason for that is that you don't have a strong enough why. There's all these things we know we should and we shouldn't do, but we don't have a strong enough why. We don't have enough context of how important it is and what impact it does. We've also been told that you should exercise then why don't you. And my favorite is when you go to the doctor and you get a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance or high blood pressure. And now they say you should lose weight. If you just lose weight, that will go away. And then they give you insulin and medication that makes it absolutely impossible for you to lose that weight. So today I'm going to give you a very, very strong why. I'm going to give you lots and lots of reasons. But first we have to understand that it's not about the weight. It's about what you eat and what hormones it triggers and the worst thing that you can eat is sugar. Because sugar will trigger, will lead to, will drive insulin resistance. And sugar will also drive cravings because sugar is a drug. It's not a food. It's not about filling you up or how many calories it has. It's a drug. And then insulin resistance will also give you cravings because when you're insulin resistance, you're in a state of fat storing. Insulin turns off fat burning so you can't retrieve all that fat that you've stored. And if you can't retrieve it, your body is looking for more food and you get cravings. And if insulin is fat storing and if it prevents fat burning, then insulin resistance will also lead to obesity and overweight. And of course, if you have cravings, if you eat when you shouldn't, if you eat the wrong things, now that will also lead to obesity. But that health problem you have, that diagnosis, that disease, it's not related to obesity. It's related to insulin resistance, which causes inflammation. The insulin resistance causes disease. The inflammation causes disease and the sugar causes disease. So if you look at this, you see that it's all about sugars in the middle. Insulin resistance is of critical importance because it drives inflammation, disease, cravings, and obesity. And if you notice, there is nothing about calories in this chart because that is not what it's about. It's not the number of calories. It is the quality of the calories that determine if you get insulin resistance and cravings and inflammation and so forth. And the first thing that happens when you cut out sugar is you get healthier teeth. You get less cavities, you get less gum disease, you get less plaque, which is that film that grows on your teeth. So there are two different things that feed the bacteria that cause the diseases on your teeth and your gums. And one is if you eat starch, that's the flour and the rice and so forth, that breaks down into glucose. And then in your mouth, you have something called amylase. That's an enzyme that breaks down the starch into glucose, starting in your mouth. So that's how you provide glucose for these bacteria. And then when you eat sugar, you make it even worse because sugar is sucrose, which is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. And you don't produce enzymes in your mouth to break that down, but the bacteria that live there have the enzymes to break it down. And fructose is bad in one way because it's more acidic. And it's the acid when these bacteria consume the fructose, it produces acid that eats holes in your teeth. The other part is the glucose, which isn't quite as bad in that sense, but the glucose is more sticky. So it forms more plaque and that allows the bacteria to stick to your teeth to hang around. So if you use to brushing your teeth two or three times a day to have them feeling clean, you'll be amazed that if you cut out the sugar and you cut out the processed starches and you reduce your carbs, how clean your teeth will feel even if you don't brush them all the time. Now it doesn't mean that you should stop brushing your teeth obviously, but it's great to have that fresh feeling even if you don't brush them all the time. And if you eat something, you know what that feeling is when your teeth get all sticky and they have that nasty film on them, then realize that meat and vegetables don't do that. When you cut out the sugar, you have less risk of gout because fructose, which is again 50% of sugar of added sugar is fructose, and that increases the production of your acid. But fructose is also the strongest component of creating insulin resistance and fatty liver, which also increases the production of your acid. And then when you have too much, this your acid forms crystals that can deposit in joints and they're like little pieces of glass that give you excruciating pain. And the most commonplace is to have it in the big joint of the big toe, but you could have them in any joint in the body. When you cut out sugar, you tend to stabilize your hormones overall. And the hormones we're talking about are cortisol and insulin. And what happens when you stabilize those is that you tend to stabilize all the other hormones as well to some degree. And the reason is these two hormones are emergency hormones. Cortisol is released in response to fight flight stress. That's an emergency. Also, very high blood sugar is an emergency because high levels of glucose can damage the brain. You can go into a coma with very high or very low blood sugar. So that's kind of an emergency. And that's why these two hormones always take presidents. They take the front seat and all other hormones become secondary. And when you balance your hormones, you will tend to also get better quality sleep. And one reason is that you stabilize your blood sugar, then your insulin gets better. But you also stabilize your cortisol when you stabilize your blood sugar. Because if you have huge swings in blood sugar, any time your blood sugar is low, that tends to increase your cortisol. So when you stabilize your blood sugar, you'll stabilize both cortisol and insulin. And cortisol is a hormone that shuts off your sleep hormone called melatonin. So stabilize those two and you will also stabilize sleep. Another reason you sleep better is that you probably will reduce the number of times you go to the bathroom during the night. In extreme cases, like type 2 diabetes, then the kidneys will act as clearing glucose. It will start filtering out glucose when we exceed a certain threshold. And that glucose will take water with us and we tend to go to the bathroom a lot. That's what diabetes means that things just flow through you. And one thing you have to keep in mind though is that if you cut out the sugar and you go relatively low carb, now you're going to start burning through your glycogen. And that glycogen holds on to water. So when you burn through the glycogen, now you release all that water, which means the first night, or in the very beginning of cutting out the sugar, chances are that you're going to go to the bathroom a lot more. But it's very, very temporary. It's probably just for that first night. When you cut out the sugar, you will also improve your brain function. And the reason is that sugar drives insulin resistance, meaning that the glucose can't get into the cells properly. And that includes the brain. So the brain doesn't get the proper fuel. Furthermore, when you have insulin resistance and you eat a bunch of sugar and processed foods, now you'll also tend to get a lot of blood sugar swings, a blood sugar roller coaster, which means you don't get stable energy supply to the brain. So that makes it even worse. So when you cut out the sugar, now you will also get improved and stable energy. And what that leads to in turn is that you get improved and stable mood. You will have much less of these roller coaster swings that affect your blood sugar and your energy and your mood. And that even includes things like anxiety and depression. When you stop the sugar, you will also get improved eye health. Because high blood glucose levels is the number one cause of retinopathy, meaning damage to the light sensitive membrane at the back of your eye. Because that area has a lot of micro vessels, has tiny, tiny blood vessels. And high blood glucose causes something called micro vessel disease. And there's a number of different mechanisms for this. And you don't have to memorize all the details, but I really want you to know how well documented it is, the link between blood sugar and this kind of damage. So sugar causes advanced glycation and products. That causes damage and inflammation. You have sugar causing oxidative stress and sugar and insulin resistance causing chronic inflammation. All of these can do damage in themselves to all the cells and all the structures of the body. But then high blood glucose that sugar also ends up not just in the blood, but in the tissue surrounding. So that sugar is going to pull fluid with it. So now we get an osmotic swelling of that basement membrane that lines the blood vessel. And then you also have this sugar does damage to the parasites, meaning the supporting cells around the blood vessel. So with all these three factors, now we get a thickening and we get leakage of that basement membrane. So that is the very health of that blood vessel. And now it's thick and it's leaking and it's not doing what it's supposed to anymore. And when it starts bleeding and leaking, now it's where we have this micro vessel disease and we have that retinopathy, which is the number one cause of blindness. So by cutting out the sugar, you will dramatically reduce your risk of blindness. You will also reduce your risk for kidney failure because the functional unit of the kidney, the small microscopic functional unit is called glomerulus that filters things out. And that is full of micro vessels. So everything we talked about with the eye also applies to the kidney. And that mechanism also applies to nerves. So you will have less neuropathy, less damage to the fine nerves, especially in your hands and your feet. And the reason is that the blood vessels that supply those nerves are also micro vessels. So the same damage now that happens to those blood vessels means that we're not supplying the nerves with the proper oxygen and nutrients. And when you cut out the sugar, you'll also see much less risk of amputations, especially in toes and feet. And then there's something called sharko's joints, which is when a joint gets damaged to the point where you need a replacement or an amputation that happens mostly with knees and ankles. And here's how these amputations come about. But when you have neuropathy, meaning the nerves don't signal properly, then you have less sensation. You can't feel your toes and your feet properly. And that means that you're much more likely to injure them. You stub your toe, you hit it, you break a bone, you break the skin, and you just don't feel what happened very well. And not only are you more likely to injure it in the first place, but you're much more likely to re-injure it because you don't feel it and you have poor control over those areas. And then in the case of sharko's joints, then that's not about sensation. That's not information that you're aware of. It's something called proprioception. That means your brain's ability to tell where a joint is located in space. So it's kind of like a sensation, but you're not aware of it. And when you don't know where the joints are, you're much more likely to put pressure and weight and stress those joints in the wrong positions for you damage the joints. And same scenario here, you injure them, but you're also very likely to re-injure them because you can't tell where everything is. And now because you have less circulation as well, then you have less healing. There's less oxygen, less nutrients being brought to those areas. And then very often you can even get infections that further reduce the healing. And in the end, this can lead to amputations and joint replacements. So no for sure that sugar is the primary cause of blindness, of kidney failure, and amputations. And when you cut out the sugar, you'll also get a stronger immune system. And there's many ways this happens. One is that sugar reduces the function of your white blood cells. There's something called phagocytosis. It's where your white blood cells envelop invaders, virus and bacteria and toxins and foreign substances. It kind of wraps itself around it. That's called phagocytosis. And that's interfered with by sugar. Now this especially happens to a white blood cell called the neutrophil, which accounts for 60% of all the white blood cells that you have. And then sugar also increases ROS or reactive oxygen species, oxidative stress, which of course damages all cells, including white blood cells. Sugar contributes to chronic inflammation. And with chronic inflammation, we have a tendency to exhaust our immune system. It has to work a little harder all the time. And one more way that sugar does damage is that it competes with nutrient carriers. So when we transport things around the body like vitamin C and amino acids and electrolytes, they don't go randomly by themselves. They use carriers. There's molecules that grab on and transport them across membrane. So both to get nutrients from your digestive tract into your bloodstream and from your bloodstream into your cells where they're going to do their work, they need carriers. And the more sugar we have, the more that sugar competes and displaces the important nutrients and vitamins and minerals that we need just to be not to be able to tissue, but also for your immune system. And if you start paying attention, I bet you can tell almost every time that you get a cold or flu that it follows after a sugar bench. Cutting out sugar can also give you better skin. There's a strong correlation between sugar and acne. So stop the sugar, reduce the acne and also other forms of dermatitis and inflammatory processes in the skin. Now here what's important to realize that even though sugar is a big part of this, it's not the only one. And especially today, there are so many people that have other sources of inflammation such as allergies and autoimmune diseases and gut health. They have dysbiosis. And sugar can of course also make all of these things worse, but even cutting out the sugar, a lot of people have long-standing problems with these three that can contribute to inflammation, including skin inflammation. So just because you have something doesn't mean that sugar is the only cause, but cutting out the sugar is probably a great step in the right direction. When you stop sugar, you will become more insulin-sensitive. Another way of saying that is you become less insulin-resistant and why is that important? Because insulin-resistance is the same thing as type two diabetes. It's just a progressed form of insulin-resistance. So you reduce your risk of type two diabetes. You reduce your risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease because it's two things that cause a fatty liver. It is high levels of insulin and it is an overload of fructose on the liver because only the liver can process that fructose. And then when we drive off the blood sugar, we produce insulin that makes it worse. So cutting out the sugar, you dramatically reduce your risk of a fatty liver that isn't terribly dangerous in itself, but it's a sign of insulin-resistance and it can progress into other forms of liver disease. When you cut out the sugar, you see a reduction in a lot of different inflammation, including arterial inflammation. So you're going to reduce your risk of coronary artery disease and heart attacks. And you will also see an improvement in your cholesterol numbers. And when we say an improvement in cholesterol, that does not necessarily mean that your total number goes down because that's different for different people. Those different levels are very much genetically determined and there's a huge variation. But what you will see is you will see a reduction in advanced glycation and products. Those are very harmful substances that are caused when sugar swims around in the bloodstream together with protein. The more blood sugar we have, the more we get complexes. these sticky factors called ages that stick to other things and cause damage. And you'll also see less oxidative stress, and you will see less of the small LDL particles. And these are the true risk factors of heart disease is inflammation, ages, oxidative stress that cause damage to the LDL particles and make them shrink. So the more of these damaging factors we have, the more of the small LDL we're going to have. So by cutting out the sugar, you may not see a lower total number, but you'll see lower amounts of these damaging factors, which you can measure if you do a detailed cholesterol blood test called an NMR, you can measure the number of small LDL particles and you can measure their average size. Getting out sugar can also lead to less joint inflammation, and with that, of course, you will see less pain and stiffness. And some of you may be interested in this, that you will probably see some real lasting weight loss. And when I say real and lasting, that means as opposed to the yo-yo dieting, that if you start truly affecting the underlying balance and metabolic health, that's how you make lasting changes. When you yo-yo diet, the first three pounds you lose is water. And most people, when they do a diet, they think they're going to do it for a limited period of time. They can suffer for a bit, they lose five pounds. And then most of that was water and they stopped the diet because they were suffering and then they gained it all back. So by cutting out sugar and starting to eat real food, now you can make lasting changes. So I hope I've gotten your attention in this video and I'm going to give you a couple more reasons still. But I would suggest that you do a 30 day challenge. And in this challenge, you stop all added sugar. And then you stop all white flour, the white trash, sugar and flour. And then I would suggest you stop or reduce starch. And again, that means bread, rice, oats and corn. And why would I say stop or reduce? Because it's going to depend on the person. It's not absolutely necessary for everyone to cut all of that out, even though I think it's a good idea to try it for 30 days. But the way that you can tell if it's absolutely necessary is if you have a little bit of bread or a little bit of rice and you're okay, then you can probably tolerate it. But if you have a little bit of that and it gives you cravings for unbearable cravings for processed foods and for sugar, then no amount of that is okay for you. So you have to start to know yourself and just pay attention what's going on when I eat those things. Can I have a little bit of that and still not get cravings? Then you're probably fine. So if you take on this challenge, I want you to put a comment down below. And then when you've finished your 30 days, because now the pressure is on that you've made that comment, now you report back and you tell us how did it feel, what happened. And specifically, how many of the things that we talked about got better. And you want to do it for you, but you also want to do it for other people. A lot of these videos get millions of views, so you can affect millions of lives with your story. You can help others believe in strengthening them by telling them what happened, what your success story was. And I want to mention a couple more things that some people may not think are a big deal, but they're really some of the biggest things that will happen in terms of quality alive because you will get new taste buds. You will start noticing flavors to a degree you never have before. Your taste perception will go through the roof. You'll appreciate flavors in food like never before. Because sugar is not only a drug, it's a very powerful flavor. And when we refine it, when we take it out of its natural context and refine it and add it to food, now it overpowers everything else. And it covers up the natural beauty, the subtleties of all the different flavors in food. So it's almost like if you imagine the most beautiful sunset or beautiful natural scenery, but then with sugar, it's like all you can see is gray, gray, gray. There's nothing there to appreciate, but once you cut out the sugar, you get your taste buds back. Now flavors will come to life again. And these are some of the truly big things in terms of quality of life. And when you cut out the sugar, you will probably not have any cravings between meals. And this is one of the biggest secrets to getting lasting change. Because why do you do things and then fall back? Why do you try things and then slip off that narrow path? It's because you get cravings. And if you can't get rid of those cravings, then they will lead to failure. At some point you can suffer a little bit, but if you have the cravings, then at some point you will succumb and you'll go back to eating that sugar and to those bad habits that cause all the problems in the first place. And when you cut out the sugar, you notice that instead of cravings and unhealthy desire, you will replace that with real hunger for real food. And when you eat it, you will feel very, very satisfied. You have no problem until the next meal. And what you probably find is that you end up eating fewer meals. You'll not be in the mood for snacks. And most people are probably going to end up eating twice a day and when you do, you will have a desire, a hunger, a real food. If you enjoyed this video, you're going to love that one. And if you truly want to master health by understanding how the body really works, make sure you subscribe, hit that bell and turn on all the notifications so you never miss a life saving video.