What If You Totally Stop Eating Sugar For 30 Days?

Hello, Hell champions. Today we're going to talk about what would happen if you totally stop sugar for 30 days. And please pay close attention because you probably can't even imagine how fast the benefits are and how many destructive factors you can eliminate by stopping sugar. And the first thing that might happen once you stop sugar is some degree of withdrawal. And this is the number one thing that keeps people from succeeding or they tried for a little bit. And then they get right back into it. And we're going to talk about these things because sugar is a very addictive substance. It triggers pleasure receptors. It has hits reward centers in the brain, very much like heavy-duty drugs like heroin and cocaine. And a lot of people don't understand that it can actually be that addictive because after all sugar is completely natural. It could produce in nature. It occurs in all kinds of things, but especially in fruits, but then in sugar cane and sugar beets, etc. So what's so damaging about it? Why is it so dangerous? Because when we change it, when we refine it, when we concentrate it, now we completely change those properties. And now that refined product, that concentrated sugar product has the ability to bypass normal regulation. If you never ate sugar from anything else, then fruit or small amounts of sugar cane or a little bit of honey and you never had processed foods, it's not very likely that you would get very addicted. However, when you eat tons of this stuff, decade after decade, now you get hooked and it bypasses your normal ability to regulate, to have just a little bit. The second reason that you get some withdrawals is that your body will experience a temporary lack of fuel. Because if you have trained your body into depending on sugar and processed carbohydrates for fuel for energy and then all of a sudden you eliminate it. Now for a short period of time, your body is going to have a lack of energy. It doesn't know where to get energy, where to derive fuel. But it's very, very short term because very soon your body starts burning fat instead. And very quickly you become fat adapted. Because fat is actually the better fuel. It is the preferred fuel most to your organs around on fat and it creates a stable source of energy. And this can happen as quickly as in a few days. Even in minutes to hours, this change initiates your body starts adapting once you cut out the sugar. But it's still going to take a while for your body to fully change around to where it's fat adapted. But in a few weeks time now you become metabolically flexible. You train your body that it can derive fuel and energy from a lot of different food sources. And why are we talking about cutting out sugar for 30 days? Because if you do it for 30 days, now first of all you become fat adapted. You become metabolically flexible. But also because we're trying to change a habit. And if we just do it for a short term, maybe if you did it for a week, you still see a lot of changes. But it's not long enough for you to stick to it. And if you don't stick to it and you go back to eating like you did before, now you're going to undo all the benefits that you created. I've got lots of questions about how to stop sugar. And like this guy, he says, does this include fruits and complex carbs? So we're going to talk about that. We're going to understand exactly what those are. And also we're going to understand the variables because he says, I'm an active athlete who exercises many times a week. See that changes things. And we need to understand where we stand in that regard. Does it include bread, rice, and pasta? Does it include daily meats? Because they often times have some sugar in them. Does it include coffee, milk, and sugar? Because the milk has a little bit of lactose. And often people put sugar in there. And the number one reason people are told or want to cut out sugar is very often to lose weight. But that's just such a small thing. Even if it's important, it's such a small thing out of all the benefits. For example, emotional benefits. How about the improved ability to focus? How about stable energy? How about not having these ups and downs? A lot of people, they eat breakfast and then they feel good for a little bit, but kind of around 10 or 11 o'clock, they start crashing because their body doesn't know how to create stable energy when you eat sugar and refined carbs. Very often people find that they have a better mood, more stable mood, but also a higher baseline than what they were used to. And a huge benefit, like we said, is that if you can get over an addiction, now you're really starting to get empowered by not having external things and substances control you. And then very often people wonder, should I stop right away or can I do it gradually? So with carbohydrates in general, you can usually do it gradually, but with sugar, I would suggest that you do it cold turkey. Stop it immediately and completely. And the reason is that it is so addictive. And as a matter of fact, the more your tendency is to be addicted to sugar, the more important it is that you cut it out completely and immediately. Because if you have even just a little bit left, that's going to keep you addicted and it's going to trigger your behavior to go back and eating sugar. So now we need to understand what sugar is and what the different types are and which ones should we avoid. Because when we say cut out sugar for 30 days, what does that mean? So sugar is typically when we say that, we're talking about sucrose, table sugar. And that is combined of a six carbon ring. And if you've seen my videos, you may have seen me do this a few times. But I hear from all the questions that people still don't understand these very basics. We're going to go through this. And glucose by itself is if it's by itself, it's a mono-saccharide, it's a single sugar. sucrose, which this is, is a dye-saccharide, meaning two sugars. And then once we eat this and we split this up, now we get two mono-saccharides. We get one glucose and we get one fructose. So the first part here, the glucose portion, that's the one that raises blood sugar. When we talk about blood sugar, we're talking blood glucose. So glucose is a sugar, fructose is a sugar. But when we mention table sugar or added sugar in the food, it sucrose, it's a combination of the two. And the glucose, which raises blood sugar, also stimulates insulin. Because when blood sugar goes up, we need to get that into the cell. And that's the job of the hormone insulin. Fructose, on the other hand, is very different. It doesn't raise blood sugar very much, but instead it clogs up the liver. That is the unique property of fructose. There are two substances that only the liver can process and break down. And that's alcohol and fructose. So when we eat a lot of fructose, then it's kind of like drinking a lot of alcohol. That's why it's so bad for the liver. And fructose today is the number one cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It used to be that only alcoholics got a fatty liver. Now we find it in kids because we feed them so much sugar, which is 50% fructose. But a lot of people are still confused when they get seduced and misinformed into using other things that are basically the same thing. So for example, they know sugar, this white sugar, they say, these white crystals, I never touch the stuff. But I do use a little bit of honey and I use some agave, I drink just black tea or green tea and I sweeten it with agave. That's good for you, right? Well, agave is actually worse than high fructose corn syrup, which most people know is a terrible thing. Or they say, I don't eat sugar. I just use maple syrup or brown sugar. That's much better, right? No, there's virtually no difference. Or molasses same thing. A lot of people think that tamed juice, oftentimes you'll see products that are supposed to be. health food, that well it's organic and it's natural and it's only sweetened with cane juice or fruit juice or cane sugar. Well, they're all the same thing and in a moment we're going to show you exactly how they compare. Now let's talk about the physical benefits a little bit. They of course include weight loss that a lot of people know about but you'll be amazed how many people will experience reduced pain. They cut out the sugar, they reduce some inflammation and a lot of joint pain, shoulder pain, wrist pain, finger pain, knee pain gets reduced because you reduce inflammation. And of course you probably know that you get better teeth, fewer cavities, less plaque, less tartar and build up because all those things that you don't want they feed off the sugar. And you will also probably experience improved performance in so many ways. We talked about more mental, stable energy but even in sports you'll probably find that you have more endurance and better performance because as your body learns to use fat you have a fuel source that lasts much longer and is more stable. Now let's look at the different types of sugar and how they compare and we're going to talk about white sugar in terms of glucose and fructose and then compare those. So like we said sucrose white sugar is exactly 50% because one molecule of one and one molecule of the other. So we get exactly 50%. Then we look at honey and a lot of people think that honey that's so good for you that's much healthier which I would agree it is but in terms of sugar it is exactly the same thing. They float around a little bit differently but in the end when it's all said and done you get 50% glucose and 50% fructose out of honey. The difference between honey and white sugar is not in the sugar composition they're the same. However honey is a natural substance so it contains certain things. It's a natural antibacterial it has some positive properties and that's what this little green line over here is. I've added that just to kind of symbolize that there are some additional benefits but if you're trying to avoid sugar then honey is not something you want to be eating and then we have agave which unfortunately a lot of health-minded people think is a healthy product. They think it's a good thing because they've been told so in the health food store but agave has 20% glucose and 80% fructose. Because of this it doesn't affect blood sugar as much so you have less of a blood sugar spike and then people thought hey that must be good that's great for diabetics. Diabetics also have a fatty liver and agave has 80% fructose which will clog up the liver. So a lot of people know about hyphructose corn syrup. Well this is higher fructose than hyphructose corn syrup. Then the next one by comparison hyphructose corn syrup normally there's different percentages when they bite but the stuff they put into soda for the most part is 45% glucose 55% fructose. Now the difference why it's so much worse than sugar is that white sugar as bad as it is it's a dye saccharide. It takes a little bit of time to break it apart just even minutes will make a big difference because hyphructose corn syrup the these two molecules they're separate. They're floating freely from each other and now the glucose gets absorbed instantly it doesn't have that little delay so the glycemic index of hyphructose corn syrup is much higher and then of course it has a little bit more fructose as well. And then we look at maple syrup. I mean that has to be good. It's just syrup. It's just juice from a tree how bad could it be? Well in the end it's exactly the same it's 50% glucose 50 fructose and if we want to kind of really promote the difference then it's a natural product it probably has a few vitamins and minerals and some properties that sugar doesn't have but again it's fairly minimal. If on a rare occasion you're going to use some sugar and bake something then yes all these natural things would be a little bit better because they have these additional properties but in terms of sugar they're the same and molasses same thing it has some nutrients has some minerals has a little bit tiny benefit but it's still 50% glucose and fructose and cane sugar same thing as hyphructose corn syrup has been brought out and people have been shown how bad it is now in comparison all of a sudden cane sugar white sugar almost becomes a health food of course these are the stuff that you want to avoid all of them but now another common question is so how does this compare to other forms of sugar like bread because people don't realize that white bread all forms of bread rice etc they are all sugar but there is a difference and the difference is that bread has something called starch so if we start off with one of these glucose molecules and then we start stringing them together like big trees like pearls on a string and these can branch out and they can be hundreds and they can be thousands even tens of thousands of molecules linked together this is called starch this is called a complex carbohydrate and now people think hey it's good for you because it's a complex carb well these things break apart very very quickly we have enzymes that as soon as you start chewing already in the mouth you start breaking these off and that's why starch like bread and rice spike glucose raised blood sugar even faster than table sugar does but it doesn't have any fructose and that's why starch is better than sugar it's not because complex carbs are good for you they still raise blood sugar like crazy but it matters a lot to some people and not so much to others which we'll look at in a little bit so while they are all sugar and they turn into sugar the difference is that the white bread is 100% glucose now I know there's a little bit of water a little bit of fat there's some protein in there but in terms of the carbohydrates they contain it is 100% glucose now if we do the whole grain bread which is promoted as a health food it will still raise blood sugar to the same degree but it does have a few nutrients has a little bit of fiber and a few nutrients in there same thing with white rice it's all glucose brown rice is all glucose with a sprinkle of nutrients and if you are to cut this out totally for 30 days you will start seeing some amazing health benefits and yes you lose some weight you feel better and all that but this is really where it's life changing you will improve your digestive health you will improve your chances of restoring a healthy biome you will improve your immune function you will get fewer colds and flus and then we get to the stuff we talk about a lot here on this channel you will reduce insulin resistance because insulin resistance is caused by high blood sugar that's the one factor and by fructose clogging up the liver is the second factor so cutting out the sugar with the fructose is the most important thing and that's going to be enough for a lot of people but not enough for everybody and cutting out sugar is your best bet to reduce a fatty liver and for some people that's a big deal other people don't get so excited hey what's a fatty liver well a fatty liver is associated it's the central mechanism around most degenerative disease such as type 2 diabetes high blood pressure bad cholesterol and also things like all cemeterials and dementia and strokes and high blood pressure etc etc now who needs to stop what do you need to just stop the table sugar the white sugar and all the variations of that or do you also want to cut out more of the starches so starch is all glucose like we talked about it's found in bread rice corn they're basically entirely made up of starch whatever isn't water and a tiny bit of protein is essentially starch Also in pasta, potatoes. Now where you are on a metabolic spectrum, a lot of people ask, "Well, is this good for me? Is this bad for me?" It depends on where you are. Some things can be good for people at this end and terrible for people on the other end. So if we look at something like A1C, which is your three month average of blood glucose, and a good value is less than five and a half, even though I want to see it probably just a couple of tens lower than that. If you're insulin resistant, if you're pre-diabetic but not fully diabetic, you're usually around six-ish. And if you're over six and a half, then they classify you as a type two diabetic. And of course, that can go much higher. I've seen people with 15 and even higher than that. And the corresponding levels of glucose would be somewhere around a fasting level of less than 95, a fasting level of 110 or less. And for type two diabetes, a fasting glucose level of 130 or above. But as I also talk about in my videos, you don't only want to look at these, the much better indicators of insulin resistance are triglycerides and actually measuring insulin. So there'll be a link down below for blood work if you want to get that checked out a little bit more. And a lot of people also hear that, well, if I stop eating sugar, I will lose weight. And then they're worried because they think that they're already too thin. What if I lose too much weight? Well, that's not a problem. You stop the sugar because of its detriment on every function, every system in the body. And if you trend toward the thin side, if you have trouble keeping weight on, then you eat more fat and protein from healthy sources. But you can also include some of these starches. To diabetic, they want to avoid all carbohydrates very strictly, especially the sucrose, but also the starches. However, if you're more over on this side, now it is probably good for you to start eating some starches. Your body might actually work better on that. And it doesn't mean that you base your diet. It doesn't mean it becomes a foundation food, but you can have a little bit more. And I would probably tell you the favorite potatoes over grains because a lot of people are sensitive to grains and they tend to create some digestive problems. So everyone needs to avoid the sucrose. But if you're thin, then you can have some starches. If you are heavy and or type 2 diabetic insulin resistant, then you avoid both the table sugar and all added sugars and the starches. But then people also ask about the other little things like deli meats. Now this is becoming more of a personal preference. If you want to keep it totally strict, then you cut out everything that has sugar. Or if you have a tendency toward addiction that's just super, super strong, you probably don't want even deli meats. But from a metabolic standpoint, they don't really matter because they'll have something like one gram of sugar in a serving. And that's not enough to really mess with your metabolism. If that's all the sugar you're getting, then don't worry about it. However, if you want to be strict about it, if you want to be a purist, then by all means absolutely, I recommend you cut that out as well. Or if even that little bit of sweet taste kind of sets you off, then you want to avoid that as well. What about coffee with milk and sugar? Well, you can definitely have black coffee. That's not a problem. And as long as you're not sensitive to milk, I think you can have a little bit of that. Don't pour tons and tons of it, but if you want to have a tablespoon or two, that's fine. And if you want to make that half and half, instead of milk, that's probably even better. I would however strongly suggest that you cut out all the sugar. Don't put any sugar in there at all. If you're used to sugar, it's going to taste a little funny for a few days and then you'll never miss it again. And what about fruit? Fruit is so healthy, right? Well, if you are on the green side of the spectrum, then you can probably have some fruits. You can have some berries. You can have a few fruits here and there. What I want to caution against is this idea that you hear to eat more fruits and vegetables, more fruits and vegetables. They do not go in the same category. Fruits and vegetables are not in the same category. So eat more vegetables as long as you tolerate them well, but be very careful with fruit. On this side, you could have one or two a day, but maybe not every day, maybe not every month of the year. On the red side, on the diabetic side of the spectrum, you can have a few berries. You could have a handful of berries here and there, but I would strongly suggest you avoid the other fruits. Now there are even more benefits besides all the stuff we already talked about. And one thing that people will find is that you get new taste buds. As you get rid of all that sweet, all that chemical, all that artificial processed flavor, you will reset your taste buds and your brain pathways and you will start tasting food maybe for the first time and it will taste absolutely amazing to you. There is also probably going to be a cost savings because even though healthy food tends to cost a little bit more, you get so much more out of it and you will stop overeating. So in the end, you'll probably save money. You will even possibly get better eyesight. Sometimes people with very high blood sugar, they are blood vessels in the retina they swell and that can affect vision. Diabetes is the number one cause of blindness, but even if you don't go blind, you can still start getting reduced vision, reduced focus and clarity just from a little bit of swelling. And I would suggest I would strongly recommend that you take the challenge to stop sugar for 30 days and see what happens. And then you can come back and leave a comment and tell us and tell others most of all how many of those things came true for you. And if you've already done this challenge before, then please comment because it's so powerful for other people to read these comments and see that it is indeed true that you can transform your life. That's it's life changing when you make these changes. 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.