This clip is from the Huberman Lab episode "Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving." The full episode can be found on TH-cam here: th-cam.com/video/UChhXiFPRgg/w-d-xo.html
In brief : 1.Gut-brain axis affects our sugar and fat cravings. 2. Liking sugar is taste-based, wanting is different. 3. Sweet receptors play a role in sugar preference. 4. Mice without sweet receptors drink equally from sugar and water. 5.Over time, mice without sweet receptors prefer sugar. 6. Gut cells recognize sugar, send signals to the brain. 7. Specific neurons in the brain respond to post-ingestive sugar. 8. Sugar preference is reinforced by the gut-brain axis. 9.Gut cells do not recognize artificial sweeteners. 10. Artificial sweeteners do not satisfy sugar cravings. 11.Dopamine is involved in craving sugar. 12. Overconsumption of sugar and fat is a major issue. 13. Modulating the gut-brain circuits may help control cravings. 14. Identifying healthier alternatives to satisfy gut receptors is important. 15. Modulating the circuits can improve human health.
I remember having Covid not able to taste and smell anything for 1 month. However I still had some sugar cravings. That was the moment I experienced myself that there must be a relation with my gut.
Hi, I Have Covid Right Now. Day (6) No Smell Or Taste. I’m Still Eating Bad. Hoping The Next Meal I Will Be Able To Taste It. I Can Only Taste Strong Sweet Tea. And The Salt In My Meals. I Need To Go Back To OMAD. This Video Has Been Helpful.
as a newly discovered diabetic, im fortunate that sugar substitute products satisfy me on most days, however this explains those special days when i just really want the real thing. what a fascinating discovery
What are you doing. You need to be consuming real sugar from natural sources likes raw honey and fruit. Sugar substitutes for diabetes is insanity. It literally contributes to more insulin resistance. Stop listening to your doctor and stop listening to the current nutrition science that’s founded on questionnaires or a fat and sick nation.
I cannot even begin to explain in words my great appreciation for ALL of your knowledge you and your guest freely offer. At one week from turning 40 yoa, graduating nursing school with a 3.76 GPA with 17 years of experience, and all my independently sought education and therapy, I finally found the appropriate knowledge for my brain! Thank you is the absolute least I can make known to you. ✌❤😊
This little short was great 👍🏻 I did listen to the entire version but as I use your info I can share the short version so easily with friends and family.
I wonder if cutting this clip at this exact moment is pure coincidence. Andrew is well beyond his ego and tries to make the most from the wealth of knowledge he can extract from his guests - to our benefit! Chapeau, Andrew, keep it going and thank you for your imense service. Let me tell you..you are changing the world!
Can you please make a video about type 1 diabetes relating to hormone health, exercising, the best way to fuel for exercising/fueling in general, and overall suggestions to help with diabetic related issues/ how to live a long life being a diabetic
Education and will power. If society wants to change we can change but greed rules the world and while there's money to be made selling people who don't know how their bodys work a product, those who have no principles will do what ever it takes to make money.
There's interesting stuff about sugar and fat from a guy named Udo Pollmer, who's absolutely in favor of both. But beware, he's a nutritional chemist, he argues with scientific facts, and he can explain very detailed what's going on in the body when one eats X, Y, or Z
@hubermanlab Why does the gut crave sugar exactly? I usually experience lethargy and brain fog after eating sugar, so why does the gut register its consumption as beneficial for the body?
Because sugar breaks down easily to glucose and glucose can immediately produce energy for your body. Other nutrients are more difficult to break down. So your brain congratulates you when you eat sugar! (By increasing dopamine, and making you Happy).
The sugar eating bacteria like it and are fed well( with sugar) so they multiply. Now you have a bigger sugar colony to feed. Also the insulin response- you eat sugar it rises, and roughly 30min- 1hr it starts to fall and you get cravings for sugar again
@12:43 That, my friends, is what the food industry have been machiavelically researching, engineering and implanting into everything we eat for at least 70 Years!..... and the World population is addicted to artificial food which generates more money to keep on researching to feed the machine....
I have only just discovered your channel & will view more in future. This discussion is interesting to me in the way that both participants seem to be a little on the wrong side of personal weight management. There seems to be consideration that fat ingestion is a contributor to ill health alongside sugar (glucose) consumption or actually it is over-consumption beyond what our systems can cope with. My personal way of controlling sugar/glucose consumption is to be as well versed as possible in the effects on the body that over consumption causes. From the study of this subject & some understanding of the harm that might ensue from indulging in this substance I have trained my mind to recognize sweetness as a sort of harmful substance, a poison to avoid, so instead of it causing a craving I think of it as harmful. Liking or wanting, explained :)
I feel like an alien whenever I hear ominous talk of sugar "craving" and "addiction". That is not how it works for me at all. I want sweet foods at certain moments, but having a fruit or a small amount of juice, I am usually sated. After that I have no desire for any more sweet taste, only spicy or savory tastes. There is a widely prevalent metabolic problem of some sort that is starving cells of glucose and wasting it somehow.
Mhm...simulating sugar for those gut cells doesn't sound good to me...maybe it can reduce the bad effects of too much sugar...but the underlying problem of uncontrollable craving and everything connected to it remains.
So basically sugar is addictive because of its taste as well as it's impact on the gut/brain ie..impact on energy. Artificial sweeteners trigger the taste receptors but not the gut, so artificial sweeteners don't address cravings. Why is this news? As for the cravings, parasites, gut imbalances etc impact sugar cravings. I thought we all knew this. It isn't news. We know the secret is in gut bacterial balances. We also know consuming wholefoods is the solution. The problem is in the implementation of this knowledge. Doctors don't tell us any of this. We get prescribed pharmaceuticals and antibiotics which cause more damage. And the information on creating gut balance, is confusing. Some say increase consumption of fermented food, others say that creates greater irritation. Some say increase green vegetable consumption. Others say they contain oxalates. I thought there was a general consensus on how sugar works? The issue seems to be in the dissemination of that info. And the confusion in the solutions offered.
What is grave’s disease? Is it symptom of it if we are craving salt after eating sweets? Would brushing teeth cut sweet craving? Would being dehydrated cause either sweet or sodium craving?
Reduce sugar intake, perhaps go low carb (eat mostly low carb veges not starchy one), resist the cravings for the 4-7 days it takes for those sugar loving bacteria to die off (they will be replaced by other colonies that you have been feeding with veges and whole foods)
@@catcat4697 i guess its the opposite. its a deficit. i sometimes eat once a day or twice daily. im a meditator thats why. i dont need much to become full
@@jJust_NO_ well, if you're r fasting a lot that does make sense. If I'm fasting I usually don't even feel like eating food by the time I get to breakfast, especially if i just did my workout
Thank you for great content. I do have a question. I got a little confused when Dr. Zuker mentioned that artificial sweeteners do get a reaction on sweet sensors on the tongue but not the gut. The guy sensors only work on glucose molecules. Does this mean that artificial sweeteners do not induce insulin production? If yes, could you lead me to definite scientific studies you trust on this? As you know, the Internet is kind of agnostic when it comes to information. You can find articles that agree with whatever position you take, making a non scientific person like me easy pray to junk-scientists. This is my situation. I practice OMAD for weight loss purposes. I also do not like the taste of pure water so I used to drink water with water enhancers sweetened with stevia/ erythritol / monk fruit. On days I make the effort to drink just plain water, I find I hardly make it to 64oz per day. I do triple that and more on days I drink enhanced water. What I learned from you is, fat metabolism CANNOT happen in the presence of insulin. Am I sabotaging my efforts by drinking artificially sweetened water? Second question, if artificial sweeteners induce insulin production but there is no glucose in the bloodstream, what happens to the insulin? Would it drop my blood glucose to dangerous levels ? You said that even though the brain can run on ketones, there are certain brain functions that depend on glucose. My apologies, this is long. I hope you get to see this and have a response for me. Thank you again for your content
the brain is sweet, taste sweet, in mammals. its mostly carbohydrates. muscles are mostly carbohydrates and water. you NEED SUGAR TO SURVIVE. HEALTHY SUGAR IS BONDED TO PHYTOCHEMICALS. FRUIT IS THE IDEAL. YOU NEED TO EAT LOTS OF IT. andrew is missing this currently. go back to mike mentzer !
Did I hear him right? He wants to find a way to make the body not want sugar? With almost every problem humanity has the brain is the problem. We can’t tell ourselves no. We don’t need medication. Or alteration. We need discipline. Will. Why do we want to win without winning?
This clip is from the Huberman Lab episode "Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving." The full episode can be found on TH-cam here: th-cam.com/video/UChhXiFPRgg/w-d-xo.html
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In brief :
1.Gut-brain axis affects our sugar and fat cravings.
2. Liking sugar is taste-based, wanting is different.
3. Sweet receptors play a role in sugar preference.
4. Mice without sweet receptors drink equally from sugar and water.
5.Over time, mice without sweet receptors prefer sugar.
6. Gut cells recognize sugar, send signals to the brain.
7. Specific neurons in the brain respond to post-ingestive sugar.
8. Sugar preference is reinforced by the gut-brain axis.
9.Gut cells do not recognize artificial sweeteners.
10. Artificial sweeteners do not satisfy sugar cravings.
11.Dopamine is involved in craving sugar.
12. Overconsumption of sugar and fat is a major issue.
13. Modulating the gut-brain circuits may help control cravings.
14. Identifying healthier alternatives to satisfy gut receptors is important.
15. Modulating the circuits can improve human health.
Good explanation
I remember having Covid not able to taste and smell anything for 1 month. However I still had some sugar cravings. That was the moment I experienced myself that there must be a relation with my gut.
If you lost smell and taste you got a dose of radiation. Nothing to do with a flu bug.
Hi,
I Have Covid Right Now.
Day (6) No Smell Or Taste.
I’m Still Eating Bad.
Hoping The Next Meal I Will Be Able To Taste It.
I Can Only Taste Strong Sweet Tea.
And The Salt In My Meals.
I Need To Go Back To OMAD.
This Video Has Been Helpful.
Same here
This guy has such a compelling way of speaking and phrasing things. Especially impressive as it sounds like English is not his first language.
This channel is pure gold. Thanks to share all this great information
as a newly discovered diabetic, im fortunate that sugar substitute products satisfy me on most days, however this explains those special days when i just really want the real thing. what a fascinating discovery
What are you doing. You need to be consuming real sugar from natural sources likes raw honey and fruit. Sugar substitutes for diabetes is insanity. It literally contributes to more insulin resistance. Stop listening to your doctor and stop listening to the current nutrition science that’s founded on questionnaires or a fat and sick nation.
I cannot even begin to explain in words my great appreciation for ALL of your knowledge you and your guest freely offer. At one week from turning 40 yoa, graduating nursing school with a 3.76 GPA with 17 years of experience, and all my independently sought education and therapy, I finally found the appropriate knowledge for my brain! Thank you is the absolute least I can make known to you. ✌❤😊
Thank you Sir Andrew for being in service to our generation!! 💙
This little short was great 👍🏻 I did listen to the entire version but as I use your info I can share the short version so easily with friends and family.
❤
I wonder if cutting this clip at this exact moment is pure coincidence. Andrew is well beyond his ego and tries to make the most from the wealth of knowledge he can extract from his guests - to our benefit! Chapeau, Andrew, keep it going and thank you for your imense service. Let me tell you..you are changing the world!
Liking and wanting are two different things...fascinating
Such an engaging conversation. I wonder how we are going to evolve from here. Sugar has become so much more available than ever before.
Am I the only one who finds irony in the title and doctor’s last name? 😂
Dr huberman this podcast was a great can you do a talk on how to overcome maladaptive daydreaming a mental disorder?
Amazing content! What is actually kinda funny is that his last name is Zuker which is similiar to sugar in German. Cheers!
Can you please make a video about type 1 diabetes relating to hormone health, exercising, the best way to fuel for exercising/fueling in general, and overall suggestions to help with diabetic related issues/ how to live a long life being a diabetic
I think it is quite funny that this dudes last name "Zuker" is the German word for sugar, isn't it?
Education and will power. If society wants to change we can change but greed rules the world and while there's money to be made selling people who don't know how their bodys work a product, those who have no principles will do what ever it takes to make money.
Love the shorter form highlights of key points
There's interesting stuff about sugar and fat from a guy named Udo Pollmer, who's absolutely in favor of both. But beware, he's a nutritional chemist, he argues with scientific facts, and he can explain very detailed what's going on in the body when one eats X, Y, or Z
Just came from twitter and subscribed immediately.....
Thank you sir.....
Please post clips regarding concentration, motivation sir
Thank you and will do!
@hubermanlab Why does the gut crave sugar exactly? I usually experience lethargy and brain fog after eating sugar, so why does the gut register its consumption as beneficial for the body?
Because sugar breaks down easily to glucose and glucose can immediately produce energy for your body. Other nutrients are more difficult to break down. So your brain congratulates you when you eat sugar! (By increasing dopamine, and making you Happy).
Is there anyone that was completely and truly addicted to sugar that actually got of it...and if so....who and how did they do it?
No one even wants to talk about the fact that we have the ability to modify a mouse to have human taste buds
Didn't answer the penulitmate question at all. Why ingesting sugar leads to more sugar craving which was a very good question
The sugar eating bacteria like it and are fed well( with sugar) so they multiply. Now you have a bigger sugar colony to feed. Also the insulin response- you eat sugar it rises, and roughly 30min- 1hr it starts to fall and you get cravings for sugar again
@12:43 That, my friends, is what the food industry have been machiavelically researching, engineering and implanting into everything we eat for at least 70 Years!..... and the World population is addicted to artificial food which generates more money to keep on researching to feed the machine....
I have only just discovered your channel & will view more in future. This discussion is interesting to me in the way that both participants seem to be a little on the wrong side of personal weight management. There seems to be consideration that fat ingestion is a contributor to ill health alongside sugar (glucose) consumption or actually it is over-consumption beyond what our systems can cope with. My personal way of controlling sugar/glucose consumption is to be as well versed as possible in the effects on the body that over consumption causes. From the study of this subject & some understanding of the harm that might ensue from indulging in this substance I have trained my mind to recognize sweetness as a sort of harmful substance, a poison to avoid, so instead of it causing a craving I think of it as harmful. Liking or wanting, explained :)
I feel like an alien whenever I hear ominous talk of sugar "craving" and "addiction". That is not how it works for me at all. I want sweet foods at certain moments, but having a fruit or a small amount of juice, I am usually sated. After that I have no desire for any more sweet taste, only spicy or savory tastes. There is a widely prevalent metabolic problem of some sort that is starving cells of glucose and wasting it somehow.
Goog video, didnt watched to the end because its wind winded, he can summarise it
Mhm...simulating sugar for those gut cells doesn't sound good to me...maybe it can reduce the bad effects of too much sugar...but the underlying problem of uncontrollable craving and everything connected to it remains.
So basically sugar is addictive because of its taste as well as it's impact on the gut/brain ie..impact on energy.
Artificial sweeteners trigger the taste receptors but not the gut, so artificial sweeteners don't address cravings.
Why is this news?
As for the cravings, parasites, gut imbalances etc impact sugar cravings.
I thought we all knew this. It isn't news. We know the secret is in gut bacterial balances. We also know consuming wholefoods is the solution.
The problem is in the implementation of this knowledge. Doctors don't tell us any of this. We get prescribed pharmaceuticals and antibiotics which cause more damage.
And the information on creating gut balance, is confusing. Some say increase consumption of fermented food, others say that creates greater irritation.
Some say increase green vegetable consumption. Others say they contain oxalates.
I thought there was a general consensus on how sugar works?
The issue seems to be in the dissemination of that info. And the confusion in the solutions offered.
What a great comment. That's exactly my thinking
What is grave’s disease? Is it symptom of it if we are craving salt after eating sweets? Would brushing teeth cut sweet craving? Would being dehydrated cause either sweet or sodium craving?
Thank you Dr. Zuker! Or should I say Dr.Sugar?
this is mind blowing information
I was just surprised at the name Zucker while remembering I was chugging a Pepsi. Other colas are available.
Sugar cravings are easily solved with hypnosis. It is interesting how your mind can instantly change your bodys’ desires and reactions.
A lot of people are scared to confront hypnosis and sometimes commitment in relationships!
@@sakanablesakanable hypnosis and it’s benefits seem to be widely misunderstood. It is such a pity as it is so helpful for so many people.
By frequent fasting, the cravings are gone. Especially dry fasting. Exceptional content❤❤
Sweet Episode
Is it me or is it just ironic that this guy’s last name is ZUKER!😊
It’s you.
Sugar cravings are easily solved by consuming sugar, drink some OJ or eat some fruit for example.
Nominative determinism in action: "Zucker" is German for "Sugar".
Ok so what do we do to get rid of it
Reduce sugar intake, perhaps go low carb (eat mostly low carb veges not starchy one), resist the cravings for the 4-7 days it takes for those sugar loving bacteria to die off (they will be replaced by other colonies that you have been feeding with veges and whole foods)
What does it mean if you don't really like sugar?
That sounds like a healthy dental micro biome
Was wondering the same thing. I can’t stand overly sweet food eg cakes, donuts etc drink my coffee sugarless
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Very informative!
it kills me that his name is Zuker (Zucker = Sugar in German)
Great video
How he know this. He guessing or did he experiment? I want to see the experiment
i never crave sugar or get hungry hungry.i just feel lowbat ..
now i dk if im the healthy one because i never feel others functioning the same
Not to insult you in any way, but to me it sounds like you've been eating in a slight caloric surplus for so long your body has gotten used to it.
@@catcat4697 i guess its the opposite. its a deficit. i sometimes eat once a day or twice daily.
im a meditator thats why. i dont need much to become full
@@jJust_NO_ well, if you're r fasting a lot that does make sense. If I'm fasting I usually don't even feel like eating food by the time I get to breakfast, especially if i just did my workout
Thank you for great content. I do have a question. I got a little confused when Dr. Zuker mentioned that artificial sweeteners do get a reaction on sweet sensors on the tongue but not the gut. The guy sensors only work on glucose molecules. Does this mean that artificial sweeteners do not induce insulin production? If yes, could you lead me to definite scientific studies you trust on this? As you know, the Internet is kind of agnostic when it comes to information. You can find articles that agree with whatever position you take, making a non scientific person like me easy pray to junk-scientists.
This is my situation. I practice OMAD for weight loss purposes. I also do not like the taste of pure water so I used to drink water with water enhancers sweetened with stevia/ erythritol / monk fruit. On days I make the effort to drink just plain water, I find I hardly make it to 64oz per day. I do triple that and more on days I drink enhanced water.
What I learned from you is, fat metabolism CANNOT happen in the presence of insulin. Am I sabotaging my efforts by drinking artificially sweetened water?
Second question, if artificial sweeteners induce insulin production but there is no glucose in the bloodstream, what happens to the insulin? Would it drop my blood glucose to dangerous levels ? You said that even though the brain can run on ketones, there are certain brain functions that depend on glucose.
My apologies, this is long. I hope you get to see this and have a response for me.
Thank you again for your content
All I know is that I've personally lost weight (I'm down >40 lbs from my worst weight and
Ironically his last name is zukar( sugar in german)!!
Fast like your life depends on it.
I’m sure something analogous happens with pornography
10X speed
Lol! Hey Popeye, with his expensive degree, real original tattooed skin and homeless man beard got him some tail. You must be so proud HuberSUBHUMAN 😂
Did not understand anything
the brain is sweet, taste sweet, in mammals. its mostly carbohydrates. muscles are mostly carbohydrates and water. you NEED SUGAR TO SURVIVE. HEALTHY SUGAR IS BONDED TO PHYTOCHEMICALS. FRUIT IS THE IDEAL. YOU NEED TO EAT LOTS OF IT. andrew is missing this currently. go back to mike mentzer !
Yum yum sugar mmmmm
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Did I hear him right? He wants to find a way to make the body not want sugar? With almost every problem humanity has the brain is the problem. We can’t tell ourselves no. We don’t need medication. Or alteration. We need discipline. Will. Why do we want to win without winning?
Dark liars