WHY Sugar is as Bad as Alcohol (Fructose, The Liver Toxin)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ย. 2016
- This video shows how Sugar leads to the same problems as Alcohol by examining the Biochemistry.
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Most of the content in this video is based on Dr. Robert Lustig’s 2012 book “Fat Chance,” (amzn.to/2jTCu9G) his 2007 presentation “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” and a 2011 paper he co-authored "Toward a Unifying Hypothesis of Metabolic Syndrome”.
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Stephanie Soechtig’s “Fed Up"
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TBH pretty amazing that 4 million people are interested in the biochemistry of sugar as it pertains to health. May all your liver cells live long and prosper
i almost don't consume sugar but now i'm going to consume even less
Watching this while eating SNICKERS
I’ve watched most of your videos the last few months, but today I started rewatching them and noticed your recent comment. I’ve quit sugar & processed foods, switched to a high fat diet and have been fasting daily for the last months; never felt healthier.
It’s still particularly interesting to watch your videos again as there is lots of useful information that can be very useful for many people. Thank you for all the research you’re doing and especially for sharing your findings!
I read this comment with your voice in my head
Bravo! :)
I had an uncle that was special needed. He passed away 2 years ago. The doctors looked at his liver and swear that he was an alcoholic. He didn’t consume alcohol but he was a heavy soda drinker.
Wow. That was scary 😨😨😨.
Sugar is everywhere
😟
That is the power of excessive fructose in the liver.
soda has no sugar in it, it's not even sweet
I stopped eating any foods with added sugar for the last month and most of my hunger went away. I found that most of the time when I thought that I was hungry , I wasnt feeding myself, I was feeding my sugar addiction.
Exactly what I did and felt
@Demscout I went from about 90 kgs to 77 since then. I try not to eat anything with more than 15% sugar unless its fruit.
@SandboxArrow it’s not about completely avoiding sugar, it’s about avoiding added sugar. You can’t possibly tell me that we can’t live without that, since that’s what life used to be like for millennia, in the absence of excessive added sugar
@@activechaos128 you lost 13 kg in 4 months?
@@Piccoclolo yes, just about 13kgs. Over the winter I've put some back. I'm now at about 80kgs. I haven't been as disciplined as I'd like to be over the last 3 months but I'm getting back on track now. I had not only eliminated sugar but was also eating spinach salads, meat/veg meals and fasting 18 hours in between. I also went jogging 1-2 times a week for 30-60 mins (5-10 kms). One other thing I did was water fasting. When I dropped to only eating 1 meal per day and because I would eat that meal in the evening one night I went to sleep without eating and when I woke up I continued my day like I normally had without eating. I was shocked because even though I hadn't eaten in over 36 hours I wasn't feeling hungry. It was more a feeling that there was something that I forgot to do. I then pushed it to the next day once again going to bed without eating. I then ate around 1200 the next day ending my 60 hour fast. I think I dropped 2 kgs in that time. I made sure to stay hydrated and I also take a multivitamin which keeps my b vitamin levels up. I definitely recommend doing a 48-72 hour fast every so often. Its not as hard as you would think and the benefits are amazing. Breaking your sugar addiction is key to controlling appetite. Once I did that I realized that before I would tell myself "I'm hungry" and then gravitate towards foods with sugar or that rapidly convert to sugar with little to no nutritional value. In nature foods that contain sugar often contain nutrients so our body falsly associates them so if you have vitamin or mineral deficiencies, which most of us do, you will crave foods with high sugar.
“The mitochondria is like the”
HE’S GONNA SAY IT
“Coal furnace of the cell”
…You cruel bastard
"Years of academy training wasted!!"
Leaving us hanging like that😭
Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell
-emia means presence in blood
Gotcha
Mentally and physically I'm at my worst when consuming sugar, i genuinely think I'm addicted so I have to continuously watch videos like these to motivate myself to reduce it.
maybe try fruits instead of sweets? every time you want something sugar packed just grab a apple, a cup of berries or an orange. thats how i started and ive been sugar free for over one and a half year. also reading about the health benefits of the stuff youre eating instead really gives satisfaction and motivation
Me too. I have to stop.
@@michalski9141 this usually works until I'm at work and stress kicks in and other people have donuts and candy laying around. I have to work on my will power.
That's dumb.
Cold turkey quit. Bear the withdrawal and then never look back.
3 fructose-free years for me now. I refuse to eat sugary things ever again. They now repulse me.
I used to be a total addict and am still dealing with being overweight (repricussion of my terrible diet before this).
Giving up sugar is a true test of inner strength.
Yeah..
It literally is. You will go thru withdrawal syndrome just like addicts giving up drugs.
Just view eating bread or any carb as no different than eating a jelly donut and it will be much easier to overcome the urge to eat food that turns into sugar in the body.
6 months carnivor! Lets do this! :)
I’m doing it even though I love sweets. It ain’t easy and I’m not going to lie; I still have them once in a while but nothing like I used to. Give me strength, Universe!
It's time we call it as it is. Sugar is a socially accepted drug.. And we're addicted.
Sugar addiction isn't real actually. So, no, it's not a drug.
@@badmittens5160 Aspirin addiction isn't real so it isn't a drug. See how that makes no sense?
@@badmittens5160 a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
@@bencilbusher5070 By that definition foods could possibly constitute as drugs using the clinical definition. I'm not in support or against the hypothesis, that's a different debate for another time.
When the OP used the term though he was clearly using "drug" as a colloquialism for an addicting and/or harmful substance. Which sucrose is objectively not.
@@badmittens5160 Ok then stop it now :). i'm trying since two month and it's impossible to stop completely
Mark my words: 100 years from now, giving a kid a soda or candy will be looked at in the same way as giving a kid a cigarette.
JAdHum
I think it’s in just less than 20 years from now dear sir
This will never happen
JAdHum the world won’t even be the same in 30 years. We’re all dead in a 100 years.
Sugar has been eaten as a food for thousands of years by even lower class citizens. No way something like that will ever happen.
@@sinkmagg0t Smoking tobacco has been done for hundreds of years, but once we learned of the health effects, we reduced smoking. It is not uncommon to see pictures from the early 1900s where children are smoking cigarettes - today we view this as outrageous, but it was just the culture back then. 100 years from now, as our understanding of health will have developed, we will likely find the idea of feeding children candy just as outrageous.
To anyone who gave up/is giving up sugar I'm so proud of you.. I've been addicted to sugar my whole life and only when I gave up carbs as well was I able to give it up. I did meth from ages 14 to 20 and honestly it's harder to quit. It's everywhere, in everything and overly accepted by society as a "treat" so. To anyone reading this who has overcome other addictions this will be your hardest trial
I'm so glad I've just never had a sweet tooth.
I’ve always wondered what was harder. Sugar is even snuck into everything under different names and added to things that aren’t supposed to have sugar. It’s probably only mildly addictive but we almost never get a break. 3 meals a day and all you can drink.
Sugar is addictive. No wonder they add sugar to everything. Profits > people.
i always wonder what do "they" eat?
More addictive then that blue sky.
@@jhingur7169 everything organically cultivated by children slaves whose tiny hands take better care of their delicate fresh produce
and if they land in the hospital it is even more profitable
It really is in everything! I'm on keto and I can't eat hardly anything
Dr. Robert Lustig would be proud of this video. You have distilled his lengthy lecture - a lecture that not everyone has the patience to watch - into a video that does a damn good job explaining his thesis. Thank you for putting in all the work to make Dr. Lustig's concepts even more accessible to the masses.
Thanks so much Drake. His "Fat Chance" book should be required reading in schools
What I've Learned Question, why then is Lustig overweight, all that study, all that science, why is he puffy? If he is not eating eating sugar etc....why is HE fat?
RawTill4 Fitness
If a master carpenter didn't make furniture for his own home, he would still be a master carpenter.
What I've Learned He would still be a Master.... but....it appears that the "Master Carpenter" has got some wobbly bits of furniture in his own home. ANSWER THE QUESTION :)
Pissed Off Crusader Exactly, a whole lot of it.
I think I can hear him cringe as he says “coal furnace” instead of “powerhouse”
Krish Maheshwari yeah man I just saw this. He should’ve said something like, “we all know what the mitochondria does” because literally everyone and their dead dog knows what the mitochondria does.
@@nicalicanri I don't fully understand what it does, even though I have heard the term a LOT while watching these sorts of videos, so I appreciate when other analogies are used.
MiToChonDRIa iS thE PowERHouSe OF tHe CelL
@@sigmacorvid1003 Beautiful explanation!
@@Chaz.hands.
It uses the energy stored in the sugar molecules to produce ATP, a molecule that is used by muscle and other body cells as an energy source.
I appreciate you mentioning that fiber actually negates many of the negative effects of consuming fructose in whole fruits and berries. There's a reason why no one has ever been diagnosed diabetic as a result of eating too much fruit.
Yeah I was super scared of fruit for a minute. Then I was immediately relieved AF
Yep. Also, no one gets obese on nuts or 99% chocolate either, for some reason. Seriously. You can eat whole handfuls or bars and still lose fat by the bucketload.
Well, it's not easy to eat too many nuts. They're filling. Very. Or 99% chocolate. 50g is already daunting.
_Warning:_ Eating too many brazil nuts can be toxic. So be careful.
Olivia esddms - Are you speaking of the 99% dark chocolate with less sugar? Because am absolutely certain this one can get obese consuming loads of milk chocolate. Have noticed dark chocolate doesn't induce overeating frenzy like milk chocolate does. Would also like to read about nuts being this way if you still have references on it.
Sugar is safe. Meat is what's killing us.
Sources?
And this is why I kept getting really mad about my high school health class saying that fat is way worse than sugar, and to eat a high carb and low to no fat diet.
Burn fat not sugar .
Same here, It's been a very long time but I do remember it being taught.
Alexis Harper wtf....still in 2018 they are teaching that utter crap?
Eat fat and protein....the body makes glucose on an as needed basis from fat and somewhat from proteins ... and sugar cravings disappear when you don’t eat carbs.
@Juden Arier salt is absolutely necessary for human life, other than that your on the right track.
@Juden Arier very true. But that's the same with anything in excess.
there's something this video forgot to tell : the amount of glycogen your liver can store is very limited and this limit is easily reached. When the muscles also are full of glycogen the surplus of glucose is transformed into triglycerides and then stored as fat.
what about fruits, fruits produce furctose, so if I consume a lot of fructose from fruits, what about how it works in our liver? is it the same as added sugar?
@@depressedindonesiangirl939 12:34 listen carefully
@@depressedindonesiangirl939 1. They digest slower allowing for you to not reach a surplus and many fruits have no fructose at all. Raisins for example only have allulose.
The video says fruits have fiber that solves some or many of the problems. Tho he didn't go into what fiber actually does to help.
the sugar is packed within the fiber, the process of breaking down fiber containing fructose takes longer. This causes a healthy slower stream of fructose intake. @@Utrilus
Me and quite a few of my friends were pretty much raised on sugar, especially soft drinks and sugary sweets. When I started hiding chocolate from my wife, just because I was ashamed of being so addicted to it, I noticed how much of a drug it really is. I went from eating a literal kilo of chocolate a week to maybe one chocolate protein bar per month, if any. I don't have diabetes and always had a low BMI, but simply the thought of being addicted to a substance that much was unsettling enough for me to try and deal with it. However, I'm living quite a happy life, so it was surprisingly easy. Can't imagine how terrible it is for people with depression etc.
You could always try 100% cacao chocolate bars!
@@Vitamin_jp i was Just gonna Say that. Switched to 99 percent Lindt chocolate and i m Loving it
Interesting
I and quite a few of my friends...please!
Chocolate has theobromine, which is very similar to caffiene and is also very addictive.
I think a more accurate description on mitochondria is ‘the powerhouse of the cell’
lmao
Boyinaband eyy?
@daAnder71
I think it gets the sugars and transforms it into energy the cell can use. I think.
No, that's mitochondrion.
its less driaish and more drionish
I lost 60 on 6 months cutting out sugar and refined carbs and increasing fat and protein. Off meds in two weeks after being diabetic for 20 years. Reversed my diabetes by quitting sugar. Sugar is toxic and addictive. The reason many people are so resistant to this message is that they are addicted.
akjlm53
Congratulations. I lost 60 lbs as well on a Keto diet.
Amazing news congrats to you both
akjlm53 cut all carbs to zero...losing 2 lbs a week...so far I lost 12.5 kg ...not sure what that is in pounds...lol
Eat meat...get healthy ;-)
Ah...27.5 lbs...wow...and yet the belly fat is still...ah well...gone from 39 inch waist to 35....I just need to be more patient...lol
Spoiler alert: reason sugar feels addictive is because it's an energy substrate that reduces stress. :0
You can achieve the same result by losing weight regardless of the marconutrient % split of your diet. ( 86% of T2 diabetics go into remission by losing 15kg / 33lb or more. )
But hey, if thinking that way and making sugar your devil made you consume less and lose weight, don't change what works for you.
I was sitting next to my wife’s grandma who has Alzheimer’s. She was fairly alert and responsive to our conversations. My mother-in-law gave her a Pepsi to drink and by the time grandma finished about a quarter of the drink, she became completely unresponsive and sat quietly with no expression on her face.
I observed this but no one else did and I didn’t dare say anything because they wouldn’t have been agreeable to my observation. I still believe her condition could have been improved or even reversed with proper diet.
Your smart. No one will believe you for them sugar is energy. I did try to say they get diabetes cancer and so on they won't believe me.
Alzheimers has been touted as diabetes type 3. as the brain degrades, it loses the ability to use glucose for energy.
I read that there is a link between sugar consumption and alzheimers (and cancer and dementia too).
@@littlebabybugjones2676 there are a lot of great studies on that.
You can’t reverse Alzheimer’s. You don’t understand how that disease functions. There’s so many more likely reasons why her mental status changed than having some pop.
This needs to be shown at every high school health class. Very well explained using technical knowledge while keeping it digestible to the layperson ;)
I’ve just recently realized my severe anxiety is definitely made worse (maybe even caused) by sugar. I have been slowly removing it from my diet (I was eating a TON of it every day) and I’m feeling so much better. I tried cutting it cold turkey and it made me really sick. I’ve been reducing over the last month.
That is great! Keep cutting it and you will be full of energy
Y'know why cutting sugar cold Turkey made you sick. You need sugar to live that's why this video is a poorly researched lie.
@@iamthehype3684 lol you don't need sugar to live. That sounds crazy... the one with lack of research is you!
@@gallettiguitartones oh really then how about diabetes where people get really sick and can potentially die do to lack of glucose (aka sugar) in their blood. How about that. Hypoglycemia look it up.
@@iamthehype3684 I don't need to look it up because I know what it is. I'm a diabetic type one. And hypoglycemia usually occurs when you inject or have way too much insulin. I do not eat sugar or any type of flours, nothing high carbs. I eat mostly meat (keto-carnivore) and my blood sugar is on point. My a1c is a non diabetic person. So tell me? Do we need sugar? No, we don't. If your body ever for some reason needs glucose there is a process called gluconeogenesis.
I love Dr Lustig. That dude is low key enraged in his lectures., and he ought to be. Thank goodness at least A FEW people have the integrity to tell us the truth.
Noodles fun fact: lustig means funny in German
I am the 112th guy who ruined ur 111 likes
Ben S Olesen in German too
He is also heavily critiqued by the scientific community.
@@GoalOrientedLifting can you tell me for what reasons ?
"Mitochondria is like the..."
Me: POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
Him: ... coal furnace of your cell
Me: ...
* unsubscribe*
lmao I was looking for this
Chubby Emu?🤣
😂😂😂
So what's a 'powerhouse'? 🙄
Ahaaaaa 😂
I've told my husband on multiple mornings that I felt "hung over" after having lots of desserts or too many high carb treats the day before. I've been feeling so much better lately after limiting my consumption to a small portion once or twice weekly. Now, after I eat those things, I feel bloated and lethargic and it turns me off from eating it again for a while.
Sugar and internet..most underrated addictions that people aren’t even conscious of
Edit** wow so many likes thanks, you all know! And yes entertainment and sugar is better. Basically pleasing our own innate sexual and gluttonous desires and by such wasting our life and potential
John Mandrake Pornography should be on that list. And it’s far more destructive than sugar and the ‘internet in general’ combined
@@nickkraw1 Right on the nose sir, pornography partnered with masturbation is the absolute killer. Had a friend who developed erectile dysfunction from masturbating and watching porn all the time. Kills intimacy, kills marriages, kills healthy perceptions of sex, makes you dissatisfied with real life human intimacy, rots your mind, just to name a few
@@nickkraw1 thats basically internet
@@ibrahimismail7881 Yeah, its similar, but much worse than other internet addictions
No,to put it in better terms.Entertainment and sugar.
I was told I was prediabetic.
I gave up juice, soda, bread, etc.
Reduced sugar intake.
No longer prediabetic!
My visceral fat dropped to 1!
Wow great job! Did you notice any changes with your focus @ work? Also how long did it take to come off diabetes? Keep healthy!
1 what? Units?
@@alexwang982 Nope, just 1. One fat.
@@bb3xhrhj LOL
Same here. The pre-diabetes diagnosis scared me into giving up sugar, caffeine....now wheat.
----4 wks off sugar, I felt better each day. Mood was varied, still felt a bit unsettled. Detox. Missing my junk food.
-----2 months, people noticed I looked brighter. Skin clear and warm, eyes reverted back to old twinkle, less combative, more relaxed. No more IBS.
-----3 months in, well I got more work to do, but trust me, it is worth it. You are gonna look younger, and shock some people.
I rewatch this after 2 years just to add strength to myself. I did manage to consume less sugar 2 years ago but somehow now I find myself in the pitfall again. Being consistent is difficult :(
If you stay off it long enough, between 3 and 6 months you will get over the addiction. I'm now eating 90% dark chocolate. It took me about 6 weeks of eating 10g every day to get used to it. It's got 3% sugar, none of it added and it is a little bitter so quite the opposite of chocolate.
I eat a quarter of a banana daily, 30g, and a few blueberries and that's all the sugar I need.
@@argentum3919 So basically you haven t quit sugar
the video mentions fruits despite containing fructose being off the list for risk because of the fiber. Fruits contain great vitamins and natural sugar can often be assumed as Healthy and non Negative.
@@argentum3919
@@sugaciu5908 Most people will have a hard time going completely sugar free. What matters is a reduction in sugar intake, especially added sugars.
My whole life has been a lie. I now see practically everything I consume has sugar in it. I have no idea how I'm going to kick the habit but I did give up alcohol so maybe time is my friend here.
I’m on day four of sugar withdrawal and this is like worst hangover I’ve ever had in my life including throwing up twice today. All this has done is manage to convince me how toxic sugar really is.
I'm curious as to how you're feeling now, a month later?
If you still have problems you might wanna get a preg check
Do u eat enough unprocessed food?
@@mageochagainbrochtuarach1176 a month later all simptoms disappear and you feel great, try it.
@@mazdavolvo9705 Takes only about 2 weeks for white bread to start tasting sweet
Mitochondria is a coal furnace? Come on. We all know that mitochondria is THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL!
A coal furnace is what "POWERS" a coal burning freight train so the analogy is the same.
@@davidkellymitchell4747 r/whoosh
.... is the OXYGEN powerhouse of the cell! totally agreed ;)
That's literally the same concept man... c'mon You should be smart enough to know what the video maker meant.
Honestly, I was never taught that phrase in school. I was taught the role as it was, never this meme phrase that everyone seems to know. Am I old?
I watched this video back in 2019 and it prompted me to developing my own current diet plan avoiding processed foods and sugar. I basically only eat things that are or were living, meat and plants. I lost 50 pounds in 3 months and have kept it off since starting in the beginning of 2020. Thank you, I’m much healthier now.
Edit: I also used to have chronic gastric reflux, and switching to non processed foods fully cured it as well.
Imagine how I’m feeling, watching this while eating cookies and drinking soda for dinner
@Mike M the hnic sadly passed away right after typing this
I’d imagine you feel guilt free as long as the sodas diet.
cookies weren't mentioned during the video, so enjoy
Quit all sugar except fruit (whole fruit,not juice) about 2 years ago.Never felt better,and it helped me further with my fitness and mountaneering goals.It's worth it,and you will forget the taste of the sweet stuff eventually.A banana will taste super sweet after the first year.
Albert0 Jordanov I gave all sugar period...your right ...I have a faint memory of how sugar tastes still...but if I put anything on my tongue...I go yuck!...except maybe raw honey ...even still I can’t stand more than a teaspoons worth...lol
For me cream cheese is tastier than ice cream now ;-)
Or liverwurst...mmm
also sweet corn, sweet peas, avocadoes, green beans, carrots, liver (where mammals store an emergency supply of glucose), etc
Try rambutan fruit! Its soooooo sweet
wait thats insane. i never got how people could just quit sugar. qwq like what about cake
Exactly. When you dont eat it, you actually dont crave it. It just tastes too sweet
This is actually kinda terrifying.
Of course it sounds terrifying. It's fear-mongering propaganda to try and convince people to change their habits, or lobby governments to force people to change their habits by breaking through passivity. So go straight to apocalyptic, evil, gloom, horror phrasing. Don't forget to demonize an enemy and make people feel like nothing is their own personal responsability, so they feel a nice surge of indignation.
The makers of the documentary thought they couldn't convince people without hyperboles and inflammatory language. Pies and chocolate aren't new. They just got ridiculously cheaper and religious stigma against gluttony is gone, so people stuff theyr face with that delicious food.
Ironically, the writers talk about "highjacking your brain by engeneering food" while carefully manipulating language to highjack your emotions with dishonest hyperboles.
@@familhagaudir8561 You have no argument. Classic character assassination logical fallacy instead of arguing the point. Go ahead and refute the scientific evidence in the video.
@@familhagaudir8561 so what is your point? You've made absolutely no valid argument LOL
Familha Gaudir So you’re saying the biological process of how sugar and alcohol is processed in the body is false? Are you saying you saying the increase in diabetes, NAFLD, and obesity isn’t attributed to sugar? If you are, then what peer review evidence do you have. Seems all you’ve done is speculate without any scientific basis.
Not at all
I used to drink 6 beers a day in the evening but just stopped the past 2 months and i lost 9kg and feel like a new person. Really crazy how much we poison our own bodies
The other scary part is if you consume too much sugar a microscopic fungus (native to your gut) called Candida starts sending out hormones into the body, making you crave more sugar as they absolutely love it.
I started watching this to stop eating sugar and i'll stop drinking alcohol too D:
That's great! Rather be happy without needing 'moderation'
@David Chaplin for people with addictive personalities, moderation is harder than abstinence.
Me too
I don't remember where I heard this, but there is a grandma diet where you only eat things with ingredients that your grandma would recognize. It makes it much harder to eat processed food
My grandparents live on a farm but they are not healthy
My grandma microwaves everything. She also doesn't really cook and eats lots of tv dinners. I try to get her to eat better and cook for her but she just prefers the convenience of microwave food when she's alone. 🤷
@@jennyjen7000 there are some pretty healthy meal delivery services out there
@@jennyjen7000 i always say, when people are scared of microwaves. You don't have to put your head in it.
@@92AlexanderS they don't mean the microwave itself but the ready to microwave meals their granny eats. Cheap microwave food is atrocious.
I stopped eating sugar for an entire month and developed a six pack!- Never hit the gym nor did any ab workouts!
So are fruits okay or?
NOOOOOOOO
You're just allowed to breathe, everything else would kill you.
@@pamelalagos6552 Oh...my saliva filled with bacteria. lol
Fruit has fiber which slows the absorption of the sugar in fruit
Moderation is key
you are allowed to consume fruits and basically anything bio the whole idea of this video is to promote healthier .. none processed foods which do not contain fructose and other nutritional additifs ( colorants , sweetners,...)
Well shit, you have any idea how much honey i've been eating!!! No wonder i've been getting pudgy.
Cody'sLab hey I follow you!!
hi cody!
So it wasn't just the video camera lol
I thought natural bee honey did not compare to the daily human-refined sugar.
Because of all the other stuff it has in it.
Dude perfect
I try to cut down on sugar but it is not easy, I has stated with carbonated water with lemon taste to get rid of my habit to drink soda, but it is still hard, so I want to say sugar is addictive.
Jim Engström It is, very. Withdrawal kind of sucks ass, and with soda it's a double whammy.
Jim Engström try home made kombucha
I did it, it was awesome. I drank sugar free sodas, I'd start there. Make sure your foods have little to no added sugars. Avoid them like the plague.
Dropping the soda is a big step. It was hard for me in the beginning. Once I cut out carbs it calibrated my ability to sense the effects of glucose. Less tastes sweeter than before, I can feel when I had too much or when I should have had something with it to slow the insulin spike. In this process I've learned the value of 'x' amount of food. I know when I have had enough, I don't need more. The awesome thing about willpower is the more you use it, the stronger it gets and the better it feels.
Trying by using sugar free soda is a good start. I personally find many SF sodas taste funny, either because the sweetener is not idea for me, or they try to oversweeten it. Flavored, sweetened seltzer water is another step down. Then flavored seltzers are the next step down. I'm talking about when you want something other than plain water. When thirsty, plain water is great, but sometimes you want fizz or flavor. I still get diet ginger ales or diet root beer, but I don't really want diet colas and lemon sodas anymore. I'd rather have lemon or berry seltzers for flavors. and unsweetened ice tea, made with a good quality tea that is not over steeped can be awesome. Lemongrass, hibiscus, and Rooibas, and other non-camelia teas have great flavors as well as well made green tea that's not bitter.
Watched this for the first time four months ago. The contents of this got me into this channel, and into self-improvement in general. I've lost 40 pounds since then, got into a strict routine, and feel the most confident I've ever felt in my life. This video was probably one of the most important videos I've ever watched. Thank you.
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@@TagetesAlkesta No, don't quit sugar.
@@TheAbsoluteProduction found the Coke executive
@@TagetesAlkesta ???
I gave up sugar and started eating healthy, but the extreme fatigue and depression were crazy. Lasted for about a month and it was the worst
Any tips on how to stay consistent?
Don't be insulting. Try quitting cigarettes or alcohol then snivel about how you feel.
@@cincin4515 what are you talking about lmao I wasn’t being insulting to anyone
So I got my bachelor's in biochemistry... and this was still some high level stuff. Way to do your research and explain well in layman's terms!
Glad you said that!! I sort of glazed over at things like "The SREBP1 from before activates these three enzymes..." 😎
It's hard for those of us who have no idea what he's talking about, because even those with a thorough grounding in biochemistry seem to disagree on what is actually going on. There seems to be a massive disparity between what's taught on the standard curriculum, what seems to be new information, and "Facebook science." I'm suitably wary of the latter, but also don't entirely trust the standard curriculum as most of it dates from pre-internet days when research was done in more isolation.
You mean low level? High level means basic. Low level is granular.
That was my background too. I did my masters thesis on liver disease so this stuff was in my wheelhouse. What he was saying about Alcoholic Fatty Liver and Nonalcoholic fatty liver was on point.
@@hsharma3933 we may lose your job
5:40 Layman's terms?
thumbs up for kid beer
Isn't that what non-alcoholic beer is? 😂
Warrant Investigator Knight nah non-alcoholic is for those who love the taste of beer, but don’t want to poison themself
Who drinks beer for the taste?
@@erikkugel a lot of people.
in russia, beer is for kids 😂
Sad is that sugar is everywhere and it's close to impossible to avoid it if you don't make your own food
That is true, but cooking your own food can be quite fun, release a lot of stress, and teach you an important life skill. I've been cooking all of my food for 2 months now, and it just makes it taste better when you've put all the work in
You don't have to avoid it.
Luckily cooking is quite easy. If you have a basic kitchen and are physically healthy enough to do it. Really, you should not live without cooking your own food
"No parent in their right mind would give their kids alcohol"
Believe it or not, in Belgium we get mild beer at school during lunch break...
sign me up for reincarnation in belgium
What part of Belgium
yeah Belgian over here, literally never heard about anyone getting beer at any school.
Oh.....well it's a peaceful country. Not like America.....sorry Americans 🙏😶
Wow!!
What the fuck? Did you just teach me something that's probably going to change how I view food forever?!
K wow I'm gonna have e to try that at some point. It will be hard.
K what all do you consider refined sugar? Does bread and pasta count? Or only added sugar for sweetness?
Fruits and natural honey don't count boooooiiiiii
Anyone tried this yet? Any comments?
Pasta is similar to bread which he has already explained in the video. Fruits are okay because they have fibre but I have no idea about honey.
Refined sugar are usually things like white sugar, brown sugar(no, they are just as unhealthy as white sugar), syrups, overwhelming majority of cereals, juices and others. Pro tip: Avoid packaged foods as much as possible and try to stick to foods that are not processed. If possible, try to cook at home because you'll know what stuff you have put in when you're cooking.
So in summary, if you want something sweet, eat fruit.
Or just eat a piece of cake but do so in moderation and not every day.
If you consume a weekend bar of cbocolate or 2 or a pack or 2 of sweets at the weekend, have a fry up just at the weekend, have a pack of crisps only at the weekend and drink a 330ml can of sugar coca cola weekends only as well, but don't do it the rest of the week and remain active you should maintain normal weight of 18.5 to 24.9 BMI.
It should be fine enough.
There is not the mass crisis of thousands of individuals in the consumprion of family size 200 gram bars of chocolate, full 12 pack multipack crisps and 2 litre bottles as the evening snacks and on a regular basis the way it is being portrayed in the press.
Pineapple is and berries in morderation. Not all fruit is healthy in high doses.
@@@robinluich5576
As long as you your daily intake doesn't exceed the daily recommended intake of sugar, salt and fat on the food labels and lead an active lifestyle, consuming a bowl of berries or at least some of a pineapple should be OK.
@@robinluich5576 > nothing is healthy in high doses. That's how you define the dose.
Glad my parents wouldn't let us drink soda growing up.
I havent had sugar as a part of my diet for the better portion of this decade, and my 20's. I just shared this with my friends group chat and I hope it encourages them to stepping away from this socially accepted damaging habit.
Thank you for making this information so concise and easily digestible (pun intended)
I haven't eat sugar since 2 months and believe me it feels great. First two week is just hard than its easy.
+rakesh patel
Legit
lies.
rakesh patel jocko
Lies
Its very hard! Everything has sugar in it! Is there a certain eating regimen you followed?
Sips water: “It’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle sweety ;)”
Me, same day: *eats half a box of Oreos*
Feels called out. (I love oreos)
give me the breadsticks
Only HALF a box?! Lightweight. Lol
Normally a half gallon of chocolate milk to go with the box of Oreos. Then I cry myself to sleep
Stop eating Oreos and breadsticks. Just don't buy them.
lol. Im glad I live in socialist europe, where its considered strange *NOT* to drink any water and tap water is so clean and "soft" in taste, you dont have to cook or filter it. In fact, I consume nothing but tap water.
Thank you very much for a video this consistent and illustrative! Everything's inline and on spot. Great work!
This channel is a gold mine of life changing facts.
You talk about issues nobody even acknowledges exist.
You helped me so much. Thank you.
This channel should be sponsored by all social security programs. Of all countries. Ever. In the world.
This was just the compact version of 'Sugar: The bitter truth' though
Truth sucks man
Not everybody is ready to embrace it
It will be sponsored when it gets 50 million subs.
so true
*worlds*
I lost 20 pounds in two months just by cutting out extra sugar aka I only drank water
six years later, i still love this video
This is fascinating... I need to pass this on to everyone....
IRS-1 is not an insulin receptor.. it is one of the substrates activated by the insulin receptor (an adapter protein). The Insulin receptor is simply referred to as Insulin Rezeptor or IR, IRS-1 is (I)nsulin (R)eceptor (S)ubstrate 1.
moathe qadura huh???
I love how there’s a Pepsi add right before the video
Pepsi and Coca Cola have killed more people than anything else has.
@@samjones4451 coca cola hasn't killed anyone. Lack of discipline kills people. They can't limit themselves
Coca cola did not kill anyone outright. It only killed their liver and pancreas. There should be a warning label on Coke. Pepsi....did I miss any?
@@rl-fc1ry Coca Cola puts the poison in their bodies.Anyone who knows anything about health says to stay away from soda pop.
@@samjones4451 that's called discipline
Perfect synthetic description of what Dr. Lustig explains, in nutshell !!! Congrats for this video!
0:53 poor Chicken is concerned lol.
By the way, is there a video you can make, in a similar fashion, of how artificial sweeteners are digested by the body? To what percent is processed by the liver and if it acts in the same way as ethanol or fructose?
try to avoid artificial sweeteners as much as you can. they are not healthy. just avoid any added sugar or [artificial] sweeteners altogether. I occasionally eat an apple or a banana (but the banana should get eaten as soon as possible before the starch converts into sugar).
@@granville7 The natural breakdown of starch to glucose monomers doesn't seem like a big concern given that your body already contains several enzymes that do this already (e.g. amylase in saliva and brush border enzymes in the duodenum). Now if you're eating something with beta-linked glucose units such as cellulose (e.g. tree bark) then of course we lack the enzymes to break that down so if you were to somehow let the decompose to glucose on its own, then yeah that could be a source of glucose. But I'm not aware of anyone eating tree bark that's already had it's cellulose hydrolyzed.
@@AdamDavis98 well, xylitol is made of birch bark as far as I know
Artificial sweeteners are more likely to cause diabetes after a short while of regular usage
"Diet" sodas
coke "Zero"
So sweet tea is essentially VODKA
Kid working at McD's literally told me "we put an assload of sugar in the sweet tea". But, you can order a half-sweet/half-unsweetened tea, or even try the straight unsweetened. I lost like 30 lb at McDonald's (they're the only choice within a reasonable distance of my jobsite) by switching to their "grilled chicken bacon ranch salad (hold the ranch, give me the vinaigrette) and unsweetened tea".
@Christina Reynolds People used to give children cocaine and various narcotics to "calm them down" back in the 30's.
What the hell is sweet tea
Giving your child candy ? You might aswell throw them off a cliff !!!
@Christina Reynolds in England we call that Tea.
I'm glad you made this video, I once saw a discussion between robert lustig and someone else on this topic and how the dietary guidelines don't pay attention to it. But I couldn't find that video anymore and I forgot Robert Lustig's name until I watched this.
Great summary, thanks! I'm trying to avoid artificial table sugar, so I use drugstore grade pure glucose instead. That's more expensive, but nothing serious. Dr. Lustig is great.
Have a great week!
half way through and you realize your in a sci-fi movie and signed up for more then your tiny brain can process.
Sorry to be that guy bur *you're in a sci-fi movie....
hmmm. all relevant and understandable
It's pretty amazing how scientists have been able to figure out how all these metabolic pathways (chemical reactions) work.
You need more sugar for your brain to process the info
Wow that glucose metabolism overview was beautiful. It reminded me how much I loved biochemistry classes
😂 Deadpan, not a single emoji or ;)
I like it
i dont
Amazing video man.
Great video! Very informative!
Biggest crime in history... Wonder Bread, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and other Kid Cereals, and the USDA food pyramid....
Here's your sign...
A bit of an exaggeration, don't you think?
Pharmaceutical companies and Monsanto are at also crimes to humanity.
The biggest crime in history is capitalism itself.
Well said Mr Kuebler, you have mentioned what is beyond an unethical food industry.
Those chocolate bars in the background are not helping :0
Some couple months ago stopped drinking sugar drinks like Coke. Only sometimes drink just a bit of diet Coke or Pepsi during work. Managed to lose already 10 kilograms of fat without much of dieting. Stopping sugar beverages made me stop eating also other sugary, sweet snacks and foods.
Wondering about sugar alcohols that are used as healthy, low-cal sugar alternatives nowadays - xylitol, maltitol, erythritol, etc. Any suggestions about these and how their metabolism is different?
You dont need alcohol to survive??!!
you don't need sugar to survive either
I used to be addicted to sugar and I cut it almost completely, if you needed sugar to live I'd of died about 6 months ago lol
@@MannyJazzcats cutting out sugar completely deserves a pat on the back my friend. Well done, that is no easy feat.
survive the rave nightclub, yes. survive the rest of life, no.
Your body produces a percentage of alcohol itself
I was suspecting this all along
Me to 🤔
@@McAllen-dv8dd هذه ٨٠
Question: I kept noticing citrate being a step in the creation of VLDL. A lot of artificial drinks are flavored with citric acid, which from my quick Google search, seems to be chemically similar. Is there any research out there linking or unlinking citric acid consumption to weight gain?
This is really interesting, hope this comment gets more attention
I'd like to know too
No. It is not linking to weight gain.
although chemically similar. These are completely unrelated haha.
I'm fructose intolerant so worked this out quite early. Everyone else seemed less healthy than me despite me basically having the opposite diet (animal-based, low car, no sugar). Today I'm still the healthiest person I know, even more so now better science has come out to inform my nutrition.
I am fructose intolerant also and haven’t found any solutions.
@@Maury1941 Solutions to what? Being fructose intolerant or being healthy?
@@anonperson3972 fructose intolerance
@@Maury1941 HFI or malabsorption, as far as I know there's no cure for either. HFI is genetic so no getting around that. All you can do is eat a diet with levels of fructose low enough for the liver to filter out the toxins. For me that's under 2g per day.
@@anonperson3972 thank you
I literally just finished biology and realized I got tricked into another lesson
The sad part is that tomorrow I'm going to forget all of this.
Watch every day then!
BoI I dont even care
I need the SUGU
I can't be fixed , I went to a point of no return
😓
@@sXwerRATZ guess this video is only for the strongest right
you can't always be strong sometimes you're weak, right
@@sXwerRATZ sounds like an addiction
That was informative! Thanks!
Thank you for posting this. I struggle with sweets ALL THE TIME. Sugar really is a drug.
Fucktose.
Consider the verb "to fruck". Ex: America is frucked.
Glucose more like glu-gay
this is funny
lol the metroid music came on and I was looking through my tabs like i had a playthrough or speedrun video going.
It's Deer Force taking over
This was INCREDIBLE! 🙏🏼
This video is magnificent! Thank you for reflecting the facts and reality!
Your video editing/making skills just keep getting better and better.
Here is the way that I simplify the subject for people:
Me: You know how sugar rots your teeth?"
Them: Yeah.
Me: It basically does the same the to the rest of your body too.
Them: %*$#.
No, it literally doesn’t...
@@djs778 You're way too literal, bud.
That's so funny! I bet that's because people believe what they were told as kids, so, if you build on that you suddenly don't sound like a lunatic anymore lmao.
JTib - yes, it’s called oxidation
It's not sugar that does it. It's the lack of nutrients...just like people slam meat. Go to a local butcher and buy farm raised meat. Not the pen dwelling poorly cared for antibiotic pumped up animals at factory farms
Sugar is added in every packaged food you eat, It's hard to avoid if you cosume packaged food on a regular basis.
I love how you simplified "the bitter truth of sugar" talk.
I was wondering why I was starting to eat "healthy" and gaining fat smh
Cut sugar and carbs.
You're in a calorie surplus, eat less
@Sou heib Your body can make glucose from fats and proteins, so there exists no "essential carbohydrates" as there are essential amino acids and fatty acids.
Sou heib nope
Sou heib it’s just all a big lie made by the bug companies to gain as much profit from us as they could. Watch Dr Berg and you’ll see as to why we don’t actually need carbs and why we function better without it!
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker! (Ogden Nash)
0:34 😂 bruh is that the super Metroid sound track in the background? I love that game! I’m glad I subscribe to you.
Great use of the reaction flow chart, really shows you how it all works.
I wish I never had anything with table sugar or corn syrup as a child. It's sad because it addicts kids who doesn't really know better. If I never had it I wouldn't crave it.
So you're going to blame others for your current level of greed? No one is 'addicted' to sugar, it's just that adding sugar to foods makes them taste nicer.
You absolutely can get addicted to sugar. It's not heroine, but it does have addictive properties.
Yes and then it's very hard to get them off of it. I'm having that trouble now! This is how we can all be sure that many Children's Health lessons are fake. Otherwise they would warn of us this kinda thing.
Skiddins Sugar is in fact addictive, it’s a drug substance like alcohol, caffeine or cocaine
+Skiddins In you first 16-18 years it is on almost never your fault if you are addicted at that age. Sugar can a be very highly addictive compound in food which after even short terms make you crave it. If you've had parents or a surroinding in which someone always let you drink a coke or eat gummy bears, etc. you can be expected to be obese within a few weeks if it occurs regulary. Blaming someone else is not the right thing, but neither is giving yourself the fault of everything
Super Metroid soundtrack...nice
Yeah I peeped that beat too
Great video!
Yep, the moment I realized I was a sugarholic and just as addicted as any alcoholic was painful and enlightening. I eat ketovore now, but the desire still plagues me occasionally.