7 Signs You're Eating Too Much Sugar

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about some of the side effects of consuming too much sugar. Some of the well-known side effects of sugar include fatigue, brain fog, belly fat, carb cravings, and cavities.

Is there a difference between sugar and carbohydrates? A carbohydrate consists of sugar, fiber, and starch. Starches are called polysaccharides, meaning many sugars or multiple sugar molecules connected together. Starches raise blood sugar levels significantly more than sugar.

Starches like maltodextrin, modified food starch, and modified corn starch have a much higher glycemic index than sugar.

Here are 7 surprising signs that you’re consuming too much sugar:

7. Reduced collagen

Reduced collagen will result in loose, wrinkled skin and premature aging.

6. Chronic white tongue

Candida from too much sugar will cause you to have a white tongue. You won’t be able to get rid of it without eliminating sugar from the diet.

5. Chronic sinus problems

Most chronic sinus problems are caused by a fungus called Aspergillus that feeds on sugar.

4. Red or pink gums

Red or pink on your toothbrush after brushing could signify a mild case of scurvy or vitamin C deficiency. High sugar consumption blocks vitamin C.

3. Low testosterone

Low testosterone can cause erectile dysfunction, decreased libido, and difficulty building muscle.

2. Susceptibility to infection

Too much sugar can weaken your immune system, making you more vulnerable to infection.

1. High adrenaline levels

Too much sugar damages the cell’s ability to make energy in the mitochondria. To compensate, the body produces more adrenaline.

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0:00.0	There are seven very surprising signs that you're eating too much sugar.
0:06.0	I think most people know the classic signs of eating too much sugar, which is fatigue, brain fog, belly fat, cravings for carbs, cavities, but I need to clarify exactly what sugar is and the difference
0:19.4	between a sugar and a carbohydrate because there's a lot of confusion in the area of like complex carbohydrates. in a carbon hyd
0:23.0	complex carbohydrates or simple carbohydrates or simple
0:25.8	carbohydrates or simple sugar is like it's a big blur for a lot of people.
0:30.0	A carbohydrate consists of three things.
0:33.2	Sugar, fiber, and starch.
0:36.2	But starch is the hidden sugar
0:37.9	that no one's talking about.
0:40.0	Now, of course you have like starch in vegetables, but then you also have starch in this stuff right here, right, or this stuff right here.
0:47.5	So what actually is starch?
0:49.5	Starch is sugar, okay? It's just a bunch of sugar connected together. And so the word that the
0:55.8	user describe it is poly, which means many saccharides, which means sugar. So when you're eating starch you're actually eating sugar
1:04.4	okay and when we talk about starch in the grocery store we're talking about
1:07.7	this stuff right here powdered starch we're not talking about potatoes or
1:12.3	vegetables we're talking about
1:14.5	alter processed food, calorie starch and this starch will spike your blood
1:20.9	sugars way, way, way higher than actual sugar will. On the glycemic
1:26.1	index you have table sugar which is 65 you have glucose which is a hundred but
1:32.3	there are starches like maltodextrin, which can go up to about
1:36.4	185.
1:38.5	That's like a massively high spike, and it's not just maltodextrin, it's like modified food starch and modified cornstarch.
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