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What happens if you stop eating sugar for 30 days?

Well, I'll tell you, sugar is everywhere. It's not just in things like candies and desserts, but it's hiding in so-called healthy foods too, like bagels, flavored yogurts, and instant oatmeal.

And it's absolutely detrimental to your health.

But what if you could cut out sugar for a full 30 days?

Well, I'll tell you this, you would notice some remarkable changes to your health and your appearance.

For starters, it would be doing your gut a huge favor.

Let me give you an example in terms of health.

Years ago, there was a study in which participants were asked to take about 100 grams of sugar.

Now that sounds like a lot, but it's actually far less than is typical for an American diet.

One group of participants actually had to have some glucose.

Another group had to have some fructose, fruct sugar.

Another group had to have a glass of orange juice. Healthy, right?

They drew blood on these participants every hour for six hours.

And they looked at the white blood cells, our immune cells, ability to eat,

synthesize, bacteria, and viruses.

And lo and behold, for up to six hours after having sugar, including a healthy glass of orange juice

that everybody thinks improves your immune system,

it completely blocked the ability of white blood cells to eat bacteria and viruses,

the very things that are threatening our health.

So imagine that healthy glass of orange juice that you were doing to improve your immune health

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