I Quit Sugar/ Joe De Sena & Sarah Wilson
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
How much sugar should you be eating? Why is it so hard to stop once you start? How have we evolved to crave it and what can you do about it? Spartan founder and CEO Joe De Sena talks to Sarah Wilson.
Sarah Wilson is a former journalist and TV presenter, author and activist. She wrote the New York Times bestsellers "I Quit Sugar" and "First, We Make the Beast Beautiful" and she is the author of another 11 cookbooks that sell in 52 countries. Sarah’s latest book "This One Wild and Precious Life" is a soul’s journey through the complexities of climate change, coronvirus, racial inequalities and our disconnection from what matters…back to life.
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| 0:00.0 | The fructoseose molecule actually shuts down the grillin and lepton mechanism, which is the hormones that regulate your appetite and tell you when you're full. |
| 0:09.0 | We don't have an off switch or a full switch for fructoseos. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe Desena, |
| 0:18.6 | founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:25.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here |
| 0:31.7 | on the Spartan up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:35.0 | Why is quitting sugar one of the best things you can do for your health? |
| 0:40.0 | And how do you do it? |
| 0:41.0 | Sarah Wilson, founder of I quit sugar.com, is our guest today. |
| 0:44.7 | And quitting sugar isn't the only big challenge she's taken on. |
| 0:47.4 | Look for her latest book, This One Wild and Precious Life. |
| 0:51.8 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by our friends |
| 0:54.4 | Juliet and Kelly Sterret at the Ready State. Get a free trial and then save 10% |
| 0:59.1 | for life by using the code Spartan10 when you register at the ready state.com. |
| 1:05.0 | So you quit sugar. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, I quit sugar exactly 10 years ago, actually. |
| 1:14.0 | So it was 10 years ago, and it was an experiment that I started, it worked, so I just kept going and going and going. |
| 1:22.0 | How hard was it to quit sugar? |
| 1:24.0 | I mean, I'm trying to get my kids off sugar. |
| 1:25.7 | I try to tell everybody I know. |
| 1:27.4 | Sugar's no good. |
| 1:28.0 | I fight with myself over, you know, when you're hungry and there's nothing around you're in the airport and I go grab a |
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