Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast, the weekly podcast where you are likely eating every day.

It can negatively affect your waistline, complexion, and overall health.

And even worse, your immune system too.

I'm talking about sugar. Unfortunately the sweet stuff can lower your

body's ability to fight off illness. As a matter of fact researchers have found

that eating any kind of sugar has the potential

to reduce your body's defenses by 70% for up to six hours after you ingest it. So during the current crisis limiting your

sugar intake is more important than ever. On this episode of the Dr.

Gunnery podcast I'll talk more about the effects sugar has on your body's ability to fight off harmful viruses.

I'll also share tips for conquering sugar addiction once and for all and how you can enjoy sweet foods

without eating the enemy. So tune in. This is not an episode you want to miss.

Okay, so let's start with the basics.

What is sugar?

Well, sugar comes in so many forms that it's actually incredibly difficult to figure out what you're

eating has any sugar. So for instance sugar is a carbohydrate and a

carbohydrate is just a collection of carbon atoms.

And depending on how those carbon atoms are a range, it's one of the main sources of finding

glucose, and glucose is a simple sugar molecule that is the primary fuel that we use to fuel the mitochondria, those little

organelles that live in all of ourselves. But unfortunately glucose is actually not readily available.

It's usually combined with other forms of sugars.

So let me give you an example.

Sucrose, which most people think is plain old sugar, is half glucose and half fructose.

...