It’s Time to Break Up With Sugar – Michele Promaulayko : 659
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest tackles a topic in her newest book that has far-reaching implications for just about every aspect of human health—sugar. And she talks about it a way that's really useful because sugar is an emotional, psychological, and physical and biochemical thing all at once. Not quite heroin but not that far away.
“Sugar has the tightest grip on us, right?” Michele Promaulayko says. “Even the "healthiest" people I know have a problem with sugar. As I was developing “Sugar Free 3,” every single person I spoke to said, "I need that." And they all do need it because we're a nation of sugar addicted people.”
We discuss the insidious ways added sugar shows up in our food supply and how we’re unintentionally consuming it because it’s hiding in so many foods. “The frenemy,” says Michele in “Sugar Free 3: The Simple 3-Week Plan for More Energy, Better Sleep, and Surprisingly Easy Weight Loss!”. “And that’s exactly what sugar is. … Sure, it acts life your most supportive BFF, there for you at all hours, especially the late nights when you think you need it most. But when you stop to really thing about it, sugar takes way more than it gives.”
In our conversation, Michele suggests genius ways to use aromatherapy to curb cravings, gives practical tips on how to reset your palette, and recommends ways to loosen sugar’s grip. You can find even more tips in the book or on the new video series platform Sugar Free 3 on Openfit.
Michele is an award-winning print and digital editor, journalist and author. As the former editor-in-chief of Comopolitan magazine, Yahoo Health, and Women’s Health magazine, she has been an influential voice for health, wellness, and women’s issues for two decades. She’s now editorial-director-at-large for THE WELL—a new health ecosystem—where she continues to be a leader in the modern wellness conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Sugar impacts everything and obviously one of the things that impacts is our weight |
| 0:07.6 | and also our skin's ability to, you know, have elasticity and, you know, stay toned and |
| 0:13.9 | tight and it just, you know, it also affects our mood so it affects how we feel about |
| 0:19.2 | ourselves and that affects how we look and feel when we're naked. |
| 0:30.6 | Bulletproof Radio, a state of high performance. |
| 0:35.8 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asbury. When you're stacking your |
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| 0:44.1 | properly because you get rest. That's when your body recovers. In fact, that's |
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| 1:50.3 | in 300 different metabolic processes. When you're stressed, magnesium burns |
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