Summer Rerun: Suga Suga Does It Get You Wired? Addressing The Sugar And Hyperactivity Myth

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:20.6	Welcome to Unbiased Science, where we bring scientific method to the madness.
0:26.8	We're your hosts, Dr. Jess Steyer, and Dr. Sarah Scheinman.
0:30.8	And today, we're coming to you a little loopy.
0:34.7	We're not going to lie.
0:37.2	I'm sick with something that my kids brought home. I don't know
0:40.8	what's going on. I didn't sleep a wink. I'm looking like beetle juice. Sarah's also not on a whole lot of
0:48.6	sleep. We're just, we're a little loopy right now. But we kind of feel like this will make for a,
0:53.6	for a really solid episode.
0:55.9	Yeah, absolutely.
0:57.8	One thing I can tell you we're not on is a sugar high.
1:02.2	Oh, I like what you did there.
1:04.5	So Sarah just dropped a hint.
1:06.7	So today's episode is all about the myth that sugar causes ADHD and hyperactivity.
1:14.9	So we're going to get into that.
1:17.0	Sarah, I didn't even warn you, but I think we should do a little bit of an ice break or not that we need one.
1:25.4	All right.
1:26.2	I'm just curious.
1:27.1	Are you a sweet or a savory person? Oh, okay. Well, I, I love a
1:34.2	chocolate chip cookie. So like in the, in the evening times, that is my sort of go-to treat.
1:40.6	I, you know, cakes are fine. I'm cold all the time, so ice cream is not great for me.
1:48.3	But yeah, I love, love, love, love, love chocolate chip cookies.
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