TBNS: I Was 385 Pounds & BIG SUGAR Wanted to KEEP Me Way

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🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Natalie Nicole, founder of Dulsa Life, joins Brian Nichols to reveal why Big Sugar wanted to keep him at 385 pounds and how the alternative sweetener industry is quietly destroying America's metabolic health. Natalie breaks down why roughly 70% of Americans are now battling chronic metabolic illness, how high fructose corn syrup hits your cells like a fire hose compared to the "garden hose" of real sugar, and why every pink, blue, yellow, and green sweetener packet at the grocery store is laced with maltodextrin, dextrose, or sugar alcohols that wreck your gut. They get into the Ozempic shortcut trap, the 10-year slow-poisoning timeline that precedes a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, and why SNAP benefits and Big Soda subsidies are making the problem exponentially worse for working class Americans.We expose the uncomfortable truth about why "zero calorie" sweeteners are one of the most successful marketing scams in food history... and why the same playbook Big Tobacco ran in the 60s is now running Big Sugar. Natalie shares the blueprint behind Dulsa - a functional sweetener built with organic monk fruit, allulose, prebiotic yacon root, and shelf-stable probiotics - and walks through how she's hijacking your body's natural GLP-1 production without the black box warnings. If you've ever flipped over a "healthy" nutrition label, shrugged, and told yourself "it's probably fine"... you need to hear this.Chapters :0:00 - Intro: Big Sugar's War On Your Health1:55 - Meet Natalie Nicole: From Red Pill To Sugar Fighter3:49 - I Was 385 Pounds And Drinking A Liter Of Mountain Dew Daily6:49 - Sugar Is A Slow Poison (The 10-Year Diabetes Countdown)8:21 - The Ozempic Generation & The GLP-1 Shortcut Trap11:15 - High Fructose Corn Syrup Is A Fire Hose To Your Cells14:56 - Path Of Least Resistance: Why We Keep Choosing Sugar16:49 - The Big Tobacco Playbook Is Now Running Big Sugar19:13 - Our Kids Have Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease21:19 - RFK Jr, The Food Pyramid, And Sugar's 600 Hidden Names23:18 - Aldi, Food Deserts & The Free Market Solution26:06 - What Dulsa Actually Is (Sweetener + Supplement + Probiotic)28:57 - Why Your Grandma's Food Doesn't Exist Anymore31:59 - Natalie's Final Message: You're Not Broken33:31 - How To Get Dulsa (Use Code: NICHOLS)Dulsa Life:Website: ⁠https://dulsalife.com/⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/dulsalife/⁠ Health Benefits: ⁠https://dulsalife.com/pages/health-benefits⁠ Discount Code: NICHOLS at checkoutStudio Sponsor:Cardio Miracle: ⁠https://cardiomiracle.com/tbns⁠ Referenced In Episode:Dr. Adrian Bejan / Constructal Law (Duke University) - prior TBNS guestJohn Odermatt / Plexus - Lions of Liberty Network colleagueCX Without the BS (Brian's business podcast)Lions of Liberty Network: ⁠https://www.lionsofliberty.com/⁠The Brian Nichols Show:Website: ⁠https://thebriannicholsshow.com/⁠Brian on socials: @BNicholsLiberty Order ⁠Cardio Miracle⁠ (⁠CardioMiracle.com/TBNS⁠) for 15% off and take a step towards better heart health and overall well-being! WATCH The Brian Nichols Show on ⁠YouTube⁠ & ⁠Rumble⁠ Follow Brian on social media: X.com/Twitter ⁠(https://www.briannicholsshow.com/twitter⁠) & Facebook (⁠https://www.briannicholsshow.com/facebook⁠) LIKE, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE to ⁠The Brian Nichols Show ⁠for a BRAND NEW episode airing every THURSDAY at 9pm EST! Email Listener Questions to ⁠brian@briannicholsshow.com⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Big sugar.
0:31.6	Oh man, we talked a lot about the dangers of the big food lobbies many times here on the Brian Needle show and actually the most recent time we're talking about the dangers of the big food lobbies many a time here on the Brian
0:38.4	Eagle show and actually the most recent time we're talking about the SNAP benefits and
0:42.2	all these big soda companies saying like, no, don't take away our free money from folks who
0:48.0	are obviously going to the store and using their SNAP dollars to buy soda and buy all
0:52.8	these bad things for us.
0:59.6	And we just talk about this, not just from a wasteful standpoint, a negative health standpoint,
1:03.6	from a government standpoint, but also from the standpoint, I'll say standpoint one more time,
1:06.2	of if you are trying to live the most healthy life.
1:09.7	Sugar by itself is not necessarily an inherent evil,
1:12.4	but the way that our big corporations have really perverted what was just traditional sugar.
1:15.4	But then also, looking to try and help your alternatives.
1:18.6	Are there healthier alternatives in the market?
1:20.2	Well, today's guest believes the answer is yes.
1:22.4	Joining me here from Tulsa Life, which is an alternative sugar sweetener.
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