Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Warning, you may never eat sugar again after watching this video, or at least you'll

dramatically cut down the amount of sugar that you consume.

I think everyone knows that sugar is bad, it affects almost every part of your body, it

causes waking, but what I want to do is I want to just take one little thing in your body

and talk about the effects of sugar on that one thing, and that is going to be the red

blood cells.

In fact, the red blood cell is how they measure your blood sugars, okay, and how they even

diagnose diabetes through a test called A1C.

A1C is a test that measures how much sugar is stuck to the red blood cell.

When the red blood cell, or at least the protein part of the red blood cell called hemoglobin,

is exposed to sugar, there's this chemical reaction or binding that occurs, and that's

called glycation.

So, glycation is the amount of sugar that binds with that hemoglobin, and that renders

it inactive, it can't work anymore.

And so, based on how much sugar you have stuck to your hemoglobin, can determine what

your A1C is.

So let's say, for example, you have an A1C of 5.7 or less, that would be considered normal,

and so the term 5.7%, just refers to you have 5.7% of the total amount of hemoglobin in

your blood that is stuck to this sugar molecule.

So, if it's between 5.7% to 6.4%, you're at pre-diabetic, and when it gets over 6.4%,

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