You Will NEVER Eat Sugar Again after This Video

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk about the side effects of sugar and how to cut sugar from the diet. The average person consumes 74 teaspoons of sugar per day. Since there are over 200 different names for sugar and types of hidden sugar, many people don’t realize how much they’re consuming. Food addiction expert Dr. Joan Ifland explains that you get a surge of dopamine when you consume sugar. The dopamine cells in your brain are not equipped to handle this surge, which is why you crash within 20 minutes. Over time, the dopamine receptor stops working, and you will need more sugar to achieve the same dopamine surge. You can reverse sugar addiction and get your body into a state of fat-burning called ketosis in as little as 72 hours! You will no longer crave sugar. Willpower alone does not usually get rid of sugar cravings. To get into ketosis and eliminate sugar cravings, you have to get your body to burn fat. Try these tips to get into ketosis and eliminate your sugar cravings for good: 1. Keep your carbs below 30 grams per day. 2. Change your environment and get your friends and family on board. Hide junk food or remove it from your house altogether. 3. Find pick-me-ups other than sugar. Exercise, dancing, music, laughter, long walks, nature, and helping others can increase endorphins and oxytocin without depleting your dopamine receptors. Physical work is also very therapeutic. If you fall off the wagon and give in to sugar cravings, don't beat yourself up. Use it as a learning experience! Consume protein and fat to minimize the damage caused by a slip-up.

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0:00.0	After this presentation you will never have sugar addictions ever again.
0:06.0	On one hand people have this idea that you know sugar feeds your brain it gives you energy
0:10.7	sugar's natural if sugar is so bad why is it in natural fruit? But on the flip side, I think most people
0:16.1	know that we eat too much sugar and it's bad for us. An average person consumes 74 teaspoons of sugar a day.
0:23.2	There are over 200 different names of sugar
0:26.4	and hidden sugar that creeps into our food
0:28.4	and you would literally have to have a science degree
0:31.4	or a chemistry degree to understand some of these words, but I wanted to ask this addiction expert about what sugar does to your brain.
0:40.6	What happens to the brain when you eat a lot of sugar? Well you get a
0:44.3	surge of dopamine, it's a pleasure neurotransmitter and it feels good. But then those dopamine brain cells, they're not designed to just keep pumping out that much dopamine and they get depleted.
1:03.4	They're exhausted.
1:05.3	So you eat the sugar, but like 20 minutes later you're crashing.
1:09.4	And if you do that repeatedly over time, that dopamine receptor, it collapses, it stops working.
1:17.9	You know, as a kid personally, I ate so much sugar.
1:20.9	I would be up in the cupboards just eating straight sugar and I would have all different types of sugar from candy to cookies to ice cream and I was a sugar
1:28.7	Bean and sugar did make me feel better it brought me up and then the more I ate sugar the more I wanted
1:33.7	sugar and it kept going until at 28 years old I finally broke this habit. So you
1:39.9	start off eating sugar you feel better, and then you don't feel
1:44.1	better emotionally, and then you start craving sugar again, and then you eat sugar
1:47.7	and this whole cycle keeps going around around. I hear this story frequently. I
1:52.3	got to the point where I was going to get it. I was eating it. I didn't like it. That's dependency. That's I need this substance to try you know the dopamine receptors are
2:05.6	worn out but I'm going to keep trying to stimulate them to feel good but're collapsed, but they do come back.
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