Sugar

Sugar

How sugar affects you and your hormones

ELEMENT 4.2: SUGAR

“We now eat in two weeks the amount of sugar our ancestors of 200 years ago ate in a whole year.”
–Gary Taubes

YOUR ADDICTION

Sugar is one of the most harmful pathogens that we can put in our body. It corrupts the bacterial balance in our digestive system, drains our energy, depletes our cognitive function, and reduces our ability to retain information. Refined sugar has no nutritional value, and it causes cell damage and inflammation, leading to all manner of chronic illnesses, including heart disease, obesity, and even cancer.

Refined or processed sugar has been shown to be as addictive as heroin and cocaine. Because sugar stimulates the reward centres in our brain, it causes our body to release dopamine. The dopamine makes us feel good, which in turn causes us to want even more sugar. Over time, almost all of us eventually develop an addiction to sugar. 

YOUR BODY ON SUGAR

Why you should avoid sugar:

  • In our digestive system, sugar kills the good bacteria, promotes the growth of fungus, breaks down our intestinal lining, and impedes our ability to assimilate nutrients.
  • In our bloodstream, sugar creates an acidic pH balance, which leads to all manner of debilitating illnesses, including heart disease, skin disorders, and blood ailments.
  • In our brain, excess glucose causes reduced cognitive and memory function, emotional imbalance, and the desire to overeat, which in turn causes obesity and all its myriad associated conditions, including diabetes, heart failure, and stroke.
  • An excessive build-up of glucose in our brains also leads to reduced attention span, depression, irritability, aggression, and irrational behaviour. In fact, excess sugar is now widely considered to be a leading cause of depression. 
  • In our cells, sugar disrupts healthy cellular reproduction, causing mutations that can lead to both benign and malignant cancerous growths.
  • Sugar also creates debilitating spikes and troughs in our energy levels. 
  • Sugar causes the body to retain fat. 
  • Studies show that excess levels of sugar in the bloodstream can have a catastrophic effect on male libido and drastically reduce erectile function.
  • Sugar has also been shown to be a significant contributor to prostate cancer, which was estimated to be the most commonly diagnosed cancer in 2019 and the most commonly diagnosed cancer among males.

YOUR SUGAR INTAKE

Quitting sugar is guaranteed to have a positive and dramatic impact on your physical health, mental acuity, mood, and overall well-being. Does that mean you can’t have the occasional ice cream or bar of chocolate? No. However, those treats should be occasional—perhaps once or twice a week—not a regular feature of your diet. 

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